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 love it here in San Diego. The weather is amazing, the beaches are beautiful, and the people are friendly and generally entrepreneurial. It’s a refreshing change from the Bay Area, where everyone seemed like they were always “too busy” to hang out. Here, life is more laid-back, and I’ve grown to appreciate it.
But one thing I’ve struggled with about California for years is the government. The government is notoriously business-unfriendly–with everything from high taxes on business earnings to badgering businesses into more work…
Nothing out of the ordinary about this at all. Nothing out of the ordinary about this person’s disgust with the stupidity, the “final straw,” or the wonder-why-I-didn’t-do-it-sooner. And wait until you read about that final straw.
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Overall a good piece, but…
And lest you think I’m “Republican”, let’s set the record straight on that, too: I believe in small government, dramatically lower spending, and the right for everyone to smoke marijuana and marry whomever they want (as long as both people are consenting adults.) I refused to vote Republican or Democrat in the last presidential election because both candidates believed we should spend our way out of a spending problem. And I abhor the Republicans’ current stance of cutting spending on everything but the military.
I love Ron Paul as a politician, but I don’t understand how someone so obviously brilliant doesn’t believe in evolution, and it’s for that reason that I don’t want to see him run as President.
The “Derek” poster near the top of the comment section speaks for me: “micro-evolution is true while macro- (neo-darwinism) has not been proven erica. i agree with you on spending cuts. we also need entitlement cuts and a smaller government. and yes,LOWER taxes. which produce more revenue as it gets people back working. Ron Paul is a nutjob. he believes in letting the #1 state sponsor of terror develop nukes. he has not written one bill that has been legislated into law in his 25 years in congress.” Bingo, bingo, and bingo. Darwinian evolution is no less a hoax than man-made global warming, and I’m sick and tired of hearing about Ron Paul. He’s like an annoying fly that comes around every time you grill a steak; in his case, he appears every four years and expects to be taken seriously for a presidential run.
There, I should have pretty much pissed everyone off with that last paragraph.
If that was her concern, why not just stick to carping about California taxation and business regulation (a perfectly valid set of gripes) and lay off social issues (belief evolution, cannabis legalization, and gay “marriage?”) I’m a social conservative and pretty passionate about most issues that fall under that heading. I won’t go so far as to say she’s pissed me off (now I’m curious as to her position on gun rights, actually) but I think the piece would have been better-served if she had stayed on-point.
- cylarz | 08/16/2011 @ 16:47