Shot in the Dark

Tag: Open Letters

  • Protests Too Much

    An open letter to Tim Walz.

  • Open Letter To MPR’s Jon Collins: Year 5

    To: Jon Collins, Senior Reporter on Race, Class and Communities, MInnesota Public RadioFrom: Mitch Berg, Obstreporous PeasantRe: Anniversary + Findings Mr. Collins, As I have every year since 2021, I hope this day finds you well. It was four years ago yesterday you sent this out on your listener mailing list:: “South Minneapolis: I know…

  • Open Letter To All Smooth-Brained DFL Social Media Smurfs

    To:  Smooth-brained DFL Social Media SmurfsFrom:  Mitch Berg, Obstreporous PeasantRe: When Did You Stop Beating… SBDFLSMS, As we watch Governor Piglet – who staged a lockdown, seized 18 months of emergency power for a 3 month emergency, started a snitch line and a “badthink” database and has spent seven years relentlessly dividing Minnesotans under the…

  • Open Letter To Mayor Carter

    To:  Mayor Melvin Carter, Saint PaulFrom:  Mitch Berg, Ornery Peasant and Human ATMRe:  Election Denier? Mayor, You said this yesterday: Quick point of order, yerroner – the rest of us pay taxes, too.  Lots and lots of them. And we won the election.  In an electoral-college landslide, in fact.  Aren’t you glad the Senate still…

  • And To Think We Accuse Them Of Economic Illiteracy

    To:  “Prez”, Dim Little Progressive Social Media BulbFrom:  Mitch Berg, obstreporous peasant who passed Econ 201Re:  Not The “Own” You Think It Is “Prez”, Re your sentiment expressed over the weekend: I mean, saving more money is good for you – might make you a conservative, eventually, actually.   And unless you save that money in…

  • On Behalf Of The Entire Midwest

    Dear “Democrat Governors Association”: Perhaps this isn’t the image  of  “energy” you want to attribute to “the Midwest”: A couple of obese politburo members with a penchant for authoritarian shenanigans? Please see to this. The Entire Midwest

  • Open Letter To MPR’s Jon Collins: Year 4

    To: Jon Collins, Senior Reporter on Race, Class and Communities, MInnesota Public RadioFrom: Mitch Berg, Obstreporous PeasantRe: Anniversary + Findings Mr. Collins, As I have every year since 2021, I hope this day finds you well. It was four years ago yesterday you sent this out on your listener mailing list:: “South Minneapolis: I know…

  • Open Letter To Alvin Bragg And All The Chuckleheads Cheering On Yesterday’s Verdict

    To: Alvin Bragg, From: Mitch Berg, Obstreporous PeasantRe: You Did It! I’ve never been coy about the fact that I’ve never cared about Donald Trump – or at least his dominant public persona. I don’t care for what his erratic and impulsive nature cost the GOP in 2018 and 2020. Something I like far less…

  • Attention: Secret Service

    To: The Secret ServiceFrom: Mitch Berg, obstreporous peasantRe: SOPs Secret Service, Am I remembering wrong, or wasn;t there a time when “threatening a current or former President” was worth investigating, if not actually chargable? Just curious – Rick Wilson, NPR’s sole GOP source and former head of an organization that had a bit of a…

  • 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…

  • Open Letter To Minnetonka

    To: Minnetonkoids Concerned about CrimeFrom: Mitch Berg, Obstreporous PeasantRe: The Bed You Made Concerned CItizens of Minnetonka I get it. Nobody likes to be told “I told you so”. And scolding people for dumb decisions puts them on the defensive. Nobody likes having the consequences of their agency questioned and mocked. So I’ll try not…

  • A Modest Proposal And A Sincere Invitation

    To: Jana Shortal, KARE TVCC: KARE TVFrom: Mitch Berg, Obstreporous PeasantRe: Books Ms. Shortal, Yesterday, you tweeted this, about a controversy currently being manufactured (indeed, wose manufacture you appear to be closely involved in) in Carver County: I know – it’s 2023, and even the most trivial parts of civic governance can and do get…

  • Open Letter To The Mostly Peaceful Fireworks Kids Of Minneapolis

    To: All You Kids Shooting Off Fireworks In Residential NeighborhoodsFrom: Mitch Berg, Obstreporous PeasantRe: A Modest Proposal I’m talking about you kids: Now, we’ve got some people around the Twin Cities who’re chanting “relax – it’s just teenagers blowing of steam. It’s what teenagers do”. I’ve noticed there’s about a 100% correlation between people who…

