In Recent Days...

...I have come to more deeply appreciate the timeless wisdom of Randy Newman....
Posted by Mitch on November 02, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

We In The Twin Cities...

...are not the only people saddled with dilettantes for mayors. Duluth certainly didn't escape. The US Coast Guard conducts periodic live-fire training with machine guns in temporary "safety zones" on the Lake. Guns? Oh, my...: "I'm outraged. ... I would...
Posted by Mitch on September 13, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (13) | TrackBack

Question for Conspiracy Theorists

If the Bush Administration was ingenious enough to sneak tons of explosives into the World Trade Center to bring it down in a controlled implosion... ...then why didn't they plant a couple of WMDs in Iraq just to make things...
Posted by Mitch on September 12, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (9) | TrackBack

You Know Who You Are

It was 5PM at the Superamerica on Snelling at Englewood. The little old SA with the cramped corner parking lot was as busy as the deck of an aircraft carrier, with cars slipping around each other with mere feet to...
Posted by Mitch on September 06, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (29) | TrackBack

Let's Give This A Try

All the local lefties are reading "Pharyngula", a blog by a dyspeptic biology prof from, um, Mankato Morris. So I figured I'd give it a shot, in this bit about, of all people, Vox Day.Corruption and wingnut Christianity seem to...
Posted by Mitch on August 23, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (14) | TrackBack

Black Bag Nutjob

Some of you are familiar with the story of Jason Leopold - the leftyblogger and former news reporter who claimed Karl Rove was being indicted in the Plame case - and was shown to be wrong. He's had many other...
Posted by Mitch on July 27, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (21) | TrackBack

I Guess Now The War Is Over

Halliburton's contract gets spiked:The Army is discontinuing a controversial multibillion-dollar deal with oil services giant Halliburton Co. to provide logistical support to U.S. troops worldwide, a decision that could cut deeply into the firm's dominance of government contracting in Iraq....
Posted by Mitch on July 12, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

BULLETIN! PENTEL ENDORSED! TECTONIC WAVES SHIFT!

BJ Hokanson, the Twin Cities blogosphere's most precocious adolescent, covers the MN Green Party convention:Governor - Ken Pentel Senate - Michael Cavlan Attorney General - John KolstadHe also notes:Secondly, despite advocating for the non-white and non-male (in addition to the...
Posted by Mitch on June 07, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (9) | TrackBack

Forget About Those Surly Bonds

Listened to Sam Seder filling on the Janeane Garawful show last night. His thesis? That the government is going to take down a corrupt Democrat for every corrupt Republican that surfaces. "If it weren't for all those corrupt Republicans, they...
Posted by Mitch on May 26, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (17) | TrackBack

Depressing

I was going to pillory today's Letter of the Day over at the Strib. But Foot already did it better....
Posted by Mitch on April 25, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (11) | TrackBack

Just...Sad

Sextuplets really zerotuplets:The couple's dramatic story had holes in it from the start - from their mysterious withholding of information for more than a month to the unanimous response of area hospitals that they hadn't helped deliver the newborns. On...
Posted by Mitch on April 13, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

A Little Bird...

...sent me this mass email from Air America Minnesota (Remember them? Ever since they ditched the last of their local weekday programming, I don't think I've wasted a word or a scintilla of thought on them):Just a reminder that your...
Posted by Mitch on March 03, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (21) | TrackBack

You Know Who You Are

You were at the front of a line of about eight people (or groups, including a guy with a couple of toddlers) at a Dunn Brothers on the Saint Paul side of the river. You and your husband - you...
Posted by Mitch on February 20, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (14) | TrackBack

Shouldn't You Be In France?

