Shot in the Dark

Tag: Open Letters

  • Profiles In Courage

    To: Senator KlobucharFrom: Mitch Berg, Irascible PeasantRe: Whoah, There… Senator Klobuchar, Thanks for taking a clear, principled stance on controversial issues like… (checks notes) …repealing Daylight Savings Time. It’s a time for leaders to lead. But don’t fly too close to the sun. That is all.

  • Remediation

    To: Democrat StrategistsFrom: Mitch Berg, Obstreporous PeasantRe: Election results Dear Dem Strategists: How to rebuild? Here’s a thought: And more riot talk. Lots more talk about riots. Keep up the good work. That is all.

  • Congratulations, Gavin Newsom

    To: Gavin Newsom, Premier of CaliforniaFrom: Mitch Berg, Obstreporous PeasantRe: Congratulations Governor Newsom, In a state dominated 2:1 by registered voters from your party, you evaded being recalled by a 7:4 margin. After outspending the initiative by 5:1, with the united efforts of an in-the-bag media and a full turnout of the national social nomenklatura,…

  • From The BlueAnon Archives: The Phantom Menace

    To: Jon Collins, Minnesota Public Radio NewsFrom: Mitch Berg, Irasible Peasant, critic of BlueAnonRe: It’s Been A Year Mr. Collins, Last year – literally, a year ago last Wednesday – you sent out a message to MPR’s mailing lists asking if anyone had seen “white supremacists” during the civil unrest of the previous weeks. I…

  • Note To High School And College Kids In The Audience

    To: High School and College Kids in the audiene (or parents of same)From: Mitch Berg, Ornery PeasantRe: A Tip From Future You Dear Kids, Study up, get into a Tier 1 law school, and get into medical malpractice law: Your future self, sitting on the deck of your yacht, will thank your present self. And,…

  • Counterattack In The War For The Language

    To: The entire conservative / classical liberal worldFrom: Mitch Berg, obstreporous super-straight anti-Blueanon peasantRe: Anti-BlueAnon Superstraight Super-Intersectioality More of this, please. That is all.

  • Dear Democrats

    To: DemocratsFrom: Mitch Berg, Unruly PeasantRe: Your Marching Orders Dear Democrats Consider it your moral duty to do exactly this. As much as you can, and then some. Preferably right out of the gate in the next session of Congress. If you succeed, Wellstone will smile down on you. That is all.

  • Blue Fragility: Open Letter To Jonathan Chait

    To: Johnathan “Chaitful” ChaitFrom: Mitch Berg – Red State Sleeper AgentRe: This Little “Eliminationist Hatred” Problem You Have Mr. Chait We go way back, of course – and not in a good way. You have a bit of a history of being a horrible excuse for a human being. But you are a gift that…

  • Open Letter To Governor Walz

    To: Governor WalzFrom: Mitch Berg, Irascible PeasantRe: State Of Non-Emergency Your Highness, Your ongoing, and apparently endless, emergency declaration is, put mildly, draconian – especially if you’re in the private sector, especially an entrepreneur. You’ll notice that a sizable majority of people supporting the your most extreme quarantining provisions are public, non-profit or academic employees,…

  • Open Question For “The Party Of Science”

    To: Governor Walz and the Minnesota DFLFrom: Mitch Berg, Irascible Peasant who passed College BiologyRe: Help me underdstand this Governor Walz So let me get this straight. According to you; Covid19 is a lethal epidemic. Attending protests to seek the re-opening of the state during the middle of the pandemic threatens grandma and, since “essential…

  • Open Letter To MPR

    A friend of the blog who fled Saint Paul just in time writes: this msg is making the rounds of the S.MPLS progressive/arts set Per Jon Collins at MPR News- “South Minneapolis: I know this sounds crazy. But it’s 2020. And I’m working on story now about white supremacists coming to Minneapolis to foment race war under…

  • Open Letter To The Entire Irish Linguistic Family

    To: IrelandFrom: Mitch Berg, Irascible PeasantRe: Ineffective Camouflage Dear Ireland, You may think you’re clever, dropping an “e” at the end of the word *s**t”, or into the middle of “f**k*”, and calling ’em safe for polite company. But you’re not fooling anyone – and you’d be a deuchbege to think you have. That is…

