Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Robert at Small Dead Animals has to ask:
In last night’s Reader Tips, SDA regular ‘ET’ asked some important questions:
You know, I had thought that the MSM wouldn’t attack Michele Bachmann as they attacked Sarah Palin. Because, I thought that Bachmann was ‘in the Washington bubble’ while Palin was outside it. I was wrong.
They are viciously attacking her. So it’s not the Washington bubble that protects you from the MSM. Is it because she’s a woman? But they didn’t pillory Hillary Clinton that way. So – what’s the reason?
Is it because she’s a conservative? And the MSM are not a free press but a propaganda site for the left – both in the US and Canada?
Here’s one recent prominent example. Here’s another. More than a little interesting, is it not, that the Media Party seems perfectly fine with such open misogyny?!
No, it doesn’t have anything to do with a “Washington bubble.” And my fellow Palin fans will be distressed to learn of my doubts that it has too much to do with the uppity female’s perceived ability to win a race. In other words, if you can find me a conservative female who’s not a threat, one who’s a complete non-starter, I think she’ll be on the receiving end as well. I also have doubts that it’s all liberals who are dishing this stuff out.
I think what you’re looking at is socially awkward men, who have spent a whole lot of their lives thinking of themselves as not-socially-awkward. They’ve learned to relate to women on an extraordinarily narrow communication path. Use the word “totally” a whole lot, leave the toilet seat down or at least talk about leaving the toilet seat down, say “women’s right to choose” a few times and she’ll jump into your bed. Hey, it worked before…
You’re seeing the distress that comes with the sudden realization that women are people, and people are complex. That’s why the most acrid vitriol comes from comedians; their livelihood is fastened inflexibly to their ability to relate to people, and they’re just starting to discover, when all’s said and done, that they suck at it.
All Women Don’t Have The Same Values. That can be a scary thought, to those who think they know all there is to know about women, because there wasn’t too much to learn in the first place. Their perception of the fairer sex is being knocked around a bit — and it’s a perception that hasn’t had to deal with any disturbances, any tremors or reverberations, since age fifteen.
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I think you’re right about this, but I also think it’s hardwired into the logic of Leftism. It’s the Darrell school of argument, defining “real woman” in one weird, hyper-specific way — conservatives don’t count, ladies who have qualms about abortions don’t count, anyone not wildly enthusiastic about single motherhood doesn’t count, anyone who takes her husband’s name in marriage doesn’t count, anyone who stays at home to raise the kids doesn’t count, etc. etc. Eventually you pile so many exceptions on to the definition of “real woman” that all you really end up with is two X chromosomes on a doctrinaire left-liberal…
… which, come to think of it, defines the “authentic” anything for the left. It’s PETA logic. Their founder, Ingrid Newkirk, famously said “a rat is a dog is a pig is a boy” to explain her hardline animal rights stance. Leftism works the same way — a woman is a black is a gay is a wise Latina is a Muslim is a wheelchair-bound transgendered hemophiliac. They all have slightly different melanin contents, and their sexual predilections vary a bit, but aside from that, they’re basically all the same thing. Funny, that. (But somehow we’re the ones who are dumb and easily led).
- Severian | 06/30/2011 @ 09:53OT, sorta, but when are ya gonna replace WonderGirl with a Bachmann poster? Enquiring Minds™ wanna know.
- bpenni | 06/30/2011 @ 10:27I was hoping you could be the one to point me to a better candidate. Found anyone ya like yet?
- mkfreeberg | 06/30/2011 @ 10:33Found anyone ya like yet?
No one I’ll give money to, as yet, and THAT is the litmus test. But Young Michele do impress, at least until Perry throws his hat in the ring.
- bpenni | 06/30/2011 @ 10:39Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (of Texas) has endured a constant stream of libel and slanders, not to mention the ordinary crude, rude, and vulgar asides. It’s so common that it goes unnoticed. And she’s a liberal Republican.
- Clotilde Soupert | 06/30/2011 @ 10:50No one I’ll give money to, as yet, and THAT is the litmus test.
Well then, if the litmus test is to be applied to where I’ve been sending my $$$…the Champion of Themyscira stays put.
- mkfreeberg | 06/30/2011 @ 10:59re: where your money goes. T. Tusser said sumthin’ about that. 😉
- bpenni | 06/30/2011 @ 11:03Perry (assuming you mean Gov Rick Perry of TX) would be a fine candidate. I’m actually a bit surprised he didn’t run in the last one, to be honest.
I’d love to see him paired with either Palin or Bachmann. A four or eight year stint as veep would get rid of this “inexperienced” bull the Left throws out every time their names are mentioned. Not that they, as I’ve said, have any business throwing this charge at our candidates anyway, but you know what I mean.
It might help get us where we finally want to be – a President Palin or a President Bachmann, albeit in 2020 instead of 2012.
- cylarz | 06/30/2011 @ 11:35Turns out you don’t even need the two X chromosomes. Just the doctrinaire left-liberal part.
(Hey, don’t blame me. It’s not the cover of my magazine.) 😉
- philmon | 06/30/2011 @ 20:13On the whole Palin / Bachmann thing, everyone here knows I love Sarah and I love Bachmann, and for the same reasons. They’re principled and their principles line up largely with mine.
I know what Buck et. al. are saying about her electability. I also know what Morgan’s saying, and I get both arguments.
I do find it telling that I’ve heard two Democratic strategists say that their dream candidate to run against is Bachmann. And [IMHO] it is because of her blatant Tea Party connections (something that’s a plus in her column for me). Palin talks about and praises the Tea Party, Michele is proudly self-identified as a part of the movement. Subtle distinction, I know. I would be tickled with either of them, and I could deal with most candidates to the right of Romney (and I would hold my nose and vote for him if he were nominated, but I think we can do better).
But the fact that their dream candidate to run against is Bachmann and not Palin should give Palin nay-sayers some pause. I think Morgan’s right. They fear her star power and her willingness to call horseshit “horseshit”. Although she’d probably say “horse doo-doo”. And that’s fine by me.
- philmon | 06/30/2011 @ 20:22