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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...
Steeljaw Scribe, not favorably impressed with the way September 11 has been diminished in seven short years to a simple “optional head nod,” is wondering where December 7 is going to go with the passage of time.
I have no answer for this; in fact, I’m inspired to come up with a question.
President Roosevelt commented in passing that this was “a date which will live in infamy.” It was unnecessary for him to go into the reasons why that would be so, and back then it would have been a silly question to ask. After this seven-year media blitz that has successfully muted the horror of September 11, which is December-seven’s tragic grandchild…it has sadly become necessary…as a whole menagerie of viewpoints that would have been patently absurd all those decades ago, are now legitimized.
Here are my offerings.
1. December 7 is a date which will live in infamy because those dirty rotten creepy jerks suddenly and deliberately attacked us, when no state of war existed with us, in order to cripple our fleet.
2. December 7 is a date which will live in infamy because we were caught with our pants down, with our fleet unwisely congregated around a single central point, when it should not have been.
3. December 7 is a date which will live in infamy because our jingoistic policies and our swaggering cowboy mentality had provoked oppressed persons around the world to despise us.
4. December 7 is a date which will live in infamy because it inspired an overly-aggressive foreign polikcy and provoked widespread feelings of hyper-patriotism.
I imagine you could easily round up some “ordinary” Americans who’d be down with any one of those four, perhaps more than one. If that’s the case, it would be dishonest and silly to drone on at length about all the “infamy” involved in this date, without elaborating at some point about why exactly it is there. Seems to me some of those ideas are taken somewhat seriously only because they’re never taken completely seriously.
Being taken seriously can be rough treatment on an untested idea. Let see if they’re up to it.
And if the date remains infamous, but the justification for the infamy is going to rock over time…like a barstool shifting from one leg to another, but remaining the same height…it goes without saying it would be good for our national sanity to admit that’s what’s going on.
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