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...
It began with some lefties putting up a link to a hundred bits of liberal-against-conservative snark. It ended with the libs running away crying about the (Zulu time) late hour making them all sleepy & what-not, the tough day they had, their hurt feelings, snips, snails, and puppy dogs’ tails (Facebook membership required I think).
The tough-guy Beta Male aggressively non-threatening NPR dude who stepped in when it got too hot & nasty for the delicate Grrrrrl-power English lass who went cyber-shrieking out of the room in a furious grand exit, declared my writing flawed. Ooh, how shall I ever recover. But the flaw was neither spelling nor grammar nor punctuation, rather the flaw he detected was with a perceived plurality of interpreted meaning. Eh, sorry Hawkeye…that’s a real stretch. It’s the kind of thing lefties seize on when they are desperate to change the subject, when they get in that mode where the uncertainty is only in what they’ll eventually find, not in whether they’ll find it. Kind of like a soon-to-be-ex-wife assessing the job you did with the cleaning of the bathroom.
Hey, what can I say. I’ve pretty much had it with people critiquing my writing based on their not liking what it points out. And that was certainly the case here, because I’m not seeing a single word I’d prefer to change.
As to whether it’s true? Hehe. I’ve argued with a liberal or two in my time; I know what I’ve seen.
An observation to make: Lefties seem to be emphatic that their policies are the best and anyone who says otherwise doesn’t know what he’s talking about. But you haven’t long to discuss that with a lefty, before the subject changes to how much better of a person the lefty is than you are…so the policies must not be good.
Also, you haven’t long to discuss with a lefty how much better a person the lefty is, before the subject flips around to how much worse of a person you are…which is a subtly different thing…so I guess the lefties haven’t got much to offer about being good people, either.
Now obviously this doesn’t apply to everybody who is left of wing. Some of them are decent people; some are intelligent. That may even be true of the people with whom we were having our discussion. It would’ve been nice to see evidence of it.
But I’m really most concerned about the policies. Might as well face facts. The “policies work” morphing into “me better than you,” and the “me better than you” vectoring off into the “you worse than me,” are just topic drifts brought about, and made necessary, by the plain and simple fact that the policies have no bragging rights. They haven’t fixed anything. And it isn’t because they haven’t been given a fair shot. In fact, I would argue between 2007 and 2011, liberal public policy has been given more of a fair shot in the United States than it’s ever been given anywhere. Except maybe across eight decades in Russia, perhaps? Yeah, that was a success story if ever there was one.
It’s simple embarrassment. A double-boomerang maneuver resulting from simple embarrassment.
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So they’re allowed to tell you they’re better than you are and you’re worse than they are, but you’re not allowed to point out that’s where they always go — because it might make them look bad and hurts their feelings.
Wow.
Take your toys and go home, will you? That’s awesome. Because I hate your toys. 😉
- philmon | 08/16/2011 @ 09:13