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’m not keen on the sole-source, especially when it deals with the private lives of celebrities and one can easily see it’s giving far more air-time to one side of a dispute than the other. So I’m inclined to ignore this…but lacking that level of dignity, I’m inclined to believe only part of the article without the customary heavy-questioning. Just two things: That Paula Zahn carried on an affair behind the back of her husband of twenty years, for a significant chunk of that time, and that she’s trying to put the screws to him in court. Seems to me if either one of those was a falsehood, there’d be little profit in spreading it and it would have been easily detected before the presses were fired up.
The illicit, years-long love affair between Zahn and business big Paul Fribourg was sizzling even as Fribourg hit the golf links with Zahn’s real-estate magnate husband, Richard Cohen, sources told The Post yesterday.
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Sources declined to discuss any details of Zahn’s “love book” or where exactly it was found, except to say, “She was indiscreet.”The former CNN anchor’s affair with Fribourg became public knowledge in April, when it was announced that Zahn and Cohen were parting ways after 20 years.
“He’s told friends her affair just took his heart out,” the pal said.
Friends said Cohen had believed the relationship was a recent development, but Zahn’s book shows their relationship was much more “long-term” than Cohen had ever suspected.
Let me just state for the record that I am absolutely, positively opposed to criminalizing marital affairs. BUT…
Zahn, 51, and Cohen haven’t yet filed divorce papers, and Cohen’s friends said he thought they were trying to work out an amicable agreement until Friday, when Zahn socked him with a lawsuit demanding he account for the whereabouts of her estimated $25 million in earnings over the past 20 years.
The suit accused Cohen, who’s acted as Zahn’s financial manager since 1986, of putting much of her money into “highly illiquid limited liability companies.”
It also charged that “some of her earnings had been diverted to Mr. Cohen’s individual account . . . for his own use and benefit.”
…there is something especially unseemly about swimming through life like a shark, grabbing what you can, and then once the feeding frenzy comes to a stop for whatever reason suddenly insisting that everything in life should pasteurized and it all ought to be fair. Regardless of my personal preferences about what people should & shouldn’t do, I’m impressed with the realization that an institution that has degraded to this level, cannot possibly endure long. That goes for the institution of marriage, and it goes for civilization as well.
Does that mean unfaithful spouses should leave a marriage with just the clothes on their backs, and be happy they got just that? Well…yes. I guess that’s exactly what I’m saying. Husbands too.
What kind of integrity can we bring to contracts we sign in all other aspects of life — apartment leases, auto loans, mortgages, employment contracts, whatever — if it’s codified into civil law that people can enter into marriages, and just live the parts of the marriage that they happen to like, abandoning the rest? To allow that to go on, redefines adults into children.
I say, let’s start respecting choice. If adulterers want to live a life of adventure, we should let them…and make it so they can keep “their” property right up until they get caught. Seriously, what is the downside of that? Think of the alternative. The alternative is to say that one party in a contract can exploit the other party, by declaring when life is a “Lord of the Flies” chapter — and when life is to be utterly sterilized of anything that might be regarded as unfair…simply by being the first between the two parties to so declare. It would be saying whoever gets the pork chop is the first one to grab it off the plate. That is the antithesis of civilization itself. It’s NOT a private matter, it affects us all, in fact it’s a shame on all of us that we’ve put up with this.
Adulterers are scum. Unfaithful husbands, unfaithful wives — if they don’t like their lives, let them start new ones. Fresh, clean, and possession free, like the minute they were born.
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