Says Alec Baldwin on the Huffpo:Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately. Who ever thought Harry Whittington would be the answer to America's prayers. What? Whittington's going to expunge the collective...
Posted by Mitch on February 18, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

Good Fascist/Bad Fascist

It's the oldest interrogation trick in the book (at least, among the books I've read); have one questioner come on strong and intransigent, threatening all manner of ugly consequences for not spilling. Then, have the other interrogator - sympathetic, concerned,...
Posted by Mitch on January 20, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (9) | TrackBack

Polly Wanna Challenge

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a list of cliches that I'd be thankful to see removed, with the aid of bloodshed if necessary, from the English language. One was:"...(Something is a) Rote Recitation of Talking Points" - Truism...
Posted by Mitch on January 09, 2006 | Read Whole Post | Comments (42) | TrackBack

Almost As Bad As Those Crazy Conservatives

Pro-dictatorship protestors in San Francisco show off their intellectual firepower by throwing molotov cocktails. I'm looking for some example of conservative protesters initiating violence - because, obviously, if I think the radical left has a more violent streak than the...
Posted by Mitch on November 03, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (8) | TrackBack

You Know Who You Are. Maybe.

We were driving north on Fairview yesterday, my car in front of yours. As we got to Selby - a cramped little intersection - the car in front of me turned into the right turn lane - but only partly,...
Posted by Mitch on October 26, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (20) | TrackBack

Too Stupid To Fisk

It finally happened. I've gone back and forth on fisking Nick Coleman. I've fisked him with zeal and gusto. I've fisked him with derision and contempt. I've even fisked him with pity, and in one exercise in creative fatigue, even...
Posted by Mitch on October 16, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (15) | TrackBack

Welcome, Hordes of Misinformed Kool-Aid-sotted Zealots!

Eva Young's blog is called "Dump Bachmann", but it should be at least subtitled "Blather about Blogger Berg"; I seem to be the subject of half of the "writing" on the blog. This material may not be quoted without my...
Posted by Mitch on September 14, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (12) | TrackBack

Swiftee: Artist

Swiftee's "Life In The Dumpster" - his crude, tasteless, scatological, juvenile whack at the endless, comical sanctimony that is "Dump Bachmann" - is a hit. Or at least, it's reeled in a bunch of gullible cartoon geeks on this forum....
Posted by Mitch on August 29, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

The Shorter Eva Young

"Michele Bachmann (looser, Stillwater) hasn't perfected innerstellar travel yet. I wonder why?" " Blogger Berg hasn't asked her why not yet; why do you seppose that is?"...
Posted by Mitch on August 28, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

Tragic Illiteracy

Yesterday, I said the Strib's unsigned editorial was a ripe specimen. The flies circling this morning's effort can be seen for miles, in comparison....
Posted by Mitch on August 25, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (6) | TrackBack

Wog Goes To The Protest

He attended the pro-Sheehan vigil at the U of M last week. He took pictures, too....
Posted by Mitch on August 25, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Bumper Fisker

Forget FrankenNet, MPR, NPR, or the Daily Kos. The left's main means of communication is the common bumper sticker. Driving through my neighborhood in central Saint Paul, I see a lot of them; my daily travels thread me between six...
Posted by Mitch on August 19, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (7) | TrackBack

Promises, Promises

Helen Thomas throws down:Veteran wire reporter Helen Thomas is vowing to 'kill herself' if Dick Cheney announces he is running for president..."The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself," she told the HILL. "All we...
Posted by Mitch on July 28, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (12) | TrackBack

Ten Seconds

I've found it necessary in the past few weeks to clear my mind of petty distractions. I've spent less time reading lefty blogs. I've stopped reading some websites whose reward-to-garbage ratio is too low. And it occurred to me that...
Posted by Mitch on June 28, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Ass-Hawks: A Question of Integrity

I make a point of reading lefty blogs. Lots of them. You can thank me later. First things first: I apologize for everything untoward that I ever said about Mark Gisleson. Having read some of the competition, he is now...
Posted by Mitch on June 20, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (47) | TrackBack

Priorities

Luke Francl at New Patriot responded to my response to his latest whack at the war. So much to respond to - and I might even find time to do it, maybe. But events of the past day or so...
Posted by Mitch on June 16, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (11) | TrackBack

Garofalo and Malloy Are Going To Talk About This For Days

I've often wondered what it takes to be a serious conspiracy-monger. What provides the motivation? Are they nuts, or is it the rest of us? Ask Morgan Reynolds, a former Department of Labor chief economist. A former Bush team member...
Posted by Mitch on June 15, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (14) | TrackBack

