Shot in the Dark

Tag: Chauvin Trial

  • Unpacking The Invisible NPR Tote Bag

    “White Privilege” has been all over the news this last couple of years.  It’s been there because the Big Left has ordained that it should be.  My theory;  in a nation full of “privilege” – class, racial, academic, social and, let’s be honest, the privilege of being born here rather than Russia or Nigeria or…

  • On Her Majesty’s PC Service

    One of the primary tenets of conservatism is that we sit on the shoulders of giants, and th burden of proof for “improving” a good idea is necessarily and justifiably high. With that in mind:  James Bond is getting a 21st-century update: In a new book, however, James Bond will be getting a dose of modern…

  • Being Protestant, As I Am…

    …my commentary about Pope Francis is largely irrelevant.  While we’re all on the Jesus Team, he’s not in my chain of command. And I know, I know – is “infallability” is, doctrinally, entirely a matter of theology. All I know, goy that I am, is that many more remarks like this and people are going to start…

  • Stereotypes Gone Wild

    Katie Kieffer on Obama’s feminist face in bringing Wall Street to heel: There are three women on Wall Street who have literally gone wild. No, they didn’t strip off their matronly suits on a GGW spring break tour bus. Rather, they are on a mission to strip Congress, small businesses and individual Americans of proper…

  • Agent ProViolentDramaQueenateur

    I commute via bike. I do it because I enjoy it, because I’ve lost 2-4 pants sizes in the past five months, and because it’s a just-plan-good time. Although I just started biking seriously again in June of 2007, I had a ton of experience as an urban and distance biker. I’m pretty defensive (and…

  • The Odd Couples

    With the news that journalist nonpareil Eric Black has apparently changed his mind about the place of overt bias in the media by joining the “progressive” Minnesota Monitor, I figured – if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.  Sorta like Black apparently did. Of course, conservative bloggers are swooping in like vultures: We understand that…

  • The Why We War

    Amir Taheri on the stakes in Iraq: Those familiar with al Qaeda’s literature in the past four years know that all jihadi groups regard new Iraq as the principal battlefield between Osama bin Laden’s version of Islam and modernity.The new Iraq also has determined enemies within: * The Shiite sectarians, often linked to the Khomeinist…

  • What’s Kazakh For “Jagoff?”

    The City Pages’ review of Borat takes an all-too-predictable turn – which sparked an idea. More on the idea in a bit; first, the drearily-predictable turn. Apparently, Sacha Baren-Cohen does what is in Hollywood nearly unthinkable – satirizes conservative caricatures!: That both Barr and Keyes are right-wing moralizers suggests something about the Baron Cohen agenda.…