Shot in the Dark

Category: Entitled America!

  • Impunity

    I’ve been thinking about impunity.  It’s why: -Black Lives Matter and Antifa can burn down cities; -Keith Ellison can orchestrate a lynching; -Tim Walz can imprison the whole state for an entire year; -someone in the Biden Administration can send troops to kick down doorsin Syria; -China can humiliate our diplomats in Alaska; -sex fiends…

  • This Is What Urban Progressive Privilege Looks Like [1]

    Every spousal abuser in history: “Yeah, sure, I hit you. But you provoked me – again. So you’re at least partly to blame. Maybe mostly. I mean, actions have consequences, baby…” Big Left’s latest line – through one of its local mouthpieces, former Reprentative and Lt. Gov. Candidate and Urban Progressive Privilege poster child, Erin…

  • The New McCarthyites

    I really can’t boycott “Hollywood”. because given the fact that Tinseltown can’t seem to get its heart into doing much of anything but comic book movies, and I just can not bring myself to go to a comic book movie, I mean, why bother? So I’ve never seen any of Disney’s various Star Wars spinoff…

  • #UnityAndHealing

    My first thought in reading this story, I kid you not, is that I’m a little amazed a city government or law enforcement establishment actually did anything about an offense like this: After a hearing last Friday and conversations with the city attorney, the employment of part-time Library Specialist Cameron Dequintez Williams was terminated on…

  • If I Were A Harvard Alum…

    …I’d be passing the hat to get David Hogg… …to transfer or drop out. But have no fear, Master Hogg. Logically, factually and intellectually, the intellectual foam pillow that is your worldview and movement has been on Mars for quite some time now.

  • Bigotry Of Bizarre Expectations

    Kind of a good news, bad news situation here. But maybe not in the way you think. A teachers union president in Washington State refers to reopening schools as a “white supremacist” initiative. The good – or “good” – news: this is an example of the type of rhetorical, social and policy overreach one can…

  • Planet Of The Humans, Part 0

    I spent a lot of time thinking about this scene last week: I first started paying serious attention to politics in about 1980. Like a lot of high school kids, then and now, I was somewhere out on what would be called “the left”; I wrote a platform for North Dakota Boys State (a statewide…

  • Premonition

    Oh, so NOW they’re starting to talk about it?  I’ve been pointing out this looming problem for years.Look, people can afford about $1,500 per month for housing.  If interest rates are 7%, then most of the payment goes to interest so principal must be lower – home prices fall. But if home prices fall, Baby Boomer…

  • The Problem…

    …with trying to run a society with the entitled cranks that make up so much of the modern left is that if you’re a consevative, they really, really hate you and the idea of sharing a society with you. University of Texas “Anarchist” (really Maxarchist) group promises to “dox” students who joint the campus’s conservative…

  • Snowflake Goes To Work

    This epi of “Marketplace” – or, more specifically, its A-line feature on workplaces catering to (liberal) peoples’ politics – may have been one of the most depressing things I’ve heard lately. It starts at 17:36. The unstated coda to the piece: “progressive” America wants to “other” all dissent out of every aspect of life. I…

  • What If You Declared A “Sex Strike” And Nobo…Er, Let Me Try That Again

    Last week, amid news of several states’ abortion laws (intended to provoke SCOTUS-ready legal challenges to Roe V. Wade), one-time “actress” Alyssa Milano declared a “sex strike”. It fared about as well as you’d expect. And Milano – whose movie credits include “Who’s The Boss”, [NOTE TO MITCH: TRY TO CARE ABOUT ALYSSA MILANO’S “ACTING…

  • I Love A Happy Ending

    I don’t cry much – but I love, love, love this video of a progressive pro-infanticide snowflake trying to argue that she’s above the law, that there’s a different set of rules for progressives in campus… …and then…slowly… I so so so love a happy ending.

  • It’s Becoming Evergreen

    From Twitter yesterday: “Conservatives pounce on failed attempt to smear conservatives” are the best conservatives pounce stories. — Omri Ceren (@omriceren) February 17, 2019 I’m not sure about you, but it’s almost gotten too easy.

