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...
I saw this somewhere in Gerard‘s pages. I forgot to make a note of the date or to make a link to his archives. It might be in Evernote somewhere but I’m just too lazy to look, and a search of his archives has netted me butkus.
This is exactly the kind of counterproductive sniveling that the free e-book is all about: Just Stop Having Problems, Stupid! The Anti-Self-Help Guide.
Sally was a single mother with three children, all of them under ten. If that wasn’t bad enough, each of those children was from a different father, and each of those fathers was in jail or had been in jail. She was seriously overweight and had diabetes. She had a steady job, but she was underpaid and passed over for promotion again and again.
Now, when I met Sally and heard all this, I wanted to give her a big slap across the face. But because I am a professional, I decided to try a different approach.
I said to her, “Sally, look at all these problems around you. You’ve got to stop having them! Stop it, right now! Bad!”
Sally looked hurt…Sally got mad at me, insisting that it wasn’t easy to just stop having problems, that everything always happened to her, and it wasn’t her fault. Now, there’s a phrase I coined called “playing the victim.” Sally felt she was a victim of everything around her, so she was not responsible for her problems.
You know you want to crack this puppy open, and now. Because you know you know a Sally. Or two, or three, or six…and deep down, you’ve always suspected most of the problems we have in life, we decide we should have them without realizing we’re making that decision.
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