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...
RevolutionOfCG answers his critics (not quite all the potty-mouth words have been bleeped):
This is not my idea of enlightened discourse. But it closely reflects a lot of the bullshit I’ve been hearing for a few years now…by which I mean the straw-man arguments being thrown in this guy’s face by the caricatures of his Obama-loving critics.
You know what really ratcheted this up in volume, and down in civility? That big slab of red meat Rush Limbaugh threw to the Obamamaniacs early in the year when he said he wanted Mister Wonderful to fail. That sent the signal out from the hive headquarters down to the lowliest ant: Get the word out, opposition to us is opposition to “doing nice things for people.” And then the leftists went into attack mode, and have been stuck there ever since.
Rush turned over a big rock so we could see the slimy venomous things scurrying around underneath. It was risky, but it paid off and it was a public service.
People who don’t value individual achievement and feelings of self-worth and commitment and duty, don’t want anybody else to value these things either. So yes, in my experience this guy is parodying his critics accurately; in fact, in some ways his illustration is a little bit too kind.
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“This is not my idea of enlightened discourse.”
Oh I would say those days are over, waaaaaay over Morgan. We Conservatives have been trying, to our detriment, to have a civil discourse and look what that got us. ‘Reagan didn’t end the Cold War’, Bush is a drafty dodger, idiot buffoon’, ‘Palin can see Russia from her house’, school children singing propaganda, citizens beings attacked for voices their opinions, demonstrators being called sexually derogatory names, missile defenses being dismantled, dialogue with a regime that brings violence and death upon their citizens, backing a Marxist who was democratically constitutionally ousted, etc, etc.
It’s time to being Mr. Nice Guy, stop letting the other side own the conversation. It’s time to take a page from their Rules for Radicals – to ridicule, to hammer them into submission.
We’ve been naively behaving like civilized gentlemen expecting the other side to reciprocate. What has that gotten us? A Congress and Senate controlled by lunatics, a President who is right out of the crazy shit bat house who doesn’t deserve to run a McDonald’s much less this great country.
It’s time to but the Big Boys pants on, slip on the brass knuckles and get to work. Or be prepared to watch this country go down the tubes. It’s time to choose.
- tim | 10/22/2009 @ 06:44