Category: Socialism American Style
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Accountability
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: An altimeter is an instrument which tells you high you are. Pilots rely on them to avoid obstructions on the ground, to maintain separation between aircraft at different altitudes, and to make smooth landings. The traditional altimeter works on air pressure. Air pressure decreases the higher you go from…
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Slouching Toward Armageddon
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Richard Fernandez at The Belmont Club asks whether the Lesko Brandon administration is strolling into our next quagmire. We canceled pipelines and oil leases at home, to signal our virtue on climate change. The price of gas at the pump, and natural gas for home heating, is going up. We’ve called…
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Urban Progressive Privilege: Chicago On The Mississippi
A friend of the blog emails: On Tuesday, St Paul voters will vote on rent control. Several council members are surprisingly against it. Of course, no surprise that CM Jalali is in favor of it. She tweets about how much she has supported development, and how even that development has not been enough to help…
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Customer Service
A recent experience (last night, actually) in the northern suburbs, but repeated elsewhere with alarming frequency. My family traveled to our friendly local neighborhood Culver’s for dinner. We arrived at 6 p.m. We could see people sitting in the dining room and customers at the counter, so we assumed the restaurant was open for dine-in.…
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Not Exactly Omaha Beach
The Feds released the specifics on the suspects charged with “armed insurrection” on January 6. Some knives, none of which were used. Some baseball bats and clubs and various chemical irritants. Five guns – only two of which were found on the Capitol grounds, one of which was a government issued piece in the hands…
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Cut The Crap
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Some Liberals say $15 an hour minimum wage is too low, it should be $26 instead. Cheap bastards. I agree with William F. Buckley: if raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, why stop at $15 or even $26? Let’s make it $100 and we’ll all…
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Via The Back Door
Buried in the “Infrastructure’ bill is, well, a curious bit of “infrastructure” indeed: Within a few years, you may have to convince your own car you’re fit to drive every time you get behind the wheel. The Biden administration’s massive infrastructure bill, which the House is expected to take up later this month, includes a provision directing the Secretary…
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What The In Crowd Knows
A tale as old as time: Dominant liberal culture is, if nothing else, fiercely rule-abiding: they get very upset when they see anyone defying decrees from authorities, even if the rule-breaker is the official who promulgated the directives for everyone else. While I appreciate the willingness of Glenn Greenwald, a man of the Left, to…
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Animal Gala
Remember – some animals are more equal than others. My favorite part – the rows of black and latino service staff, swathed in masks, in the background behind the photos of all those “courageous” unmasked socialites.
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This Is What “Building Back Better” Looks Like
Black unemployment, after hitting historic lows under “the most racist president ever”, is bouncing back up under Corn Pop’s pal: Of course, the last jobs report produced about 1/3 the jobs expected. l But at least things are going swimmingly along the Mexico border and in Afghanistan…
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Commonsense Computer Control Laws
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: High capacity computers banned in California. Well, who needs a computer capable of performing that many operations per second? One a month should be plenty. Joe Doakes Heh. s
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Flying Cars
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Technological innovations are coming from abroad as Americans obsess over race, gender, and preventing people from questioning The Narrative. This is how empires crumble. Joe Doakes If there’s going to be a backlash, let’s get it going. America’s current New Reality sucks.
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Ye Shall Know Them By Their Berg’s Seventh Law Violations
Democrats, especially their “progressive” wing, have for years claimed to be the party of the worker, the little guy/gal, the underdog. This is posited, at least by the class that chants the chanting points, as in contrast to the GOP, the “party of big business”. And what does Berg’s Seventh Law tell us about everything…
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City + Other People’s Money + Urban Progressive Privilege = Fun For Progs!
A friend of the blog emails: I’m not going to weigh in on whether the Interstate system was bad for some neighborhoods when it happened. But, every urban renewal project since then (like St Paul’s Green Line) seems to have been worse in terms of the impact on these neighborhoods. The goal in these current…
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Infrastructure
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: This is the “infrastructure” that ordinary people think the Susan Rice Administration wants to spend money on: This is where the money actually would go: Joe Doakes The left, as Dennis Prager notes, destroys everything it touches. Including words.
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Hope I Die Before I Get…Young
Roger Daltrey, lead singer of The Who for the past 57 years or so, tees off on the “Woke” generation: “The woke generation — it’s terrifying, the miserable world they’re going to create for themselves,” the rocker said in a recent interview with DJ Zane Lowe on Apple Music. “I mean, anyone who’s lived a…
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V-K Day
Mr. Mask Mandate, he dead: Gov. Tim Walz said Thursday he’ll sign an order Friday ending Minnesota’s statewide mask-wearing mandate following the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance allowing fully vaccinated people to stop wearing masks. Calling it a great day for Minnesota, the governor continued to plead with unvaccinated Minnesotans to get their…
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Feeling Strangely Seventies-Eastern-European
How bad are things under the Garden Administration? This bad: we are facing a shortage of chicken wings. Oh, sure, they’ll blame bad weather in Texas or supply line interruptions from Covid and of course, everything changed on January 6th. But this never happened when the Bad Orange Man was President. Just sayin’. Joe Doakes…
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The Red New Deal
“Green” industries – like the jobs “building solar panels” that the current administration is telling newly-unemployed pipeline workers to try to get – are fleeing Germany for… …well, you can probably figure it out: The number of jobs in the German renewables sector (production and installation) has fallen from about 300,000 in 2011 to around…
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A Barrel With No Bottom. Ever.
Decades ago, in an effort to keep housing “affordable”, the city of New York imposed rent control. No existing rental unit could increase its price, absent jumping throught a Byzantine series of bureaucratic hoops. The “market” responded to the bureaucratic muddling – at first, creatively. The rent control stayed with the the renter. When the…
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President Of Convenience
SCENE: Mitch BERG is out on his porch waiting for some food delivery. He’s committed – can’t go inside yet – when Avery LIBRELLE happens around the corner. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Uh, hey, Avery… LIBRELLE: Stop with all the scare talk. Joe Biden is a moderate. BERG: Biden is a moderate in the exact same…
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Subsequent Order Effects
You are playing pool in a bar. You strike the cue ball with the cue stick and the cue ball moves. That is a First Order Effect. The cue ball moves in response to your striking it with the cue stick. The cue ball rolls along until it strikes another ball, perhaps the 10. The…
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“Julia”
Anyone remember “Julia”? The Obama campaign’s infantiolization of the American voter? This video from Kamala Harris makes “Julia” look like John Galt: This is what Joe Biden is a delivery system for.
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Goodies For Everyone!
Biden: “I’ll raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, but have the government bail out all the businesses that can’t afford it”. Also Biden: “Don’t you DARE call me a socialist”.
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Biden Ad – Part 2
Saw another Biden ad. Did you know Trump plans to eliminate Social Security? Really. But never fear, Joe Biden’s got a plan to save it. Good for him. You go, Joe! Except. . . what, exactly, is that plan? Everybody knows Social Security is insolvent, but as far as I know there are only three…