Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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That Smell
What is that smell? Why, it’s the sound of millions of peoples senses of self-righteous indignation, their mode of instant social sorting, their handy form of smug virtue-signaling, and that little knot of terror that they cultivated and nursed into their worldview, slowly smoldering into ash: A whole lot of Merriam Park harpies are feeling…
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I Heard It On The NARN
Here’s the online documentary about the DFL’s war on religious freedom in Minnesota And this is the mini-documentary about the DFL’s attack: And here’s todays’ music list
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Life During Wartime
From the “it could be comedy, if it weren’t for what they actually mean” files: Minneapolis representative Brion Curran took some time off from driving hammered through Central Minnesota while thinking she was in the Twin Cities to tell us what’s what: It’s tempting to respond “we know you exist, Rep. Curran. It’s just irrelevant…
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This Is Today’s DFL
Christians are the same as slaveholders. No, that’s what Rep. Luke Frederick of Mankato says: He’s responding to an amendment that would protect churches and their members freedom of conscience about transgender issues. The MNDFL is at war with the Constitution. UPDATE: Harry Niska sums up the, er, debate: I’ll be talking with Rep. Niska…
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Joe Doakes, formerlly of Como Park, emails: Republicans need better advertising to win this Fall. They need a cartoonist. Panel one: Biden saying “We must make gas more expensive so people use less, to save the planet for our children.” Panel two: farmer telling trucker: “The price of fuel went up. I can’t afford to…
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Underpromise, Overdeliver…
“A Bar Of Their Own” – a bar devoted to women’s sports – opens tomorrow in Minneapolis. I wish them, and just about any new business trying to make a go of it, all the best. There are some who’ve mocked the concept. I don’t – anyone who tries to contribute more growth and wealth…
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This Is What “Security Crackdown” Looks LIke
Metro Transit posted a “code of conduct” a few weeks ago, to much derision. “All window dressing and lip service”, the wags said. So Metro Transit added their interveners. Looks like we still got lip service and window dressing. Perhaps we call it “lip dressing”: So – not only is the collapse of social mores…
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Separation
SCENE: Mitch BERG, at the library checking out audiobooks, is too engrossed to notice Avery LIBRELLE has walked in. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Uggggghhhh…er, hey, Avery. What’s… LIBRELLE: Silence! Conservatives are violating the Constitutional separation of church and state! BERG: Right – the new Alabama law on in vitro fertilization references a majority religious view in…
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Fully Fungible
A friend of the blog emails: How can St Paul Teachers be voting to strike for more money? Weren’t Minnesota schools fully funded? They left themselves a pretty clever out. It’s fiendish genius, really. Also destroys education, and contributes to the destruction of a civil society, but tomayto tomahto.
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Not Ready For Prime Time? Or Just Evil? Part II
Earlier today, I looked at some of the marquee pratfalls, like techological ethnic cleansing, that Gemini committed. Google – whose motto was once “Don’t Be Evil”, by the way – shut off the ethnic cleansing feature. Let’s start off with a palette cleanser. My litmus test for Artificial Intelligence graphics engines is “create a picture…
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It’s Caucus Night In Minnesota
And for our DFL friends, I present this note from Chairman Ken Martin: Just a quick reminder: If you’re a DFL caucus goer, your “voice” matters only if it agrees with whoever’s got Ken Martin’s ear.
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Not Ready For Prime Time? Or Just Evil? Part I
Google Gemini landed a few weeks ago. In much the say way the Hindenburg landed. Google’s much-anticipated public Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform has been scalded by public and pundit opinion this past week or so. With good reason – as in this question: who’s worse, Elon Musk or Adoph Hitler?: Or “draw a picture of…
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The Thing About Any Good Or Service, Is That…
…if it’s one that anyone wants, people pay you to do it. For example, the one type of recycling that’s economically viable is recycling metal. There’s a demand – it’s easier and cheaper to melt and re-use metal, especially aluminum, than to mine and refine it from raw ore. So companies pay for metal. They…
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The Case For Letting The Mainstream Media Burn To The Ground
This – letting major but utterly corrupted institutions burn to the ground – is becoming kind of a theme, isn’t it? OK – so read this entire AP piece on the murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley. And when you do, tell us what’s missing: Ready? No mention that the alleged murderer, Jose Antonio…
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The Case For Letting Academia Burn To The Ground
The “American Political Science Association” has released the quadrennial cesspool that is their rankings of American presidents. You may have already figured out it’d be a leftist screed. You’d have figured largely right. From top to bottom, with my comments interspersed: 1 Lincoln – Couldln’t see that one coming…2 FD Roosevelt – Are you kidding?…
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Data Point
Humans without purpose get toxic and ugly, fast. Exploration – finding new things – maybe one of the most important human purposes. With that in mind – if you’re looking for evidence that Elon Musk is a contender to eventually be one of the greatest humans ever to live? Here you go: More later.
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Modern “Journalism” In Action
For those who needed a reminder: As we learned years ago, the Society of Professional Journalists “Code Of Ethics” isn’t a code of ethics; it’s more analogous to the flags on a slalom course; things to be avoided if possible, run over if desired.
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Everything’s Fine
In the 1960s and ’70s, the Peoples Republic of China had, very nominally, the world’s largest “army”, listed at the time in the Guinness Book of World Records as being 200 million strong. Of course, those were CCP numbers, ginned up by adding up the nominal numbers of the “Peoples Militia” – basically most of…
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Initially
Someone asked me if this was a deep fake. More specifically, “AI” Pretty sure they got the “I” wrong. The House Hip Hop Caucus has 99 problems, but being in command of the nation’s priorities ain’t one.
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The Problem
Cellist and medical student attacked in the New York subway: Look for Mayor Adams to call foe a ban on metal water bottles.
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“But Mitch…”
“Why do you say that no “gun safety” group ever says anything that is simultaneously substantial, original and true?” Easy. That’s a hard, objective face. “So what about the shooting in Burnsvile that killed two cops an a parameeic? Gifford got the basic facts straight” Well, they got some of them. Not the ones that…
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Don’t Ask Qustions Whose Answers You Don’t Really Want
Tonight in Fridley: I’m not a betting man, but it looks like he’s getting ready for some more power-grabbing “consumer protection” litigation.
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Meanwhile In Minnetonka
Can you tell a Hennepin County city government’s priorities by its budget? Let’s check: Fireman: living wage (barely). And the DEI intern? I’m old enough to remember when the western suburbs were a little outpost of sanity.
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Inconceivable
Joe Doakes, formerly from Como Park, emails: The most common rejoinder to my concern the 2020 election was stolen is: “It’s not possible. The conspiracy would have to be too large. Someone would talk.” What if it’s not a conspiracy? What if it’s a shift in attitude? What a significant portion of the public believes…
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Air Davos
George Soros and his, uh, “activist” investment operation are set to take a controlling interest in Audacy, the nations’ second-largest radio station chain: The Soros investment firm, which is listed alongside other Audacy lenders that are members of the “ad hoc first lien group,” is poised to have its debt converted into Audacy stock as…
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