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...
YouTube commenter expressing agreement with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Not by name, but by similarity of sentiment:
all hail, the noble mythical job creators… such fantastical depiction. the greatest lie in capitalism is… companies want to create jobs; reality is… they don’t. the real goal is, companies want to employ the least amount of workers, to reap maximum profits. hence why companies ship jobs overseas due to cheap labour. so this whole mantra about the noble “job creators” pushed by the republicans is one of the greatest myths being inculcated at the present.
total bullshit.
he seems to know a lot about what he’s talking about, so i think i’ll follow suit and stop using my shift key. hey as a matter of fact punctuation is a pain in the ass as well i think ill stop using that too and forget about using that stupid period thing to end my sentences there is some irony here that hes singling out for criticism these mythical job creators who are essentially choosing the path of least resistance the way all humans do whenever they try to do something they want it to succeed so they choose the least expensive approach kind of exactly the same way this character does when he refuses to use his shift key and this to me is what makes it so sad that this thoroughgoing lazybones is such a genius on how to economize on his own efforts and who knows maybe he is bitter because he sees a lot of business taking place without his involvement and maybe he just isnt bringing the effort to his work i dont know but i do know he certainly seems to feel frustrated and upset toward these businesses outsourcing the jobs but you know it occurs to me that if a business does create a job and then outsource it to china or something the job did get created it just didnt go to him or anybody he knows so maybe in his mind that means it doesnt count and never got created
Uh…that was an interesting exercise. Know what I learned from that? I can’t relate to these people even when I try to. Being lazy in everything, taking the lowest-effort approach toward every single challenge that comes along, after awhile I find I’m doing extra work just to keep it going. Maybe it’s a matter of acquired taste, but I notice I’m putting in a lot more effort into, and progressing much more slowly by, avoiding these little rituals like capitalizing letters, or using punctuation, than would be the case if I just went ahead and did them.
I’ve got a feeling this character is being frustrated by a lot of little problems in life that he’s making for himself. And, most tragic of all, the solution is to make things artificially tougher & less profitable for others.
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Sounds like every troll I’ve run across on Facebook groups I subscribe too…like “Stupid Shit Obama Says” or “Liberal Logic 101.”
I just block these people when I see them on FB. I’m tired of their inane reasoning, if you can even call it that. I don’t even bother to respond anymore.
- cylarz | 10/21/2012 @ 23:41