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...
James Taranto, in his Best of the Web column, reminds us that this stuff called “fact-checking” isn’t quite as cut-and-dried as it’s represented to be sometimes. There really isn’t any good way to tease this so I’ll just lift it all in.
Here’s one of the most hilariously hair-splitting “fact checks” we’ve seen so far this campaign. The Washington Post gives John McCain three “Pinocchios” for something he said on “Fox News Sunday”:
“[Barack Obama] said [William Ayers] was just a guy in the neighborhood. He wasn’t just a guy in the neighborhood. We need to know the full extent of that relationship.”
Wait, didn’t Obama say that about Ayers? Not quite. According to the Post, he did not say “just”:
Obama was questioned about his relationship with Ayers in a Democratic primary debate in Philadelphia back in April. He described Ayers as “a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who’s a professor of English in Chicago, who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He’s not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.” He made the point that he was “8 years old” at the time that Ayers committed his “detestable acts” while acknowledging that they had served together on the board of an education fund.
In other words, Obama conceded that he had a casual relationship with Ayers, a truthful statement. Had he said what McCain says he said–“He’s just a guy in the neighborhood”–and left it at that, that would have been an untruthful statement.
If you look at McCain’s statement closely, it’s not even clear that he was quoting Obama when he said “just.” He was speaking rather than writing, so we have to punctuate the sentence for ourselves, but one plausible punctuation is: “[Obama] said [Ayers] was just ‘a guy in the neighborhood.’ ”
Clearly McCain’s point of contention is not whether Obama used the word “just” but whether there was more to his relationship with Ayers than he claimed. The Post seems to believe that there was not, but solely on the basis of Obama’s say-so. That’s not fact-checking, it’s campaigning for Obama. [emphasis mine]
That comes very close to winning the latest Best Sentence I’ve Heard Or Read Lately (BSIHORL) award.
What comes next on this subject of Obama’s menagerie of America-loathing friends, easily snags the Best Headline I’ve Seen Lately award…in blogger friend Rick’s opinion, as well as my own…
I was 5 when they killed Sharon Tate, but I wouldn’t hang out with the Manson Family now
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