Category: PC / “Woke” Culture
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The Problem
SCENE: Mitch BERG is having an Old Fashioned at a bar in northern Wisconsin. Engrossed in a conversation with the waitress, he doesn’t notice Avery LIBRELLE has walked in, wearing a “MEAT IS MURDER” t-shirt. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Of, for…the second time this week, how ya doing… LIBRELLE: Shut up. It’s the guns, stupid. BERG.…
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Your Minnesota Tax Dollars As Work
U of M professor, clad in a terror scarf, calls for “dismantling” the US: I seek to dismantle the United States. I hope you seek to dismantle the United States. And if that isn’t your politics…OK? (Hahahahahah). I speak as if everyone has this commitment. And the thing is, you should have this commitment. This…
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Brand Of Bothers
SCENE. It’s December, 1944. Bastogne, Belgium. The men of the 101st Airborne Division are surrounded, defending the vital road junction, as seven German divisions close in. Men of Company F, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment – just down the line from the famed “Easy Company”, not the same guys at all – are coming out of…
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A Semi-Serious Question
When Ilhan Omar says things like this: …is she: Telling a truth so broad that it is in effect a lie (white men are the second largest racial/gender group in the country; nearly all violence is intra-racial, and there are more of them to perpetrate and be victims, and hypothetically to become terrorisrts) Lying (white men…
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Journalism Today
When Jim Smorada was teaching me how to write the news, he taught the same cliche every other journo student and cub reporter gets: do the who, what, when, where, why and how of the story. So I caught this yesterday: And I thought – maybe it’s just the social media intern doing a terrible…
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Ask Not Why Steven Colbert Is Gone
Merely rejoice that he is gone. Colbert – the unctuous and desperately un-funny little man who replaced David Letterman and became the standard-bearer for the collapse of late-night TV – is leaving the air after this season. Oh no. Pass the beer nuts. Never watched the guy for more than a couple minutes live, and maybe a…
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Thought Experiment
Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: What SHOULD a person do in that situation? I’m curious to know what SITD readers think the result would be in Minneapolis versus Greater Minnesota? Charges or no? Joe Doakes Ahh, yeah – the inevitable “mostly” peaceful protest: Joe asked for thoughts. Mine: This is…
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That “State Government Absurdist Bingo Card” Is Getting Very Full
So, with the revelation last week that hiring managers and the MN Department of Human Services need to explicitly justify hiring white (presumably especially male) candidates for jobs, it’s not unreasonable to wonder – there must be some kind of deeply racist person driving these policies. Your reasonable question has been rewarded with an answer: Ooof. Someone…
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Miraculous Transformation
A leftist murders two Jews in DC. Big Left staged riots in LA and (almost, again) Minneapolis. The mainstream media attacks… …well, who do you think? “White Supremacist” group membership dropped by an order of magnitude every generation over 100 years from millions in the 1920s to the single-digit thousands in 2016. But we’re to…
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A Policy Proposal
Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: Transgender people claim they just want to be accepted. I can do that. But my idea of “accepted” is the way Colonel Potter treated Corporal Klinger on the television show M.A.S.H., more “tolerated” than “celebrated.” You want to wear a dress? Fine, go right ahead. But it…
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Just Like Every Flag Day
Normies: “Happy Flag Day” Droogs: “ACK-shyu-ally, BeTSy RoSs diDn’t sEw TEh flAg, AnD hTe wh0L3 story is a mYth”. Normies: “Right. Nations and cultures have mythologies that encapsulate parts of what their cultures are about. Not just the USA. ALL of them”. Droogs: “iT Is tEH Lie!” Normies: “In the same sense that Hercules, the…
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City Council Reps And County Attorney Of The Flies
This past Tuesday, scads of feds – FBI, DHS, BATFE – raided eight different businesses around the Twin Cities, serving search warrants related to human trafficking. Seven of the raids went off without a hitch. But the eighth – at Lake and Bloomington, deep in the heart of white, progressive Minneapolis – was different. The…
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In Defense Of The Brain
It’s not news to anyone who’s been following the subject – education is in crisis. And the mainstream conservative response seems to be “let it burn!” If you talk with a lot of mainstream conservatives, the kids should be heading straight out into apprenticeship programs and becoming electricians, HVAC techs, plumbers, truckers… And I get…
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Obsolete?
Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: Democrats and WLs (Woke Lite Republicans) insist there is no valid justification for separating boys and girls, so long as the boys mouth the magic word “transgender.” Once the spell has been spoken, the laws of biology no longer apply. The former “boy” is now a “girl” for…
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Girl Boss Movies
Joe Doakes formerly of Como Park emails: Hollywood keeps putting out Girl Boss movies with the lead role played by a good- looking female actress, like Angela Jolie as Lara Croft in Tomb Raider. When are they going to make a Girl Boss movie with the lead role played by a transgender “female,” maybe…
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All Those Thems And Theys
Another day, another DFL policy to turn black and white into a rainbow of grays: If it’s a day ending in “Y”… Know the part that annoys this English major? There was a time – like, in the past decade – when referring to someone whose gender you didn’t know, or where the gender was…
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The DFL – On Relentless Patrol!
SCENE: Mitch BERG is checking out after a meal at an Indian restaurant in the north ‘burbs. Hostess Elora BANNERJEE is running BERG’s card, as he notices Moonbeam BIRKENSTOCK, Cat SCAT and LEAKEY the Beagel climbing out of an Uber. BERG frantically drums his fingers, waiting for the card-reader to approve the transaction – which…
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Great News, Minnesota!
Keith Ellison is going to spend millions of taxpayer dollars defending the state against a Federal Title IX rule! “In Minnesota, participation and eligibility of transgender student-athletes is determined by state law, through the Minnesota Human Rights Act and the Minnesota Constitution. The Minnesota State High School League, similar to other youth sports organizations, is…
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Constant
I am intermittently concerned that Big Left might eventually learn the lessons of this past election. And then I see things like this: …and I’m at least a little less concerned about the mid-terms.
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Seems…Drastic
MN Rep. Leigh Finké (DFL-66A) apparently thinks that if hospitals can’t chemically neuter and surgically maim children, they shouldn’t offer care at all: Nationwide, the Democrats failure to not look crazy harmed them immeasurably last November. I’m mildly gratified to see they’re not backing off one iota.
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Failure To Unpack
SCENE: MInnesota DFL headquarters. Inga “Lucky” CARROLL (acting assistant chair of the DFL while on temporary leave from her day job as Head Meme-Buffer at “Minnesotans United for All Liberal Causes”), Secretary of State SIMON, House Minority Leader Melissa HORTMAN, progressive influencers Edmund DUCHEY, Moonbeam BIRKENSTOCK, Gutterball GARY and Avery LIBRELLE, and Senate DFL Communications…
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This Is Today’s Minnesota DFL. Every One Of Them.
They’re not at work. Oh, no no. no. But they are doing this (language not remotely safe for work): And yes, it’s directly linked to the DFL’s walkout; the person with the megaphone was acting in conjunction with a “rally” being thrown by Leigh Finke Which went about as well as you could expect on…
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One Day On The Capitol Mall
Rep. Leigh Finke wanted to show “MAGA” who was boss. Here’s how it started: Here’s how it looked ten minutes into the…er, meeting?: To be fair, it was a brisk-ish day by southern MInnesota standards; 5 degrees and Minnesota-windy. But the optics just are not good, are they? Finke might do better off just going…
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Your Fault
I have this annoying tendency to presume that people aren’t generallly trying to be as*holes. So when this LA firefighter says (at :14) that she “might not be able to carry someone’s husband out of a fire” because he “got himself into the wrong place…” …I’m going to presume she means someone in the middle…