Shot in the Dark

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  • Welcome To The Jungle, We’ve Got NARN And Games

    Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! Today on the show: Armchair Quarterbacks and the Yanez verdict When Liberals Turn On Liberals Resilience! Don’t forget – King Banaian is on from 9-11AM on AM1440, and Brad Carlson is  on “The Closer” edition of the NARN Sundays from 2-3PM. So tune…

  • Casamigos

    I”m just sure George Clooney will be donating his billion dollars worth of proceeds to the IRS. (Or, who knows, the Canadian Reveniue Department).

  • If Liberals Voted…

    …in the same numbers as conservatives, the NYTimes posits, “American politics would look very different”. Unless you’re in Chicago, Flint, Detroit, North Minneapolis, Stockton or Baltimore.  Then it’d look just about the same.

  • I Don’t Think That Word Means What They Think It Means

    Former ineffective DFL legislator Katie Knuth has been hired as the City of Minneapolis’ “Chief Resilience Officer“. When I think “resilience”, I think “bouncing back from crises”, “being able to sustain a major human or natural disaster and keep functioning”, or “take a licking and keep on ticking”. Well, no.  It’s described as: …a new…

  • Todays’ Business Model, Fifteen Years Ago

    Media companies switching to unpaid student labor. As head editor for the local chapter of an online food-culture publication, Brogan Dearinger spent most mornings last fall coming up with story ideas, editing submissions and checking the performance of articles. But there was no money in it—at least not for her. Ms. Dearinger, then a senior at Indiana…

  • Not The Dumbest Idea They’ve Had

    Venezuela responds to US moves to deal with the unraveling of Venezuelan economic life: “The ‘contact group’ you’re proposing is completely useless and unnecessary,” Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez fumed at a meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Cancun, Mexico. “The only way you could impose it would be to send in…

  • Omission

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: There was a special election in Georgia to fill the seat in Congress left vacant when Rep. Tom Price took the job of Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Trump administration. News media is reporting it’s the most expensive congressional race ever, which proves we need campaign…

  • An Idea Whose Time Has Come

    Illinois may very well go bankrupt. What do to? It’s time to break up Illinois: …let’s finally admit that after decade upon decade of taxing and spending and borrowing, Illinois has finally run out of other people’s money. Those “other people” include taxpayers who’ve abandoned the state. And now Illinois faces doomsday. So as the…

  • Greater Love Hath No Man…

    Sailor on the USS Fitzgerald saves over a dozen shipmates from flooding berthing  compartment, dies trying to save the rest. When the Fitzgerald collided with the merchant ship, 37-year-old Fire Controlman 1st Class Gary Leo Rehm Jr., “leapt into action,” according to The Daily Beast. The Fitzgerald was struck below the waterline, and Rehm Jr.’s family was…

  • Future Plans

    I want to open a restaurant specializing in corn tortillas with poppy seeds added for texture. I’ll call them “Opiate of the Masas”. Yes, I need coffee.

  • Lest I Forget

    When you run a blog for a long time – and I’m pushing 16 years, here – you wind up with some regulars.  LIke most blogs, I have some commenters who’ve been here a very long time.  My blog authoring tool doesn’t record when people launched their accounts, but it does count the number of comments left.…

  • Perspectives

    Two perspectives on the Yanez verdict: David French at National Review points out something that a lot of Yanez’ defenders miss: If you read carefully, you’ll note that it appears that the officer shot Castile for doing exactly what the officer told him to do. Yanez asked for Castile’s license. Castile told him that he…

  • Slain

    Yesterday:  “John Ossoff, the Trump Slayer, in the most important Congressional race in history – a race that is a sure-fire referendum on Trump!.” Today:  “Just another special election.  Hard red distsrict!   Ossoff never had a chance! Nothing to see here.  Move along, citizen.” Remember – John “Trump Slayer” Ossoff raised and spent nearly five times as…

  • Gun Control Is What You Talk About When The Truth Is Too Complicated

    I’m just gonna set this down riiiiight here.  

  • Pistol Protocol

    Joe Doakes emailed me this request: The case is over.  The next one hasn’t happened, yet.   This is the time to restart the conversation about the Pistol Protocol. Please run this letter on SITD. Joe Doakes So here is the letter: Open letter to politicians, cops, citizens: I write to enlist your support for law-abiding…

  • The New Brownshirts

    It’s impossible to watch this seven minute video about the descent of Evergreen State University into Orwellian lunacy and not ponder the idea of rebooting this entire country, preferably by “letting” the coasts become their own little insane asylums. As for me? The world of business needs to institute a system of background checks to…

  • Boomed

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I’m considered a “Boomer” because my birth date is before the arbitrary cut-off in 1964; but by the time I reached each new stage in life, the older Boomers already had been there and ravaged it, like locusts.  I was about 5 years too late for everything, which makes…

  • Incitement

    Florida Democrat Party leader urges fellow cultists to “hunt Republicans“.  

  • Live By Bureaucracy, Die By Bureaucracy

    Whenever you think the bureaucracy in the city of Minneapolis, or Minnesota state government in general,  is addled and hidebound, just take a look at India, and see what the future holds. It’s bad enough when it comes to importing things or retaining Indian labor. When it comes to “Justice”, forget about it. Six British…

  • From Now On…

    …when conservatives encounter Liberals in the wild, perhaps we should raise our hands and chant “Hands Up!  Don’t Shoot!”

  • Because Katy Perry Doesn’t Do That Much Politics, Really

    I try to be civil. I truly do. But John Fugelsang is the one person on this entire planet that saves Samantha Bee from the title of “Most Vapid Pundit On Planet Earth”. Seriously – Fugelsang, whose qualifications as a public intellectual seem to begin and end at “hairdo”, has already earned himself a Berg’s…

  • Hard Core

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I guess my political views are pretty hard-core right-wing. Even so, I can see a way for the taxpayers to fund Planned Parenthood. If they offered sex education and free condoms or IUDs, so people who weren’t ready for kids wouldn’t get pregnant and contribute to the overall welfare…

  • I Heard It On The NARN

    The video I talked about. Caution:  It is not for the faint of heart. Watch this, and videos like this, enough, and you’ll get jumpy when “gun” is mentioned, too.

  • Face Down In The Dirt Of This NARN Land

    Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! Today on the show: The Yanez Verdict The Second Civil War. Don’t forget – King Banaian is on from 9-11AM on AM1440, and Brad Carlson is  on “The Closer” edition of the NARN Sundays from 2-3PM. So tune in the Northern Alliance! You…

  • All The Lies The Democrats Demand Be Printed

    The NYTimes lied about Republicans, guns, Sarah Palin, and pretty much everyone in their editorial about the Hodgekinson attack – down to making up facts from thin air  Davie French unravels the Times’ depraved attack on truth: Let’s be blunt. In its zeal to create moral equivalencies and maintain a particular narrative about the past, the Times flat-out lied.…

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