Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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Not To Be Left Behind
Hamline University in Saint Paul is an exquisitely expensive instution that seems to be not quite as prestigious as Saint Thomas, and always a couple of degrees behind Macalester in terms of the impeccability of their leftist orientation. But they aren’t to be left behind. Here’s their “pro-Palestine” neo-Brownshirt “encampment”, as a rainy night ended…
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Manners
Joe Doakes, no longer of Como Park, emails: We all know how Minnesota Nice works. Someone invites you to dinner, she’s serving Italian Spaghetti. Everyone in Minnesota knows there’s an unspoken understanding that “Italian Spaghetti” is hamburger, onion, and Ragu from a jar ladled over Creamette spaghetti noodles sprinkled with Kraft Grated Parmesan from the…
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Everything’s Just Fine
Count the number of jump cuts in this 14 second long video: Not cuts to B-Roll. Not special effects. Not pans or zooming. This is the audio equivalent of one of those ransom notes pieced together from letters cut from magazines. (Kids, ask your parents)
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We’ve Got Good News And Bad News
The good news: Minnesota’s new paid family leave law will cost 25% more than originally budgeted: Minnesota’s new paid family and medical leave program will launch in 2026 with a 25% higher payroll tax than originally anticipated when the bill was passed last session, an assistant commissioner with the Department of Employment and Economic Development…
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A Modest Propousal, Eh?
To: CanadaFrom: Mitch Berg, Obstreporo<i>u</i>s PeasantRe: Fires Canada, The haze in the air tells us it’s gonna be a big fire season. May I propose the following: That is all.
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Today’s Hero Of Western Civilization
Mad props to this bloke: Tangentially related: anyone unironically wearing a “Guy Fawkes” mask should be a legitimate target for tasing or thrown rubbish. Mostly for leftists, naturally. But even if I agree with you, wearing one of those gawdawful masks knocks your credibility back by two orders of magnitude. .
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Goal Line Stand
At the beginning of this session, I’d have figured the DFL trifecta would get some portion of their gun grab agenda jammed down. Maybe not outright bans on semi-automatic firearms, or repeal of pre-emption – but most of the smart money said “safe storage” and “lost and stolen reporting” was going to get jammed down…
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Your Mission For Today
If you live in District Six in Hennepin County – this area here…: …you need to get out and vote Marisa Simonetti for Hennepin County Commission in the special election being held today. She’s an unknown conservative who ran in the runoff three weeks ago, spent about $700, and got 33% of the vote with…
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Institutional Racism
So, about that “artificial intelligence…” So, point for “techno-pessimism”…
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Lab Report
To: Central Science Bureau, Planet Xymorg. From: Forward Observation Base, Dark Side of Sole Moon, Planet Terra, Sol SystemRe: Initial Observations Central Bureau, Enclosed please find the report on our observations of the inhabitants of planet Terra (aka “Earth”). Methods Our team observed the inhabitants of Terra via an extensive observation of “Advertisements” – a…
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Quiet. But Not Too Quiet.
It was six months ago today that I got tired of presiding over a junior high locker room in my comments section. I shut down comments for two weeks. Some ‘problem’ commenters went away. So, unfortunately, did some memorably good ones. The vibe is different. I think I’m OK with that. Thoughts in the comments.
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I Heard It On The NARN
Alex Plechash is running for RNC National Committeeman. If you’re a state central delegate and want to find out more, we gotcha right here. Marisa Simonetti is running for Henco Commission in District 6. If you live in the district, or know someone who does, Tuesday is election day. And of course, today’s music list:
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I’ve Never Been Less Proud To Be An American
Believe me – the Biden Administration has kept on giving me moments; the Afghan debacle,, the Nurembadelphia speech; yapping about “shinkflation” of potato chips. But this may be the big daddy of them all. So far. Biden, as we noted yesterday, is playing pattycake with military supplies to Israel as it fights an existential war…
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Little Boxes Made Of Ticky-Tack
A friend of the blog emails: I don’t know how I feel about this one. On one hand, I don’t think that what the developer wants to do is a bad design. I’m sick of the developers squeezing in tiny 800 square feet apartments everywhere and charging high rents and making places artificially trendy. Also,…
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You’ve Got To Destroy Democracy To Save It
Brazil is going through an exaggerated version of the US’s current gyrations; between a “right wing” leader who, the expert class told us, “is going to destroy democracy“, to a left-wing oligarch who is actually destroying democracy in the name of “saving democracy”. In particular, they – and their American, Democrat party (and American big-media…
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Next Time Governor Klink Yaps About The Economy
Once the colonoscopy removes all that smoke the DFL and media have been blowing into your distal colon, the news about Minnesota’s business climate just ain’t good: Published last week, Chief Executive’s list of 2024 Best & Worst States for Business ranked Minnesota near the bottom at No. 41. The result isn’t much different from…
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Dance With The Nebbish That Brung You
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: US put a hold on an ammunition shipment to Israel. The United States is now objectively supporting terrorism. Joe Doakes When you remember that: …it all starts to make sense.
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Shock The World?
I had Marisa SImonetti on my show the weekend before last. She’s a conservative candidate for Hennepin County Commissioner. She’s running for the District Six seat: In the intervening weeks, she came in second in the run-off election to run against Heather Edelson to represent the southwestern part of Hennepin County: “Heather Edelson?”, you may…
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Tu Quoque
Trump is going to speak at the Lincoln/Reagan dinner – one of the MNGOP’s big annual fundraisers. The DFL thinks they’re onto something. It’s so cute that the DFL thinks that most Trump voters don’t know this – I know many who stopped holding their noses and switched to full-face respirators to vote for him.…
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Test
This Timberwolves season is a nail-biter. For my purposes, things like this are the issue: This, of course, runs afoul of Berg’s Fourth Law: A Minnesota sports team may be a contender until the moment the local media actually believes they will be contenders. At that moment – be it spring training, late November in…
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Countermeasures
Clever anti-genocide activist and wag “counterprotests” at the Harvard pro-Final-Solution “encampment” in perhaps the most delicious way possible; interrupting “protesters” beauty sleep, not only with the national anthem… …but one of the most cringey renditions of it imaginable, from one of those divas that has to ornament the bejeebers and the life out of the…
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Suggestible
A couple of points in background: We’ll come back to each of those. I could probably quote half of this interview in this post. It’s Ben Shapiro interviewing Abigail Shrier about what’s wrong with kids today: It’s a well-spent hour, although you can’t speed Shapiro up, since he already sounds like he’s talking at double…
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Hope This Helps
Being stalked? Living in a crime-prone neighborhood? Have an abusive, violent ex in your life? These upper-middle-class white suburban women have a message for you: Suck it. But at least you have a selfie!
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Today’s Committed Environmentalists
Today’s leftists: “We should be more in touch with nature!” Also today’s leftists (in this case, Briana Rose Lee’s understudy): “ZOMG! POOP! IT’S FREAKING POOP!” The Minneapolis Left wants an urban life theme park, not a city.
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Not My Better Self
Watching our “Best and Brightest” in action…: …I’m reminded of a coach we had in college. A famously blunt man, he would have likely looked at kids like this best/brightest and said “You’ve got a kind face. The kind of face I’d like to throw shit at”. Let’s just say it resonates. By the way…
Got any book recommendations?