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...
Question: “One quick followup: Former Vice President Cheney was on State of the Union yesterday. He had a lot — a lot of criticism of this White House.
“To boil it down, on national security, he said the president’s policies were making the country less safe. And on the economy, he was charging that the president is taking advantage of the financial crisis to vastly expand the government in all kinds of ways — health, education, energy.
“How do you respond to those kind of allegations from the former vice president?”
Gibbs: “Well, I guess Rush Limbaugh was busy … so they trotted out the next most popular member of the Republican cabal.
“I would say that the president has made quite clear that keeping the American people safe and secure is the job — is the most serious job that he has each and every day. I think the president saw over the past seven plus years the delay in bringing the very people to justice that committed terrorist acts on this soil and on foreign soil.
What was the point of that snide little snippet, I wonder? Limbaugh and Cheney aren’t polling well, so any questions they might have to raise, shouldn’t count?
You know, there comes a time that the administration also has to remember that they won the election. People like me who aren’t quite sold on the product just yet, have it intoned, rather indignantly, to them all the time that “Obama won and you need to get over it.” Well, yeah — He won and that has some ramifications. And one of those ramifications is that He needs to stop whining about the last insignificant residues of resistance not quite having been stamped out yet.
I remember a place where the popular folks didn’t have to answer for anything, even the very worst of their ideas, just because they were popular. If memory serves, I think it was called high school. Is that what Gibbs thinks his boss is running here? Because, really, if someone attacks you with an idea and you have a robust defense to offer against it, and you’ve really got a lot of confidence in this defense…it doesn’t matter worth a damn who’s doing the attacking. It isn’t something you need to mention.
Obviously, Glib doesn’t feel this way.
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Q: “How do you respond to those kind of allegations from the former vice president?”
A: “You don’t. You make up some snide comment about who made the allegation rather than addressing the allegation itself.”
Straw men and ad hominiem. It’s the Progressive Way.
Then you spew some non-answer filled with quips about how bad your predecessor was and nothing about how what you are allegedly doing about it will, you know, actually do something about it:
- philmon | 03/17/2009 @ 16:52