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...
Michael Brendan Dougherty, The Week:
Kristen Soltis Anderson has penned a bright and optimistic book called The Selfie Vote urging Republican leadership to understand millennial voters, of which she is one. A pollster with Echelon Insights, Anderson shows that millennial voters may be socially liberal when it comes to same-sex marriage, but that they are not uniformly progressive, and that their interests occasionally collide with legacy institutions built by the left in the 20th century.
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It makes intuitive sense that young people ought to be entrepreneurial, since they are unchastened by failure, and unburdened by immediate and growing families. The young investor should have confidence in the future, particularly the long term. Instead millennials are the most risk-averse investors, many of them having witnessed their parents go through agonies of 401(k) meltdowns and foreclosures at the same time. Their model of investment isn’t managing an aggressive account from their phone — it’s closer to burying cash in a refrigerator, then burying the refrigerator in their parent’s backyard. Indeed they are as worried about their parents’ portfolios as they are of their own.
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Some demographic reports predict that once the economy has fully turned around, millennials will reach a tipping point and actually prove to be a more stable generation, with a higher percentage of their own children growing up in two-parent homes than they themselves did. But their marriage rates seem unlikely to ever catch up. As summarized by Time magazine, the Pew Report shows that millennial men aren’t even attaining to what have traditionally been the prerequisites of marriage: a stable job.
Hat tip to Bird Dog at Maggie’s Farm.
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Heh. I have a LOT of experience with Millennials. You’ll never find a more wretched hive of autism and conformity. They can’t tie their shoes without an Accommodation Plan from Learning Services… and without checking their iPhones seventeen times to make sure they’re doing it the socially approved way.
They won’t vote Republican under any circumstances. In fact, most of them won’t vote at all — the only way to get them to the polls is to let them take selfies inside the voting booth, which they can post to MountainDew.com for a chance to win extreeeeme! prizes.
- Severian | 08/26/2015 @ 08:44In other words, they are fiscally concerned…for their wallets…yet they are morally bankrupt.
- bammit | 08/26/2015 @ 09:56That fits with my observations.
I think bammit’s comment wins the internetz here. Unfortunately, Millennials have shown that they do vote for Democrats, and seeing no problem with cheating in school also see no problem with vote-rigging. There are (probably…hopefully) conservative Millennials out there, resistant to the brainwashing that’s become so prevalent in the schools and the media. Whether THEY’VE found the time to put down the controller and pick up the voter’s pamphlet remains to be seen. Regardless, they don’t outnumber the mass vote-rigging that comes from years of liberal indoctrination.
- P_Ang | 08/26/2015 @ 11:43