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...
FrankJ at IMAO has a radical idea about what to do with the democrat party next, now that all other plans have failed.
The Democratic Party is on the verge of civil war. Two charismatic leaders are pulling it apart, setting the factions of black people and elite white women against each other. There will be blood, and I don’t see any reason why America should be in the middle of it when it happens. We’ve interfered enough, trying to prop up one of this leaders we think will be friendlier to us, but there is nothing but disaster on the horizon. We need to cut our losses and abandon the Democratic Party.
I know many of you will be resistant to the idea as we’ve invested so much time and money in it, but what have we gained? Democrats have always been a stumbling block for our country, and so much of our tax money goes to their aid. Do you ever see that changing, or do you see it getting worse? Be honest. And you can’t say we haven’t tried all we can to help the Democrats. We even tried introducing them to democracy, but they came up with idea of superdelegates to subvert that.
I’m not sure we’re talking about the same thing, since FrankJ is spelling this one consistently with the ic on the end, and with a capital-D. The democrat party I know is the one that says there is no terrorist threat — they identify strongly with a certain propagandist and maker of “documentaries” who says exactly that — but — we all need to be trembling in fear of the globular wormening ManBearPig. Our sardonic nickname for this credo that the planet is dying, and we can only save it by paying more taxes.
Which is a scam that screams “I am a scam!” in mid-sentence if ever there was one.
I have only 26 capital letters I can use on things, and none to waste on someone droning on at me that I should ignore something that’s really killed people, and concentrate my energies instead on something that never killed anyone. I have no capital letters to waste on people who hold themselves out to be “nuanced” thinkers, “tolerating diverse points of view,” while being no such thing and doing no such thing. I have no capital letters to waste on someone who wants to provide more and closer inspections on the voting process…if & when, and only if & when, they lose.
And the idea of a national convention to figure out if people like me should feel guiltier about being white or being male? I’m loving it. I love the idea that it will tear the democrat party in half, and then hopefully, churn it up into hamburger. It’s the only good part about the elections this year. Had you suggested such a thing would happen a year ago, it would have been humorous…and it’s unlikely anyone would have laughed about it, for it would have been seen as extraordinarily unlikely. And better than even odds some easily-offended, small-minded “tolerant” democrat person would have tried to exact some kind of personal revenge on you for saying it. Ending your job, or maybe your career. Don’t know if the tolerant democrat person would succeed at that. But s/he would sure as hell try.
Now such a convention, an absurd, self-parodying guilt-contest between the estrogen class warmongers and the skin-minority class warmongers, is the most likely thing to happen. Makes me grin. The entire nation will watch the democrat party repeat over and over again, that they see people as nothing more than specimens of special, artificially-propped-up, guilt-driven entitlement classes. We’ll all watch the democrats prove it to us, deny it vociferously, and then go back, Jack, and do it again. For half a year. I love it. I love watching democrats writhe in agony over the choice they have to make — it’s Obama’s time. But wait, it’s Hillary’s time too. Can’t be both — and yet — it is. Oh, what to do what to do.
So I like FrankJ’s idea quite a lot, but I say let’s do it on Labor Day…I wanna watch this convention first. Let’s try to sell democrats on democracy for just a little while longer. Even though it’s futile, we just might learn a little bit more about them. It’s fascinating.
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…we just might learn a little bit more about them.
I know more than enough about ’em already. TOO much, actually. But…they won’t go away, so I suppose we’re stuck. Still and even, schadenfreude is FUN.
- Buck | 03/12/2008 @ 14:06