  • Attention, Mayor Orwell

    To: Jacob Frey, Mayor, MinneapolisFrom: Mitch Berg, cantankerous peasantRe: “Love” Mayor McDreamy, You said “love trumps hate.” Was this the “love” you were talking about? A man in a blue jacket seemed to be leaving the Trump rally by himself when he was spotted by a protester who yelled: “There’s a Nazi over here!” A…

  • Not As Live As You’d Hope

    To: “Live From Here”From: Mitch Berg, ornery peasantRe: “Out In America” with Tom Papa Have you ever listened to a putative “comic” bit where a “comedian” reads a (for purposes of argument) “comic” monologue of intermittently (very very intermittently) amusing observations, interrupted with a tag line that isn’t especially funny the first time, but gets…

  • Kudos

    To: Mayor Melvin Carter, the City Council, and Mayors and Councilors going back 30 years, except Norm ColemanFrom: Mitch Berg, deplorable peasantRe: Here You’ve all given us years of obsessive emphasis and spending on virtue-signaling programs to appease upper-middle-class progressives – “Resilience”, bikeability, making the city less habitable for cars, as well as focusing on…

  • Attention ESPN

    To: ESPNFrom: Mitch Berg, cranky but eclectic peasantRe: Missed Opportunity ESPN, Why is this not on your programming schedule? That is all MBerg

  • Open Letter To The Entire Republican Party

    You want to lose, and lose huge, next year? Go wobbly on guns. Dance with the ones that brung you, or accept the consequences. That is all.

  • An Opportunity

    To:  The Council for American/Islamic Relations From:  Mitch Berg, Crabby Peasant Re:  Well, You Know Dear CAIR: For starters – condolences about last week’s shooting.   It’s a horrible thing and proves that even the most placid parts of the First World can be awful, anarchic places.  This should be a lesson for a lot of…

  • Open Letter To The University Of North Dakota

    To: The University Of North Dakota Wildcats Or Bobcats Or Moose Or Whatever You Are These Days, Other Than “Sioux”, Good Heavens, Not ThatFrom: Mitch Berg – Native and obstreporous peasantRe: This is how you do it. UND, As the subject line says – this is how the PC war is fought. That is all.

  • Open Letter To All The Progs Who Still Think “All Conservatives” Were “Birthers”

    To: All Progs Who Still Think “All Conservatives” were “Birthers”From: Mitch Berg, Angry PeasantRe: Settling Up Dear Progs who still still think inserting references to “Alex Jones” and “Birthers” puts an end to all arguments with conservatives and/or Trump supporters: I believe that impeachment is inevitable. It also is a terrifying notion. Nations struggle any…

  • Open Letter To My Pro-“Choice” Friends

    To: My Various Pro-“Choice” FriendsFrom: Mitch Berg, Disgusted PeasantRe: WTF So when we had our discussions over the years about abortion, I responded to your palaver about “women owning their bodies” with an incisive “Yeah, but let’s give some moral weight to the fact that the fetus is intended to become a human. To which…

  • Open Letter To Senator Scott Jensen

    To: Sen. Scott JensenFrom: Mitch Berg, Impudent PeasantRe: Know Your Friends Sen. Jensen, Last year, as he got set up to run for re-election as a Republican in decaying purple district, Representative Dario Anselmo made a very visible point of cuddling up to Minnesota’s various gun control groups. He spoke at their rallies. He offered…

  • Open Letter To All The Media Working The “Displaced Federal Worker” Angle

    To: Most Of You In Big MediaFrom: Mitch Berg, Irascible PeasantRe: Perspective All, I remember back in 2003, during the post-9/11 recession, when my field was in its “last hired, first fired” phase, and I – a single parent with two kids – got laid off from a contracting job after my old startup closed.…

  • Open Letter To Paul Gazelka

    To:  Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka From:  Mitch Berg, Ornery Peasant Re:    Line In The Snow Senator Gazelka, This morning on the lesser talk station, the host – Drew Lee – asked you about the approach your caucus, with its one-vote majority, was going to take regarding gun control in the coming session, given…

  • Open Letter To The Entire US Senate GOP Caucus

    To:  Entire US Senate GOP Caucus From:  Mitch Berg, Cranky Peasant Re:  A Big Lie Senators, Confirm Brett Kavanaugh.  Now. The allegations against him are of a piece with nearly every leftist narrative today – utter crap.  It’s transparent BS.  Like most lefty memes – “gun violence”, the “War on Women”, the $15 minimum wage…