Posts By Author » Morgan Freeberg
The Vampire Problem
30 Jul 2012 
10:56 am
One of the most widely appreciated denizens of my blog goes by the name of Severian; no one has a clue who he really is, which is just the way he likes it. All I personally know of him is his first name, and I suppose if I bothered to check, his apparent IP address. This tells me nothing useful, save for that it’s probably safe to use masculine pronouns to refer to him.
The rest of us learn much, perhaps more than any of us would like to admit, when …
View More...
Emily’s Wisdom
25 Jun 2012 9:43 am
A generic waifish English-rose gives her thoughts on Americans and their perspicacity, or lack thereof, with regard to politics:
I can remember when Bush got in for the second time, just feeling like so much of the problem about the way that politics go here is that people are improperly informed. That they didn’t know that they had been lied to, or they didn’t understand exactly to what extent they had been, and they still thought that there were weapons of mass destruction. And that was just crazy to me that …
View More...
Thawed
25 Jun 2012 9:23 am
From the very beginning, some six or seven years ago, I have made occasional reference to the “dispassionate but logical space alien living in our laundry room,” some kind of intelligent being capable of rational thought but entirely unacquainted with our culture, who is forced by circumstances to grapple with our customs by way of inductive and deductive reasoning instead of by gradually acclimating to them the way we do. I am not the first to ponder this by any means…well-known television shows have been doing it for years, for …
View More...
Father’s Day 2012
17 Jun 2012 11:00 am
“It’s a Dad Life.”
Thanks to GS (Girlfriend’s Sister).
View More...
The Argument-Winner-In-Chief
17 Jun 2012 10:55 am
Okay…let’s do the run-down with links, maybe we can save some space…
Our first National Pharoah is “heckled”…as He announces that He’s going to change the rules by Executive Order in a way He couldn’t, by doing it the right way, which would be going through Congress.
Tucker Carlson defends the heckler, pointing out — hey, actually, that’s a reporter, Neil Munro, doing what reporters are supposed to be doing, getting answers to the questions.
Money quote:
I don’t remember Diane Sawyer scolding her colleague Sam Donaldson for heckling President Reagan. And she …
View More...
“I’m a Sexy Woman, So Stop Objectifying Me!”
17 Jun 2012 10:53 am
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is what it looks like when one advocate of a point-of-view completely thinks circles around another. She’s got the radical feminists figured out, pegged, nailed to the wall, and they wouldn’t even understand the first thing about any of it.
Naughty language warning.
Thanks to Dean Esmay for finding this, in response to our previous comments, upon which we had since expounded…and this is an example of great minds thinking alike…
It seems the social code we’ve been trying to prop up for a few years now, and …
View More...
The Fifty-Second Percent Problem
9 Jun 2012 10:19 am
Going back through my archives, I see I first noticed this pre-Obama. There would have been value in describing the problem succinctly, but this was not within my efforts, nor within my achievements. Since then, I’ve made some references to it, on my way to noticing something else, but I’ve not been giving it the attention it truly deserves.
Now, it seems we are on our way a post-Obama age; whether future events show that to be overly optimistic or not, we will have to ponder the “big takeaway” from the …
View More...
Hate Them Because They’re Beautiful
21 May 2012 8:29 am
“Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of American life.” — Rush Limbaugh, Truth #24 of the 35 Undeniable Truths of Life.
One of the most superficial complaints against Fox News, does find a shred of sympathy with me, if only just a shred: “Real women don’t look like that.” It isn’t true, in the purest technical sense. Women can be occasionally readings-off-the-charts beautiful. But the complaint resonates because it isn’t a complaint only about beauty, and it isn’t only about one or two …
View More...
Fidelity to Failed Ideas
12 May 2012 7:37 am
It’s terribly unfortunate that, out of an entire four-year cycle of politics, we’ve not seen the national economy recover in any substantial way. That’s a long time for it to be languishing the way it’s been. But it affords us a unique educational opportunity because we’ve been able to watch two presidential administrations — one archetypically liberal, running for re-election, and the other one whatever passes for “conservative” in this day & age, and not — defending their stewardship over economic matters, without being able to bring any record of …
View More...
Trust and Retractions
30 Apr 2012 9:07 am
Now here is a picture that’s worth a zillion words…
Look what’s going on there now. Green line is retraction incidents, measured in “notices” per 100,000 publications in scientific journals. Now, you could argue there may be problems with measuring it this way…but nevertheless, if the plotting is shaped like this, it’s gotta mean something. And the line more or less gels with public perception of the problems with science across time, if it doesn’t define an even greater issue with this thing we call “science” in actuality, compared to what …
View More...
Studies
7 Apr 2012 10:39 am
So the kid’s here for spring break, of which today is the last day. The fiancee and I are driving him back to Nevada today so he can resume school. We had a blast with the go-karts and the trip to the shooting range, where I lost my .40 S&W virginity and managed a decently tight grouping in spite of the wicked recoil on the Beretta.
