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...
Yes, I’ve been to North Dakota, and no I’m not surprised by the local reaction either.
“We talked about the oil boom, weddings – everything under the sun,” Arlene Zacher said Saturday. “But nobody ever mentioned that missile. I guess that shows that people aren’t worried about it – I’m certainly not.”
The money quote is near the end — this is what got it on the big scroll at FARK.
In Makoti, a farming community of about 145 people, Darwin Quandt said he wasn’t worried.
“They’re moving them things around all the time, so we’re used to it,” Quandt said.
“As long as it ain’t going off, we’re OK,” he said. “And if it did, it wouldn’t matter anyway.”
Hehehehe, I love it. Save the adrenaline rush for when it might change the outcome.
Sometimes things that don’t sound profound, in fact, are. Like…
“Mornin’ Tom.” “Mornin’, Pastor.” “Tom, I was curious…I didn’t see you & yours at church services yesterday. Everything alright?” “Oh yeah, Pastor. See, the thing of it is, we weren’t out of milk.”
“You weren’t out of milk?” “That’s right.” “What’s that got to do with not coming to church on Sunday?” “Well, Pastor, I figure one excuse is just as good as the next.”
Profound. Deep. When you think about it.
Oh, and by the way in case you were wondering — it was the first question that popped into my head — your first reference to Lex Luthor is at 8:34:58 AM EDT by skinink. I just knew that had to be in there somewhere.
I wonder if the Air Force makes a point of routing these things through red states, near towns like “Parshall, a town of about 1,000 people, [which] trust[s] the Air Force.” It’s a big contrast with, for example, that New Yorker who wrote that weird letter. One has to wonder how she would react to a 75,000 pound rocket falling off a truck and lying in a ditch half a mile away from her. Gah, she’d probably explode. I think I like Darwin Quandt’s outlook on things a whole lot better.
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I can vouch for what the AP sez about North Dakotans being unconcerned, what with having spent one year, three days, eight hours, and ten minutes in extreme NW NoDak (lat the intersection of the MT – ND – Sask border). I used to drive by those Minutemen sites on my way down to Minot to party, back in the day. I’ve probably driven right by that very same ditch pictured in the AP article, but without a Minuteman carrier in it, of course.
BTW… didja know if NoDak were to secede from the Union they’d automajically become the world’s third largest nuclear power? Assuming they kept control of all the warheads in the state, anyway.
- Buck | 08/04/2008 @ 14:41