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...
We’re reaching back, or rather digging down, into our “stuff for blogging” stack. There’s some great stuff with a thick layer of dust on top, that has not yet made it into the scroll.
This is a wonderful bit of creative writing from Neo-Neocon:
Obama’s race is the gift that keeps on giving. It will continue to do so until we see the unlikely spectacle of hordes of Angry Black Men rising up against him. That’s the only thing that will get those poor Angry White Men off the hook—and maybe not even that.
The fact that the opponents of health care reform speaking up at the town hall meetings are clearly motivated by extremely substantive issues other than racial hatred of Obama is irrelevant to Michael Crowley. In fact, many of them are also at least as furious at Congress and the person of one White Woman Nancy Pelosi, as well as a number of Very White CongressMen.
But repeat after me: they are White. They are Men. They are Angry at Obama. They are Angry White Men.
And don’t let the fact that some of them are women confuse you, either…
It goes on like that, and keeps getting better.
This kind of touches on a provocative nugget I dropped into this morning‘s post, which I might very well be repeating a few more times in the weeks and months ahead. Hell, I might have it embroidered on a cloth and hung on a wall:
It is a prerequisite now, before one steps up to a debate to oppose carbon cap-and-trade bills, to offer the ritual disclaimer “I believe global warming is a serious problem and that it is caused by man.” The data no longer back this up…When liberals step up to a debate to insist that taxes should stay high and be pushed higher…they do not labor under any social necessity to say “I believe the Laffer Curve is real,” the way their opponents have been similarly nagged to say “I believe global warming is real.”
In a sane universe, if you were required to profess any particular opinion just to be taken seriously, that opinion would be a lot closer to “The Laffer Curve is real” than “global warming is real.” But the verbal talisman — the modern Speakeasy passphrase — in our world it has to do with global warming.
Let’s face it. Liberals today have complete control over our prevailing notions about what’s a sensible thing to say and what’s just plain nuts. And rationality and logic haven’t been deciding those things for us. Those things have been decided by this: Liberals make a demand of us, and we grant the demand no matter how asinine and silly it is. So that maybe we aren’t called racists.
What kinds of things have we decided are nuts and stupid and crazy this way? Stuff like…maybe it’s a bad idea to elect a President because He happens to show a lot of personal charisma, when He doesn’t discuss any specifics of what He’s going to do when He gets into office. Or…if the Constitution says we have a right to keep and bear arms, golly gee, maybe we do. Or…if we want to turn the economy around, maybe we should liberate businesses from taxes and regulations, rather than piling on more.
You know. Really wild, radical, crazy hateful stuff. Yeah.
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