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...
“John” at Power Line:
The thing about this photo is that the dumbest element isn’t the misspelling. It is the silly idea that “corporate greed” is “destroying the planet.” Corporations aren’t greedy. They have a legal duty to try to make money for their shareholders, and they do so in a wide variety of legal ways. I don’t know how, specifically, this particular dim bulb thinks “corporations,” which is to say all of us, are destroying the planet, but I suppose it involves drilling for petroleum so we can drive cars rather than riding in horse-drawn buggies, or mining coal so that when we flip a switch in our home or office, a light will go on.
I second something that Steve Hayward wrote this morning:
The environment is much too important to be left to environmentalists. They’ll just make an even bigger mess of everything, like they have on climate change.
That is exactly right. These people aren’t smarter than the rest of us, they are dumber.
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My biggest problem with the “corporation critique” is a very simple one. I ask this question: If nobody showed up for work tomorrow, would there be a corporation? The answer, of course, determines the direction the balance of the discussion goes. If the answer is yes, I usually excuse myself and look for something more important to do than to talk to a complete fool. That answer means that this person believes that a corporation is a collection of inanimate objects like desks, chairs, buildings, etc and that the people that work there are inconsequential in the equation and simply don’t exist. Fair enough? If the answer is no, then we can have a civil, informed discussion about what the real intent of that statement exactly is. In my research — when I get a no answer — I realize that I’m dealing with a person that believes that the management of corporations is performed by evil, greedy individuals that live in mansions and dine in restaurants that they can’t afford. Perhaps. But many times those people may simply be their neighbors or be standing next to them watching their sons/daughters play soccer.
It’s kinda like the issue of what’s the difference between an environmentalist and a developer. The developer wants to build a cabin in the woods and the environmentalist already has one. The evil corporate people simply beat the environmentalists to those jobs and they’re jealous.
- BillW. | 06/10/2011 @ 06:31And the movie corporations she works for…aren’t “greedy”?
I’d still do Pocahontas…’cause I’ve never had a native American and I’m ALL about diversity plus I’m a greedy corporate asshole.
- tim | 06/10/2011 @ 08:57Why is it these sort of people aren’t ever concerned with *government* greed? I used to tell people back in the 90s: Forget Bill Gates! You ought to be more worried about what Bill Clinton is doing.
Why is it they never seem to know anything about the environmental track record of governments in other parts of the world, especially communist ones?
At least businesses are accountable to shareholders and customers.
- cylarz | 06/10/2011 @ 12:10I wonder who made the posterboard (and what the posterboard is made of), and who made the red marker she used, and what chemicals are in it and/or were used in the manufacturing processes.
Just curious, you know.
BillW, I like the way you think!
- philmon | 06/15/2011 @ 09:33Heh. Looks like someone beat me to that comment over at PowerLine.
- philmon | 06/15/2011 @ 09:36