Category: Covid19
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French Kiss-Off
What coulda been.
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Welcome To The Party, Pal
Hey, look! The guy who banned family Thanksgiving and Christmas gatherings, limited the Cathedral of Saint Paul to ten worshippers (and Kissin’ Cousins’ Sports Bar in Newfolden to 50) and tried to get you fired for not getting vaccinated…: …is suddenly a liberty hawk!
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Unforgiven
Today’s the anniversary of Minnesota’s Great Leap Backward. Me? I was on my way home from the office, listening the governor on MPR as he announced the most draconian set of emergency powers in Minnesota history. On the way, I stopped at a Total Wine. The store has eight checkout lines, of which two are…
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Never Forget
Since Tim “Mind Your Own Business” Walz and his phalanx of lies are on the ticket next week, let’s make sure people remember this: They warned us that if we voted GOP, fascism would erupt. And they were right.
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This Should Solve Giggles And Piglet’s Problem With Men
In a campaign full of cringe-y ads, this may be the dumbest: Treating husbands as the enemy seems like a bit of a tactical error.
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I Heard It On The NARN
Paul Gazelka’s book Lifting the Veil is available right here. Today’s music list:
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From The Upcoming Revision To The Oxford English Dictionary
“Frumming (Verb): To compare two radically different things as if they were the same, by leaving out dispositively vital context. Example: Variations: Frummery: (Noun): “It was pure frummery to compare the records of the two presidents by dishonestly leaving out the pandemic”.
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Perspective Needed
Former representative Ryan Winkler has led us down a twisty, turny path with some surprises over his legislative and extra-legislative careers. He’s swerved from the ridiculous to the, well, occasionally admirable, and back, and forth and back and forth, and backandforth… And, well…: Denying the industralized murder of 11 million people, versus Legitimate questions and…
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That Smell
What is that smell? Why, it’s the sound of millions of peoples senses of self-righteous indignation, their mode of instant social sorting, their handy form of smug virtue-signaling, and that little knot of terror that they cultivated and nursed into their worldview, slowly smoldering into ash: A whole lot of Merriam Park harpies are feeling…
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No
Professor Galloway: I hear what you’re saying. I do. And on behalf of all the small businesses strangled by your mistake, all the parents who watched their kids slowly go crazy and stupid, and felt their personal, social and business relationships fraying and breaking? I reject it. Forgiveness without atonement is meaningless. Try again.
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Ambiguous
So we’re reliably informed that Downtown Minneapolis is back. But that it desperately needs Target to force its workers back into the office. Reporter Brianna Kelly spent months talking to downtown Minneapolis businesses about the flexible hybrid approach of downtown’s largest employer, and the impact it is having on the local economy. “You know, everyone…
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Never Forget
Polls – and the current performance of the DeSantis campaign – shows that, whether from fatigue or bigger fish to fry, Covid just isn’t that big an issue for most people. That’s a shame. In the interest of making sure, to the best of my ability, that nobody forgets, here’s what Democrats were thinking… …not…
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Better Late Than Never
This is a great bit. Wish there’d been a lot more like it three years ago.
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There Are Too Many Potential Titles For This Post To Choose One, And I’m Trying To Be A Better Person Than That Anyway
Governor Walz is “turning power over” to Lt Governor Flanagan for a few hours while he has a colonoscopy. I don’t not expect DFL goons to roam the streets looking for wreckers while she’s in power. Fingers crossed, everyone. Smoke ’em if you got ’em. However, if all goes well, hopefully we’ll get word as…
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He Who Controls The Past, Controls The Future
Attention, “fact-checkers” – yet again, we were right and you were wrong. The lab leak theory – which for over half the pandemic was labeled a racist conspiracy theory, repeating which could get you kicked off of social media and drummed out of polite society – appears to be true. But if there’s one thing…
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Fearless Prediction
Big Left will flip the tables, declare that Trump’s push to develop a vaccine was a huge mistake.
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Downtown’s Back, Baybee!
If proclamations made with muted, Minnesotan gusto were correlated with economic results, Jacob Frey’s exhortations would have downtown Minneapolis humming along like Dallas. Alas, they do not. Some of downtown’s signature office towers are ailing financially: The 30-story LaSalle Plaza in downtown Minneapolis is scheduled to go to auction next week after the previous owner, the Teachers’…
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Countergaslight
Are you old enough to remember when our Expert Class (TM) sicced it’s PR machine, and Big Left’s army of howler monkeys, from Stephen Colbert down to its horde of demi-human twitterbots, on anyone who expressed even ambivalence about Ivermectin? “Hahaha, he’s peddling horse medicine!” was about the level and extent of the discourse? Are…
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Nobody Could Have Known…
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Liberals call for Covid Amnesty. They say Conservatives should forgiveLiberals for all the bad things resulting from government’s response toCovid. They say none of those bad things are Liberals’ fault becauseThey Didn’t Know. Nonsense. We knew when the Diamond Princess docked in February 2020that Covid afflicted mostly old people…
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Whatever Happened To Monkeypox?
Via Zeynep Tufekci – One of the very few reporters who actually reported on Covid – the answer is “not much at all“. Read the entire thread: My theory as to whatever happened to it as a news story? The Democrats didn’t need it as a campaign wedge.
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Unconditional Surrender
Emily Oster at The Atlantic wonders if we mightn’t just bury the hatchet about all that Covid overreaction; call a social mulligan; just mooooooove on: We have to put these fights aside and declare a pandemic amnesty. We can leave out the willful purveyors of actual misinformation while forgiving the hard calls that people had…
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Remember Back In The ’80s?
When pop culture went through a phase of giggling at videos of school kids “ducking and covering” to practice for nuclear attacks? I have a hunch that people in the 2040s are going to do the same with video of some of today’s dimmer, more dissociative bulbs: That is to say, if they stop winning…
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Don’t Forget
It’s about six weeks until the election. And with polls showing Governor Klink seven points up on Scott Jensen, it’s time to remind minnesotans, with their famously short attention span‘s, about what this last couple of years have been like. The Twin Cities media desperately wants to memoryhole this episode: Governor Klink created a three…
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Prominent By Its Absence
A friend of the blog emails: It’s been going for almost a week and ends this weekend, but I haven’t seen any hand-wringing articles from the mainstream media about the Sturgis motorcycle rally. Wow Probably because Sturgis 2020 killed everyone on the Great Plains.
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Truth And Reconciliation
To: Scott Jensen/Matt Birk Please, please, please: if you happen to win the Governors race, promise to release the full, unredacted records from the state’s “Covid snitch line” Because I want to find every single one of these backstabbing weasels. People often would send in lists of “non-essential” businesses that remained open or weren’t strictly…