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 are two kinds of liberals, I’ve noticed: The kind that demand answers out of you for questions that are of convenience to them, and then do everything they can to make damn sure you can’t get a full sentence out. Blah, blah blah, blahblahblah, blah blah blah blah blah. Talking point talking point talking point talking point. They seem to think it’s a contest regarding who can get the most words out in the shortest amount of time.
And then there is the kind that learned just enough about logical fallacies to attach labels to things, often incorrectly. You point out they’re using questionable logic and they say you’re using an “ad hom.” You recite a list of things liberals seem not to want anyone to be able to do, and they call it “begging the question.” Their college professor, you see, has taught them these magic phrases they get to use when they’re backed into a corner and just want out. They labor under a misconception that these tags are interchangeable; it works like “Shazam!” or something.
Neo-neocon, from here on in, is my candidate to deal with that second type of liberal. For reasons that the picture below should make abundantly clear…
Well done!
Regarding the former type…well, that’s far more common. Ultimately, right now, it comes down to reminding them that this is a discussion about what ideas actually work, and with regard to theirs, since their folks are the ones in charge — sadly, just waiting.
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For corrective illumination on sophist use of “begging the question” (amongst other disingenuous malaprops), I’ll cede to Robert’s Rules of Order for Parliamentary Procedure.
That’s required reading in school, right?
Because you can lead a horse to water, but if you TEACH it to fish…”
(or something like that…);-)
In THIS decades “crisis”, I’m consistently amazed as SOME folks continue to refer to “home-owners” that suffer submarine mortgages, and other oppressive “credit” obligations.
OK, that’s a lie.
I’m fairly jaded about how SOME blind folk, ESPECIALLY those armed with five variations of so-called formal, higher, education, from pompous asses, continue to write “opinions” in the sand, of what simply MUST constitute an elephant.
FORECAST;
Expect NEW FRONTIERS in logic from these folk as George Soros finances the usual suspects in the GRAND EXPERIMENT involving world energy needs (electric cars?) being met by, um…. clean coal, vs. T. Boone Pickens/GE eminent domain for wind “farms”. Meanwhile, Cal i for ni a intellectuals are STILL deep in debt, seeking judicial “mulligans”, despite the black gold off their shores, and “entertainment” residuals” pouring in. Perhaps promoting crash diets, so as not to appear QUITE so well-fed, by co-opting the term “fasting in protest”, will distract from the dilemma.
Boy howdy,”piracy” on THOSE shores was addressed with astonishing haste, and uncontested “special exception” to established law.
- CaptDMO | 04/26/2009 @ 12:16