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...
Man, blogger bud Duffy is on fire lately. This is great stuff he found at Suitably Flip: What would happen if a sixth-grade teacher applied normal standards of correction to one of The Chosen One’s speeches?
Your vague and sometimes nonsensical writing suggests a very limited understanding of the topic and I have to wonder if you’ve read any of the assigned background material.
For your re-write, I would also suggest you revise your awkward thesis that markets are unregulated and that government control is the answer.
Specifics, Sen. Obama. Specifics. Even sixth-graders have to use ’em. Of course, they aren’t all The Real Deal…but it’s all good. Embrace the responsibility. If you can.
Like all good satire, it raises a good point. Too many of our bad decisions in this modern age, are made because someone expressed a simple situation as something too complicated to be explained, or evaluated some other situation that really was complicated, in overly simplified terms. Many of our other bad decisions came about because someone confused extremism with moderation. This situation of which Sen. Obama wrote, is an example of both of those. With this crack of his about “a philosophy that says even common-sense regulations are unnecessary,” he earns a big fat mark from the teacher’s red pen by leaving the plane of truth and reality, making her wonder if he read any of the assigned background material.
The fact of the matter is that America is now going quite a few generations without lending any meaningful support to any philosophies hostile to “even common-sense regulations.” We would probably benefit by coming up with such a philosophy, and engaging some public policy based on it — just once in awhile. We regulate the snot outta everything. If a sixth-grade teacher comes along and demands examples out of me, I’ll just repeat the challenge I laid down over here. And I would fill in the examples as…health insurance; educating our children; refining oil and getting it to the gas pump; providing electrical power to people and businesses; and with our latest crisis, I’ll add mortgaging a home. These are excessively regulated industries.
Now, regulating the snot outta everything by itself would be okay, I think…but when we run into problems that result from this regulation, we have this tendency to exempt the regulation as we look for what might have caused the problems. To the contrary, our tendency is to blame the regulated capitalism as if it were unregulated, and then come up with some more regulation.
Obama is supposedly a walking incarnation of change from this worldview. He has yet to say how so. In fact, I’m looking forward to this sixth-grade teacher going through that speech next. Hope she has a few spare red pens.
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Dang. That was some clever stuff… especially the Sarbanes-Oxley comment at the very end. One of those “wish I’d thought of that!” pieces.
- Buck | 09/18/2008 @ 12:29