Category: Oh The Humanity
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Notes From The Soggy Zone
Last week, I ruffled some of the usual feathers by posting a link to this video by Ryan McBeth. McBeth is a former anti-tank grunt who now does open-source intelligence and systems work. His Youtube and Substack channels are interesting; he doesn’t get everything right (he is still claiming Mossad figured out how to remotely…
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Never Waste A Chance To Create A Crisis
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I’m skeptical of the present suicide media craze. There were a couple of high-profile celebrity suicides. Nobody knows why. But the CDC used the occasion to rush out a study showing a massive rise in suicide rates, then used that study to justify demands for restrictions on “lethal means.” …
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Gouged
Joe Doakes from Como Park emailed (just before Super Bowl weekend, when I was busy doing things other than blogging…): Superbowl fans are being charged enormously higher prices than normal. This is price gouging, no different than after a hurricane. I demand Gov. Dayton to impose martial law to curb this dastardly practice. Joe Doakes…
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It Must Be Those Darn White Protestant Males Again
Slave markets return to Africa.
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Bringing A Nail Clipper To A Gunfight
Hollywood is threatening a strike until Donald Trump retires… …well, OK. Not “Hollywood”. Just some actors. Brad Pitt, Amy Adams, Dakota Fanning and Ralph Fiennes are among the A-listers… …who are not mentioned anywhere in the piece about the supposed strike: Rosie O’Donnell, Debra Messing, Ed Asner and Michael Shannon are among the dozens of artists,…
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Attention, Rep. Norton!
It’s time to plug the loophole for registering Tactical RAM! If not now, who? If not you, when? For the children!
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It’s Technically Comedy…
…although in Minnesota, it also qualifies as a documentary:
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Unsportsmanlike Conduct
Chris Kluwe potentially kicks open a Pandora’s Box. Given Chris Kluwe’s love of role-playing board games, it shouldn’t surprise that his latest actions have more angles than 23-sided dice. On Tuesday, former Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe was demanding that the team, through the law firm of Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P, release the six-month…
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Footloose
The most famous (or is it infamous?) punter in modern history tries to pin the Minnesota Vikings against their end zone. Well, in his defense, he no longer has a job to be so focused on. Chris Kluwe may possess a number of less-than-desirable qualities, but the former punter’s media savvy remains arguably his strongest…
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Kim Impossible
Are the Kims just crazy or crazy as a fox? If there’s any regime on the planet that’s been only a Turkish Angoran cat and a monocle away from being a James Bond villain, it’s been the Kim dynasty of North Korea. From the regime’s nuclear weapons program, to attacking the South Korean navy, shelling…
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Bob and Carol & Jane & Alice
A narrow national majority favors same-sex marriage. Will that majority favor a plurality? When it comes to debating social issues, the “slippery slope” argument often holds the least amount of traction. As Minnesota was racked by contentious debate surrounding last year’s marriage amendment, one of the litany of debate volleys was that opening the door…
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Standings
Paraphrasing a remark I saw from Jim Geraghty on Facebook this morning: “Rescues from cars: Zimmerman 4, Kennedy 0”.
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EMT for the 313
Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus “We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes.” – City of Detroit’s motto. Those words were written in 1805 to memorialize a Detroit school burned to the ground. 208 years later, Detroit still hopes for divine intervention, this time from the Michigan capitol. Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder’s proclamation…
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Te’oible Lies
Perhaps Andy Warhol’s famous quote should be amended. In the future, even fictional people will be famous for 15 minutes. By now, most of the world has heard the too-crazy-to-be-true story of Notre Dame and Heisman Trophy finalist Manti Te’o’s fictionally deceased fictional girlfriend Lennay Kekua. The facts are relatively few yet terribly convoluted for a love-story that might…
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Living As A Conservative In A Place Like Saint Paul…
…let’s just say I find this premise utterly plausible.
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(Not So) Magic Mike
Michael Bloomberg dresses up as Ray Nagin for Halloween. Perhaps the symbolism is apt. As New Yorkers and assorted guests from around the world gather in Staten Island to race in the New York City Marathon, Gotham’s Mayor finds himself running for his political life. With the Eastern seaboard in shambles, power and transportation cut…
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Race to the Bottom
The media begins to chum the political waters for race-baiting. There was little doubt that race was one of the larger underlying narratives of the 2008 presidential campaign. The election of the country’s first African-American president, by the largest popular vote margin in twenty years, was widely hailed by Barack Obama’s supporters as a sign…
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Streaming Video Killed the Radio Star
Despite having media appearances in cicada-like increments, I’ll be braving the flurries to be on Marty Owings’ “Capitol Conversations” tonight at 6pm. You can catch the show here as we discuss the current issues at the Capitol including the constitutional amendments, redistricting, election issues, the Vikings stadiums (would the plural be stadia?) or any other…
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Minor Penalty for (Not) Checking
What’s one way to guarantee fighting will remain a staple of professional hockey? Have Ralph Nader argue against it. Reading his open letter to Gary Bettman, you can tell Nader hasn’t watched too much hockey in, say, the last several decades. After conceding there is no evidence directly connecting fighting to brain injuries…he says, “[r]epeated…
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Quagmire On Capitol Hill
I know it’s been a tough Legislative session in St Paul. But I had no idea how tough. Minnesota Public Radio’s website shows just how bad it’s gotten at the Capitol in St. Paul. From the website: Looks like the budget is the least of our problems. (And I wonder which legislative freshman took out…
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Trump Card
P.T. Barnum runs for president. He’s vowed that he’s taking a presidential bid seriously. He’s sent aides on “exploratory trips” for his nascent campaign. He’s pledged millions of dollars towards his candidacy. And what’s more, he’s taken seriously – by the media, the punditry, and the polls. Of course, all of that was in 2000.…
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Jamie Lee: You Lie!
I know this is a bit off the radar for SITD but I don’t know of many television commercials more absurd; more ridiculous; more annoying than those yogurt commercials where Jamie Lee Curtis pounces on chipper but apparently constipated passers by all too willing to sample yogurt that’s way too yummy to be formulated to…