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...
Judging Sam Alito
One of the things that is a neverending fascination to me, perhaps to the neverending boredom of people kind enough to make the effort to read the stuff I write, is the continuous use of bourgeois ignorance as a communications device by the liberals to promote their agenda. I’m particularly fascinated in this method when its exercise can be easily calculated, in advance, to be unprofitable but is exercised anyway. For example, what possible long-term political benefits could Hillary Clinton, or her husband’s administration, have drawn from any insinuation that she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary? If I’m Hillary Clinton, what would be going through my head just before I decided to do this?
But that was over a decade ago. Nowadays, the charlatans no longer rely on ignorance on the part of the commoners. Not exclusively, anyway. It’s a new century, and more & more they seem to be relying on ignorance on the part of elitists who fancy themselves to be in charge of telling those commoners what those commoners’ opinions are supposed to be. It’s certainly not news to anyone paying attention that if you want to be informed, and well-informed, relying exclusively on the “Newspaper of Record” for your news is probably a step in the wrong direction.
Here, however, we have the Priesthood of News putting out verifiably false stuff (link requires registration). Do they know better, and figure they can get away with it? Are they wrong, and cognizant that they could be wrong, but figure the concern is irrelevant so why bother to double-check? Or do they think their reputation is so hammered and battered at this point, that little benefit has to be recognized before sacrificing what’s left of that reputation becomes a worthwhile enterprise?
Either way, they’re just plain wrong. And if it matters to the New York Times that its editorial page is wrong, in a way that makes its resulting position problematic at best, they haven’t done a lot to demonstrate that this really bothers them much.
The White House has tried to create an air of inevitability around Judge Alito’s confirmation. But the public is skeptical. In a new Harris poll, just 34 percent of those surveyed said they thought he should be confirmed, while 31 percent said he should not, and 34 percent were unsure. Nearly 70 percent said they would oppose Judge Alito’s nomination if they thought he would vote to make abortion illegal – which it appears he might well do. [emphasis mine]
Gosh, New York Times. Sorry to point this out, but Supreme Court justices cannot and do not “make abortion illegal”. It’s simply not the way our system works.
It’s just a fact.
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