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...
Pithy and Rhetorical II
Even though Marjorie Hromadka has not seen The Davinci Code, she’s going to protest the movie. Ha ha! That’s pretty funny, isn’t it? Silly Marjorie Hromadka! Go see the movie if you want to protest it, Marjorie Hromadka!
Friday’s premiere of The Da Vinci Code inspired a group of Catholics to protest the controversial film based on the religious mystery novel that purports Jesus Christ secretly married Mary Magdalene.
Marjorie Hromadka, 68, has neither read the fictional work nor has she seen the movie, which was being shown at the Tinseltown multiplex in east Houston off Interstate 10.
Really, I don’t think a day’s gone by since the movie opened, that I haven’t seen some news about someone protesting it. And I haven’t seen any news about someone protesting it, without that line inserted that one or two protesters, sometimes named, sometimes not, are protesting even though they haven’t seen the movie.
Well, three months ago, Europe was being swept up in a Muslim anti-Danish-cartoon craze. Muslim protesters were supposed to be oh so angry and upset about those Danish cartoons that actually depicted the prophet Muhammad, unable to control themselves, setting fire to embassies, throwing rocks, etc. etc. etc.
Now I’m taking it as a given that each of those Muslim protesters actually saw the cartoons that got them angry.
But that’s the point…I’m taking it as a given. That’s all I can do.
In fact, that in itself is purely an article of faith. Nobody ever stuck a microphone in the face of a Muslim protester, and published some words from that protester that actually found their way to me…asserting that said protester did, indeed, actually lay eyes on said cartoon.
In fact, I can’t remember anybody actually asking the question. Not even of one protester.
So my pithy and rhetorical question is, I guess, this: Is it the non-violence, that makes it relevant whether the protesters have actually sampled what they’re protesting? It seems when the first rock goes flying and when the first building starts burning, everybody loses their interest in finding out how well-informed the protesters are. Which is curious considering that violent and non-violent protests seem to be equally newsworthy.
Personally, I find it awfully hard to support a protest against something the protesters don’t know about firsthand…seems too much like “proxy” outrage. My reluctance holds no matter what the nature is of the protest. But it seems an awful lot more worthy of coverage when people burn down buildings and don’t have first-hand knowledge of why they’re doing it, compared to when people carry signs around and don’t have first-hand knowledge of why they’re doing it. Am I missing something here?
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