The Shorter Mike Malloy

Mike Malloy, FrankenNet nighttime host:(Fill in conservative name) is a Nazi. A Nazi. I know, some people say the term is overused, but I think he qualifies as a Nazi. Anyway (name)...is one of those people who's debasing the language,...
Posted by Mitch on June 15, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Embarassment of Riches Embarassment

I was running a few errands on my way to work this morning, and I caught a few minutes of both Nick Coleman and Wild Wendy. Nice to see that a week's break from them hasn't made them any smarter-sounding....
Posted by Mitch on June 09, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (19) | TrackBack

Greetings, Illiterate Trolls!

Via the MAWB, I see that I've been blessed by a Democrat Underground thread.Anyone familiar with Minnesota blogger Mitch Berg knows what a thin-skinned blowhard the guy is.Wow. I didn't know I had a reputation at all! However, anyone who...
Posted by Mitch on June 07, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (12) | TrackBack

I'm a Compassionate Guy

I was driving around yesterday, and I inadvertently caught about three minutes of a rerun of the Coleman "program". It was the day he was ripping, in his clumsy-puppy way, the bloggers' visit to the Governor's mansion. It was a...
Posted by Mitch on May 23, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

The Beer Truck

I catch about thirty seconds of Nick Coleman's radio "program" about twice a week. This morning's bit was sort of interesting. Over the show's out-ramp, he issued a correction for saying "Kennedy Versus the Machine" was an anonymous hatchetblog (very...
Posted by Mitch on May 20, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (33) | TrackBack

Wilde: "All that Economics is Soooo Complicated..."

I listened to about the first two minutes of the Wild Wendy Wendy Wilde show on the local FrankenNet affiliate. Oy, oy, oy indeed....
Posted by Mitch on May 16, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

No Place Like Home

I caught about a minute of the Nick Coleman show this morning. After meandering through a couple of different conversational threads, he started talking about Minnesota's upcoming sequicentennial. In the midst of talking about the state's anniversary, he said:Twuh thuhsuhnd...
Posted by Mitch on May 10, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (37) | TrackBack

Hissy

Nick Coleman turns his keen journalistic eye on the PiPress (HT: Fraters), naming Mark Yost the "Wingnut of the Week". Note to Mark: It's not as big a deal as you might think. The funny parts? While he was talking...
Posted by Mitch on May 04, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (20) | TrackBack

Dangerously Spicy?

Schools are in a conundrum. While they are not allowed to do anything that would mortally inconvenience actual mass-murderers, like allow guards (much less teachers) to come to school armed, they are allowed to criminalize mentioning, even via gesture, the...
Posted by Mitch on May 03, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (7) | TrackBack

Prager Was Right

You have to be a highly trained academic to do the really dumb stuff. Fr. Dennis Dease is the president of Saint Thomas University in Saint Paul. He's got the vapors over last week's Ann Coulter appearance:. It's even gone...
Posted by Mitch on April 28, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

Like You Couldn't See This Coming...

The Wendy's Chili Woman has been been boxed up:The woman who claimed she found a finger in her bowl of Wendy's chili last month has been arrested, the latest twist in a bizarre case about how the 1 1/2-inch finger...
Posted by Mitch on April 22, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (8) | TrackBack

Strike Against Sanity

A UAW local in Detroit which abuts a Marine Reserve armory, and which has allowed reservists to park on the union lot for years during off-hours, has barred non-UAW-built cars, and cars sporting Bush stickers, from the lot:For a number...
Posted by Mitch on March 14, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Drama Queens

I caught a few minutes of the Nick Coleman "Show" this morning. Apparently "Kuhbi", the show's "producer", "snuck" into the "61st Minute" party last night. I caught a few minutes of his debriefing with Coleman and guest Brian "Who's Brian...
Posted by Mitch on March 10, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (7) | TrackBack

When Illiterates Go Political!

Tim Blair notes:It isn’t Rove’s people they must fear; it’s his delicious tenderloin steaks.Read the piece to see why......
Posted by Mitch on March 08, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

Jackboots On Sunset Strip!

