Shot in the Dark

Category: Big Activism

  • Public Image

    All the left has to do is not appear crazy,. It’s just crazy enough to work.

  • Existence

    What was, but isn’t, but shall be?

  • Grand Strategy – A Primer

    If you were involved in any way in the 2020 riots in Minneapolis, even as a spectator, you know there was little organic and nothing spontaneous about them.   With that in mind, I urge you to read this entire thread about the LA riots: Babies getting tear-gassed?    They’re just eggs for the greater omelette:…

  • Twin Cities Left: Bring Back The Good Old Days

    A group of federal law enforcement agents – FBI, DHS – apparently served a warrant for drug trafficking and money laundering on a restaurant at Lake and Bloomington in South Minneapolis yesterday.  And it’s almost – I say, almost – like Twin Cities Big Left is trying to coax a riot out of the situation: I…

  • Berg’s Seventh Law In Action. Always, Always In Action.

    I first codified Berg’s Seventh Law – progressives are always projecting their motives and actions onto conservatives – nearly twenty years ago.  It may be the thing for which I and this blog are best known outside Minnesota.  And there’s a reason for that.  It’s universal. We’ve seen it in different ways in different eras…

  • High Strategy

    George W. Bush’s Air Guard record. Mitt Romney’s tax returns. The Russian Collusion hoax. The “Perfectly Fine People” hoax. “White Supremacists started/did most of the rioting in Minneapolis!” “Kids are coming to school hungry in Minnesota”. And now this: Woodruff posted a tweet “Clarifying” her regret that she’d been caught:   But it’s out there.…

  • A Tale Of Two Years

    Leftists, 2020: “Punch a Nazi!” Leftists, 2024, being thwarted in their protests in support of actual modern-day Nazis [1]: “Heeeeeeey! No fair punching!” [1] In the “fascist dictatorship founded on racial obsession, focused on murdering Jews” sense of the term, rather than the “I’m a leftist and I don’t whatever it is” sense.

  • Open Letter To Campus Protesters And Their Faculty/Administration Simps

    Everything that needs to be said about you – those who deny the use of the institution for which the majority of the students, and the taxpayers, pay (and pay, and pay and pay and pay) was said almost six decades ago… …by the best president of my lifetime (and yours, if you’re over 37…

  • A Modest But Emphatic Proposal

    It’s high time we stopped calling Ivy Leaguers like this Columbia spokesbeing: …as “our best and brightest”. By the way – at “Mitch Berg University”, students who infringe other students rights – Jewish, conservative, liberal, communist, I don’t care – by depriving them of the use of the campus they pay to attend will be…

  • You Ask Me Why Healthcare In Minnesota Is So Expensive…

    …and I give you the Minnesota DFL:

  • “Show Me The Conservative And I’ll Show You The Terrorist”

    I started banging this drum in 2009, when the Obama Administration and its camp followers started moving the Overton Window of authoritarianism to encompass basically every variety of conservative group, to gin up hysteria for (as a former commenter used to refer to it) a coming “tidal wave of right-wing terror that’d dwarf 9/11”. This…

  • Remodeling With A Smaller Overton Window

    My friend, advice columnist and author Amy Alkon, has been chronicling the orgy of antisemitism bursting out in the Los Angeles area. She filmed this encounter over the weekend: Let’s take Judaism, Antisemitism and the Middle East out of this incident. Let’s say this was a domestic altercation. A man Two men use their physical…

  • This Is Big Feminism Today

    Big Feminism – in this case, the always-puerile Jessica Valenti – is going after Idaho with the same nuanced grace as a Rashida Tlaib press conference. They’re attacking over Idaho’s first prosecution in an “abortion trafficking” case: Unmentioned (but for community notes) – the woman was impregnated by a rapist. The accused rapist and his…

  • 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…

  • Fifth Column

    The Harvey Milk Institute in San Francisco is hosting the “Third Annual Midwest Gender Identity Summit,” – discussing the “needs of transgender patients in healthcare,”  Just kidding. It’s the “Sanford Research Center”, in Sioux Falls. Sanford Health – the titan of rural healthcare, and one of the biggest employers in the upper midwest – is…

  • Annals Of Leftist Incoherence

    I’m going to guess most of you didn’t know that Sunday was “World Toilet Day“ (I personally celebrate the Eastern Orthodox Toilet Day, which is December 3) Something I didn’t know about the humble toilet; to at least one part of Big Left and, to at least one part of Big Left, it’s a social…

  • Realization

    That feeling when you search, and search, and search, believing that something you see on social media just has to be from the Babylon Bee. But it’s not.

  • Long Time No See

    A friend of the blog emails re “PETA”: If it weren’t for stupid stunts like this, I’s almost forget they exist. The inevitable counter effort to re-rename it “Spam Lake“ would be epic.

  • Grab Your Popcorn

    I’ve got a few friends who could qualify as “transgender”. I’ve always done my best to treat them with compassion and respect, the way we’re supposed to treat human beings. That part is not open for debate. But there are a few points open for legitimate debate – and the reason we know this is…

  • The Usual Suspects

    Trump supporters on the Mall “Trump Supporters” who stormed the Capitol. We’ve seen the horned-hat guy before: Wasn’t there a famous incident a centuray ago, a fire blamed on innocent people which gave a certain politician the excuse to seize power?Are we absolutely certain the troublmakers were ordinary Trump supporters, same as the rest of…

  • When I Ask If There’s Any Slice Of Modern Life…

    …that Big Left isn’t going to profane and politicize… …the answer is “Mitch, please”. Andrew Zimmern has a show on the slate discussing food and… …wait for it… politics. I’ll echo this tweet in response:

  • Inorganic

    Hard as this may be to believe, it appears Greta Thunberg = sixteen year old autistic Swedish child and professional climate scold – just may not be the mind behind her presence. “All it took to exploit the bug was opening a target page and checking the edit history of a post. Facebook mistakenly displayed…

  • Fair Is Fair

    Liberals insist Citizens United was wrongly decided and must be overturned.  Really?  The Supreme Court made a mistake?  A mistaken decision must be overturned? Okay, I’m good with that.  But Citizens United concerns a narrow area of free speech as it applies to political campaigns. Let’s start with cases that have broader societal impact, because the…

  • Re-Education Needed

    Target claims it is a corporate leader for social responsibility, even going so far as to have transgender bathrooms, but they pay their workers a pittance. Evil selfish bastards. Fight for 15! In 2010, Target found on the hard way that there is no “progressive enough” when dealing with the Big Left’s mob; that a…

  • Tipping Point

    Seen on (and observed about) a snowflake protest sign: You guys, the campus socialists might have one-upped Westborough Baptist 😂 pic.twitter.com/SGcTNfJ9OP— Daniel G. Weldon II 🌴☀️ (@DanWeldonFL) April 24, 2019 It’s an astute observation – but Big Left’s control over the entire education system is a lot more dangerous than Westboro, even with their platoon…