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...
Um, Hey, That’s Illegal
This tactic we see with regard to Julia Wilson, the foolish girl who threatened President Bush on her MySpace page, is nothing new. She committed a federal crime by threatening the President. That’s not my interpretation of things, that’s just things the way they are. And as far as any relevant question you’d care to pose about the whole stupid affair, that just about settles it. Up is that way; down is that way; Julia Wilson committed a crime.
Now, can you commit a crime and still be a victim? Absolutely. And in what we consider to be the “modern” era, you can advertise your victimhood to the point where a substantial number of people will forget all about the crime you committed. And if you can create enough noise about it, you’ll rock the boat so much that the crime you committed, doesn’t even matter anymore. Only a few of us are in power, you see. All the rest of us, our opinions don’t matter in the final analysis. And people who are in power — for reasons that are mostly unexplained to me, still — are beholden to those among the rest of us who are easily distracted, if the powerful are not easily distracted themselves. In other words, we live in a time where any decision made that really counts for something, is easily swayed toward forgiveness of that which ought not be forgiven. Not forgiveness, really. Forgetfulness is more like it. This bizarre kind of authoritarian Attention Deficit Disorder. Criminal-as-victim: “Hey look! A bright shiny object!” And quicker than you can say “whiplash,” suddenly no crime was committed at all…save for the treatment of the person who committed the crime.
Now if you’re the person who committed the crime — why not give it a try? Why not play a round of bright-shiny-object-roulette? Or three rounds, or more. You have nothing to lose!
But as this intrepid blogger reminds us…Julia Wilson committed a crime.
The girl was quoted as saying that the Secret Service agents were rather harsh in their questioning and were “unnecessarily mean.” Okay, and threatening their boss and our President isn�t mean? I wonder how the girl would feel if her life was threatened. Would that not be mean?
The Secret Service take threats against their President very seriously. No fourteen year old girl � nor anybody in the U.S. for that matter � is going to get in their way of protecting the President. The Secret Service probably wanted to find out if the girl was involved in any terrorist groups, had like-minded friends, and possibly if she contacted others to aid in an assassination attempt. Age doesn�t really matter when a threat is made.
If a person is old enough to make a credible threat against the President, then that person is old enough to take the intense verbal questioning that the Secret Service has.
The blogger’s masthead makes the statement that he writes logically. Well, we try for that objective here too…as to whether we succeed, we’d rather leave that up to the readership to decide for themselves. But if it is to be decided by me about this fellow’s writing, if I am to confine my verdict just to this post alone…I’ll give him a passing grade. Actually, I’m favorably impressed.
He’s twenty-five. I’d like to monitor him and see what he puts out when he’s twenty-six. Good work.
Ms. Wilson, herself…well, there’s still some time to straighten out. I can’t give her advice without getting in back of a long, long line anyway, and I’m not sure just one or two well-thought-out tidbits would do the trick. I’d start with, next time, let the facts about the issues sink in first, and then let the passion follow. And choose the hills upon which to die (not a threat). And know what a public forum is and what a private sanctuary is. And be slow to accept compliments your elders give you, just because they lean in the same direction ideologically. And, and, and…yeesh. Well, the poor girl’s just a mess. But a young mess. There’s time.
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