I caught one minute of the Nick Coleman show today. "Arnold [Schwarzenegger] has become a bit of a...DICtator! Kind of like Jesse...Ventura, only without the charm.." Dictator. Given reasoning like this, I think we need to revisit Coleman's oeuvre. Perhaps...
Posted by Mitch on March 01, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Priceless

Fun with Photoshop:...
Posted by Mitch on February 18, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Excessive Joy

I'm sure this would never be allowed in the US:WHEN 35 Greenpeace protesters stormed the International Petroleum Exchange (IPE) yesterday they had planned the operation in great detail. What they were not prepared for was the post-prandial aggression of oil...
Posted by Mitch on February 17, 2005 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

You're No Good

First things first: Linda Ronstadt abruptly ceased being listenable when she stopped covering Warren Zevon songs. Heart Like A Wheel is a simply amazing album - and it's been downhill since then. I mention this by way of saying that...
Posted by Mitch on November 19, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

Good News, Bad News

The good news - Zero Intelligence is blogging more often these days. The blog - which covers the lunacy of school "Zero Tolerance" policies and other such educational atrocities - is an essential read. The bad news? They have so...
Posted by Mitch on November 16, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (2) | TrackBack

But It's The Republicans Who are Ignorant, Right?

This letter in today's Strib, in response to a recent letter from a petulant Stillwater DFLer who threatened to take his toys and move to Canada, brightened my day - especially the emphasized part (emphasis added):The letter from the gentleman...
Posted by Mitch on November 15, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Attention, Moonbats: Christmas Cancelled

According to that right-wing tool Salon, rumors that the election was stolen are greatly exaggerated:There's little question that the American election is a mess, and needs to be cleaned up. But even if this particular election wasn't perfect, it was...
Posted by Mitch on November 10, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (7) | TrackBack

Moore's Wrists - A Preponderance of Evidence

After the election, Michael Moore posted 17 reasons for Democrats not to "slit their wrists" over the outcome of the election. Not to speak for Kerry supporters, but in the interest of equal time, I thought I'd present some countervailing...
Posted by Mitch on November 08, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

When One Door Opens...

The world didn't end this morning. It wouldn't have ended for me had Bush lost. But listening to the foul-tempered tantrum-throwing of some Democrat bloggers, I was almost tempted to say "If you're so miserable, disgusted or scared, just move...
Posted by Mitch on November 03, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (16) | TrackBack

Save It For The Polls

One Big Swede reports:Fort Lewis College student Mark O'Donnell said he was showing people his College Republicans sweat shirt, which said "Work for us now … or work for us later," when Maria Spero kicked him in the leg at...
Posted by Mitch on October 31, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Forced Retirement is Good, Reason 15

Cronkite on Larry King:Former CBSNEWS anchorman Walter Cronkite believes Bush adviser Karl Rove is possibly behind the new Bin Laden tape. Cronkite made the startling comments late Friday during an interview on CNN. Somewhat smiling, Cronkite said he is "inclined...
Posted by Mitch on October 31, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (16) | TrackBack

Air America Affiliate: "Equal Opportunity Laws Are For Peasants

The Twin Cities' FrankenNet affiliate is advertising for a producer for a as-yet-unannounced morning show (which means Marc Moaron's "Morning Sedition" must really be burning things up. Here's the advertisement for the new position. The position itself looks pretty crappy...
Posted by Mitch on October 24, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (8) | TrackBack

The Lunatic Fringe Strikes!

The lunatic fringe of the Democratic Party released an ad this week that managed to insult Republicans, Special Olympians, and thoughful, reasonable Democrats nationwide. Tennessee GOP spokesman Dave Dahl (presumably not the Channel 5 weatherman) said:“This kind of reckless disregard...
Posted by Mitch on October 13, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack

Dayton Little

MN "Senator" Mark Dayton shut down his Washington office yesterday. Other NARN blogs (Captain Ed, Fraters and the Powerguys) hit this one yesterday.According to a Senate staffer who spoke on condition of anonymity, the briefing included a report of possible...
Posted by Mitch on October 13, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Tuna Lick Fringe

There's a post here. It's related to my open letter to Springsteen the other day. First, though, I need to give a disclaimer, a theory, and a snark....
Posted by Mitch on October 08, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5) | TrackBack

Analog Brownshirts

From Florida:A group of protestors stormed and then ransacked a Bush-Cheney headquarters building in Orlando, Fla., Tuesday, according to Local 6 News. Local 6 News reported that several people from the group of 100 Orlando protestors face possible assault charges...
Posted by Mitch on October 06, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (9) | TrackBack

Signs You've Been Teaching Too Long?

