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...
As I explained to Buck when he was asking over at his place…presuming I am representative of those who have been relatively silent about “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”…my reasoning is that I just don’t have a dog in the hunt. Beyond being a citizen of the country being defended, that is. We have people who make these kinds of decisions, and my position is that they should decide the matter according to what would provide the greatest defense possible for the nation — period. And not decide the issue according to politics.
Yeah, that’s what I think should happen. You can probably guess how much confidence I have in it.
This puts me squarely in the middle on the issue. Now, we’ve got an awful lot of people running around who call themselves “moderates,” even in the same breath as calling me an extremist, who are extreme on this issue. I’ve heard them say the most asinine things. Like that the military doesn’t do anything in which sexual preference would matter. And that homosexual soldiers are every bit as rough-and-ready as straights, if not moreso. Both sweeping generalizations, commenting on matters well outside the perimeter of knowledge the speaker might possibly have about anything.
The other side, to be fair about it, is also extreme. It is unethical, immoral, makes us a less moral people. This treads into that treacherous territory of human social theory that the people living in a country become more sinful, or more pristine, depending on the laws under which they live. And that just doesn’t work with me. I don’t even respect it as true thinking. It is quinine taken by those who, for whatever reason, don’t feel right about themselves.
This issue, more than any other, needs to be decided by eliminating the outliers. If you’re like that jackhole in the Saturday Night Live audience who was cheering and banging his hands together at the mention of repealing DADT, there is something wrong with you and you probably shouldn’t be deciding anything.
Cobb calls these people out with glorious sarcasm:
The Great and Powerful Oz commands that homosexuals report front and center. You have lived in the shadows for too long and now must proudly show off your sexuality in military splendor. Why? Because we are not interested in your service, we are interested in your identity. By we, we mean the royal we. The Great and Powerful Oz has spoken.
Disgusting.
In fact, between the two types of extremists, I think I’d sooner trust the folks on the other end of the spectrum, the “Cure the Gays of their Illness” folks, to watch children over a weekend. At least there might be some among them who are concerned about the ultimate effects of whatever law is being put in place, or repealed. So they might be a little bit obsessed but they might think something out like “real” people. Not zealots.
People cheering for the repeal of DADT on the other hand…these are people waiting for some revolution to make life fair. Like I said: They shouldn’t be deciding anything. We all saw it for the last year and a half. They want a revolution that will make everything perfect, they get it, next thing we know they’re all grumpy and upset because they need another revolution. You must understand this about them: Laws have an effect on the level of “humanity” within all of us, because laws do not have an effect on anything else. Things do not happen because of other things. All roads lead back to where we are right now, One Revolution Away From Happiness. They live out their entire lives on a turning point.
They shouldn’t even be allowed to own pets or houseplants.
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The way I understand it, the logic behind DADT isn’t all that different from the reason we don’t have our military men and our military women shacking up in the same barracks. It’s because, like it or not, sometimes we’re uncomfortable knowing that somebody is probably oggling us, especially if we wouldn’t necessarily want to oggle them right back.
It can be distracting.
And it turns out that to most of us, if that person is of the same sex and especially if it’s guys we’re talking about … the thought of what might be going through the others’ mind is more likely than not more repulsive to us. It’s not all that different a reason than the reason the guy who is attracted to the guy … is attracted to the guy. It’s the way he’s wired. The guy who is NOT attracted to guys at all is uncomfortable with it not because we’re evil people … it’s because of the way we’re wired.
The world isn’t as clean and tidy as Progressives would like it to be. We have natures, and they don’t always make sense. Still, they must be taken into account.
A troop morale issue, because we are homo sapiens and we fall into certain strange attractors of psychology. No pun intended. It’s the nature of the beast, like it or not.
- philmon | 02/09/2010 @ 10:18Okay, I love this bumper sticker so hard, I actually registered just to leave a comment. And I HATE registering for comments.
Thanks for your earlier shout-out, and regrets for not being able to remember where I found it. Sometimes I blog while on the treadmill and things just get crazy.
- JoanOfArgghh | 02/09/2010 @ 18:14We’re delighted you’re here. You should be able to comment on a whim from here on in.
Except for this highly erratic naughty-word filter…which is supposed to be under my control, but at this point I think the damn thing is run by gremlins. Outside of that, your most casual comments are fast-tracked, so comment away blogger legend goddess Joan.
Oh, and here’s a tip for your treadmill issue: Evernote.
- mkfreeberg | 02/09/2010 @ 19:42