Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades
I’ve seen a bit of a resurcence of the traditional 20-something paranoia about “the draft” that pops up whenever the world seems turbulent. Example: But this post isn’t about Selective Service. We’ll come back to that. Minnesota’s “Peace” creep community isn’t any smarter than it’s ever been My first response: Our GenZ “activist community” has…
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This Is Minneapolis, 2023
Zach Metzger is a candidate for Minneapolis CIty Council. This was him after the riot on Sunday: He’s running for City Council. To my amazement, he didn’t win endorsement in the uppeer-middle-class “urban life” theme. park that is the 13th Ward… …but five’ll get you ten that if he moves to an open seat in…
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Big Left’s Psyop
The latest bit of gaslighting madness from the Minnesota chapter of Big Left: “The Star/Tribune is actually conservative“:
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America’s Hitler Youth
Americans overwhelmingly consider Hamas a terrorist organization, and condemn the wanton slaughter of October 7. But among Americans under 24 years old, the split between pro-humanity and pro-Hamas is not only depresslingly closely-fought, but the pro-terror side has a slight edge. Putting it bluntly, a thin majority of young Americans are OK with genocide. They…
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#HimToo
Who on earth does Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) think she is… (Language NSFW) …Amy Klobuchar?
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One Day At The MNDFL Communications Office
SCENE: In a drab back room at MNDFL headquarters on Plato Boulevard, two DFL communications staffers, Evan BRYANT (Macalester 2021) and Moonbeam BIRKENSTOCK (St. Thomas 2018) are pecking away at their iPhones, poring over their social media plan for the week. BIRKENSTOCK: Chairman Martin says people are starting to get tired of crime? BRYANT: Where?…
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An Idea Almost Too Crazy To Comprehend
Enrollment at Twin Cities schools continues to erode: We’ll wait for the Walz/Flanagan administration to register their theatrical shock that “free” mystery meat and unrestricted gay porn in school libraries isn’t drawing students like Dave Matthews fans to the last bag of Cheetoz. But I have a question. This seems like the sort of story…
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I Heard It On The NARN
John Augustine is with the Legislative Evaluation Assembly. Charles Kuchlenz is the Libertarian candidate to replace Ruth Richardson in MN HD52b. Song list:
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Urban Progressive Privilege: Peak Karen
Henco is going to have a “contested” County Commission race, where “contested” means “a battle between bad, worse and worst” . I think the found ‘worst”. People inexperienced in the ways of Metro “progressives” might joke “I wonder if she’s going to put “Irritating people into behavioral change” into her campaign literature, yuk yuk”. To…
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Dude. Like, The Fix Is Totally, Like, In. Dude.
I personally don’t care much one way or another about legalizing cannabis. But as I’ve heard from people running ma and pa cannabis, THC and CBD product shops, the DFL’s cannabis law is full of carve-outs to big pharma, and has regulations that are pretty sure to smother most small businesses. Tales But the DFL…
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Someone Else’s Shoes
Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: The Minnesota Court of Appeals issued an opinion which clarifies the duty to retreat in defense-of-others cases. Let’s imagine a situation where Lilly is the Victim lying on the ground, Trevon is the Assailant kneeling astride Lilly beating her with a baseball bat, and Tom is the Rescuer,…
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Public Is To Art As It Is To Restrooms
I’m informed that the National Museum of Women in the Arts has re-opened after $70,000,000 in renovations. I think I missed the NMOWITA in my various sprints through the DC museum scene, but by all accounts it’s dedicated to art either created by, or created by intersectional classes favored by, entitled upper middle class white…
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The Fix
A “high trust” society – the kind of society where you can leave your doors unlocked, or at least not keep all your property under constant surveillance at the very least – depends on trusting your neighbors, and the institutions by which we govern ourselves. When that trust is broken, society becomes “low trust” –…
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Rule #1: Know Your Audience
Hamas leader puts out a dog whistle to western leftists: It’s not even close to the dumbest strategy.
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So What Was With All That Stuff About Music And Relatives And Old Bosses, Merg?
I took a little vacation. That’s kind of a big deal. I don’t take vacations. It’s a running gag among my European co-workers that I”m the classic American. I’ve never taken a vacation of longer than five days that didn’t involve visiting family or some major household project. So I went to Norway from October…
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Crush Your Argument, Have A Snack
I give Pierre Poilievre – conservative candidate running against Justin “No Way He’s Castro’s Son” Trudeau” about a thousand style points for this response: Initially I thought Poilievre was being a little brusque in dealing with a potential voter. I was informed the person “asking” the “questions” is, however, a journalist – someone who’s supposed…
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Speed
“Unruly teens” in Chicago attack a Tesla during one of their periodic galavants around their “room to destroy”. Police were reportedly standing nearby. The Tesla driver used some of that torque for self-defense: The cops no doubt have the guy’s license plate, so there’d be no need for them to chase and arrest the guy…
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If You Are…
…one of those people who doesn’t need food, energy, shelter, or transportation, Paul Krugman’s got great news for you: And apparently, if you are one of those people who needs those things, you either don’t count or are a failure.
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Dick Butkus
Another thing I missed when I was out of the country – the death of the only sports figure I ever actually wanted to be. Dick Butkus, Chicago Bears legend and the man who defined the position of middle linebacker, died last week at the age of 80: A ferocious tackler drafted out of the…
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Evil
The Nazis weren’t especially coy about their views on Jews. Hitler telegraphed his intent in Mein Kampf. The Nuremberg Laws were a pretty solid hint. And yet in 1944 and 1945, as the wheels came off the Third Reich, they feverishly bulldozed the camps, shipped or force-marched the surviving inmates to other camps farther from…
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Where Credit Is Due: Epilogue
Those of you who’ve been watching this blog for years may have figured it out – when I have a loooong anthology series, I’m often doing something other than writing every morning. Two anthology series at the same time – “Soundtrack” and “Where Credit Is Due?” Unprecedented, right? It was. I actually took an honest-to-God…
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Soundtrack, Part 9
Of all the music I’ve talked about this past two weeks, this one may be the closest thing to an emotional time machine. My own baggage notwithstanding, if you built a time capsule and wanted to put “The perfect 1980s song” in it, this would be a candidate; the shufflying synth drums and faux orchestra…
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Where Credit Is Due: Don Vogel
The Twin Cities remembers Don Vogel as one of the most instinctively funny people ever to appear on the radio. “The Round Mound of Sound”, the blind guy who was going to drive you home. I remember a lot of different Dons. He was a guy who’d been blind since infancy, and who lived with…
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Soundtrack, Part 8
My first couple of weeks in the Twin Cities, I spent a lot of time in the car. And Twin Cities radio stations spent a lot of time playing this song. I’m not sure if it ever went to #1, but in a month of memorable music, it was perhaps the most chant-along-worthy thing on…
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