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...
Sex charge worries streaker in Boulder Pumpkin Run
Now that the general election’s over, let’s get on to more important matters: Justice for the Pumpkin 12.
Recent University of Colorado graduate Eric Rasmussen, 23, is among the 12 runners ticketed Halloween night for indecent exposure after running naked with a wobbly orange squash on their heads along the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder.
If convicted, he and 11 others could be required to register as sex offenders. Like many of the Pumpkin 12, he is finding a lawyer.
Rasmussen said it was his first time streaking. He had a great time – until he saw 12 police awaiting him and 150 other naked people at the courthouse.
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“I was under the assumption there would be safety in numbers – it didn’t occur to me that it would be OK for the police just to take 12 people and disregard the other couple hundred.”
Now that I have some measure of empathy for a stranger looking at this kind of conviction, I must admit — and it pleases me to admit this — I’m ignorant of the details involved. That’s a lifetime, interstate thing, is it not? It would have to be, wouldn’t it?
Folks in the law profession are assuring this fellow that the judge will likely let him off, or at least, not force him to reprise John Turturro’s role in The Big Lebowski. That doesn’t impress me as an adequate protection. I’m sure some judges are wonderful, but I just voted for a couple of judges Tuesday evening, and they were both running unopposed. So who’s swinging that gavel? It seems to all come down to that.
I’m left wondering who’s swinging something else. Who streaks? We live, today, in a time in which hanging a calendar in your private work cubicle with pictures of women wearing tasteful bathing suits is thought to be “going over the line.” So tearing through a public venue in your birthday suit just to be a bad boy, with the curse of Je-soos dangling over your head like the Sword of Damoclese, I guess, would be a result of a) intoxication b) knowledge that you already have to ring doorbells in your neighborhood, and therefore have nothing to lose, or c) profound recklessness bordering on stupidity.
You know, this movie has a judge-scene in it. It’s not likely to invigorate anybody’s faith in the legal system; maybe it should be required viewing at the UC, and in the rest of our colleges.
(Note to self: Scribble down that link somewhere, you’re going to be needing it quite a lot over the next four years.)
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Now that you mention it Morgan…why didn’t anyone else want to sit on those two benches? What would have been our vaunted “alternative” had one or both of those glorified attorneys been an absolutely horrid wielder of the power of law, precedent, and common sense?
- cylarz | 11/11/2008 @ 03:51