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...
There seem to be an awful lot of young people who believe in global warming.
I should qualify that. By “believe in global warming,” what I mean is:
1. Believe that there is such a thing as a meaningful, measurable global temperature;
2. Believe that such a metric ought, properly, to stay more-or-less static;
3. Believe that it is sailing off the charts in the moment that I type this;
4. Believe that the skyrocketing global temperature spells some kind of doom;
5. Believe that the human race is mostly, almost completely, or completely responsible;
6. Believe that the global temperature change is on such apocalyptic levels, that we are now teetering on the edge of the point of no return.
And that things would be so much better if Al Gore won Florida, and the White House, in 2000.
A lot of folks think all this stuff, but a whole lot of the under-thirty crowd thinks all this stuff. I’ve gathered the impression, which I can’t verify easily that a bare majority of people-of-all-ages think all this stuff…but if you count only the folks 30-and-below, the percentage ratchets up to somewhere in the eighties or nineties.
Well. It’s a little bit difficult to know what a snail darter is when you haven’t yet blown out thirty candles, huh? Maybe that’s the problem. Maybe we need to come up with a new term…something like “Snail Darter Politics.”
Phrases are wonderful things. They aren’t like words. If you use a word, and nobody knows what the word means, that’s your fault even if the word can be found in the dictionary. Believe me, I know. Phrases are magical…if you use a phrase, and someone doesn’t know what it means, the onus is on them to go look it up. When you think about it, in a rational world that’s the way it would work with everything. You’re ignorant of something — that’s your problem. Go fix your ignorance and quit bothering people.
Snail darter politics. I like it. That’s exactly what global warming is…snail darter politics.
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