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...
I was just reading this newsclipping from 1900. The setting is a football game just after Thanksgiving between Berkeley and Stanford. With the cheap seats right over a roasting hot glass furnace full of liquid glass at five hundred degrees. A roof full of spectators, mostly young boys, collapsed. Oops.
It occurs to me, once again, how incredibly vaginalized we have become. Over a century later, we have rules upon rules upon rules, and I’m sure you could make a credible argument that this awful accident occurred because of the lack of some kind of code that since then has been put in place. Therefore, in theory at least, such a thing is what might be called “impossible.”
But of course it isn’t impossible…and if & when such a thing does happen, there are other rules in place to keep it from being described in the way this one was. I mean, just this…
While aiding in removing the dead and wounded from the scene of the disaster, T.J. PARKER, a fireman, recognized in the blood covered face of one of the sufferers the features of his own son. Francis Joseph PARKER is the name of the injured boy. He was taken to the City and County Hospital, where it was found that his skull was fractured and his right arm broken. He suffers from internal injuries, and will probably die.
How many of our modern-day journalistic rules are violated by these three sentences? And yet, with the rules in place, are things better…what if it happened now, what could you find out about this from reading the newspapers. Not very much.
Young Master Parker was among the casualties injured by impact and not by the incredible heat. So be mindful of what you are about to read when you click the above link, it is not for the timid.
Update 11-23-07: Adding the link by which I found out about this, H/T: FARK.
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