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...
My late Uncle used to tell me, “Morgan, there are two kinds of people in this world; the people who go around dividing everyone into groups, and the ones who don’t.”
I’ve learned over the years that there are actually three.
1. People who build things that work.
2. People who fail to build things that work.
3. People who build things that fail to work.
This isn’t any sort of significant enhancement; not many useful ways to differentiate between the last two of those three. The people in the third set are, essentially, people in the second set who have been backed into a corner and forced to produce something when they don’t want to. When that happens, we see validation of what Professor Sowell had to say:
…everything “works” by sufficiently low standards, and everything “fails” by sufficiently high standards.
The “work” is whatever they want it to be, the “results” will be whatever they’ll be; it is the standards that are determined in the aftermath.
The people in the first group — if they want to remain in the first group, which overall, they’re going to do whatever is necessary to make that happen — have to lock the standards in place. They have to assess their work objectively, according to metrics that were defined before the work started, and remained stationary throughout. In other words, they have to actually treat standards as standards, not as rhetoric. They also have to follow the twenty. Those items of truth that are completely non-ideological and non-partisan…or…darn well ought to be.
But, in this day & age, perhaps, aren’t anymore.
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I used to be #1
much older, NOW I’m #2 (apparently productive “wisdom” doesn’t count)
EXCEPT, I now discriminately spend down my amassed assets on my younger (actual)#1s, and discriminately deny them from younger #2s and #3s.
I suspect that this may be what SOME folks call…you know…economics.
SOME may call it The Circle of Life, with a side of Darwinism.
Saved from the ice floe by thiiiiiiiis much.
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