Shot in the Dark

Category: Social Justice!

  • Crucial Yet Irrelevant

    As we head towards another round of off year elections – including an awful lot of Democrat-controlled cities – a piece of re-usable narrative that is rapidly becoming a hallmark of the Trump age is starting to break out again; the notion that voting – or more precisely, “expecting your vote to affect anything”-  is…

  • Never Let It Be Said…

    …that after shaking down taxpayers in their franchise cities for hundreds of millions of dollars, the NFL responds by being completely tone-deaf. No sirree bob.

  • Moral Footnote

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: This article is an example of the Right trying to manufacture a victory.  The courts shut down the travel ban, repeatedly, until it expired.  If Trump attempts to resurrect it, we can bet they’ll shut it down again.  A victory would have been a ruling that he was right…

  • Virtue Laundering

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Suppose you’re a politician who accepts campaign donations.  Turns out, one of your donors is a bad egg.  What do you do with that money? If you keep it, you are guilty by association.  If you give it back, the bad egg will donate it to your opponent to…

  • That Moment When…

    …you realize that Social Justice snowflakes can’t even criticize fellow social-justice snowflakes without sounding like someone doing a hamfisted satire of social-justice snowflakes. It’s getting to the point where satirizing overly-fruity academic writing is passé and redundant. .

  • The Left’s “Conversation About Guns”

    NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch forced to move her family due to constant, legitimate death threats… …from “Violence” activists: National Rifle Association spokeswoman Dana Loesch announced Sunday on Twitter that her family had been forced to move suddenly after she received multiple death threats from gun control advocates. Loesch, a conservative commentator and syndicated talk radio host,…

  • Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The Harvey Weinstein story is troubling.  It’s as if he thinks a powerful man can walk up to women, grab them by the p—y, do anything to them.  And we know that’s false because everybody jumped all over Donald Trump when he said it – didn’t DO it –…

  • Of Goals And Means

    Two incumbent Minneapolis city councilbots, and five challengers with decent chances of winning, said they can see a future without a Minneapolis Police Department: Asked, “Do you believe that we could ever have a city without police?” two incumbents and five serious challengers running for City Council answered “yes.”…Those who did and said they believe…

  • The State Full Of Sun-Baked “Progressive” Bobbleheads That Doesn’t Learn From History…

    Half of Californians say housing prices are making them think about leaving the state, and an awful lot of them think rent control is the answer: About half of the state’s voters – 48 percent – said they consider the problem of housing affordability “extremely serious.” Concerns are more prevalent in areas seen as ground…

  • I’m Not Saying The Strib Editorial Board Seeks A Totalitarian Government.

    I’m just saying that in the future, if some future wannabe despot wants to take over this country, suspend the Constitution and crush our freedoms without firing a shot (up front, anyway), he’ll need a society full of people who “think” like the Strib editorial board to have a chance of succeeding.  r They want…

  • News Conferences I’d Love To See. And Participate In.

    SCENE:   Press conference where a Free Speech Rally is being announced for the Minnesota state capitol grounds.   A group of reporters is questioning the organizers of the rally – Madison JAMES, Tyrone JEFFERSON, and Jorge WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON:   …So to sum up, we will hold our Free Speech rally at precisely noon.  We…

  • This Is My Shocked Face

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Trump said only one side had a permit to be at the rally in Emancipation Park.  The Left jumped all over that – it’s a lie, the counter-protesters had a permit, too. No, they didn’t.  Their permit is for two different parks, a couple of blocks away.  When they…

  • Paging Alanis Morissette

    Woman who destoryed a confederate statue in (where else?) Durham NC… …is a Marxist North-Koreaphile. Fighting a legacy of slavery with a present of slavery!

  • Damore, Damerrier

    James Damore is exploring his legal options against Google. And apparently he has some: According to Dan Eaton, an attorney and ethics professor at San Diego University, the engineer certainly has grounds for a case on two fronts. “First, federal labor law bars even non-union employers like Google from punishing an employee for communicating with…

  • She’ll Never Get Reservations At The Local Vegan Restaurant Again

    “Progressive” woman risks all to tell the world what used to be screechingly obvious: I asked why as a woman who was born with woman parts it is now considered transphobic to want to have conversations about the distinct and unquestionable differences in life experience between cis and trans women. I asked why when women…

  • Back To The Past

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: A Seattle councilman says cleaning human urine and feces off the sidewalk outside the courthouse is . . . wait for it . . . racist. The technological advance that enabled people to live in cities without rampant disease was the sanitary sewer, invented 4,000 years ago.  If Seattle…

  • It Never Existed, Lindström

    Swedes burn books to sanitize the historical record… …of Pippi Longstocking. The other day came the news that the library in Botkyrka municipality, on the outskirts of Stockholm, had burned older editions of one of the Pippi books, Pippi in the South Seas (1948), because local officials have decided that they “contain racism.” After this action…

  • Dissent Will Not Be Tolerated

    From the New York Times’ piece on the left eating itself at “progressive” Evergreen State: For expressing his view, Mr. Weinstein was confronted outside his classroom last week by a group of some 50 students insisting he was a racist. The video of that exchange — “You’re supporting white supremacy” is one of the more milquetoast quotes…

  • Watching The Defectives

    At the “Pride” Parade in Minneapolis yesterday, the processijon got delayed 20 or so minutes by a BLM group that apparently couldn’t find the freeway. After they’d had their die-in, they got up and spent the rest of the parade marching a block or two ahead of the rest of the procession. But not before…

  • When Making Your Dining And Drinking Plans

    Jamie Robinson, owner of the “Northbound Smokehouse” in Minneapolis, supports the $15 minimum wage – with a tip credit (allowing the restauranteur to deduct tip money from the basic wage). For this, the Social Justice Warriors trashed him on social media. Robinson has responded: Lately, Robinson’s noticed that his political activism has turned Northbound’s Facebook page into a…

  • Unpacking The Invisible NPR Tote Bag

    “White Privilege” has been all over the news this last couple of years.  It’s been there because the Big Left has ordained that it should be.  My theory;  in a nation full of “privilege” – class, racial, academic, social and, let’s be honest, the privilege of being born here rather than Russia or Nigeria or…

  • Getting Ready To Mint Another “Berg’s Law”

    And if I do, it’s going to read “All claims of racist “hate speech” not delivered face to face by someone proven not to be a ringer should be presumed hoaxes until proven otherwise”. Because when I got the first word of this “attack”, the first thing that crossed my mind was “No way, just…

  • Not The Better Me Speaking, Perhaps

    But deep down inside, I do in fact enjoy the fact that this story – about a blackshirt being beaten up by his fellow “progressive” fascists – includes the background fact that the blackshirts panicked and went into full retreat when faced with actual resistance from Real Americans. More.  Faster.

  • Dennis Prager Is Right

    It takes an elite education to be this stupid.

  • There Will Come A Day When Berg’s Seventh Law Is Required Reading In All Classrooms

    Bit by bit, some liberals are getting it. John Kass at the ChiTrib?  He seems to have figured out the Big Lie of the Big Left: The lie we were told as kids was this: The end of American liberty would come at the hands of the political right. Conservatives would take away our right to…