King has not been teaching too long, but whe you start fisking students... ...oh, just read it. It's great....
Posted by Mitch on October 05, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

The Face of the DFL

Power Line draws our attention to this: Rocketman notes: In the photo [above], three-year-old Sophia Parlock cries while sitting on her father's shoulders. Her Bush-Cheney sign was grabbed by Democratic thugs and ripped to pieces, reducing the child to tears....
Posted by Mitch on September 17, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (28) | TrackBack

Medication Check

Powerline on the Franken Smackdown. Wizbang has more. Ditto Drudge. The NARN's ongoing challenge to Franken still stands. Try to shout us down, lithpy boy. At the fair. Judson Avenue, noon-three, Saturday and Sunday. You can have Jim Boyd's seat....
Posted by Mitch on September 01, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (6) | TrackBack

My New Project

Spam comments are the bane of my blog-writing existence. I'll be installing MT Blacklist shortly. Until then, rather than erasing spam comments, I think I'll just do this to them. Hey, it makes me feel good....
Posted by Mitch on August 18, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Deafening Silence, Part II

Talk about taking one for the team. I listened to about two hours of Al Franken, and even half an hour of Janeane Garawfulo, listening for some sign...any response at all, to the Christmas in Cambodia story. Zip. Paul Krugman,...
Posted by Mitch on August 11, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (7) | TrackBack

So Let Me Get This Straight...

Mark Steyn's latest got me thinking.That's what the Democrats and their media cheerleaders wanted for John Kerry: a jungle of South Asian Eden, with nothing to mar his joy. All the Massachusetts senator had to do was talk about his...
Posted by Mitch on August 09, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (18) | TrackBack

Kickng Dogs Redux

A while ago, we relayed the story of a couple of degenerates kicking a dog festooned with "Bush/Cheney" posters at a July 4 parade in Edina. The story was apparently picked up on Free Republic, which brought a couple of...
Posted by Mitch on July 12, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Hacker Hellions Hamper Hewitt

As this is written, Hugh Hewitt's site has apparently been hacked. Shawn Sarazing, who occasionally writes for the excellent The American Mind, wonders if perhaps Elder didn't pick up some M@d sKe3Lz over in China......
Posted by Mitch on July 03, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Parrying the Deft Rapier

On Tuesday, I lampooned Mark "Revolutionary Gonad" Gisleson's surreal take on becoming a "conservative". Gisleson is, of course, a conservative in the same sense that I am Etruscan, but I digress. He left a comment the other day....
Posted by Mitch on June 10, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (4)

Pro-Forma Attack On Rall (With Thoroughly Age-Appropriate Zinger), Part Number 2293-4492D

We all remember one kid in high school who throve on hatred - the kid who'd insult people on purpose, perhaps out of misplaced masochism, perhaps because he just got off on people's hatred of him....
Posted by Mitch on June 07, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (3)

The Madness of King Gizzizzle

Normally, I don't like sending traffic to sites I regard as jokes. But sometimes it's unavoidable. Mark Gisleson - former City Pages writer (albeit briefly) and "Rush Limbaughtomy"-calibre conspiracy theorist - has the election all figured out. No, really....
Posted by Mitch on June 01, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (1)

Revise As Needed

Someone took a few moments off from Democrat Underground to visit me. I always appreciate visitors! Nick Heydenrych posted a comment yesterday....
Posted by Mitch on May 27, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (7)

Line of the Day

Michele Catalano, discussing Markos "Screw'em" Zuniga's (AKA "Kos") response to Bush falling off a bike.I used to dig you, Kos. Now I just want to wrap you up in tin foil and put you in a group home for conspiracy...
Posted by Mitch on May 24, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5)

Post-Mortem Child Abuse

I'm going to be charitable here. I have a son. I think if he died, a big part of my soul would die - and a chunk of my mind, too. If he were murdered, bigger parts of both would...
Posted by Mitch on May 21, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (9)

No, We're the Judean People's Front...

