Shot in the Dark

Category: Stupid

  • Ripped From The Headlines Of Junk Pop Culture

    Is there anything “climate change” (TM) can’t do? Like, spawn a zombie apocalypse? No, it’s no the Babylon Bee: Of course it’s Berg’s Seventh Law in effect; most adherents to the Religion of Climate are pretty much the Walking Intellectual Dead already.

  • Let Them Eat Pasta!

    Anyone remember Mika McFeely? He’s sort of the Filene’s Basement version of Ed Schultz, another guy who got his start talking about grown men chasing balls around fields, and decided to go into being a political, talking head. He’s the Heitkamp family’s token liberal on KFGO in Fargo, and proof that the talent bench for…

  • A Plan So Simple, John Fetterman Could Carry It Off

    Douglas McKinnon, in The Hill, suggests an option for Democrats uneasy about Joe Biden as President in 2024 (with emphasis added): That reality speaks to the need for a proven vote-getter with lots of money and a logistical machine behind him. In Politics 101, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) meets — maybe even exceeds — those qualifications… …If…

  • I Can’t Tell…

    …if Keith Ellison is really this dim… …or if he’s just counting on his voters being that clueless. My money’s on “B”.

  • All In All You’re Just Another Thick-As-A-Brick Prog Demigogue

    Further proof that not only was David Gilmour the brains and heart and (along with Mason and Wright) talent of Pink Floyd, he was the leader of the band who wasn’t a complete cretin.

  • Happy Days Are Here Again

    So how to stop Dobbs? Declare a sex strike: Some on the left have come up with creative ways they think will encourage people to save Roe v. Wade. Earlier this week on The View, co-host Joy Behar floated the idea of a sex strike. “Women in the world have conducted sex strikes in history,”…

  • Oil For Europe

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Lesko Brandon’s domestic oil policies spiked gas prices so he released a million barrels per day from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help consumers at the pump. In Europe. You paid for that oil.  He gave it away. Track its progress here. Joe Doakes So let’s get Brandon’s energy…

  • Variations On The Two Latest Pop-Psych Affectations

    If there’s one thing people love, it’s feeling better than others. And as America has undergone its “Great Sort”, pop psychology has provided a dysfunctional society boundless opportunities to do just that. Those opportunities are scientifically dubious, but just plain feel good, because they satisfy that primal need to dunk on other people. These opportunities…

  • When I First Heard…

    …that the loathsome Whoopi Goldberg had said the Holocaust wasn’t about racism, I thought it was bad. Hearing what she actually said? ‘When you talk about being a racist, you can’t call this racism,’ she said. ‘This was evil. This wasn’t based on skin. You couldn’t tell who was Jewish. You had to delve deeply and figure…

  • Mene Mene Tekel Polling-in

    While it’s always worth casting a cold eye on polling numbers, it’s striking how poorly the Leader of the Free World is doing these days across the board. Real Clear Politics has the numbers and they aren’t pretty: RCP Average                            12/17 –…

  • Dear Hostage-Takers – And Hostages

    To: Mayors Carter and FreyFrom: Mitch Berg, Irascible PeasantRe: Your Hostages Mayors, You just announced your new and, if I may be frank, moronic Covid restrictions: Let’s make sure we’re clear here. I had the OG Covid, way back in 2020. Back before it got easy to catch and less virulent. I’ve donated convalescent plasma.…

  • Continuum Of Sanity

    If we consider the notion of “sanity“ as a continuum, with “very very sane“ on one end, and “not sane at all“ on the left, it’s pretty fair that our systems Covid fear mongering has driven this particular mother (and teacher) to the “left“ end of the scale: An arrest warrant has been issued for…

  • The Inmates Are Running The Asylum. And The Schools.

    Schools in Edina – once known as a good school district – are Pictures of Normandale Elementary School in Edina show students eating their lunch outside with hats, coats and mittens on. “Since the beginning of school, I learned that essentially if you brought a lunch from home, you were eating outside,” said Carissa Palm, the…

  • They’re Always Loaded

    The number one story in the world this past three days: Alec Baldwin accidentally shot a cinematographer on a movie set in New Mexico. It’s easy to feel Schadenfreud for someone who’s wallowed in so much of it himself: I try to remain above that… …but I’m only human. Still. Back in college, I worked…

  • Looks Like We Got Us A Convoy

    Let those truckers roll: President Joe Biden claimed on Wednesday that he once drove an 18-wheeler truck, but his remark—made during a visit to a Mack Truck factory in Lower Macungie Township, Pennsylvania—quickly garnered a skeptical reaction. In audio recorded by local news channel WFMZ-TV, Biden can be heard off camera telling workers at Mack…

  • Question: Is There A Media Figure More Insufferable Than Stephen Colbert?

    Answer: What, you don’t know that’s a rhetorical question? Of course not!

  • Consequences

    I’m as close as you can get to a First Amendment absolutist. As a small L libertarian, I’m also big on due process and the restraint of excessive police power. With all of that said? I can’t be the only one who wouldn’t of minded seeing this jagoff “bump his head“ getting into the police…

  • Because I’m A Gentleman…

    …I would not dream of responding to a tweet like this…: …with something snarky like “So the good news is, I’d avoid a carnal quagmire with the Bride of Chucky. The bad news is I’d lose enough advertising space on that forehead for one of those yuuuuuge LED billboards.” Fortunately, I am too much of…

  • New York Bookstores And Suburban Gas Stations

    We’re a week past the lifting of the mask mandates. But as Miranda Devine notes in the New York Post, confusion reigns: This is how confused New Yorkers are about masks. At Barnes & Noble Wednesday, no mask was required to browse the bookshelves, but on the other side of Union Square, the Strand bookstore…

  • With A Sickly Nod To South Park

    Note: Thius story is safe for work. But use caution Perhaps it’s a sign that I take firearm safety rules so very very seriously, but I can’t be the only one who looked at the specific piece of hardware in this story and got a nauseous feeling in the pit of their gut because: the…

  • In The Best Of Hans

    Remember when Trump nominated a raft of extremists for high executive offices? No? Right. There’s a reason for that. In the meantime, this is who President Harris has picked to run Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, the agency that regulates firearms, and occasionally participates in anti-gun psyops like “Fast and Furious”: The fact that Democrats can…

  • None Dare Call It Slander

    I mean, when even Bill Maher gets uncomfortable… Former North Dakota Senator and current useless mouth Heidi Heitkamp calls Gina Carano a “Nazi”. Plain and simple, full stop. I’ll chalk this up to the (utterly true) idea that any Democrat can parrot any narrative twaddle, no matter how moronic, without fear, knowing that their audience…

  • Fairness

    The Strib is trying to shame people into getting the Covid vaccine: Let’s apply this (for sake of argument) “Logic” to other patterns of behavior, shall we? People who are “child free by choice” are “demographic moochers”. Everyone else’s children are going to have to pay the taxes and premiums to support them in their…

  • Hometown Boy Makes Good Idiot Of Self

    The good news: After hearing Ben Shapiro roasting Rupar last week on his radio show, I have to say it’s been amazing seeing that more people nationwide are learning what we in the Twin Cities have known for most of a decade: that City Pages alum and Vox “writer” Aaron Rupar is a really terrible…

  • Send In The Kangaroos

    City of Minneapolis reaches an independent settlment with the Floyd family… …just in time to jeopardize the Chauvin trial. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called it a milestone. The city council unanimously approved the settlement. Announcing the settlement in the middle of jury selection for the murder trial of Derek Chauvin confused legal experts. “It was…