Also upgraded his home-built with a new 2GB video card. No time for blogging lately. But in my early morning ponderings, I did manage to …
View More...
Double Standard
11 Mar 2012 12:33 pm
The trouble with the Fluke matter is, we need to get off it and on to other things that are far more important; and, at the same time, we don’t.
On the one hand, the matter is settled. President Obama has been so hugely embarrassed by the whole contraception-mandate thing that His pals on Capitol Hill figured out there was no way of saving Him short of the Winifred Skinner technique: Put some sad sack in front of the cameras and tell a tall tale about the woe and misery involved …
View More...
I’ve Made Up My Mind About Apologies
10 Mar 2012 8:28 am
And what I’ve decided is, I don’t like ‘em. I’ll go further: I can’t stand them. I f*cking hate ‘em.
Okay I’ll make one single exception to that: If it’s like when James Caan snapped at Robert Duvall in The Godfather, and then immediately said, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean that — if it’s a case of, the grown-up side of the brain hasn’t been in charge, and it just took control again and is in a process of making things right — then, and only then, I like apologies. Then, …
View More...
DJEver Notice? LXXII
4 Mar 2012 10:46 am
Perhaps because there is this perception that the availability of birth control devices — for free! — is a winning issue for democrats this election year, suddenly it’s all contraceptives, all the time. That could be because a winning issue for democrats exists nowhere else. We’re out of toothpaste: Contraceptives. Case of hemmarhoids: Contraceptives. Car won’t start: Contraceptives. Gas is six dollars a gallon, Iran’s getting a nuke, 3 a.m. phone call, public debt exceeds GDP, kids are graduating school without knowing anything, job market still sucks: Contraceptives, contraceptives, contraceptives.
Of …
View More...
Warren Buffett’s Secretary Shouldn’t Have to Buy Sandra Fluke’s Birth Control
3 Mar 2012 11:16 pm
Thatisall.
File it away under “Say it and watch liberal heads go pop.”
Update: The Great One caves in. Partially. But it’s still a cave-in.
My choice of words was not the best, and in the attempt to be humorous, I created a national stir. I sincerely apologize to Ms. Fluke for the insulting word choices.
My remarks at The Hello Kitty of Blogging stand. Yeah, Rush has to think about sponsors and I don’t, but I don’t care. There is rich irony in the idea that, when a narrative has developed that you …
View More...
Zo’s Argument Against Legalizing Drugs
27 Feb 2012 10:19 am
You know, it says something about us that is not good when — well, if someone immigrated to our country and asked for an explanation about conservatives, liberals and libertarians, and the task fell to me to explain it to them, and someone put me on a strict limit as far as the number of words to use for my answer (and come to think of it, not a one among those three things is implausible)…I would have to say…
Alright, looking at it from a distant birds-eye view so I …
View More...
Imitation is the Sincerest Form XXXVI
22 Jan 2012 11:44 am
The first time I came up with the idea of building a fence to divide the country, at least on these pages, was in February of ’06. It isn’t that I relish the idea, the point is that I think it is unavoidable for many reasons. There are those of us who value opportunity over security and there are those of us who value security over opportunity; nothing wrong with an intermixed people sustaining different systems of personal priority, but it’s a problem because this affects how individuals see their …
View More...
I Want Those Marines Punished
13 Jan 2012 10:01 pm
And this clip from A Bridge Too Far does an exemplary job of explaining the why, as well as the how. If your time is pressed, fast forward to 3:20:
That is exactly what I want done to them. Come on, we have to face facts; we simply can’t let this kind of conduct go. It’s like the Medical Officer said, once you let discipline go you can forget about getting it back again. So the punishment is going to have to be laid down — hard. Just like it was …
View More...
Memo For File CLI
1 Jan 2012 12:31 pm
Item: I notice it’s been an entire year since the “Don’t Touch My Junk” revolt against the TSA, which is now a whole decade old and has yet to stop a single terrorist attack. And in that year, I haven’t flown. Lord willing and the creek don’t rise, I hope to see many years come and go before I fly. Not because I’m afraid of heights, but because I don’t like being treated like a barnyard animal to be herded around, the situation’s become completely unraveled and completely absurd. Confiscating …
View More...
Memo For File CL
17 Dec 2011 1:16 pm
Once again we’re split squarely down the middle: People who believe what they’re told to believe, think the “War on Christmas” is an artificial concoction of fiction being played up by Fox News, and people who pay attention to what’s going on understand there really is one. Examples abound, and have for years, but for purposes of our discussion here we only need one:
Looks like the PC police have threatened members of the House of Representatives against wishing constituents a “Merry Christmas,” if they want to do so in a …
View More...
IRS Gave OBAMA’S BROTHER Non-Profit Status
Ads
|
