Shot in the Dark

Category: Modern Plagues

  • 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…

  • Snail Mail

    Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: I turn 65 this Summer.  I went online to apply for Medicare. Can’t, must apply for Social Security first.  Okay, filled all the boxes, established a strong password, set up two-factor authentication, entered the confirmation code, received acknowledgement of the code, so are we done? No.  They’ll send…

  • Compromise

    Someone walks up to you with a baseball bat. They say they want to kill you. Your response is “no, I don’t want to get beaten to death with a baseball bat”. Looks like you have a standoff. A controversy. A conundrum. Someone else steps in and asks “How about we compromise? Will you settle…

  • People Are Getting Dumber

    Prosecution exhibit A: Initially I thought this was a joke. Sadly, no.

  • Art Imitates Life Imitates Art Imitates SITD

    The world has become too absurd to be satirized – G.K. Chesterton When live imitates satire – why write satire? Pinky swear – when I started writing the various “Berg’s Laws“, something like 17 years ago, they started out as wry quips. Sarcastic bits of bemused satire. I didn’t expect every last one of them…

  • Verdict

    True in every possible way.

  • For People Too Miserable For Twitter To Contain

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Apparently, there is an internet site called Tumblr.  Word of the Day:  Tumblrina. From “The Other McCain blog”: The user base of Tumblr is disproportionately female, by a 2-to-1 ratio, and Tumblr users also tend to be young, badly educated and devoted to progressive ideals of “social justice.” This…

  • In Real Life

    Rand Paul supporters – and maybe some Trump supporters – need to read and learn from this piece.

  • When I Dream…

    …I most often dream of a day, near the end of my life, when the last “child-free” millennial has died, alone, unlamented, but free of the sound of any f******g pesky children! Not sure why that comes to mind. But while we’re on the subject of “banning kids from restaurants”, perhaps we can come up with…

  • Perspective

    As the panic industry gears up to make its obligatory buck or two off the Ebola epidemic, the bastion of empirical sanity, PopMec, chimes in with some common public health sense: However, despite its severity, Ebola is an unlikely candidate to cause widespread epidemics. Ebola outbreaks in humans begin with direct contact with an infected…

  • I Vote “Portent”

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: EBT computer system in Louisiana went down for a few hours.  The EBT cards did not show a credit limit.  Shoppers were pissed so Wal-Mart management said “Ignore the limit, honor the cards.” Shoppers went on a spree, cleaning out the store. You know they’ll never have to pay it…

  • Justice Is Blind – But Berg’s Law Sees And Knows All

    I’ve added a new corollary to “Berg’s Law” – especially in light of events of this past seven months and the doddering, bobbleheaded liberal punditry to which Real Americans have been subjected. It’s the “Fugelsang Corollary to Berg’s Seventh Law of Liberal Projection” (Berg’s Seventh reads “When a Liberal issues a group defamation or assault…

  • 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…

  • Open Letter To The Entire American People

    To:  Everyone in the USA From: Mitch Berg, Peasant who’s been through it all before Re:  “Sequestration” Hey, everyone, You may not remember this, but we’ve been through all this before.  Remember the “partial government shutdown”, back in the nineties?  It was a whole big nothing-burger. Oh, the Clinton Administration tried to make sure that…

  • Being Necessary To The Security Of A Free State

    New Yorkers, disarmed by generations of nannystate government, are more or less helpless as those who disregarded the city’s gun control laws flow into the vacuum left when the city’s veneer of civilization – cops and “the system” – got blown away last week. Residents in parts of Queens – where law enforcement is as scarce as…

  • Life Imitates My Art

    After the 2004 elections, as Democrats whinged and caviled about the ravages of life under George W. Bush, I wrote a long story about life after a breakup of the United States into, broadly, red and blue America. An epic hurricane strikes the upper Atlantic seaboard.  And the recovery was…:  Worse? The relief effort –…

  • Bread And Circuses

    Bloomberg carries on with NYC Marathon: T]hose urging the city to halt the run believe that the thousands of Marathon volunteers could direct their efforts towards post-Sandy relief and cleanup, “and they also argue that the event will divert thousands of police from important hurricane-related duties.” But despite petitions circulating, work started up again yesterday…

  • As We Watch Civilization’s Thin Veneer Chafing Away…

    …in New York…: View more videos at: http://nbcnewyork.com. …remember: Obama’s Department of Homeland Security thinks that people who store food and supplies are dangerous.

  • Government We Need

    I went to the minute clinic at Target the other day for a flu shot. After I got the shot, I was astounded to see a nurse walk into the room with a bag and a tube. And then a doctor, at the head of a small surgery team (anaesthesiologist and a couple of nurses)…