  • Democrats

    For when exploiting cheap labor, physical abuse of partners and subordinates, emotional sadism, sexual harassment from entitled juvenilia to entitled imposition, racism (old and not so old), rape, moving government into back rooms out of sight of the hoi polloi, and control of government by the highest bidder is always wrong, except when it’s Democrats,…

  • Comforting The Comfortable

    To: Andrew Zimmern, Celebrity ChefFrom: Mitch Berg, irascible peasantRe: Appreciation! Chef, I caught this on Twitter over the past weekend: Although the government shutdown is ending, at @lucky_cricket_west_end we are planning to continue to serve all those with a Fed Gov ID throughout next week, Monday-Friday, 2-5pm. We realize that furloughed workers will continue to…

  • Darn All That Republican Rhetoric

    I’ve become convinced that the greatest ever in rotation of Berg’s 7th law has been this past two decades’ drum beat of promises that there is “an avalanche of right wing terrorism” just around the corner. Any day now. Honest. Actor James Cromwell predicts – I would say it’s more like “calls for” – “revolution”…

  • Coming Soon To A Cut-Out Bin Near You

    An Elizabeth “Fauxcahontas” Warren bio for, apparently, kids: The lesson?  That any girl born into immense wealth, prestige and class privilege can still find a way to grow up to be an identity pimp.

  • Semi-Open Thread

    It’s been a busy year – and among the things that’ve slipped has been my “Climate of Hate” page, in which I document the ongoing wave of leftist violence in America, especially as relates to the “#Resistance”. So if you’ve got any links to campaign thuggery that I’ve missed, if . you’ve got a moment,…

  • I Love A Happy Ending

    “Anti” Fa thugs attack Trump supporters. Antifa ambushes Trump Supporters in NYC. It backfires!!! #DrainTheDeepState #VoteRedToSaveAmerica pic.twitter.com/W0wLiBLV7d — Deep State Exposed ® ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (@DeepStateExpose) October 18, 2018 And the MAGAs stomp them like Irish clog dancers attacking a cockroach infestation.   Only less Irish. I’m proud to be an American today. Keep it up, patricians.

  • Fight The Power

    Senator Warren just held a press conference saying that genetics tests prove that she is of between 1/64 and 1/512 Native American ancestry – and therefore “Native American” Those same tests say that I – one of the most northern European people I know, and proud of it – am between 1/64 and 1/256 African-American.…

  • Relax

    The world isn’t coming to an end over politics.  It’s not going to. Kevin WIlliamson, on how good things generally are – and why some parts of our society are having such a hard time accepting that. Especially those on the left who consider the way things are today an “emergency”.  It’s a laden term:…

  • On Latte Support?

    Daniel McCarthy at American Spectator noticed the same thing about the Brett Kavanaugh hearings that I do about every single “Protect” Minnesota rally; Where are you ends, and the participants, or almost exclusively upper middle class Caucasians. The few African-Americans there are either from Allied political groups there for the optics, or people like Senator…

  • Thoroughly Modern

    SCENE:  Mitch BERG is waiting for the train at University and Hamline.   Suddenly, a group of 20 through 60-something women with protest signs and pink “feline” caps rushes across the street, waving signs and chanting chants.  One of them is Moonbeam BIRKENSTOCK, a twenty-something graduate of Saint Olaf, and of Camp Wellstone.  She works as…

  • Dispatches From Never-Never Land

    A friend of the blog writes: Oh, boy. I think we know why this person isn’t a business owner. I just think about my own job on this. Imagine your nurse showing up late or leaving early because she biked. Imagine morale amongst the co-workers who don’t have that luxury to bike, but have kids…

  • The Real #Resistance

    Silicon Valley – and its various satellites around the country, including whatever software design culture that exists in the Twin Cities – has trended left of center for a long, long time (although not forever; it used to be fairly libertarian – a change that’s been a net loss for everyone). That’s changed, of course;…