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...
George Will thinks so, Neal Boortz hopes so.
The collapsing crusade for legislation to combat climate change raises a question: Has ever a political movement made so little of so many advantages? Its implosion has continued since “the Cluster of Copenhagen, when world leaders assembled for the single most unproductive and chaotic global gathering ever held.” So says Walter Russell Mead, who has an explanation: Bambi became Godzilla.
That is, a small band of skeptics became the dogmatic establishment. In his Via Meadia blog, Mead, a professor of politics at Bard College and Yale, notes that “the greenest president in American history had the largest congressional majority of any president since Lyndon Johnson,” but the environmentalists’ legislation foundered because they got “on the wrong side of doubt.”
Will proceeds to quote and paraphrase Mead further, exploring the origins of the modern environmental movement. It is fascinating and you really should go RTWT. Me, I just see it as an unhealthy philosophy. It endeavors to engage in a balanced perception of the universe, and then fails at this because right out of the gate it starts assigning positives & negatives to things. Humans bad, all other living creatures good.
Fish gobbles up another fish, that’s good; that fish is gobbled by an even bigger fish, that’s good; a fisherman catches the fish to prepare for his supper, and he ought to be thoroughly ashamed of himself.
I’ve come to see it as anti-human. I agree with Boortz — and Jack Nicholson’s Joker, “You’re a vicious bastard, Rotelli, and I’m glad yer dead!”
It is inherently anti-human. The emotion that keeps it going is guilt. What’s the last decision you made out of guilt, that you recall without regret?
Also, picking up your marbles and heading home at the first sign the enemy has some strength, is the behavior of unprincipled bullies. That’s a good definition of “bully” — full of bluster only so long as the opposition appears weak, can’t pick on someone your own size.
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