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...
Oh and, uh, as an afterthought, the city is spending craploads of money to get those signs customized exactly the way this one citizen of Atlanta wants them…because she’s an uppity, complaining pain-in-the-neck woman with a politically correct cause.
In the battle of the sexes, women’s magazine editor Cynthia Good said this was a skirmish she had to fight.
Across Atlanta they stood, orange signs with black letters that read “Men At Work” or “Men Working Ahead.” Sometimes, the signs stood next to women working alongside the men.
Good demanded Atlanta officials remove the signs and last week, Atlanta Public Works Commissioner Joe Basista agreed. Score one for gender equality, Good said Wednesday. “They get it,” Good said about the city in a telephone interview.
Public Works officials are replacing 50 “Men Working” with signs that say “Workers Ahead.” It will cost $22 to cover over some of the old signs and $144 to buy new signs, said Public Works spokeswoman Valerie Bell-Smith said.
But, as I said, the editor vandalized the signs. And it seems that is the case, based on the tenth & eleventh paragraphs of this fifteen paragraph story. Three sentences long altogether, they are…
Good pressed the issue after Atlanta police came to her office last month on a complaint that she spray painted “wo” onto a “Men At Work” sign. Did she do it? Good replied by complaining about the signs.
Okay! So, she broke the law, and apparently got the city to do business exactly the way she wanted them to; got away with vandalizing taxpayer property twice, you might reasonably say.
But hey. At least she’s a rational, logical, thinking individual is she not?
Eh…well, no…skipping back up to paragraphs eight and nine we see…
Good, founding editor of Atlanta-based PINK Magazine, a publication that focuses on professional women, said she’s not stopping with Atlanta.
“We’re calling on the rest of the nation to follow suit and make a statement that we will not accept these subtle forms of discrimination,” said Good, 48.
You know — I’m not entirely sure I follow how the way the city of Atlanta puts letters on it’s signs (or other cities in “the rest of the nation”), reflects what PINK Magazine will & will not accept.
I await Good’s explanation. With eager anticipation. Meantime…and oh I do hesitate to say this, for I may lose my ample blogger pension…Ms. Good can shut her cake hole and go make me a samrich.
And someone do let me know what is to become of her, for vandalizing those signs.
Thing I Know #52. Angry people who demand things, don’t stop being angry when their demands are met.
Update: Some would say I’m not treating the matter with kid gloves like I should, throwing around such reckless terms as “uppity” and telling the uppity complaining woman to go make me a samrich. Kind of pushing the envelope, huh?
Well, fair enough. Maybe I should issue an apology. Before I do so, let’s take a look at the tolerant, diverse, balanced and multi-culturally-reflective panel of PINK people to whom I’d be apologizing. As you can plainly see, it’s an accurate and representative cross-section of everyone in America.
Fourteen people, two of whom are men. Huh. These are the people who want gender-neutral signs.
Ummmmm…………..
Apology withheld. I’m waiting for her to make me that samrich.
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Though there is three in the pic who seem that they want to be a man or at least appear as a man.
- tim | 07/10/2008 @ 08:31