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...
Don’t look now, but there’s another scandal about the Caribou Barbie tundra dimbulb who can’t get anything right…
PowerLine has done the best job summarizing this one (hat tip to The Corner), I think.
The AP starts with this one:
PALIN: Says she made frugality a point when traveling on state business as Alaska governor, asking “only” for reasonably priced rooms and not “often” going for the “high-end, robe-and-slippers” hotels.
THE FACTS: Although she usually opted for less-pricey hotels while governor, Palin and daughter Bristol stayed five days and four nights at the $707.29-per-night Essex House luxury hotel (robes and slippers come standard) for a five-hour women’s leadership conference in New York in October 2007. With air fare, the cost to Alaska was well over $3,000.
This is frankly pathetic. Palin says she didn’t “often” stay at high-end hotels, and the AP counters by saying she did, once. Yes, that’s why she said “not often” rather than “never.” What is indisputable is that Palin sold the Governor’s private jet and flew commercial, thereby saving the taxpayers a large amount of money and qualifying her as a frugal traveler.
The rest are about as lame. Here is another…
PowerLine includes a rather gratifying zinger directed toward Sen. John Kerry, who could use some “fact checking” lately. I suppose they could have picked out any one of a number of Kerry’s colleagues as well. But they very solidly qualify the statement “funny how the press fact-checks some things but not others.”
Yeah…ya got that right. I think we’re living in the age of the decline of “fact checking” as an institution…or slogan. I see a future in which we’ll look back on it as something like pet rocks. History teachers will tell their tenth-grade students “So then CNN fact-checked it…” and the students will automatically think “Ah, so the liberals had to get in the last word.”
Wishful thinking on my part. It took me until my thirties to interpret the phrase that way. But I’m sticking by it, because lately that’s what it means.
It’s not good going through life supporting “truths” that only seem sensible if you vigilantly and militantly make sure those truths have the last word on things…ALL…THE…TIME. This is one of those things you don’t have to be too bright to figure out for yourself, and I honestly wonder about the people at AP and CNN who don’t quite seem to catch on. How’d they get where they are? Did they do something? Do someone? Or was it eenie, meanie, miney moe?
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Feh. They’ll fact-check an Obama SNL skit, then fact-check an actual Palin interview, but never the other way around.
Frankly, I think Tina Fey owes the Republican Party an apology for confusing the hell out of people during the 08 presidential campaign…but that’s just my opinion.
- cylarz | 11/15/2009 @ 02:42