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...
Time to hit the shower and go start my “real” day. I’ve had the radio on for an hour or so, and this one sound bite keeps coming up over and over again…and thankfully my weary old memory can take a rest because someone jotted it down over here.
Then give Berkeley back the $56 million that it will spend this year alone on the war so we can invest it in what we want here, which would be schools and health care and green jobs and solar panels for our homes. That would make us a lot more secure than a war in Iraq.
The speaker is “peace activist and Code Pink cofounder Medea Benjamin.”
I’m not sure how schools and health care and green jobs and solar panels make you secure, although I can think of a couple of possibilities. We stop importing oil and the terrorists run out of money…or…when the terrorists send over someone with dynamite sticks under their coat to blow us all up, in the instant when the shrapnel and body parts are flying we hide behind schools and solar panels and thus escape unscathed.
Actually, those are the only two that come to mind.
It wouldn’t bug me if I heard this nugget of wisdom from Ms. Benjamin just once. But when it keeps surfacing every fifteen minutes and there’s never any explanation for what exactly she means, I get this feeling that everyone else gets something and I’m not quite bright enough to latch on to the intent behind what is being said.
Oh well. After a few decades on the planet you learn to live with that. Just the same, if someone could explain it to me I wouldn’t mind one bit.
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.
In the “just” society Ms. Medea imagines all those things bring us happiness and independence at home. Thus, we would never need to go to war to secure our oil supplies. Therefore there would be no terrorists.
Green=>No Oil=>No War=>No Terrorism.
That’s it in a nutshell.
- Allen L | 02/12/2008 @ 19:17These are probably the same people who want people to >a<.
- philmon | 02/12/2008 @ 22:59