Shot in the Dark

Category: Blue Fragility

  • The Bullets We Dodged

    Berg’s Seventh Law has been getting a workout this week. For starters – as I pointed out all through the run-up to the election – the Democrats and DFL jabbered relentlessly about voting to “save democracy”, while promising to gut free speech, freedom of conscience, the right to self-defense, privacy and separation of powers. And…

  • Call On Line 5 From The Dixie Chicks

    John Mellencamp, who turned his real-life persona – “an American kid who grew up in the Heartland” – into his show-biz persona, is shocked that other American kids from the heartland aren’t having his Los Angeles politics: “Love the art, ignore the artist” is an aphorism that’s served me well over the years. Uh Huh,…

  • Not The Judean People’s Front

    “Woke” constituencies in Massachusetts are having a hard time sorting out intersectional value: The Daily Mail notes that in May, the student newspaper aired accusations that Christian staff members at the school had misgendered children, engaged in conversion therapy, and had even gone so far as to hold a prayer meeting during which there were…

  • 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…

  • This Is Blue America

    Language NSFW, and you might wanna watch the volume, too: Some are more eloquent. Some use their indoor voices. Some use words. But one way or another, this is the archtype for all modern leftist oratory.

  • Not For Turning

    The DFL noise machine has been treating this speech by Rep. Walter Hudson – longtime friend of this blog, and by far my favorite outside NARN guest host – like a return of the Nuremberg Laws. It’s in response to the Transgender Sanctuary (AKA “Kidnapping Protection”) legalization. Walter’s right. And it’s time for people who…

  • Berg’s 18th Law Is Still In Full Effect

    I’ll do my due diligence and make my usual reference to my self-coined but completely accurate dictum: Berg’s Eighteenth Law of Media Latency Nothing the media writes/says about any emotionally charged event – a mass shooting, a police shooting, anything – should be taken seriously for 48 hours after the original incident.  It will largely…

  • Of Gratitude And Goals

    Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. I have so much for which I should be grateful – and I’ll be going through the list, as far as I can, tomorrow. But I’m going to jump the (if you’ll pardon the expression) gun, and say I’m thankful I’m not that this grift. Whoah – did I say grift? I…

  • 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…

  • California in the rear-view mirror

    California residents continue to vote with their feet. From this NYT article in May, For the second time in two years, the California Department of Finance has reported a drop in the state’s population. California lost 117,552 residents last year, driven largely by the Covid death toll and a sharp drop in foreign immigration. This…

  • Our Betters Know It

    We are living in a meritocracy that is utterly lacking in merit. And our betters know it. If the current leadership in Washington were confident in their abilities and in their support, you would not see FBI raids on political opponents and political show trials on national television.  You are under no obligation to like…

  • Just A Touch Of Backlash

    BLM harpy crashes a block party in the neighborhood that’s actually been complaining loudly enough to get the Governor’s attention. Gets told – in the middle of “woke”, “progressive” downtown Minneapolis’s condo-land – to take it elsewhere. The push back against the stormtroopers of the extreme left is starting slowlyi – and from some unlkely…

  • While Making Your Afternoon Listening Plans

    Please tune in to AM1280 this afternoon from 4-6PM for a special broadcast about Critical Race Theory in Minnesota, and what you and I can do about it. It’ll feature: Kendall Qualls and Alfrieda Baldwin from “Take Charge Minnesota” Catrin Wigfall from the Center of the American Experiment Rebekah Hagstrom from “Education Nation”. We’ll be…

  • Mission

    After reading this story, I’m overwhelmed with a desire to lead a movement to get conservatives to eschew smashing their own faces into rock or cement walls. No true conservative would ever smash their face into a cement or rock wall. Just a bunch of face smashing sheeple. Who’s with me?

  • Fully As Expected

    Big Left has had to reckon with the idea that, among major states, Florida and its science-driven approach to Covid has been more successful than the states that Big Media cast its lot with last year. And by “reckon”, I mean “try to undercut, among the ‘try-not-to-think-too-hard’ crowd” that is the “progressive” base. The Atlantic…

  • Mass Death Fails To Materialize: Big Karen Bereft, Distraught

    Big Karen warned us – those Super Bowl tailgate parties in Tampa were going to lead to the extinction of Florida Man. Those of us who paid attention in high school science noted that there’s incredibly low correlation between outdoor gatherings and Covid transmission. “The science says ‘obey or die!’”, Big Karen responds. Observation indicates…

  • The New McCarthyites

    I really can’t boycott “Hollywood”. because given the fact that Tinseltown can’t seem to get its heart into doing much of anything but comic book movies, and I just can not bring myself to go to a comic book movie, I mean, why bother? So I’ve never seen any of Disney’s various Star Wars spinoff…

  • #Unexpected, As Usual

    That was then: This is now: Remember – it’s all about science. We are “science” = political expediency.

  • Blue Fragility, Part MMXMLCIII: Pious Fury!

    When it comes to state-level Covid restrictions – bans, shutdowns, snitch lines and the rest – the big media and the pundit class (pardon, more and more, the redundancy) act a lot like strict but blinkered Fundamentalists confronting two-for-ones at happy hour; the impenitent deserve any horrors that befall them, in this life or the…

  • Where Have You Gone, David Dinkins?

    New Yorkers are leaving NYC in record numbers. I’ve added emphasis in a few places: City residents filed 295,103 change of address requests from March 1 through Oct. 31, according to data The Post obtained from the US Postal Service under a Freedom of Information Act request. Since the data details only when 11 or…

  • Theater

    Poker players look for the other guys’ “tell,” a facial tic or mannerism that indicates the bid is a bluff. When they see the tell, they know he’s faking. The security precautions to get into the doctor’s office include standing in line 6 feet apart wearing a mask and answering a bunch of questions. But…

  • Blue Fragility – State Of The States

    The pandemic is beginning its eighth month – and the lockdown is well into seven months of devastation America’s economy, mental health and well-being. And you’re starting to see Big Left hopping up in down with glee – the case numbers are starting to move upward in “Red” America, justifying their almost onanistic, millenialistic desire…

  • Blue Fragility: It Never Ends

    This is not the Babylon Bee. “Alternate reality”. New York still has a per capita death toll triple the national average. New York City’s economy – off Wall Street, anyway – is in the tank. It’s school system is saved from being a shambles only by having been a shambles before the epidemic. Fredo Cuomo…

  • Blue Fragility: Be It Resolved

    Whereas the United States’s death toll per million citizens ranks as the eighth-highest among significant nations (forget about Andorra and San Marino), at 572 Covid fatalities per million…: And whereas every state with a death toll (in fatalities per million) higher than 572 per million (as of September 2, 2020) is a “blue”, Democrat-run state…

  • Blue Fragility: Open Letter To Jonathan Chait

    To: Johnathan “Chaitful” ChaitFrom: Mitch Berg – Red State Sleeper AgentRe: This Little “Eliminationist Hatred” Problem You Have Mr. Chait We go way back, of course – and not in a good way. You have a bit of a history of being a horrible excuse for a human being. But you are a gift that…