The radical left in London gets into a battle over who's more radically left, as opposed to leftily radical....
Posted by Mitch on May 18, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Double Standard

Al-Reuters notes that Bush's Backing of Rumsfeld Shocks and Angers Arabs....
Posted by Mitch on May 11, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

It's All About Kerry

I don't know what bothers me most about this post by the leftyblogger Hesiod: His slug line:GOING BACK TO CALLEY...as if what happened at Abu Ghraib is anything like what happened at My Lai......
Posted by Mitch on May 09, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Ghastly

The headline on the Democratic Underground story says "Dumb Jock Killed in Afghanistan" Which is all I should expect from Democratic Underground. And yet it's still depressing....
Posted by Mitch on April 26, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (6)

Fantasy World

Lately, the number of liberal commentators who've joined the "Legion of the Invincibly Ignorant" when it comes to the War on Terror is just overwhelming.

Case in point: "Brad", at his blog "Sad Parade".

Posted by Mitch on April 26, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

A Picture (And a Quote) Is Worth A Thousand Words

Remember this the next time Michael Moore wants seven bucks and two hours of your time....
Posted by Mitch on April 20, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

FrankenNet Unleashed!

FrankenNet Unleashed! - The new Liberal Talk Net has announced its lineup:Air America Radio, a progressive talk radio network, announced today it will hit the airwaves on March 31st. "Air America Radio is launching in the top U.S. markets with...
Posted by Mitch on March 11, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (5)

Huh?

Huh? - Spike Moss commenting on the TV about Minneapolis' latest gangland shooting:"I think it's a tragedy that a kid can spend five of six years looking for a scholarship, but can find a gun in fifteen minutes in our...
Posted by Mitch on March 08, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Problem Student, Part II -

Problem Student, Part II - An emailer - who will remain anonymous - wrote to comment about my piece on Nick Coleman's column about the Minneapolis Schools plan to shutter ten of their schools. In Coleman's original piece, he lamented...
Posted by Mitch on February 12, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Seek Help

Listening to Hewitt replaying the Gore speech yesterday, I desperately wanted to call in to observe - with no offense intended to those who suffer brain injury, or their loved ones - that Algore sounds like he's had a stroke....
Posted by Mitch on February 10, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Open Letter to Al Franken

So Al Franken took out a heckler - either "hit him low" or "bear hugged and body slammed him". According to one account, he was in his sixties, and by all accounts Franken blindsided him. According to other accounts, he's...
Posted by Mitch on January 29, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Don't Wanna Know If You Have An Opinion

How desperate is the City Pages to whack at the right? The CP's weekly hatchet job has turned from Lileks and the Fraters to...the Governor. City Pages - and former Saint Paul Pioneer Press - music critic Jim Walsh interviews...
Posted by Mitch on January 28, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Franken Smackdown

Al Franken a LaRouche supporter at a Dean Rally: "'I got down low and took his legs out,' said Franken afterwards. Franken said he's not backing Dean but merely wanted to protect the right of people to speak freely. 'I...
Posted by Mitch on January 27, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Fisking the Unfiskable

Fisking the Unfiskable - Last week, I got one of MoveOn.org's intermittent spams. This one concerned a dire Vast Right Wing Conspiracy to keep the organization's "winning" anti-Bush ad off the Super Bowl. I like fisking grotesqueries of illogic as...
Posted by Mitch on January 26, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Lies Heard In Passing

On MPR's Morning Edition this morning, Senator Mark Dayton was quoted saying that unemployment is the worst it's ever been. Really? Ever? Worse than the depression (25%)? Worse than the 1980 recession? (over 8%)? Senator Dayton? Where do you get...
Posted by Mitch on January 21, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

