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...
Not much optimism, lots of justified pessimism.
I’ve made this point on the Hello Kitty of Blogging a few times but I’ve yet to make it here: As we continue our decades-long argument over whether it’s good to let government completely sprawl out of control, at the federal level, until it’s spending up a storm and managing the most intimate facets of our lives — I would expect a reasonably competent child to be able to tell me how we can & cannot define success and failure for the nanny state enterprise. I would expect such a child, if he’s not mentally deficient, to explain that we can’t define failure according to a left-wing nanny-state politician ‘fessing up “Sorry folks! My idea didn’t work! My bad!”
Because that’s not gonna happen. Ever.
Failure is what we see right now. “The problem with socialism,” as Margaret Thatcher said (paraphrased), “is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.” That’s what failure looks like for the anytime-we’re-broke-it’s-the-taxpayer’s-fault school of thought.
And it’s not just here. We have dozens of large, dense cities in this country…perhaps hundreds…that have been run, decade in and decade out, by solid, unbreakable blocs of hard, strident “tax the rich” left-wingers. I daresay each and every single one offers an economic situation not distinguishably different from this one: Paralysis due to debt, umptyfratz-many entrenched agencies all screaming the same thing, “my budget isn’t big enough!” And the debt talks. Some sad sack welfare cases trotted in from the sidewalks, so the pressure can be brought to bear on the decision-makers — borrow more! Get the money from somewhere, so Edna doesn’t have to choose between pills and cat food!
And the “debt talks” meander onward. For you and me, that’s called bankruptcy.
Government gets to blame someone else. That’s the definition, really. Can’t screw up when you’re in government. It’s those terrible, awful, horrible rich people for not paying their fair share.
Everyone else has to skimp and scrape and cut corners and make do. Government gets to spend what it likes. And maybe it will lead to…oh, no, there’s no maybe about it, is there? The results are clearly consistent. We’re looking at ’em.
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I wish I could believe that all I need from life will be given me by politicians who promise that I will be taken care of well. I wish I could see how all these promises are going to be kept. I wish I could believe in Unicorns and Pixie Dust.
How simple life must be for the seers and believers. Want a better world? Vote for the politician that offers to supply that better world for you.
I wish I wasn’t so corrupted by hard work, merit and effort. I wish I could adopt the determinants of value held by so many of those people I find myself surrounded by. I am, I suppose, cursed.
- TMI | 07/18/2011 @ 13:11.