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...
I’m on the Dad’s side on this one, I think. He’s not ignoring the ball for yet-more-clingy with the daughter…he decides to try to catch the ball instead. And he gets a lecture from security?
Hat tip to Jawa, who seems to have a different take on things.
There is a parent-code solidifying before my eyes here; maybe it hasn’t taken on the form & shape it seems to have taken on, to me, since I live in Folsom and I may be getting an unnatural perspective. But I don’t like what I’m seeing.
If you are a man, you cannot use your voice to address your children in a pitch lower than a woman’s voice…even though you’re not a woman. Hugs & kisses all of the time, and never, ever tell them they did anything wrong. The adorable moppet knocked a hole in the wall and then smeared feces all over it? Just adorable!
Maybe I’m reading too much into it. But answer me this: If the guy ignored the ball to do some more huggy bonding with the kid, how safe would the kid be then? Right…if it were not a baseball, if it was some other projectile with no glory attached to it, only danger, then the loving protective Dad would have done exactly what this guy did. And come out of the situation a hero. But since it’s a baseball, the community needs to rise up against this creep and maybe put the kid in protective custody.
Well, it is a different situation, I’m sure the Dad thought of the baseball as a glory souvenir and not a deadly missile. But it isn’t diffferent, meaningfully so. It’s essentially the same thing happening. My point is, sometimes the community needs to just jam its hands in its pockets, turn around and mind its own business. The kid’s obviously fine. Dad needs to work on his baseball skills a little, maybe the girl can help out with that. But the nattering nabobs can chill out a little here. Ease off.
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Dave Barry, a baseball fan, believes that if a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infants life, she will choose to save the infants life without even considering if there are men on base. In my experience this is true even of women who can explain the infield fly rule. This may be one reason MLB will not promote female umpires.
- jamzw | 06/01/2011 @ 10:57It is so instinctive to catch nearly anything flying your way that I may have done the same thing and I am a the mother of six children. I thought the video was funny after I saw that the child was unhurt (although the fall was awkward enough that she could have been injured). The idea of charges being filed is disgusting. Sad, sad world we live in.
- delicountessa | 06/03/2011 @ 14:56