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...
The White House’s response to the Benghazi hearings is the same as it always is, with regard to each of those very few things in the news cycle that aren’t flattering to the White House: You shouldn’t be paying attention to it, and there’s something wrong with you if you do.
The White House said the Benghazi hearing on Capitol Hill Wednesday is covering old ground, and is the result of efforts by some Republicans to politicize the Sept. 11 attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Libya.
“There are attempts to politicize this,” said White House spokesman Jay Carney.
Carney spoke as the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing on the attack last September that led to the deaths of four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens.
I say, there’s something wrong with you if you expected any other reaction. It’s always “old ground” when it makes them look bad. These are people accustomed to telling others what is & isn’t worthy of their attention, and getting away with it. These are the kids who told their mommas they were just putting the cookie back in the jar…and, that worked for ’em. Now they’re all grown up. Completely unprepared for anyone with the temerity to say “Excuse me, but I’ll ask the questions here.”
Right now I’m on news blackout, for the most part, building a wine rack for my wife before we leave town for Utah.
For the foreseeable future — and this may change, very soon, since I understand these hearings are holding a lot of surprises for many — all I have to say about it is wrapped up in Thing I Know #112:
Strong leadership is a dialog: That which is led, states the problem, the leader provides the solution. It’s a weak brand of leadership that addresses a problem by directing people to ignore the problem.
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Completely unprepared for anyone with the temerity to say “Excuse me, but I’ll ask the questions here.”
This is probably the most frustrating part of the whole Obama thing. They’re just so amateurish. They not only ignore obvious problems, they ignore the possibility of anyone having a problem with their obliviousness. I have yet to see anyone in the entire administration who looks like they’ve ever done anything competently, personally or professionally. I can only imagine the hell Professor Obama’s con-law TA had to go through.
I thought that a few years’ dose of this would send the whole country screaming back into the arms of the nearest grownup. I guess the GOP thought so, too, and boy were we wrong. Turns out there’s a huge segment of the population — including the entire press corps — who likes this weird combination of unthinking arrogance and ham-handedness. Is this where 40 years of “self esteem” has led us? Where quite a few people take a look at this guy and, instead of seeing an unprepared, overwhelmed nincompoop, see a steely-eyed statesman? Are we really confusing pigheaded obliviousness with cold resolve?
All of those were rhetorical, by the way. I’ll just be setting myself on fire now.
- Severian | 05/08/2013 @ 13:14