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...
Earlier Friday, we reported that Mitt Romney upset many in the so-called “mainstream media” when he joked that no one has “ever asked to see” his birth certificate while speaking at a rally in Commerce, Michigan. MSNBC hosts, however, went ballistic on Friday, calling his joke “racist” and bigoted, the Washington Examiner reported.
“Host Alex Wagner explained that Romney was clearly ‘scraping the very bottom of this sort of racist other-ist narrative,’” Charlie Spiering wrote.
Michael Eric Dyson amplified that remark, claiming that Romney was appealing to the “base bigotry” of the GOP.
“In this he’s revealing for us, I think that we should be grateful for this but it’s pretty scary to think that a political figure at that high a level is resorting to some of the basest, most despicable bigotry we can imagine,” he said.
MSNBC host Chris Hayes called Romney’s remark “hipster racism.”
“I don’t even know what to do with that joke, it’s like a lasagna of metaphor. I don’t know what, it’s like so piled up, somebody, Adam Serwer at Mother Jones referred to as ‘ironic post-birtherism,’ it’s like hipster racism basically,” he said.
One demerit for using the word “basically,” and an additional demerit for using it in precisely the way I described earlier. Chris Hayes, born in 1979, wishes to lecture us about “hipster racism.” Basically.
I’m getting so sick and tired of seeing people vilified as monsters, for merely suggesting a sluggishness about believing…whatever. Skepticism, mere questions, the faintest whiff of hesitation or doubt. Or, the mere lack of certainty. Or something that might be interpreted as lack of certainty.
Quicker than Obama blaming George Bush for something, and just as predictable, there’s a butt-hurtey two-minute-hatey-hatey.
I…am…so…sick…of…it…
It’ll be nice when Obama’s gone. I’m not gonna miss this. Just fucking childish as all get-out.
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“It’ll be nice when Obama’s gone.”
That’s what I used to think about Mr. (and Mrs.)Clinton.
Butt…butt…(sic), it’ll only be because he was bestowed hororary Negro status, or something like that. Same with the Head ot the Department of Affirmative Justice.
- CaptDMO | 08/25/2012 @ 05:20So…is there a difference between racism, and bigotry, or do they both just mean
“You’re white”
Personally, I freely discriminate. That’s why I commonly surf genuinely intellectual
- CaptDMO | 08/26/2012 @ 05:36wonks like
discriminations. Put’s it into a tidy little nutshell that for some reason doesn’t seem so ….complicated any more.