Category: Entitled America!
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#Resistance
74 years ago last month, a few tens of thousands of Poles, who’d survived under Nazi occupation for nearly five years, rose up against their occupiers. Armed with weapons they’d cached in 1939, or stolen, smuggled or, in many cases, made in “underground” shops (because the Nazis gave Poland “common sense gun laws!) and not…
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The Fringe
A friend of the blog writes: Marxist collectivism mixed with the egalitarian charm of Rousseau. The MN Fringe Festival is the most natural child of The Blue Blouse (Синяя блуза) theatre troupes of early USSR. Here you will find every SJW/Artiste that suckles at the teats of state government and the Foundation Hive. The big…
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Pro Tip
If you read a report of a hate crime, and it doesn’t involve unrelated witnesses, much less actual physical presence (to say nothing of physical contact), assume its a hoax first, then verify. And, on verifying, almost invariably congratulate yourself on not being fooled! I did that with this story. And most every one like…
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As A Million Men Agree Vigorously And Stay Out Of The Way
Lena Dunham on Twitter: I’d honestly rather fall into one million manholes than have one single dude tell me to watch my step — 💎 Lena Dunham 💎 (@lenadunham) June 8, 2018 Your wish is my command, Ms. Dunham. Blunder away.
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Eternal Opposite Day
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: A child’s job is to rebel against societal rules, customs and norms. A parent’s job is to enforce the rules, customs and norms so the child has something to rebel against. Eventually, we expect the child to grow up and begin to enforce the rules, customs and norms on…
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Hopes For The New Year
I hope for a lot of things – good things. Blessings upon virtually all of my fellow humans, among many others. But in and among that, there’s a part of me that hopes both parties to this lawsuit lose, and lose big.
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Life Cycle Of Uselessness
It was over a year ago that we carried the story of the Pillsbury Foundation’s buyback fiasco. Which doesn’t narrow it down much; while the buybacks last year in Minneapolis were very poorly organized, their effect on crime was the same as any other buyback program. Nil. But this buyback was different in one way; unlike…
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It Was One Year Ago Today…
…that Hillary Clinton twote this tweet: Why this isn’t up there with the Chicago Tribune’s “Dewey Wins” headline is simultaneously inconceivable and, given today’s media, unsurprising in any way.
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Why Johnny Can’t Read
News Flash: The citizens, taxpayers and parents of Osseo, MN have discovered what the parents of Saint Paul, Edina and some other Twin Cities’ area communities have found out: focusing to exclusion on “white privilege” as the reason for the achievement gap doesn’t actually change, or even affect, the achievement gap. Unlike other Twin CIties…
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Profiles In Awesome Courage
Citycouncilbots in Ann Arbor, Michigan (motto: “A Cold Portland”) take a knee during the pledge of allegiance. Let’s break that down; in the “progressive” epicenter of a “progressive” city hose “progressive” voters empaneled a “progressive” city council to enact “progressive” policies, the “progressive” council got up in the middle of their “progressive” echo chamber in their “progressive” one-party city and did this…
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Animals
I’ve told the story before; one of the most illuminating lessons I’ve ever gotten on human nature was from my 11th grade history teacher, Mr. Dudley Butts – who was perhaps the most “Big Lebowski”-ish football head coach I’ve ever met. He’d been drafted during the Vietnam War; he was proud to point out that…
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An Inconvenient Response
The New York Times actually gets something about gun violence right, in an article that almost belongs in a legitimate source of news. While the MSM – including the NYTimes’ own editorial page – is blubbering about the same old narrative driven gun grab schemes, none of which have ever affected or will ever affect crime, this…
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Hate
There’s a lot of hate on the American left for people who are Not Like Them. I see it and hear it, even among friends and acquaintances who are left of center; many of them think the vast quote on washed and put boards in flyover land are just plain less human than they are.…
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The Last Dinosaur
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Week 4, the NFL is in chaos of its own making. The traditional way to show respect for the national anthem is to stand, face the flag, place your hand over your heart. Doing anything else is a protest. Some players sit, some kneel, some give the Black Power…
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Dawn Of The Doakes: 1696
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: There are 32 teams in the NFL and each team has a 53-man roster, for a total of 1,696 players in the NFL. There are 15,588 college seniors who are eligible to be drafted from the NCAA to the NFL. Add in a few more from other, non-NCAA schools,…
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Dawn Of The Doakes: Nothing To Prove
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I live in Vikings territory so I learned to ignore NFL games years ago, long before players started kneeling to protest the nation that made them rich.
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Procedure
Andrew Klavan finds pretty much the entire left in Jimmy Kimmel. Read the whole thing – but the conclusion does, well, conclude things pretty well: Kimmel doesn’t matter. He’s just another half-smart big mouth Hollywood multi-millionaire. But they’re all Kimmel, all the left. They’re all doing the Kimmel Three-Step: 1. Emotion. 2. Hectoring. 3. Violence.…
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For Once, Allahpundit Is The Pollyanna
Some critics say Hillary’s new blame-all autobio includes a “bizarre misreading” of George Orwell’s 1984. Among them is Allahpundit, from Hot Air. There are establishmentarians, there are big-government establishmentarians, and then there are people who read Orwell and see a parable about insufficient trust in authority: Here’s the passage I say they’re being pollyannaish. Hillary’s a lot…
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Right Now In Berkeley
I just got this from a contact of mine at UC Berkeley: My contact asked “is that all they could find – one quote from Ben Shapiro?”
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Creative Clash
Distort the economy of a sector, an industry or a city to benefit an industry, a policy or a class of people, and you’re going to cause unintended consequences – almost all of them bad, at least for someone. Fifteen years ago, the NPR-listening, Whole Foods-Shopping, Volvo-driving set nodded and snapped their fingers to the…
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Tribes
The Big Media complains that America is just too tribalistic. And I have to ask myself – why, oh why? Why does half of America seem to hate the other half with a fury beyond Dodgers vs. Yankees? Why on earth would half of America distrust the other half? Why would half of America think…
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Bring The Backlash
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Engineering school is not exempt from Social Justice Warriors. Purdue is shifting from teaching engineers how to build a bridge, to teaching them how to feel about bridges. I’m sure that will be enormously helpful when the next I-35 disaster occurs. Joe Doakes My new theory – and it’s…