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...
Wisdom from the fat filmmaker in the baseball cap. He’s getting his ego fed…needs it like he needs an extra plate of pork chops.
From here.
There are a few amusing parts where he seems to forget about this format. He seems to be making an effort to keep it short so the crowd can keep on echoing, but you get the idea that it starts to frustrate him a little bit…like his mouth is a fine-tuned high-power sports car, and he can’t shift into second.
Does he know he’s rich?
Update: I’ve not heard anyone comment on this directly, but isn’t Michael Moore just about the worst spokesman you could possibly have for Occupy Wall Street? To whatever extent this protest has managed to gin up some public sympathy, that sympathy is generally rooted in an instinctive recoil from overfed and over-privileged things being fed & privileged even more. And Michael Moore is just about the most spectacular living and visible example of a person who’s body and ego have been fed to excess…now, the body-feeding I don’t get to see, directly, but it’s obviously happening. The ego-feeding, on the other hand, I get to see pretty much every time I see him — his massive ego is getting stoked. I’ve come to see his overfed bulk as emblematic of his overfed ego, like he’s a fictional character written into a story just to carry that metaphor along, to keep it in the story, as a garnish to whatever moral will be presented at the end. Michael Moore == overfeeding the already overfed.
Given what little has dribbled out about the platform and message of the OWS movement, the gelatinous, un-crisp and undefined state that this message is in, and the difficulty myself & others are having in trying to figure out whether the movement wants the message left this way…he is a most unlikely symbol. What am I to make of this? “We demand a new country in which nobody is allowed to be over-indulged except Michael Moore”?
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What am I to make of this? “We demand a new country in which nobody is allowed to be over-indulged except Michael Moore”?
Pretty much, yeah. Did you see that one sign going around demanding a “living wage,” regardless of whether you have a job or not? This is… don’t say it, bro!
It’s painfully obvious — to me, anyway– that their message is simply: “we want your stuff.” You have something we don’t have, and you should give it to us, because of, like, social justice and stuff. Also, racism.
How can anyone take these idiots seriously?
- Severian | 10/07/2011 @ 07:00How can anyone take these idiots seriously?
They want the same stuff, that’s how.
Ken Blackwell said (perhaps I’m slightly paraphrasing) “We have become a society where earning money doesn’t entitle you to it, but wanting it does.” He was right.
- mkfreeberg | 10/07/2011 @ 07:02The old high school and facebook friend I talked about (who had called a political “truce” a while back) posted this video today. I told him if that’s all they were out there about, Glass Stegall and Audit the Fed, well I’d be a lot more sympathetic. And that they should consider joining the Tea Party.
But the message is muddled as shown in this Reason Magazine video.
This “movement” is all Soros, MoveOn (but I repeat myself), APOLLO, Labor (communists) — That one girl thinks college education should be free and we should just tax somebody more to get it. But not her, I’d guess.
- philmon | 10/07/2011 @ 07:30All the call-response chanting kinda creeps me out, too.
- philmon | 10/07/2011 @ 07:32we should just tax somebody more to get it. But not her, I’d guess.
Can’t tax someone who doesn’t have a job, Phil!
That’s what’s so galling about this whole thing. They’re not even really bothering to disguise the fact that they just plain want your stuff. Their message in a nutshell is: I want to live X way, but I can’t afford it, so you need to pony up enough that I can. “Social justice” etc. are just euphemisms for Ray Liotta’s best line in Goodfellas: “fuck you, pay me.” It’s goddamn insulting, is what it is. You want a “college education,” hon? Go into crushing debt like the rest of us.
(though it’s not like she needs one — railing inconsequentially, incontinently, and incoherently against “capitalism” pretty much IS college these days. Every one of these “Occupy Wall Street” idiots could have a PhD in sociology, for all the difference between their bong-fueled rantings and most “scholarly” work in the ivory tower).
- Severian | 10/07/2011 @ 10:36Remember though…communism caused the USSR to go broke because the right people weren’t in charge and it wasn’t real and pure communism.
Ken Blackwell said (perhaps I’m slightly paraphrasing) “We have become a society where earning money doesn’t entitle you to it, but wanting it does.”
I heard pretty much the same idea expressed a few years back, during the debates over repealing the “death tax” that’s assessed when someone dies. “It’s ‘greedy’ to want to keep what you have…but not ‘greedy’ to want to take that which someone else has.”
- cylarz | 10/08/2011 @ 00:03All the call-response chanting kinda creeps me out, too.
– philmon | 10/07/2011 @ 07:32
No shit – the pre-school generation in all their self-congratulatory glory. This is going on in every video, all over the country. It’s the Revenge of the Good Little Boys.
Gerard put up the best one the other day, featuring Cornell West. At the close of his, ah, “remarks”, he started his wrap-up:
“I just wanna thank everybody…”
“I JUST WANNA THANK EVERYBODY…”
“for coming here today…”
“FOR COMING HERE TODAY…”
(“And being mindless robots…”
“AND BEING MINDLESS ROBOTS…”
“without a brain in their butts…”
“WITHOUT A BRAIN IN THEIR BUTTS…”
“with Liberty and justice for all”
“WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL”)
Wild applause…..
- rob | 10/09/2011 @ 09:59