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...
For The Anti-Death-Penalty Types VI
People oppose the death penalty because it makes them feel good to oppose it. There is no other reason to argue against it. Among people who claim to value human life, there really is no reason to argue against it, because you have to have a death penalty in order for a culture to reach critical mass and continue to exist in relative safety for the innocent people who live there.
Yeah, yeah, European countries with wonderful crime statistics. Bite me. I said “critical mass” up above…this is important. Anybody who says it isn’t, hasn’t been looking at the problem very carefully. A nation comes to maturity and becomes more and more commercialized and…well, when you’re not familiar with the territory, where would you like to go walking after seven o’clock? In a strange farmland? Or in the financial district of a strange city? Would you blame the higher personal danger in the urban zone on the municipal laws in effect there? No, it’s not the laws; it’s the zoning. It goes hand-in-hand with doing more things for commercial purposes. The industrialization, the occasional blighting of neighborhoods that goes with it — it exposes the fact that some people simply have their gears stripped and can’t live with the rest of us.
They’ll kill; we, too, will kill innocents, by proxy, by letting the stripped-gear set walk around. We have a moral obligation not to do this. This is ugly stuff, but it’s all supported by the facts. Some of us feel good when such facts are ignored. They think it makes them better people. The lives of innocent children depend on those people not being allowed to vote, and I’m afraid that’s about as complicated as things get.
Today’s tragic evidence comes from the Seattle P.I. Anti-death-penalty types need to be aware of this story, so they can get a refresher course on how utterly screwed up the human model can get.
After Hurricane Katrina, Zackery Bowen and his girlfriend Adriane Hall appeared in news stories as examples of young people who had pressed on in the battered city despite evacuation orders and a lack of power and water.
Their story came to a disturbing end this week: Bowen leapt to his death from a hotel, leaving a note that led police to a French Quarter apartment where they found a woman’s charred head on the stove, limbs in the oven and torso in the refrigerator.
It’s just not one world, and we are not one species. Fortunately, this time, the trash took itself out.
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