Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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Berg’s Eighth Law Goes To San Francisco
Berg’s Eighth Law of DIversity states “”American progressivism’s reaction to one of “their”constituents – women, gays or people of color – running for office or otherwise identifying as a conservative is indistinguishable from sociopathic disorder. There’s a reason it’s called Berg’s Law, and not Berg’s suggestion. I don’t know if Larry Elder is going to…
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Memoryholed
Remember when liberals said there was no such thing as death panels, had never been such a thing as death panels, and could never ever ever be such a thing as death panels? Either do they.
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Adventures In Variantland
I haven’t written here recently (sorry, Mitch!), mostly because I did a fair amount of traveling in August. I attended my high school reunion in the wilds of Wisconsin, then a week later headed east to a family wedding in the Hocking Hills region of Ohio (highly recommended, by the way). In the course of…
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Vibrant
Sure is a good thing the State Fair banned the law abiding citizen from carrying on the Fairgrounds. Otherwise, who knows what kind of mischief all those law-abiding citizens will get into.
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Well, Lookie Here
Rep. Matt Gaetz exonerated of allegations of sex trafficking. He was the victim of an extortion attempt: Florida Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz has been exonerated after 62-year-old Stephen Alford was recently indicted by the Department of Justice for extortion. “Stephen M. Alford did knowingly and willfully devise, and intent to devise, a scheme to defraud…
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Location, Location, Location
Remember – if you don’t live in Minneapolis, Jacob Frey and Keith Ellison don’t believe you are entitled to an opinion about the future of policing in Minneapolis. But on other issues… I guess it’s just the right people from out of town that are entitled to an opinion. The DFL: Enforcing a rigid cast…
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Feeling Strangely Scientific
I caught this the other day. So let me get this straight: a virus transmitted almost exclusively by being expectorated into the air by infected people coughing, is spread less by people who aren’t coughing as much? What manner of sorcery is this? Yet again, science seems to be bearing out my knee-jerk assumptions, by…
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That’s A Daring Stance Indeed
Professor “joins the lowercase ‘movement’” (sic) to reject the “symbols of hierarcy”. Let’s forget for a moment that she’s keeping the “Doctor” in front of her name – as noxious a symbol of hierarchy as there is. But let’s dig a little further. Writing in pure lower case is the sort of stylistic affectation afforded…
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Surprising Nobody
This blog has accepted as a truism that a functioning representative democracy needs institutions that The People can trust – law enforcement, the judiciary, and the news media – to keep all the other institutions accountable, and thus allowing the democracy to survive. So in a sense the fact that National Public Radio is beginning…
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Immolation
The late Nick Coleman used to accuse my fellow Northern Alliance bloggers and I of trying to “burn down the public schools“ for suggesting that maybe, just maybe, the teachers union and the administrative/industrial complex weren’t necessarily working in kids best interests. It’s taken 15 years – but it sounds like all the smart parents…
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Good Racket
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: San Francisco will pay you not to shoot people. Baltimore considering it. It sounds like the old joke about getting paid not to raise hogs, but apparently it’s real. The government just gave fully-automatic machine guns to the Taliban. They’re paying criminals not to shoot each other. I’d like…
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The Midway: Nothing Here But Us Hipsters
A friend of the blog emails: This has to be the most depressing, let them eat cake piece on the “success of the soccer stadium” that I have ever read. “There’s been some smaller businesses moving into the stadium area to serve soccer fans, but much more work is needed to boost the area.” Excuse…
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“Protection“
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I was all set to buy tickets to see “A Christmas Carol” at the Guthrie this December. Oops, not going. Mask plus vaccine required. Well, there’s about three hundred bucks back in my pocket. Too bad about the actors, stage hands, musicians, restaurant staff, bartenders and parking lot attendants…
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The Math
The Biden administration did its unearned victory lap yesterday, in of the most catastrophically bad speeches I’ve ever seen – a formidable bar indeed for our senescent president. But the worst part? The Administration brags about getting around 120,000 people out in the “biggest airlift in history” (not even close to the Berlin Airlift 73…
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Reports From The State Fair
People smoking marijuana, openly, even as police look on. But no law abiding citizens with legally permitted firearms allowed!
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Cross-Cultural
Re draconian restrictions with a goal to “eradicate Covid with zero cases and fatalities”: How long can this last? If it was up to the drunk-on-power politicians and bureaucrats who have found a winning electoral formula, health experts who have found relevance, and the deathly scared who have found a sense of safety (and, for…
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Armageddon Deferred: Karen Hardest Hit
For the second straight year, Big Media, serving as the exposed id of Big Karen, has predicted the Sturgis motorcycle rally was going to be a “super spreader”. And as the event – and the attendant Covid surveillance – unrolled, I started getting the impression that most of the “news” coverage had been written in…
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Unexpected Consequences
Andy Richter is, by a very liberal definition, a “Hollywood star“, having gotten his start as Conan O’Briens, for lack of a better term, “comic“ foil, I shouldn’t be too uncharitable; comedy is hard, and O’Brien proves it. But time flies, and Richter has a kid who’s going off to college. Well, trying to: In…
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The First Domino
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: So the US got tossed out of Afghanistan, so what? How does our retreat-in-disgrace affect the rest of the world? Maybe not so good. If the US isn’t willing or able to exercise competent military actions, the nations which have been relying on us for defense, begin to look…
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Turnabout
President Trump used to say that, with him as president, we would win so much, we would eventually get tired of it. I don’t know about that. But after eight months of this administration, I am sure as hell tired of losing.
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The Drones Of August
One of my favorite rhetorical easy hits – one I use a lot, but then it’s apposite so very very often – is “I don’t believe so and so intended to (implement some current fiasco that so and so is involved with) – but if he did intended it, what would he have done differently?”…
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Surprising Almost Nobody
So it turns out that “implied bias“ testing is based on some fairly dubious psychology, and “implicit bias training” actually makes things worse. Never saw that coming.
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Dear Hollywood
To: HollywoodFrom: Mitch Berg, Irascible Peasant and Lapsed Movie-GoerRe: Planning Dear Moguls, Get an option in on this story. Stat. And don’t put some moron who cut his/her teeth writing comic book movies on the job of writing the screenplay; the story calls for someone of David Mamet’s stature and talent. Nothing less. Don’t f***…
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Ersatz Replacement Usurper
Joe Doakea from Como Park emails It’s entertaining to make fun of people running around promoting wide-eyed, far-right, moon-bat crazy, pants-on-head conspiracy theories. Like, for instance, Trump didn’t lose the election, the election was stolen from him. Biden and Harris were never the popular choice, they’re merely placeholders until the Real Usurper pulling the strings…
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