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...
Boortz put up a clip a few days ago that has caused something of an interesting Internet debate: Did it go too far?
It’s become another “Everybody else is linking it, I might as well do it too” kind of a thing.
Update: Okay…so there are people who think like me, and always want a little more background info before making a decision. Fine. Here is what Streeter did to deserve it. Now you can decide if it was over the line or not.
Heh. Is anyone else thinking of the big computer in War Games, and his immortal line about how “the best way to win is not to play”? Maybe that’s the situation we have here.
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This is from College Humor’s website, and it’s just the latest installment of a prank war that has been escalating for some time. Look at the preceeding episode, and you’ll get to see the perpetrator of this particular prank brought to tears.
(Here’s hoping my html tags work–haven’t used them before on this site)
- stoorat | 09/16/2007 @ 22:01According to Streeter’s comments on his own blog, “Shar and I are fine.”
I let my own lady cast the vote on Neal’s website, and she said it was over the top. With four other people saying the same thing, this made for a bare majority in Neal’s informal poll.
Me, I’d say it’s best to anticipate things like this in advance. There’s something untoward about declaring things out-of-bounds when you’re a whole year into the game. Of course, it’s easy to say that now, but at least everybody else thinking of starting a prank war, gets to learn about such, er, safety issues.
I’d say the job has been done — if I come across news of a Prank War 7, I’ll certainly go out of my way to find it.
- mkfreeberg | 09/17/2007 @ 05:10Making somebody feel like they can’t act and potentially screwing up a relationship are two different things, for sure. My initial reaction is “over the top.”
On the other hand, the girl has an idea who she’s dating. A prankster who lives for going “over the top”, and he’s got this competition going with a dude of the same mind. So after the initial shock she should be able to say “it comes with the territory” … and if she doesn’t like the territory, she should leave.
It did expose to her that he had no intention of marrying her anytime soon. Which might have brought a little more down to earth than she might have been up to that point. Young women have this tendency to be attracted to the wild type in hopes of “taming the beast” — if she can get him to behave for her — even occasionally — then she feels power and worth at the same time. (I wish I realized that when I was a pup, I guess. Would’ve saved me a lot of grief.) A gentleman who behaves already would behave for anyone, hence she doesn’t feel “special” when he treats her right. So she gravitates away from him and toward the bleepholes.
But, I digress.
I, personally, would never have done that to someone unless she were in on it. I don’t really feel sorry for him. It’s the emotional whiplash for her that was uncalled for.
- philmon | 09/17/2007 @ 21:04Ah. Phil, you keep saying I find ways of expressing what you don’t know how to express. If that’s true to any extent, you’ve certainly paid it back here. I knew something was not quite right about this, but you put your finger on it.
- mkfreeberg | 09/17/2007 @ 23:24