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...
Yeah yeah, there must be something to it or else it wouldn’t have been repeated so many times. So the mere observation that it is just a cowardly retread and nothing more, must be a confession that there must be some truth to it…or, at the very least, that a lot of people think it:
Obama is an intellectual powerhouse and Sarah Palin “cannot stand on the same stage” with He Whom Oprah Called Brill-Yunt.
“There is nobody out there except for Sarah Palin who could absolutely dominate the stage and she can’t stand on the intellectual stage with Obama.”
Unfortunately, there’s very little to back up that last bit, save for the ritual “of course…” and “we all know…” And, for those who care about empirically observed recent history, facts, figures, evidence and logic, there’s quite a bit to challenge it.
Go RTWT. That’s a-gonna leave a mark.
Obama’s just like Wiley Coyote. Except He talks — oh my goodness, how well He can talk! Always with teleprompter in tow wherever He goes, and there’s a sonorous, dulcet, almost musical “I meant to do that” every time a boulder lands on Him.
Intellectual stage, indeed.
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Obama’s “brilliance” is exhibit A in the argument that any serious conservative counterattack in the larger culture must start with education. If the schools were doing their job, any assertion containing the phrase “of course” would immediately be followed by, “oh yeah? Sez who? And show your work!” I can’t tell you the number of things my students “know” that ain’t so, thanks to sheer repetition of the “of course” mantra.
Speaking of: the number one “of course” assertion that needs to go (of course) is the “teachers are grossly underpaid” one. Hmmm….. $40K per, great bennies, tenure, thermonuclear-armed union, an entire political party in your pocket… all that and summers off…. ummmm, yeah, right. But since “everyone knows” that teachers are underpaid, it’s only the real idealists — i.e. scatterbrained ditzes, even by liberal standards — who go into teaching, and the cycle perpetuates itself.
- Severian | 12/28/2010 @ 10:12Yeah, Tammy Bruce was filling in for Laura Ingraham yesterday … (I hear her show in the car if I happen to go run errands at lunch) — and she brought this up. And she noted that the ONLY person in the GOP field that the “ex-spurts” will dismiss from the “intellectual” stage.
I also note that, of course, the extremely conservative, hateful Catholic Laura Ingraham had an open lesbian filling in for her. Just thought I’d point that out. ‘Cause you know … we conservatives are so intolerant. And stuff.
- philmon | 12/28/2010 @ 14:42Charles Krauthammer sure seems to think Obama is brilliant.
http://patriotpost.us/opinion/charles-krauthammer/2010/12/24/obamas-new-start/
http://patriotpost.us/opinion/charles-krauthammer/2010/12/17/the-new-comeback-kid/
http://patriotpost.us/opinion/charles-krauthammer/2010/11/12/why-obama-is-right-about-india/
Some conservative. Normally I respect the man’s opinion, but geez…give it a rest. Obama isn’t that smart, the opposition is just incompetent and spineless.
- cylarz | 12/28/2010 @ 14:55There certainly is some irony here.
If the Obamapologist is willing to concede that maybe, just maybe, Wonder Child can occasionally screw something up, it’s easier to argue that He has America’s interests at heart and is not actively seeking to destroy the country from within.
If the Obamapologist is willing to concede that maybe, just maybe, Holy Man has His own agenda to worry about and isn’t that concerned with America’s solvency when His four-to-eight years are up…then, it becomes easier to assert that He Who Walks On Water is BRILL-YUNT just like Oprah Winfrey said, and never makes any mistakes.
To argue both those assertions simultaneously and brook no challenge to them whatsoever, is to construct a thesis so brittle that it shatters at the trunk before the argument assaulting it kicks up into the zone of “stiff breeze,” let alone gale force wind. The Obama-zealot’s extremism is revealed, because his persuasive power is casually tossed aside, for no reward more glorious than the avoidance of having to admit something, re-think something, concede that a prior statement might have been wr-wr-wr-wrong. just maybe — possibly.
We find the entire country neck-deep in the “cowboy” militancy that, with Obama’s inauguration, we were supposed to have been abandoning forever. Wha’ happened??
- mkfreeberg | 12/28/2010 @ 15:03Krauthammer is a good conservative, we just don’t agree on everything. He’s got a few blind spots, but I’m not for kicking him off the team.
One thing Palin has that he could learn from is that extra bit of spine that says “I don’t need to throw a bone to people with whom I disagree so they’ll occassionally pat me on the head.”
Great. Just after I typed that I remembered dude’s paralyzed from the neck down from a diving accident in college. So maybe talking about spine is a little insensitive. Sorry Charles! Love ya, man.
I think one of the thing we Sarah lovers love about Sarah is that pretty much with her, what you see is what you get. There’s no hidden agenda there.
Besides, genius on its own is no qualification.
Hence the term, “Evil Genius”.
- philmon | 12/28/2010 @ 15:11