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...
Yup. I’m reasonably sure the twits who argue with me on the innernets are college kids. I do hesitate somewhat since these munchkins are polite, and not in a fake sell-you-something way, but in what looks like a healthy, wholesome way. Then again — there is a camera rolling.
I’m just watching in a state of awe over the vast magnitudes of energy being churned into this exercise of not-going-there. And you know what “there” I’m talking about: Redistributing a GPA is different from redistributing money, because I have a GPA worth redistributing but I do not have money worth redistributing — they’re different because you’re talking about me in one of those and you’re not talking about me in the other one of those.
This is the trouble with problem-solving with feelings. It isn’t a problem with bad arguments being accepted, quite so much as with decent propositions being rejected. In just the last few years, I’ve seen a noticeable uptick on this while arguing with dweebs on the innertubez. Which is certainly not scientific, but still. It bothers me seeing the acceleration of this: I reject such-and-such…but…I have nothing to offer about why it should be rejected. If someone hits me with it again, I’ll be in “got nuthin'” mode, but this doesn’t bother me in the slightest, I’ll not lose a wink of sleep over it tonight.
This is not good. This is a very bad thing. If the opportunity is presented to fight it, we should.
I’m old enough to remember when it was not that way. When, if someone hit you with an equivalency argument you didn’t like, and you couldn’t handle it, you’d be at least disturbed about it and you’d walk away mumbling to yourself, trying to figure out if there was a meaningful difference you’d overlooked. Or, if maybe you just got schooled because you needed to be, and had to re-think something.
It’s like our young currently-in-college set, the leaders of tomorrow, have discovered that weird super-power. You know, where you make unappealing thoughts and facts vanish instantly simply by laughing at them. Have to give props to blogger friend Phil if that’s the case — he’s on to something there.
Hat tip to Kaye Dowdell Taylor.
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My big problem is that no matter how much I want to believe that if you could just spend enough time with them or illustrate the truth of this point in just the right way, idiots like those shown in the video might actually get it. While in reality, I pretty much know deep down inside that they just need to be bitch-slapped and dropped off in one of the countries that has gone completely in the direction that they advocate. Cuba, Venezuela, Zimbabwe.
That’s really the only experience that will get through to such people. They are going to have to experience, first hand, the lunacy of leftism in all of its reductio ad absurdum glory.
When our economy collapses and we are experiencing the mother of all depressions, if any of those people get near me and start asking how it happened, I will pound them.
- Moshe Ben-David | 04/17/2011 @ 13:52Now you must know it will be a great deal worse than that. You can’t ask a question sincerely unless you have curiosity. No, they will tell you the reason it happened, and the reason they will give is wealth inequality. “Basically, wealth is a big Jenga tower, and it basically tipped over after it got heavy on the top.” This begs all kinds of questions about how exactly this happens, what the steps are…and those will not be answered. The monologue will dissolve into a puddle of verbal goo heavy on bumper sticker cliches and light on explanations based on how things actually work.
You read it here first.
- mkfreeberg | 04/17/2011 @ 15:30Every consequential Marxist who has ever lived — starting with Karl himself and running right through to Precedent I Won — has been a trust fund baby.
Marx never stepped foot in a factory. Engels actually owned one. Mao never did a day’s work in the fields. Che Guevara was a medical student. Stalin and Lenin were both thoroughly bourgeois. (The only genuine poor-peasant revolutionary I know of was China’s Peng Dehuai… and Mao had him murdered during the Cultural Revolution, natch).
They were socialists for the same reason college kids are — money has always just kinda been there for them, so why can’t it kinda just, you know, be there for everybody? And socialist college kids, of course, go on to be socialist college professors, with the state taking over for Daddy in the handing-out of allowances.
I wonder why we bother with facts and reason with these people. Any child psychology textbook would be a much better starting place.
- Severian | 04/18/2011 @ 13:26It kinda reminds me of “Wag the Dog”. The political consultant and the campaign adviser and the celebrities and Willie Nelson all get together at Dustin Hoffman’s palatial estate for a weekend to brainstorm on how to pull the election for the President, and one evening the chit-chat turns to “have you ever voted?” They compare notes on it and figure out…no…nobody sitting around the table has ever cast a vote in anything. Can’t take the time or trouble to poke at a ballot for a few minutes in a booth on a Tuesday morning, and here they are putting all this time and energy into telling everybody else in the country how to do it.
- mkfreeberg | 04/18/2011 @ 13:47Boil it down to its simplest components.
- Kini | 04/21/2011 @ 01:31http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKT-eWMWXOE&feature=related