Tag: FAQ
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Frequently Asked Questions XV
It’s been a few years since I’ve done one of these. It’s probably high time. Why don’t you manage your comment section more thoroughly?I work a day job, a couple side hustles, I try to have some semblance of a life outside of all of them… …and, call me pollyannaish, but I wonder why I…
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Frequently Asked Questions XIV
Who Is Joe Doakes? Is he just a pseudonym for…Mitch Berg? – I get this a lot. I have to chuckle a good-natured chuckle when I do; I’ve written something like 20,000 posts on this blog over the years; I do not need a medium for additional writing on this blog. That’d be like Rush Limbaugh coming up…
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Frequently Asked Questions, Part XII
“Why do you allow commenters like “Dog Gone” to do their “Poop and run” commenting, leaving big, easily-debunked comments and never sticking around to defend their mendacity?” I’ve been blogging almost 14 years, and had a comment section most of that time. The goal of that comment section has always been to give readers a…
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Frequently Asked Questions XI
Are “Avery Librelle” and “Moonbeam Birkenstock” guys or girls?: Isn’t it perfectly obvious? I think that’s pretty clearly answered here. Or at least I think so. You only attack the left? Why don’t you go after the miscreants on the right? Especially in the GOP?: That’s a fair cop, sort of. Partly because we have…
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Frequently Asked Questions X
Hahahaha Merg! You said armed guards wud stop mass merders! And yet the armed guards at teh Navy Yerd didn’t stop the mass merder! You are Pwn5d!”: Er, for starters, I never said that armed guards were a panacaea – any more a guarantee than wearing a seatbelt guarantees everyone will survive every car accident. They…
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Frequently Asked Questions, Part IX
“Isn’t “Joe Doakes from Como Park” teh sock puppett?”: Yeah, right. Think about this for a second (let’s assume for a moment you’re capable of it); why would I, on a blog where I’ve written well over 16,000 posts over 11 years, all of them under my own name (unlike the majority of gutless pseudonymic…
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Frequently Asked Questions, Part VIII
“Hey, why don’t you come over to teh MinnPost to debate?”: For the same reason I don’t “debate” at MPR, Startribune.com or on much of any other website or blog. Between my blog, Twitter and, I dunno, my freaking day job, not to mention trying to maintain a modestly-well-adjusted real life, I gotta draw the line somewhere. I’ve…
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Frequently Asked Questions, Part VII
“Why do you need teh gun?” – Because it’s the duty of every law-abiding American to own and be proficient with firearms. “You’re joking, right?” – Oh, sort of. “You know what I think? I think gun owners are compensating for something?” – Oh, haha. Never heard that one before. Honest. But no, you’re right.…
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Frequently Asked Questions – VI
These things always pick up around election time: The ReTHUGliCONs in the Legislature did teh terrible job; shutting down teh state government and not doing anything other than teh culture war!: Yep. Nothing! Oher than eliminating the “deficit” without raising taxes, of course. Or keeping the state’s unemployment rate a point or two below the national average,…
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Frequently Asked Questions V
Here are some of the questions that’ve come over the transom lately. “Hahahaha! Kurt Bills is going to lose! That’s a loss for you!”: Well, I am not on the ballot, so it’s not a loss for me. And I supported Severson at the convention. Now, it is a fact that Kurt Bills would be…
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Frequently Asked Questions IV
I get a lot of questions from readers. Occasionally, I like to answer them. “Hey, you got a piece published on Hot Air yesterday!” – That wasn’t really a “question”, but, well, yeah, I did, and thanks for noticing! My piece, “Top Ten Things You Should Do If You’re An “Anybody But Mitt” Republican”, And One…
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Frequently Asked Questions – III
Why don’t you ever put liberals on your show? We do. Ed and I have interviewed Erik Black, Dane Smith, Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak, and my old friend, Erik “The Transit Geek” Hare. All of them but Rybak at least once (and we may extend another invite to Hizzoner). Beyond that? I have standing invtations…
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Frequently Asked Questions – II
I get a lot of questions here at Shot In The Dark. Periodically, I like to answer them. Let’s start at the top! “Hey, Merg! You worked on a special election campaign. And it lost! Hahahahahahahahaha!” Yeah, who’da thunk it, a Republican losing in Saint Paul. That’s not even “dog bites man”. That’s “Dog sniffs…
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Frequently Asked Questions
I thought I’d respond to some of the email I get most often here at Shot In The Dark. Q: You come in for a lot of fairly scabrous attacks from a lot of leftybloggers. How do you deal with that? A: My basic assumption has always been that the opinion of anyone who doesn’t…