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...
Berger-Pants-Gate
Karl Rove is testifying before a Grand Jury, with no guarantee he won’t be indicted. Liberals are salivating. Conservatives are cringing.
I’ll see your Karl Rove scandal, and raise you a Sandy Berger scandal. Sandy Berger, the National Security Advisor for the Clinton administration, appeared before a judge on the charge of shredding we-don’t-know-what classified documents during his visit to the National Archives. Whether lucky, or well-connected, or both, he fared well. No pinstripes yet. Just a fine, fifty large. And he was placed on probation.
Then he sped.
Speeding is bad when you’re on probation. At least, going 88 m.p.h. in a 55-mile-an-hour zone is.
Why do we hear so little about what a former National Security Advisor really indisputably did, and so much about what a … what is it Karl Rove does again? Deputy Chief of Staff? What is that, exactly? Is this an office with which we have a great deal of concern from one year to the next? Can you name all the Deputy Chiefs of Staff going back to the Washington administration? How about going back to the Clinton administration?
Why do we hear so much about what this guy might have done? And so little about what Berger really did? Is it because of the word “former” in front of Berger’s title?
Aren’t we supposed to be concerned about the Plame scandal because of national security implications? Are there no national security implications in what Berger shredded? Well, I don’t know the answer to that. We don’t know what he shredded. We’ll never find out for sure. So without that, who is to say if the Berger event is more or less grave than the Rove/Plame event? We just don’t know.
One more thing. I’d just like to know who, all, is really completely in the dark about what classified documents were destroyed. Does this include Sandy Berger himself? Did he shred something and forget what it was, why he shredded it? What happened when he was asked? Did he plead the Fifth? Or does he honestly not know?
If you have answers to this, you’re a better newshound than I am.
Meanwhile…”real” life beckons, so back we go to our normal routine of being told what should concern us, by the elites of journalism. We let them make this critical decision for us…why?
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