Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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Experience Vs. Idealism. 15 Rounds.
This blog has had a constant, self-imposed tension to it, at least to me. Idealistic, Small-L Liberal Mitch is a free speech absolutist for reasons not the least of which being when people who find not only disagreeable but hateful are speaking in the open, then they’re doing less skulking through back alleys and plotting…
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Veterans
This post originally appeared on November 11, 2007. When I was a little kid, I remember going to see a parade on First Avenue in downtown Jamestown. One of the highlights for the five-year-old me was walking down by the Armory building (where, a decade or so hence, my first bands would play their first…
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Happy Birthday, Poland
Let the record show that Poland was fighting the fight we currently face over 100 years ago… …and is still a leader. Happy 105th birthday, independent Poland!
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All Talk
Back when I was working in bars, I was working at this toilet bar in North Saint Paul. It was a boring Friday night in the middle of summer. Once of the bouncers left early, leaving the bar with one bouncer – a big guy with a curly perm that was trying to get into…
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Big Changes
…coming Monday.
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Shall Not Be Infringed
“But Mitch – why are you so intransigent a Second Amendment advocate?” Glad you asked. Growing up left of center as I did, the first real inkling I had that gun control was a stupid idea was reading about the Holocaust, and realizing that armed people don’t get shoved into boxcars. And seeing the same…
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Open Letter To An Entire Generation, Maybe Two
To: Millennials, And Maybe Some ZeepersFrom”. Mitch Berg, Obstreperous Peasant, Millie Parent And Generational AgnosticRe: Stop Digging Dear Millennials – and many of you in Gen Z, It’s not like I don’t understand the anger. When I was in high school and college, the “Baby Boom” was barely entering its prime years. The oldest ones…
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Muslims: Shut Up Or Get Cut Up
Lest anyone doubted that Big Left today is Marxist to its foetid roots, we now join a white, uppser-middle class white progressive member of the Saint Louis Park School Board pulling intersectional rank on…. …Muslim parents objecting to porn in elementary schools: That’s the thing about intersectionalism; while more virtue attaches to people the farther…
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The Cano Corollary To Berg’s 21st Law
The Cano Corollary to Berg’s 21st Law is a new addition to the canon – and like all the Berg’s Laws, it is an observation that started as satire. To wit: In Blue city electoral politics, “blue” never gets “lighter” or less “progressive”. There is only one electoral direction – more “progressive”. It’s named for the former…
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All Relative
The incredibly aptly named Representative Debbie Dingell lectures us on semantics: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free“ means different things to different people in different times!“, says the font of wisdom, in rising to the defense of the loathsome modern Nazi Rashida Tlaib. And she’s right, in a sense. The phrase…
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The Enemy Within, Around And Above
This is this sort of thing that should send Americans to be barricades. This is ample reason to block freeways (in DC and Silicon Valley and Saint Paul’s Government Canyon anyway). This is a reason to break out tar and feathers and lots and lots of harsh tweets. It’s a thread. Click through in Twitter.…
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Review And Revise
Whatever opposition I’ve had to deportation of illegal immigrants is waning fast: I’ll work my ass off for the first Presidential candidate to promise to deport aliens who are actively hostile to everything this country stands for. I said “actively”. And if the people in this mob are citizens? Deport whatever immigration official or politician…
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History Talking
I wish more American – especially Minnesota DFL – politicians could speak with the moral clarity that German vice-chancellor Robert Habeck does: While allowing that the Germans have a tighter definition of free speech than we do – when you let the depraved speak out loud, you can see what they’re doing in a way…
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I Heard It On The NARN
Today’s music list:
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History Rhymes
“The Devil’s greatest achievement was convincing the world he didn’t exist”— “Keyser Söze”, The Usual Suspects One of the greatest achievements of the modern Big Left is convincing the world, and itself, that the Nazi movement of the 1920s and 1930s was, like today’s “American” “Nazi” party, a movement of ignorant blue-collar and no-collar losers.…
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Przioritiesz
SCENE: It’s September 1, 1939. In the command post of the Republic of Poland Armed Forces. Poland’s Minister of War, Jozef BECK, and the Marshal of the Polish Military chief Marshal Edward SMYGŁY-RYDZ, General Szymon NOWACKI of the Armored Force,, are at the center of a gaggle of staff officers, poring over a wall full…
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This Is Big Feminism Today
Big Feminism – in this case, the always-puerile Jessica Valenti – is going after Idaho with the same nuanced grace as a Rashida Tlaib press conference. They’re attacking over Idaho’s first prosecution in an “abortion trafficking” case: Unmentioned (but for community notes) – the woman was impregnated by a rapist. The accused rapist and his…
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Bloodland Sausage
SCENE: Mitch Berg is dumping flashings from pick up truck at the county yard waste site. Bill Gunkel, former Republican who is now chairmain of the Inver Grove Heights chapter of “Former Republicans for Ron Paul”, pulls up next to him, towing a trailer full of leaves. GUNKEL Merg! BERG: Hey.. GUNKEL: Shut up. You…
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I, Peasant
The GOP controlled US House did its job – passing aid to Israel along with a proposal to slash the funding bounty the IRS picked up during the pandemic. Ryan Winkler did his job – pimping for Mother Government: When it was pointed out that hampering the IRS and supporting the IDF were both blows…
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Purity Test
SCENE: Mitch BERG is cleaning out his garden boxes. Busy hauling stalks to the truck, he doesn’t notice Avery LIBRELLE, patrolling the alley, looking for over-filled recycling bins to report to the city. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Hey, Avery… LIBRELLE: Shut up. The GOP’s new Speaker of the House is anti-science. I have proof! BERG: Huh.…
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Mitch’s Journalism School 101, Part 2
I asked a question last week that no Twin Cities “journalist” can seem to being themselves to ask: if food shelves are running short, what could the half billion dollars embezzled by DFL-affiliated non-profiteers have done to help things? Now, I was in the middle of a brutal week of work last week, so I…
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No
Professor Galloway: I hear what you’re saying. I do. And on behalf of all the small businesses strangled by your mistake, all the parents who watched their kids slowly go crazy and stupid, and felt their personal, social and business relationships fraying and breaking? I reject it. Forgiveness without atonement is meaningless. Try again.
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I Heard It On The NARN
Find out more her about the American Veterans Memorial Park, hopefully in Cannon Falls.
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Mitch’s Journalism School 101
We’re told that Twin Cities food banks are having trouble keeping up wth demand: Just curious if any Twin CIties “Jounalists” might have asked if perhaps the half billion dollars stolen from food aid programs by DFL/DSA-linked non-profits, and spent on cars, homes and other graft goodies, often in East Africa, might have helped with…
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Berg Seventh Law In A Picture
… is worth dozens of words. In this case, the beginning of Matt Taibbi’s smack down of Amy Klobuchar and her authoritarian proposal to censor Substack and Reddit But I will let Taibbi put it in his own words: Remember – according to the Democrats, you and I are the ones who are killing democracy.
Got any book recommendations?