Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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I Heard It On The NARN
Speaking Proudly – an oratory contest for high school girls – is coming up October 23. Deadline for applications is between August 1 and September 11. And here’s the song list:
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New York Bookstores And Suburban Gas Stations
We’re a week past the lifting of the mask mandates. But as Miranda Devine notes in the New York Post, confusion reigns: This is how confused New Yorkers are about masks. At Barnes & Noble Wednesday, no mask was required to browse the bookshelves, but on the other side of Union Square, the Strand bookstore…
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Hot Strategic Doctrine Friday
Ryuichi from Richfield writes: Your blog has been really remiss in failing to cover the finer points of modern Japanese Self Defense Force armored combat doctrine. I know, I know. Hopefully this will help.
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Cause -> Effect?
A few weeks back: U of M “student government” official (and Tina Smith employee) calls for students to resist the U of M police – in as many words, to “make their lives hell“. Today – the U is turning into a cold Newark: University of Minnesota police are warning students, staff and neighbors to…
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Alternate Awful History
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails re an argument that has kept historians ripping each others hair out for seven decades: Did Hitler save Europe? Yes, yes, Literally Hitler, embodiment of Evil, Holocaust, blah, blah, blah. But what if he had not broken the Molotov-Rippentrop Pact to invade Russia? Could Russia have conquered all of…
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Of Dictators And Religions
It was interesting, a few years back, watching the retrospectives of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Here’s a sjhort one: It’s as fun to watch now as it was otherworldly and unbelievable back then: after decades of complete control, a government official’s inadvertent slip causes and uproar; another official’s resigned ad-libbed decision opens a…
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Counterintuitive
A friend of the blog email: So, if the cops think they got one of the shooters of those young kids in Mpls, they can’t pull him over if they have a taillight out? Just asking. What, you think Jeremiah Ellison, Philippe Cunningham and Lisa Bender have thought this through from a law enforcement perspective? And…
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Safety
Remenber the old japes about both Presidents Bush, and for that matter Trump, were utterly safe from threat of assassination, because their various Vice Presidents, Quayle and Cheney and Pence, were “even worse?” Given Vice President Harris’s performance so far, I’d call that a retroactive case of Berg’s Law. Power Line on the little veep…
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Un-Minnesotan
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Amateurs at work in the Southeast. What a disgrace. You know that a group of hacker/terrorists shut down an oil pipeline. As a result, there’s a shortage of fuel in North Carolina. Their Governor issued an Emergency Order addressing the crisis to ensure everybody had enough fuel. How did he do…
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There Just Has To Be Some Polling
I was more than a little shocked to see this report from Channel 9 yesterday – partly because the Nine is the second-farthest-left leaning TV newsroom in town, and the station runs pro-BLM PSA liners during its newscasts… …and partly because BLM has been strictly “hands off” as far as questioning in the local media…
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Just When I’d About Given Up On The Fourth Amendent
A friend of the blog beat me to writing me about Caniglia v. Strom: Monday May 17th the SCOTUS handed down a unanimous decision in Caniglia v. Strom, see:https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/20-157_8mjp.pdf Several things stand out about this decision; * first and most gratifying even the liberal judges on the SCOTUS would not support the extreme Biden administration and…
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Avoidance
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Iowa State University professor tries to limit contact with White People. Sounds fair. I try to limit contact with groups of Black people for my own safety, because I’ve read the statistical proof. Of course, that essay is nearly 10 years old so the numbers may be out of…
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Ko-Ko Kamala And The Kalorama Kommissar
They never would be missed: Vice President Kamala Harris keeps a list of reporters and other political types who might be racist, according to a profile published in the Atlantic on Monday. “The vice president and her team tend to dismiss reporters. Trying to get her to take a few questions after events is treated…
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The Right Profile
A friend of the blog writes: Interested in who gets an interview for this I’m gonna guess the credentials are entirely social. And that the interview sounds like something from Animal Farm.
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Mission
After reading this story, I’m overwhelmed with a desire to lead a movement to get conservatives to eschew smashing their own faces into rock or cement walls. No true conservative would ever smash their face into a cement or rock wall. Just a bunch of face smashing sheeple. Who’s with me?
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Standards
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Military adopts “grading on the curve” for physical fitness. The usual suspects are up in arms but that’s just White Male Hatred speaking out. Reducing physical fitness standards for women in combat will not affect performance. We’ll simply assign them to battle against women’s units in the enemy army. The real…
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Demotion
SCENE: Mitch BERG is biking through Como Park when he hears some muted sobbing. He looks toward a park bench, where he notices Avery LIBRELLE sitting, wearing four masks, which are becoming slowly soaked in tears. BERG visibly hesistates, but his sense of compassion overwhelms his reflexes. He gets off the bike and walks over…
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Seen At The Capitol
Submitted by a friend of the blog. Why, the nerve.
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Entropy
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Question from a writer’s forum: “What books made you forget it was a book, and just want to eat at the George and race through the NeverNever on spell-box powered motocycles and play with the band, command that ship, and run with the pack?” I had that feeling when…
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Who Needs A Highway, An Airport Or A Jet. . .
. . . when you can’t buy a gallon of gas? Drivers along parts of the East Coast piled into gas stations on Tuesday, resulting in long lines and shortages as motorists reacted to what could be a weeklong shutdown of the nation’s largest fuel pipeline because of a cyberattack. Colonial Pipeline Co., operator of…
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Hot Gear Friday: Just In Time For The Fishing Opener
I mean, what could be more perfect? Although given the congestion on the northbound roads this weekend, perhaps one of them on tracks would be good, too.
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Frozen In Time?
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: A friend writes: *** Google Earth street images, which have a timeline feature, have not had any new images of Minneapolis since Summer 2019. Places where for past years there are numerous dates to choose from, simply have no images later than June of 2019. Covid prevented cameras from…
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Things Big Left Can Still Learn
As a history geek, I can still be amazed by historical patterns. As someone who treasures Western Civilization, those same patterns can be pretty terrifying. Reading through the list of “terrifying facts” about the East German Staatssicherheitsdienst, “State Security Service” ( the “Stasi”), it’s fascinating how many of them describe, or are rapidly starting to…
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