Category: Entitled America!
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Loyalty
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The next step in the culture war: fire employees for their political views. I’m all for it. Start by repealing tenure, fire all the pointy-headed leftists in academia, save millions of young minds from their poison. Next, career bureaucrats in the IRS and State Department who claim they’re “The…
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Turnabout
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Logical argument does not persuade people. We know this from conversations with Liberals in everyday life. They are motivated by rhetorical and emotional appeals. That’s why this new campaign is so effective. Somebody borrowed the anti-fascists slogan to use on posters. The posters have an emotional impact that turns…
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Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been…
SCENE: Mitch BERG is looking through the stacks at Midway Used Books. G. Wellington BENBRIDGE-GELLER – better known to his social circle and fellow ‘Anti-Fascist Action Macalester” colleagues as “Wookie” – comes around the corner. BENBRIDGE-GELLER, age 25, a graduate of Carlton College (BA Anthropology and Women’s Studies), is dressed in black from head to…
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So Much Work To Be Done
So many statues out there – ergo, so much triggering. As Big Left prowls the country looking for history that “triggers” them and must be destroyed [1], it’s probably worth pitching in and helping findi more history that needs to be expunged. Exhuming McCarthy: much has been made of the statue of Lenin in, where…
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It’s Fiction.
But only barely.
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The Privilege Of Barbering About Privilege
I said it during the 2016 campaign. I’m gonna say it again. The reason everyone had to start talking about “white privilege” was to pre-empt discussion of “class privilege” – of the sort that is Big Left’s real power base. If the body politics – especially the part that votes Democrat – were too busy…
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Open Letter To Kathy Griffin
To: Kathy Griffin, Comedian-Turned-Not-Very-Intelligent Political Satirist From: Mitch Berg, Peasant Re: I Don’t Think That Word Means What You Think It Means Ms. Griffin, I say this as someone who actually used to enjoy your standup routine, until you decided you had to be Culturally Important. Please take it in the spirit intended. You are…
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Threshold
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: We complain that young people act like children. Why shouldn’t they? A Minnesota resident can start having sex and get a driver’s license at 16, abortions and cigarettes at 18, and liquor and beer at 21; but he doesn’t have to get his own health insurance until 26.…
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While I Didn’t Vote For Trump…
….every so often I read something that shows me exactly why so many people did. Like this.
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Berlitz Blue America / Red America Dictionary
There are some good ideas in this post on how Democrats can learn to talk to “the rest of us”. My suggestion #10: never, ever, ever use the phrase “your best interests” when suggesting other peoples’ political course. It is so patronizing.
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Uneventful
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I watched the inauguration. I was expecting an earth-shattering kaboom when Trump was sworn in and the world ended, as Liberals have been telling me it would do. Makes me wonder what other lies I’ve been told. Remember the federal employees who promised to quit and celebrities who promised…
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Toward Stamping Out Bigotry
The NYTimes “staff ethicist” discusses how to react to other people expressing bigoted statements. I didn’t see anything about responding to someone saying their politician was acting “in your best interests – as if you’re not perfectly aware of them, and somehow retarded by dint of not living in Manhattan or DC. I’ll keep looking.
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Tolerance = 0
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Remember in school when one kid refused to stop talking when the bell rang to start class, so nobody got recess? Remember how much that used to annoy you? It still annoys me. There were rumbles at a dozen malls across the country. Now comes the inevitable response: nobody…
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Don’t Let The Door Hit You
Barbara Boxer is leaving Congress. Unfortunately, that departure is a result of being feted at a retirement party, rather than frog-walked out of her office by the FBI. But gone is gone – not that it matters much given California’s delegation. It remains blinkered far-left, and is still home to some of the our…
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Devils Of Our Nature
I hate to indulige in schadenfreude. Part of it is because I’m a pretty emphathetic guy. I put myself in others’ shoes pretty easily. Part of it is that while I don’t believe in karma, I do believe what goes around comes around. However, hearing about the psychic trauma some “blue-staters” are feeling over this past weeks, I’m…
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Bulls, China Shops
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: In the olden days, people recognized differences. Sunday morning, you wore one set of clothes, went to a specific place and behaved in a specific manner. Monday morning, you wore different clothes, went to a different place, and behaved in a different manner. And dinner, you changed into yet…
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Open Letter
To: Anti-Trump Protesters, Celebribities moving to Canada, Garrison Keillor, People curled up in your safe spaces, and other people who are angry at the world today From: Mitch Berg, ornery peasant an Scott Walker vote Re: Why Trump Won I didn’t vote for Trump, but I most definitely voted for the GOP majority that he…
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I’m All About The Help
To: Jon Stewart, Chelsea Handler, Miley Cyrus, Neve Campbell, Lena Dunham, Cher, Al Sharpton, Spike Lee, Babe Streisand, Amy Shumer, Samuel L. Jackson, Natasha Lyonne, George Lopez, Raven Symone, Whoopi Goldberg, and Byron Cranston. From: Mitch Berg, ornery peasant Re: Moving to Canada Need help packing? Say when. I’m there for you. That is all. (Is it just me, or is this the first time in 15 years that Neve…
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What A Difference Eight Years Makes
2008: Discussion of secession from the union (by Texas, were the sentiment is pretty strong) or from oppressive an alienating state governments (inland and northern California) are “treason” and a call for a return to slavery. 2016: Calls for secession are all the liberal rage. I say keep it up. You may never get seceded…
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Mayflower Stock
Hark. Is that the sound of packing tape and boxes being stacked? I tend to doubt it. I’ve been up front about my ambivalence about Donald Trump. I cordially disliked him back when most liberals were watching The Apprentice faithfully. But I do suppose legislation making “If [something I don’t want to happen happens] I’m…
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Every Saint Paul Republican’s Fantasy
When you’re a conservative/Republican in Saint Paul, you get used to having your campaign lawn signs stolen or vandalized. “It’s just kids”, the local DFLers say – but then you notice your neighbors’ Obama and Hillary and Betty McCollum and, probably as late as 2010, Wellstone signs are utterly unmolested. And ideas – dreams, really…
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Steer Clear Of Any Mirrors
Democrats behave pretty atrociously around women. JFK had a thing for banging interns less than half his age. LBJ was a philanderer who had a thing for letting the cow out of the barn in deeply inappropriate places. Indeed, he seemed to be fairly obsessed with, er, Lyndon Baines’ johnson – which, it occurs to me, may…
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No Pain…
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Social Security admits outgo will exceed income in four years, as older workers retire and start taking money out instead of paying it in. They think they can stave off disaster until 2034, if the General Fund will repay the IOUs it has written over the last 40 years. …
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“We, The Undersigned…
…group of actors – people who earn an intermittent living acting like people we’re not, who almost universally live in a place and culture, Hollywood, that has no bearing on the objective reality most Americans live in – who are mostly famous for playing roles in a series about a fictional, utopian, creepily big-brotherish universal…
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Pre-Written
Did Chelsea Clinton take a private jet to a “clean energy” conference that was a mere five hour drive (or one-hour commercial flight) away? Oh, what do you think? The Clinton campaign promised during the Democratic primary that their entire operation would be “carbon neutral” and had some friendly reporters write stories about how even campaign…