Shot in the Dark

Category: The Racket

  • They Take Care Of Their Own

    With redistricting, former senate minority leader With the “party of women“, Melissa Lopez Franzen, got pushed out to make sure Ron Latz didn’t wind up unemployed But no worries about Melissa. She’s DFL. Once they are elected to something, the system takes care of them: The University of Minnesota on Wednesday announced it has hired…

  • Deathless Art

    Oh. The art dealer representing Hunter Biden said the president’s son had the potential to be one of the most influential painters of the modern era, but declined to say whether he’d cooperate with a congressional investigation into sales of the art. Georges Bergès, who has been overseeing the sale of Biden’s paintings, said the 53-year-old would ‘become one of…

  • Tuesday’s Gone

    Fleshing out my first thoughts on the most recent election: In Minnesota, the age-old wisdom prevails: money talks, bullshit walks. Tim Walz is sputtering fool, but he will be governor for the next four years. Unless his A1C level approaches triple digits, it’s highly likely he’ll complete his term and step aside for another sideshow…

  • Feeding Our Benefactors

    Legitimate (as far as we know) food non-profits are concerned that the Feeding our Future scandal will make it harder for them to fundraise. I can see why. If it became harder to launder money through non-profits, the DFL would have nothing but “progressive” billionaires to fund them. Speaking of laundering money, Bill Glahn –…

  • Sick And Broken

    The fact that the news media is, today, writing stories lauding the administration for its panicky handling of the baby formula crisis that it created, tells us a little about the sick state of both our executive branch, our bureaucracy and our news media. President Joe Biden authorized the use of Air Force planes for…

  • I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts

    Let’s start with a little music: The facts we hateWe’ll never meetWalking down the roadEverybody yelling, “Hurry up, hurry up!”But I’m waiting for youI must go slowI must not think bad thoughtsWhen is this world coming to? Can’t speak for anyone else, but it’s tough avoiding bad thoughts these days. The larger question isn’t having…

  • Sanity Check

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Check me on this – are you seeing what I’m seeing Joe Doakes

  • Honor Among Bureaucrats

    Report apparently leaked last week shows – to the surprise of nobody – that the City of Minneapolis just was n ot ready for the George Floyd riots – or much of anything else: An independent audit of Minneapolis’ handling of protests and riots following the police murder of George Floyd found city leaders and…

  • The First Law Of Leftist Governance…

    …is always, always, always be looking for more ways to transfer taxpayer money to the political class. And that is exactly what they are doing.

  • Bureaucratese Translated Into English While You Wait

    The curiously omnipresent Lt. Governor Flanagan: Let’s translate: “Empowering communities to lead with state support” = “transferring public funds to ‘community’ non-profits who do nothing bout crime, but who do serve as the DFL’s farm team and ‘enforcers’ in the community’. “Be good partners” = keep transferring state money to that political class. Once you…

  • Leave Bad Enough Alone

    Our cities are a little like Charlie Brown. Every time Lucy puts the ball on the ground, Charlie remembers all the times she’s pulled the ball away. And yet, he has faith; maybe this will be the first time. Lucy’s back: Let’s make sure we’re clear on this – the only “fans” of this idea…

  • Metaphor Alert

    Y’know, if I were really feeling the snark today, the metaphor count could jump into double digits, here. “Nice state youse got here. It’d be a shame if it…broke, for not respecting and paying us…”

  • The Hennepin County Way

    He drove with a .13 blood alcohol content (as of test time, hours later, indicating he had closer to a .17 at the time of the crash). He drove 126MPH down 94, up until he went off the road. He drove, thus hammered, carrying his service firearm (or at least a .357 magnum revolver in…

  • Room To Destroy…

    …her career.

  • A Thought Experiment

    Let’s say you had a couple bumps at a bar – like, say, 8 to 12 of them. And then decided to drive home. You were carrying a gun, and a car full of loose ammunition. You drove down the freeway, until you didn’t – you swerved off the road, rolled your car, scattering ammunition…

  • I’m Old Enough To Remember…

    …when Nobel Laureates were smart people. No more.

  • Customer Service

     A recent experience (last night, actually) in the northern suburbs, but repeated elsewhere with alarming frequency. My family traveled to our friendly local neighborhood Culver’s for dinner. We arrived at 6 p.m. We could see people sitting in the dining room and customers at the counter, so we assumed the restaurant was open for dine-in.…

  • Federal Bureau Of Idlers

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: If you are the elite law enforcement agency in the world but you are always holding back, waiting for the giant break to roll up the entire network and capture the ringleader, you not only fail to achieve the grand objective, you allow people to suffer as you sit…

  • Federal Bureau Of Idlers

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: If you are the elite law enforcement agency in the world but you are always holding back, waiting for the giant break to roll up the entire network and capture the ringleader, you not only fail to achieve the grand objective, you allow people to suffer as you sit…

  • The Midway: Nothing Here But Us Hipsters

    A friend of the blog emails: This has to be the most depressing, let them eat cake piece on the “success of the soccer stadium” that I have ever read. “There’s been some smaller businesses moving into the stadium area to serve soccer fans, but much more work is needed to boost the area.” Excuse…

  • Playbook

    Joe Doakes from Como park emails: A friend explains how The Big Steal will work. Joe Biden is senile, the election was stolen and everybody knows it, whether or not they admit it. Kamela Harris is incompetent and hated more than Hillary. Neither of those buffoons is the real Usurper whom The Big Steal was…

  • What’s The Difference?

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The Garden Administration will take in refugees from Guatemala but not Cuba. Why not? They are all Latinx. They’re all fleeing poverty and persecution. Why take some and not the others? Perhaps because Cuban-Americans vote Republican? Could Democrats really be that crass, that callous, that low – sorting refugees…

  • The Fix

    I’ve observed, with tongue half-heartedly about a quarter of the way into my cheek, that you could tell there not a significant number of “white supremacists” in last year’s riots, because as the Midway burned, vandalized and/or caked with graffiti, Allianz Field, the playground of upper-middle-class white progressive Europhiles and, we were once told, immigrants,…

  • Minnesota: Government For Sale

    I talked about this on the show on Saturday. Climatelitigationwatch.com has evidence that progressive plutocrats with deep pockets – the Rockefeller Foundation, Michael Bloomberg – are not only pouring money into Minnesota elections (as is their First Amendment right), but apparently paying for two attorneys in Keith Ellison’s Attorney General’s office to run the office’s…

  • Deferred

    I got my start in radio. My first full-time job paid $700 a month – after inflation today, probably more like $1,400. Which would translate to $8 an hour in 2021 dollars, except that in small-market radio back then, “full time” meant 48 hours a week. You had to pick up a weekend shift –…