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...
Pure self-inflicted political damage, from The One who is supposed to be the nation’s premier political genius.
Much discussion about a sit-down taking place. Not a single word about what was supposed to be said, what in fact was said, what came of it, who feels all warm and fuzzy about it who didn’t feel warm & fuzzy before. All symbolism. No substance whatsoever. I’ve kibitzed before about this strange, strange, strange preoccupation our modern liberals have with the act of “sitting down to discuss our differences.” I’ve listened to decades of this bullshit, and I’ve yet to hear a syllable about what this — let us call it what it really is — ceremony is actually supposed to do.
Yet another “teachable moment” with no actual learning taking place.
The one person who did everything right from beginning to end was not invited, apparently because she’s just a chick. This is a day for healing racial division, not gender division.
Biden, who has nothing to do with anything, got a seat at the table…he’s got such a steady track record of saying the right thing, dontcha know.
Sgt. Crowley deserved exoneration, and through this event, he lost every shred of dignity he had.
Prof. Gates needed people to take him more seriously, and ended up looking sillier than before.
President Obama desperately needed to save face from this public relations setback He suffered — probably for the very first time in His life! — and made an ass out of Himself.
The one single word that was used so unwisely, to blow this thing way out of proportion? It’s an adverb. “Stupidly.”
And what an able word for this attempted closure. Stupidly. Four men stupidly partaking in a photo op, which is failed even before it begins.
If you were to have jotted these events down in manuscript form before they actually occurred, no publisher of fiction would accept it. It’s all too surreal, too absurd, too astonishing, too preposterous. It would never happen in real life. This is a new low nadir. This takes the cake. It descends beneath “[illegal aliens] are doing the work Americans won’t do.” It descends beneath Howard Dean yelling “YEEEEAAAARRRGGGHHHH!!!!” It descends beneath John McCain suspending his campaign to fix the mortgage crisis. It descends beneath John Edwards screwing around on his cancer-stricken wife, and Gov. Sanford hiking in the Appalachians.
Our national Absurdity Engine has burst a gasket and thrown a rod. Too much gas, too many revs, and that premium grade of bullshit fuel burned way too fast.
If this is a typical “teaching” moment, kindly leave me un-taught thankyewverymuch. Just lend me a Sharpy so I can make a new hash mark on the door jamb, and hopefully we have to wait awhile before this newest record of extraordinary depth is broken yet again.
Cross-posted at Right Wing News.
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Where’s the peanut bowl?
Where are the ash trays?
I suspect he’s there at the Presidents invitation, in hopes he might learn something about “Chicago Style” of what NOT to say when within 100′ of a camera.
- CaptDMO | 07/30/2009 @ 19:50I dunno. Seems a little “racist” to me. I mean, two and a half white guys, and one and a half black guys. If they’d’ve left Biden out, it’d’ve been even.
And it looks to me, given her name and general appearance it is likely that she is a wise Latina woman, too. They could have really diversified the table by inviting her.
Apparently she doesn’t like beer. How about a nice bottle of Chardonay, Lucia?
Kudos to Lucia. And shame on those who pre-judged her. Pre-judge. The source of the word “prejudice”.
- philmon | 07/31/2009 @ 08:022nd generation Portuguese, I hear.
So she’s like a sister to me! (Got a bunch of Portuguese in my background)
- philmon | 07/31/2009 @ 11:42Obama could make His penance for His unwise comment by nominating her to the Supreme Court. To replace David Souter.
And then apologize…something He likes to do. Nominate Wise Latinas to the Supreme Court, apologize, and drink flavorless light beer.
- mkfreeberg | 07/31/2009 @ 11:48[…] Stupidly Drinking Beer […]
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