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...
Blogger friend Phil has a Thing I Know #34:
If A is “political” and B is opposition to A, then B is also “political”.
I find it funny that politicians are always accusing each other of doing things for political purposes.
Oooh…let that one sink in for awhile.
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Whenever a politician says something is “political” it means it is something or anything that promotes the positions of the party in opposition to his own party.
If you are in favor of vouchers to give parents a choice in where to send their children for education, that’s political if you are a democrat.
If you are in favor of ending the stupid and rights violating “war on drugs,” a pseudo-conservative republican will call that “political.”
- Moshe Ben-David | 04/24/2011 @ 09:19I’ve run out of patience with people who call for “more civility in politics.”
Reality check. Politics – in a republic, anyway – is the process of (at least) two groups of people – and the leaders elected to represent each group – slugging it out and attempting to govern their own way. Sometimes they find common ground. Most of the time they don’t.
I can tell you that in this country, the Reds and Blues are coming from opposite directions, hold very different assumptions about the proper role of government, and hold any number of partially-to-completely irreconcilable differences on social and public policy issues. Not all of these differences are amenable to compromise; more often than not, the side which can muster the most votes is the one that rules the day…excepting of course the times the judicial branch intervenes on the side of the losers.
Politicians are supposed to fight and argue. That’s what politicians do. They slug it out. It’s far preferable to revolution or civil war breaking out every time some group of us disagrees with some other group.
The civil discourse in our Congress is downright civilized compared to what’s seen in many other Western countries (have you heard they call each other in Australia?) and certainly so compared to what’s been seen in history.
- cylarz | 04/27/2011 @ 01:01