  • Presumably Tweeted From Canada

    To: Ben and Jerry’sFrom: Mitch Berg, obstreporous peasantRe: Performative Garment Rending Would Be A Great Flavor Name Ben and Jerry, You produce yet another product I’ve never bought, and being fairly strict keto, will not be buying any time soon, politics notwithstanding, so this note is of no real consequenes to either of us. Sort…

  • Open Letter To MPR’s Jon Collins: Year 3

    To: Jon Collins, Senior Reporter on Race, Class and Communities, MInnesota Public RadioFrom: Mitch Berg, Obstreporous PeasantRe: Anniversary + Findings Mr. Collins, As with last year and 2021, I hope this day finds you well. It was three years ago today you sent this out on your listener mailing list:: “South Minneapolis: I know this…

  • Open Letter To Rep. Vang

    To: Rep. Samantha VangFrom: Mitch Berg, Irascible PeasantRe: Gaslighting Rep. Vang, You wrote the “Social Credit” bill (you call it ‘Stop Hate’, but my title is more accurate) that I talked about on my show over the weekend. You got a storm of criticism – almost all of it justified. This was your response: Well,no.…

  • I Take The Punches I Can’t Slip, And I Give ‘Em Right Back

    To: Steve Van ZandtFrom: Mitch Berg, Irascible Peasant and Longtime FanRe: I’ll Meet You Halfway Steve, Earlier this week, you got into a bit of a flap over this: You removed the tweet, but followed up saying that you meant “exterminate at the ballot box”, although you delivered it with all the subtle grace of…

  • The Message We’re Receiving

    To: All you NormiesFrom: The ElitesRe: Die, For All We Care Proles/knaves/fyrds, Your life, property and family, mere peasant, are not of enough value that we, your elites, should allow you a $500 handgun to protect them. However, ours – we elites – are of such value that dropping double the income of a typical…

  • Open Letter To Keith Olberman

    To: Keith Olbermann I see you’re back at it. What is it about you morons who got you starts writing about grown men chasing balls around fields, that makes you all such dim bulbs about politics? Eddie Schultz, Mike McFeely, Jim Souhan, Bob Costas… Anyway – go ahead. Declare “Economic Civil War“. See how California…

  • Open Letter To Hennepin County Subjects [1]

    You voted for Mary Moriarty for Henco Attorney. Granted, it was a closer race than one might have expected; the endorsed DFLer won by 20 points, rather than the expected 40-50. Still, Henco spoke: they’re OK with carjackings, home invasions, random gunfire ripping through (black and brown people in North Minneapolis) houses, and criminals getting…

  • Open Letter To All Minnesota DFLers

    To: Minnesota DemocratsFrom: Mitch Berg, Irascible PeasantRe: Fake Beliefs DFLers, A few points of information: That is all.

  • As Long As We’re On The Subject

    To: Governor WalzFrom: Mitch Berg, Irascible PeasantRe: Priorities Your Highness: You wrote this on Twitter yesterday: Let’s look at this past four years: Crime wave, abetted by DFL policy Riots, encouraged by your administratiion’s passive-aggressive bureaucratic gamesmanship with the National Guard Collapse of respect for the rule of law, as a result of DFL policy…

  • Open Letter To Rep. Craig

    To: Rep. Angie CraigFrom: Mitch Berg, Irascible PeasantRe: Your Superpowers Rep. Craig, The other day, you tweeted this: Please tell us what ability you, a Congressional Rep and member of the Legislative Branch, have to influence the price of commodities, like gasoline? Also – you’re aware that gas prices are falling because the market is…

  • Pauline Kael Syndrome

    To: Lieutenant Governor FlanaganFrom: Mitch Berg, Irascible PeasantRe: This… Lieutant Governor Flanagan, About this appearance, on a local, uh, livestream, I guess? I have so many questions. Baaaaaaaaaaahb: For starters: Does anyone really care how you dress? And by “anyone”, I don’t mean “Baaaaaaahb from FRIDley” – although we’ll come back to him, and to…

  • Correction

    To: Gavin Newsom, Governor, the Peoples Republic of CaliforniaFrom: Mitch Berg, Irascible PeasantRe: Fact Governor Newsom, You tweeted: I am reliably informed by people not only aligned with your party, but teaching in several of your state universities, that “men can get pregnant”. That is all.