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
The New York Times would like to warn us (link requires registration) that the temporary tax cut extensions for dividends and capital gains, just approved by the Senate, “have a way of becoming permanent.” Thanks for that. I’d hate to live in a free-market economy that ran like, you know, like we were somewhat free or something. A little bit of warning seems like the least a guy can ask for.
I have a pithy question to ask about this, albeit a rhetorical one.
I’m frequently instructed that I’m supposed to believe — I refuse to use the word “told,” because that past-tense verb applies when the teller delivers some crucial piece of information to the tellee, that the tellee can actually use — that illegal aliens want to “come to the United States to provide a better life for their children.” The word “illegal” in this context, as unpopular as it may be to actually use it in lieu of euphemisms like “undocumented,” means we know nothing at all about these illegals. Nothing. And we can verify even less. Criminal backgrounds, average height, innie belly buttons versus outie…just name it. In the strictest definition of the word “know,” we really know nothing about them. Seems to me, it would comport just as tightly with the truth, to say illegal aliens want to come to our country to make a better life for themselves because like anyone they like to be comfortable. And oh, as an afterthought, if their children get some perks out of the deal then okay, they’ll take that too thank you very much.
But let’s keep up the talking-point. Illegal aliens want to come to the United States to make a better life for their chill-uns, and by implication, care nothing at all for themselves. How unselfish.
My pithy question is, with this only-slightly-delusive piece of logic firmly in place and being paid a consistent amount of respect…why do well-to-do people want to hang on to their money? Is that for themselves, or “to give a better life to their children”?
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