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...
This is thought-provoking; blogfather John Hawkins summarizes five take-away lessons from the Limbaugh/NFL controversy.
1) Liberals are so obsessive about their politics that it perverts and warps every other human impulse in their life.
2) The racist double standard is alive and well.
3) In the eyes of the NFL, the worst thing you can apparently do is be a conservative.
4) The mainstream media puts ideology above facts when conservatives are involved.
5) Conservatives are too forgiving.
There’s a lot of good thinking going on behind the link and you should go read it all. But to me, the real garden tool in the bicycle spokes, the one bothersome nugget you’d be asked to explain to the space alien living in your garage (and you’d never be able to explain it)…is…
CNN fact-checked a Saturday Night Live skit. Limbaugh was saddled with the burden of proving he did not say these things. Which he didn’t bother to do…but it got proven anyway.
That which was proven false — is that which was acted upon. By those who know it is false.
Regarding the other matter in which Obama is mocked for not getting much accomplished…the fact-checking ends up ridiculing itself. At a high, abstract level, the point about Obama being something of a do-nothing remains overall a valid one; as far as what is acted-upon, that’s up to each voter. But there was at least a likelihood that with some “fact-checking” the impact of the skit could be blunted, because there was motivation to put the fact-checking on the air.
It certainly wasn’t to enlighten us.
Steven Colbert once famously said “facts have a well-known liberal bias.” In a way, he’s right. Facts…spoken facts…facts put out there. That’s because of Hawkins’ lesson #1. Being a good liberal means getting the last word in on everything.
If a conservative hears something that offends him, he rolls his eyes, shakes his head, mutters something about the world and a handbasket…and goes on about his day.
If a liberal hears something that offends him, it’s time for a revolution. And so the first impulse of everyone else is to let the liberal have the last word. Most of us…nearly all of us…have precious little time to spare for a revolution.
I’m watching the morning airhead news go on and on across one commercial break after another…about some kinda thing involving a balloon. What a wonderfully healthy change of diet it would be to shine that scrutinizing expose light…that harsh, harsh light…on this weird, funny, inexplicable thing we do that you would not be able to explain to the space alien. Inspect that for an hour as people get ready to go into the shower, gulp their coffee, tighten their neckties, remind their kids not to be late for the bus, et cetera. Speaking just for myself, I have a lot more curiosity about this than I do about balloons.
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- philmon | 10/16/2009 @ 09:25