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...
Schma·tire (n.)
1. Satire that works in reverse. It misses the vital element of real satire, which is a sense shared between comedy-source and comedy-audience that the subject portrayed is outlandish. That, or it incorporates this via exaggeration and by no other means.
2. Satire designed to culminate in, rather than work from the foundation of, a consensus that something is surreal, ridiculous or silly.
3. Satire used to bully people into rejecting something by promulgating a notion that anyone who accepts it will be an outcast — while sidestepping the associated obligation of justifying, logically, why it should be rejected.
4. Satire that simply doesn’t work, and the authors of the satire should have seen it wouldn’t work, but they were so eager to emulate Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert that they were blind to its weaknesses and ended up making asses out of themselves.
5. In a broader definition, any snarky snippet, or any other comedy, that bombs because the joke was made out of anger rather than out of a sincere desire to entertain people.
Because of the sharp up-tick in the use of this brand of “humor” over the last decade or so, it is a possible thirty-first cause of global warming.
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