Category: State of Affairs
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Notes From The Soggy Zone
Last week, I ruffled some of the usual feathers by posting a link to this video by Ryan McBeth. McBeth is a former anti-tank grunt who now does open-source intelligence and systems work. His Youtube and Substack channels are interesting; he doesn’t get everything right (he is still claiming Mossad figured out how to remotely…
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Put another uh, what is it called, dime, that’s it, in the jukebox
Joe Biden is currently 79, and will be 80 in November. His slide into senescence continues untrammeled. The latest ghost images coughed up by random firings of the remaining synapses in Biden’s cranium led him to claim he had been appointed to the Naval Academy. From the New York Post. President Biden told graduating midshipmen…
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State Of The World
Sometimes, no matter what “side” of American politics one is on, it can seem like there is no good news to be had. It’s most prevalent among people on the left, these days, of course – but even conservatives can fall prey to the idea that it’s never been worse. And with that in mind,…
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Paging Alanis Morrisette
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Illegal immigrants sneak into America to escape hard labor and scant food, while Americans diet on scant food and hit the gym to perform hard labor. Joe Doakes It’s occurred to a few commentators.
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Footloose
The most famous (or is it infamous?) punter in modern history tries to pin the Minnesota Vikings against their end zone. Well, in his defense, he no longer has a job to be so focused on. Chris Kluwe may possess a number of less-than-desirable qualities, but the former punter’s media savvy remains arguably his strongest…
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Blight of Day
Is Detroit’s new-found cause célèbre ignoring the past to cloud the future? George Clooney had the Sudan. Bono has Africa. Anthony Bourdain – and much of the American media – apparently has Detroit. In recent months, the city of Detroit has witnessed two narratives arise in Phoenix-like fashion from the economic ashes of the city, often in…
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Without a Kluwe
The foot of the Minnesota Vikings’ punter will no longer be in his mouth. There is a truism in all professional life that your cost, real or perceived, cannot outweigh your value. Once that threshold is crossed, there is often little incentive for an employer to maintain such an employee. Of course, that truism seems…
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Chávismo
Hugo Chavez is dead. Will his political philosophy be far behind? He was the ubiquitous face of Venezuela, both domestically and abroad, for over 12 years. Bombastic, dictatorial and often paranoid in style, Hugo Chavez signified, in his own words, “Socialism for the 21st Century,”. In reality, his political orientation (known as Chávismo in his home…
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Just as Every Cop is a Criminal…
Plenty of sympathy (and a $1 million reward) for the devil in Southern California. Former Marine and LAPD officer Chris Dorner promised to wage “unconventional and asymmetrical warfare” against his former employer in his bizarre manifesto. Five days into Dorner’s declaration of war against the LAPD, starting with murdering the 28 year-old daughter of a…
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(Not So) Magic Mike
Michael Bloomberg dresses up as Ray Nagin for Halloween. Perhaps the symbolism is apt. As New Yorkers and assorted guests from around the world gather in Staten Island to race in the New York City Marathon, Gotham’s Mayor finds himself running for his political life. With the Eastern seaboard in shambles, power and transportation cut…
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Race to the Bottom
The media begins to chum the political waters for race-baiting. There was little doubt that race was one of the larger underlying narratives of the 2008 presidential campaign. The election of the country’s first African-American president, by the largest popular vote margin in twenty years, was widely hailed by Barack Obama’s supporters as a sign…
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Breaking News that Gives Me Joy
I was in Chicago last week and the papers there were headlining the huge lead Rahm Emanuel has had in Chicago’s mayoral race. The Democratic machine was running at redline to keep their scum at the top of the cesspool that is Chicago politics. …and then it blew a gasket. An appeals court said Rahm…
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What To Do If It Happens to You
Unfortunately, much of the advice available on the web is downright ridiculous. You mean like this: STEP #8: Play Dead. If you’re shot, lie down and play dead. With any luck, the shooter will not come over and finish you off. Uh, no. If I’m shot, and it’s possible, I’m going with: STEP #7: RUN!…
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What Can We Do
I originally wrote this after the Virginia Tech shootings and adapted it to current events. In light of the frenzy going on only hours after the shootings in Arizona, I feel it is no less relevant now. What can we do? …regarding the shootings yesterday in Arizona?…nothing. You can’t make sense of something like this.…
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