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...
Funny, I was just noticing this myself before the HotAir write-up.
My observation was a little different, though: As of yesterday, Bachmann is a crazy-eyed whack-job emblematic of where those dangerous Republicans want to go, and Tim-P is a reasonable centrist independent moderate emblematic of who the dangerous Republicans would like to leave behind.
It was just a few days before Pawlenty dropped out — just a few days! — that they were being called the “Minnesota Twins.” By somebody, somewhere, there’s little point digging it up because it was a generalized, floating, prevailing, permeating theme.
I expect this trend to continue as the GOP herd is culled further. Every time someone is ejected from the running — “God damn it! Wouldn’t you just know those crazy Republicans would get rid of that reasonable, reasonable guy!”
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Methinks the way those “recall” elections went the other day, he saw the writing on the wall.
- philmon | 08/15/2011 @ 09:32Yep. This is actually my favorite part of the election silly season. I’d call the media a bunch of cheap, filthy whores, but that’s an insult to the Inexpensive Prostitutes’ Union. Remember that brief moment back in 2004 when R*n Pa*l was the media’s favorite Republican? Yep, NEA-abolishing, gold-standard-reimposing, zero-social-spending Ronnie Roo himself. Salon.com won the golden kneepads award that year — I recall an article where they claimed Pa*l was the “green” candidate because he made some joke about fighter jets’ emissions standards — but they were all about as subtle as junior high girls at a student council election. Funny how the only “moderate” Republicans are either dead, unelectable, or useful in siphoning off a part of a viable conservative’s base….
- Severian | 08/15/2011 @ 13:46I’m still mystified as to why any of us are supposed to care…what the media or anyone else on the Left thinks about our candidates.
I remember our old friend D-Vega from RWN weighing in on it during the 2008 primary season. I finally asked the guy, “Why are we supposed to care what you think about the GOP candidates? You’re a liberal. You don’t exactly have our best interests at heard – you will be voting in your own party’s primary, not ours…and no matter who the Republicans nominate (no matter how “centrist” and “moderate”) you will not be voting for that candidate in the general election. So, why don’t you piss off and let actual conservatives figure this out?” Or wording to that effect.
Of course, he not only didn’t shut the hell up, millions of his fellow ideologues cross-voted (some even temporarily re-registering GOP to do so) and that is precisely how we wound up with McShame, who as we all know was soundly clobbered in the general election that year.
It still has not been explained to my satisfaction, why we would take advice on this from the other side. They want us to lose, remember?
- cylarz | 08/18/2011 @ 21:57Quite right. I was talking with a bunch of them about this debt ceiling silliness…”talking” being a charitable word…and one of the burst in to elevate himself above the din and be the voice of reason. At least in appearance, when in actuality he achieved quite the opposite. “Your side,” he said, could do this this this and this…until then we could “go straight to Hell.” I then marveled at the way he put on this act of reasoned moderation, him, confronting unbridled extremism, me, when if you looked at what he was really saying it was: Your side can stop what it’s doing and join us, or go straight to hell. Whaddya know? The very illustration of intransigence and extremism!
But the key phrase is “if you looked at what he was really saying.” Their little dog-and-pony shows are for people who don’t do that.
- mkfreeberg | 08/19/2011 @ 03:55