While We're On The Subject of Delusion

While We're On The - Going through Mark Gisleson's hilarious Babelogue entries, I counted the number of times he referred, directly or obliquely, to violent overthrow of the government. I've got three so far, and that's just last week. And...
Posted by Mitch on January 21, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

The Sword is Mightier than the Penn

The Sword is Mightier than the Penn - Jay Reding notes Sean Penn's return to Iraq - and it's not what you'd think. Penn is quoted saying:For Iraqis, there was no pro-war or anti-war movement last spring when the United...
Posted by Mitch on January 15, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Let's Get This Straight

According to Fraters (quoting a Strib article that is apparently not online yet), former Governor Ventura said on the occasion of getting hired by Harvard:"I'm sick and tired of the fact that we're at war, and they're no protest going...
Posted by Mitch on January 14, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

"OK, He's Not *Hitler*, Per Se..."

Last week, MoveOn.org - a group founded in 1998 to protect a middle-aged lothario from the consequences of his actions. and which has morphed into an anti-Bush hate group - issued an apology for the Hitler Ad flap. One ad...
Posted by Mitch on January 14, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Double Standards

Powerline's Rocket Man attacks the WaPo's Richard Cohen for the absurd double standard he observes: liberal organizations, even large "respected" ones like MoveOn.org, traffic in a constant diet of Bush/Hitler comparisons to which Cohen turns a blind eye - but...
Posted by Mitch on January 06, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Feeling a Bit Defensive, Are We?

Barbra Streisand burns up "valuable" space on Page One of her online screed site website - a place where most artists hawk their wares, like her new album of interminable formulaic ballads recycled from forty years of movies I generally...
Posted by Mitch on January 03, 2004 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

The Year in Liberal Hate Speech

Jeff Jacoby, on Townhall, continues his annual series on liberal hate speech and the media double standard that coddles it. Classic quote: "MSNBC fired right-wing talk host Michael Savage in July, and rightly so, when he told a gay caller...
Posted by Mitch on December 30, 2003 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

The Return Of The Market

Daily Kos noted a few weeks ago that the "Terror Market" - the Pentagon's idea for a futures market for predicting terrorist attacks - may re-open in March, proving (if true) that you can't keep a good idea down. Kos'...
Posted by Mitch on December 24, 2003 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

This Is War. This Is Your Brain On War

Derrick Z. Jackson is a columnist for the Boston Globe. I've only read a few of his columns; he strikes me as the Syl Jones of Boston, but I could be wrong. He sounds the usual bleat of the left...
Posted by Mitch on December 18, 2003 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Out of Spin

A friend of mine posted this article, "Out of Spin" by Lloyd Grove, on a different, non-political email discussion group. I'm normally loathe to post entire articles, but it's too good to pass up. It's about the immense loss the...
Posted by Mitch on April 11, 2003 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Self-Aggrandizing Douchebag

Someone who's inhaled so much of their own hot air that they've started to believe their own ">bullshit....
Posted by Mitch on March 24, 2003 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Speaking of Castration

Speaking of Castration - Mary Daly is a feminist separatist academic. She taught until recently at Boston College, and is famous for not allowing men into her Women's Studies classes. A few weeks ago, she wrote on society's "need" to...
Posted by Mitch on November 27, 2002 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Blogs! What Are They Good For?

Michael Moore has made a career of ambushing people with their own statements, on behalf of "the little guy". So the irony of Moore being hoist on his petard by the littlest guys 'n gals in the media -...
Posted by Mitch on November 22, 2002 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

Disintegrating Left Alert?

The most irritating artifact of the late nineties is "MoveOn.org", a group that germinated during the impeachment with blandishments to "move on". Move on from investigating a perjerous president; move on and don't turn over any of the rocks...
Posted by Mitch on November 21, 2002 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)

The Hate That Dare Not Speak Its Name - Hate Watch Part II

Two weeks ago, I said the Democrats' big problem was the hatred they feel for opposition. Today, in the Dish, Andrew Sullivan reprints an email: Little tiny incidents of dry leaves kept piling one atop the other: Wellstone, the hate...
Posted by Mitch on November 11, 2002 | Read Whole Post | Comments (0)