Shot in the Dark

Category: Western Civilization

  • Solved!

    A longtime friend of the blog writes: Common-sense knife control – this has to work right? Well, maybe…: …provided that “work” means “inure society to being almost comically helpless in the face of evil”.

  • Cuts Like A…Well, You Know

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: From a commenter on Powerline at this article: As with all things “progressive” – it’s only satire until it’s law. Or, in this case, both.

  • Resist The Authoritarians!

    Over at Power Line, Paul Mirengoff asks a question that is redolent with parallels for anyone that lives in a Democrat-dominated area:   if a government is truly authoritarian, nobody wants to be pegged as a “Resister” – for example, to be placed on an “enemies list”. If you’re on an enemies list in a genuinely authoritarian…

  • Why, It’s Almost As If…

    …people are tired of being told what “their best interests” are by elites with no skin in their actual, local game.

  • Just To Be Clear

    I do advocate tolerance.  Most notably and recently, I’ve mixed it up with activists in the MN GOP who’ve said there’s no room in the Republican party for people of the Muslim faith, because – this is a paraphrase cut so closely it might as well be a quote – the Koran tells Muslims to…

  • Heard On Social Media, 1938

    SCENE:  A group of people are sitting in a cafe in south Minneapolis.   Harland BERG and a few other people sit around tables, absently drinking coffee and reading the Minneapolis Star when Oscar KJEDELIG walks into the room.   KJEDELIG:  We need to prevent Germans from caucusing at the Farmer-Labor Party caucuses next week. BERG:  Er…Germans? KJEDELIG: …

  • “You Guys Are Lucky I Don’t Know How To Build A Bomb”

    I haven’t talked much about the case of Tnuza Hassan, the woman accused of setting fires at Saint Kate’s last week.   If the allegations in the press are true, she couldn’t have been more clear about her motives if she’d hired a Madison Avenue ad firm: Tnuza J. Hassan, of Minneapolis, allegedly told police that…

  • Much Ado About S______es.

    News flash: President Trump said something offensive. Maybe. The is sure, but can’t confirm it beyond Dick Durbin – a man with a long record of practicing the ethics of convenience – and repeated by the Dems’ stenographers in the media, which only stops them when the subject is a Democrat, but whatever, but whatever;…

  • MSGA

    Switzerland bans asylum-seekers from obtaining Swiss citizenship if they’ve been on welfare in the past three years.  (Article in German;  If you don’t read German, Google Translate is your friend). The new law also introduces new criteria for integration. For example, those seeking naturalization must develop Swiss friends and associates. And someone imprisioned conditionally for…

  • Don’t Parc The Arc

    I saw this on social media over the the last week or so – a quote from Martin Luther King…: “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” …followed by a list of moral advances that’d seem to prove the proposition: 1776: Do we really need a king? 1863: Should…

  • It Never Existed, Lindström

    Swedes burn books to sanitize the historical record… …of Pippi Longstocking. The other day came the news that the library in Botkyrka municipality, on the outskirts of Stockholm, had burned older editions of one of the Pippi books, Pippi in the South Seas (1948), because local officials have decided that they “contain racism.” After this action…

  • Their Finest Hour

    The people of London are a lot more courageous than their city’s government. Stories are filtering out of London about people resisting their attackers during Saturday night’s terrorist attacks around London. This from John Holbrooke, a Brit lawyer who’s been covering not only terror, but the way the Brit poltical establishment has been bending over backwards to…

  • Don’t Eschew The Reaper

    David French on the wrong response to Manchester…: Let me share with you some deeply flawed words from the editorial board of the New York Times. I do this not because the Times is alone in its sentiment but because the paragraph below is perfectly representative of the wrong approach to fighting terror. Reflecting on…

  • When The Future Is Forgotten

    Most of Europe’s political leaders – almost without exception, among the big ones – have no children.  The list is almost airtight:  Frances’ Emmanuel Macron; Germany’s Angela Merkel, the UK’s  Theresa May,Scotland’s Nicola Sturgeon, Italiy’s Paolo Gentiloni, the Netherlands’Mark Rutte, Luxembourg’s Xavier Bettel – none have kids.  Sweden’s Stefan Löfven has no bio-kids; the EU’s uber-bureaucrat Jean-Claude…

  • The Ark

    I saw this story a few years ago, and put it aside until today – the fortieth anniversary of the dedication of the more unusual Catholic churches in the world, Kosciol Arka Pana in Novy Huta, Poland. Which is interesting in and of itself; Nowy Huta is a district in Krakow that was built as a “Socialist…

  • Our Sonafabitch

    SCENE:  Mitch Berg is picking through a bin of “Priced To Move” CDs at a “Half Price Books” when Avery LIBRELLE notices him, and slowly tiptoes up on him from behind. BERG:  Hey, Avery. LIBRELLE:  Er…OK, Merg, how did you know I was here? BERG:  (not looking up from the CD bin)  It’s the same…

  • From The “Things I’ve Learned About Politics In The Past Eight Years” File

    The only reason not to vote for Marine Le Pen (if you’re a French voter) is sexism. (Hat tip to Dave Fitzsimmons).

  • Escape

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The experts confidently predicting economic collapse after Brexit might want to recalculate, factoring in these savings: Could be there is more to Brexit that merely escaping immigrant quotas, could be there also are other policies imposed by Brussels that might be rolled back to liberate the Britons. Like most…

  • Led Around By Our Emotional Nose

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I’m trying to break down the anti-gun logic, hoping to find a clue how to convince them to see reason. Should police be allowed to carry guns in public? Yes, to defend themselves. Whose life is more valuable: a policeman or a 26-year-old Black woman? Equal. Should she be…

  • Rinkeby Dinkeby

    SCENE: Mitch BERG is waiting in line at Taqueria Pineda on South Robert Street.  Avery LIBRELLE walks in just after Berg orders. LIBRELLE:  Merg! BERG:  Oh.  Hi, Avery. LIBRELLE:  Trump is such a baffoon. BERG:  Did you just pronounce it “baffoon” LIBRELLE:   Yes.  Just like it’s spelled.  Donald Trump is such a fool. BERG:…

  • Our Best And Brightest

    Our society is so, so doomed.

  • Like A Snowball Headed Toward Hell

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Now Sweden is facing societal collapse, crime is out of control and police are quitting their jobs.  This is the entirely predictable result of open borders they refuse to close because to Liberal politicians, Migrant Lives Matter but nobody else’s lives do.  So who maintains order when the police…

  • Ömertä

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The GERMANS are losing control of the streets?  The Italians never had any, the French are too arrogant to want any, but the GERMANS can’t keep people in line?  Sure, migrants get a pass.  Their Lives Matter.  But if a citizen shot one, you know the entire weight of…

  • Whither

    Today’s the big day for “Brexit” – the referendum on the UK’s exit from the European Union. We’ll come back to that. 25 years ago, the Soviet Union collapsed (for a while).   The media was confused and befuddled; most of them had bet on the wrong team during the Cold War. Now, whenever a huge,…

  • The Army Of Davids. Or Abus.

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Everybody knows David slew Goliath, and that it was an amazing feat because David was a kid and Goliath a giant.  He won using a sling – a child’s weapon.   Glenn Reynolds, the Instapundit, says America needs an army of Davids, ordinary people with ordinary skills to take on…