Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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We Don’t Need No Water, Let That Agenda-Driven Corrupt Mouthpiece Of Big Left Burn
The LATimes – one of our corrupt activist agenda-whore media’s worst offenders – is taking a weed-whacker to the “news” room. The other members of the club are squirting tears: “If you care about journalism…” You mean, “journalism” like this? If you care about journalism, bring a **c**n* bulldozer and some gasoline.
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Taking Out The Improvements
My college theatre professor, Pat Lavin, used to talk about one of her jobs when she was an LA theatrical producer and director – which was going in to have a series of rehearsals with long-running shows to “take out the ‘improvements’” that’d crept into the show over months or years of live performances. Sounds…
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The Real Victims
SCENE: Mitch BERG is leaving a guitar shop on Selby Avenue after dropping off an instrument for some repairs, when MyLyssa SILBERMAN, reporter for National Public Radio’s Saint Paul bureau, covering the “Fake News” and “Diversity” beats, steps out of a chi-chi coffee shop. SILBERMAN: Merg. BERG: Oh, hey, MyLyssa… SILBERMAN: Terrible, what’s going on…
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Mostly Peaceful
All is not well in China. This video shows a Miao village (Miao are ethnic cousins of the H’mong) smacking down a group of local Communist Party thugs sent to enforce the party’s burial racket; locals are forced to bury the ashes of the dead in official, party-approved cemeteries, at immense expense. The locals were…
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One Day At Big Left (TM)
SCENE: It’s a planning session at Big Left (TM), the central planning organization for leftist, “woke”, “progressive” groups. Avery LIBRELLE, Cat SCAT, Moonbeam BIRKENSTOCK, Stephanie Marie ANNAN, Edmund DUCHEY, Evan Micah BRYAN, Inge “Lucky” CARROLL are gathered around a conference table. ANNAN: We need to come up with something around which we can unite people…
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“Good Government”
When I was a kid, I got my first drivers license in North Dakota. The whole process was handled via snail mail between state offices. Took about two weeks. IN the decades I’ve lived in Minnesota, I’ve gotten or renewed my license eight times, counting last month. Three of those times, it took six or…
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Social Media Rules For An Anarchic World
With the change in name from Twitter to “X”, we an in fact call these “X-ioms”: “A tweet that starts with “hear me out” almost never deserves to be heard, much less heard “out””. “Arguments that end with “period” or “full stop” should almost always have stopped before they started.” “When a tweet ends with…
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Two Worlds Of Joe
Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: Stores are now locking up underwear to prevent shoplifting. That’s backwards – we ought to be locking up shoplifters – but assuming Liberals will continue to own the DA’s offices so the sensible option is out, there’s still a better way to prevent shoplifting without forcing all of us to…
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Bach To The Future
Peter Schickele – better known to decades of music geeks as the author of the “PDQ Bach” music history saga – has passed away. He was 88. It occurs to me that calling. him the “Spike Jones of Music Satire” depends on a generation of people who know who Spike Jones was. “They were playing…
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From The “Feel Good” Files
Call it coming from a more genteel time, or more reasonable place, or having been raised by a guy, and taught by another, who exalted the virtues of civil engagement, even with people they disagreed with, as well as some of your basic Christian values. So I feel a little bit bad admitting how much…
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Just Remember…
The DFL will repeatedly and systematically cheat in their own elections. But no way, no how in everyone else’s. Sheesh. What are you, some kind of Cheetoh-haired Literal Hitler?
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Unserious
The Sentencing Guidelines Commission has issued a report on how gun crime is dealt with in Minnesota. It’s pretty putrid: OF 958 convictions for gun crimes in MInnesota for a year ending last June, 413 had their mandatory minimum sentenes waived. That was for the entire state. Any guesses on how that breaks down with…
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Promotions
I’ve been in Twin Cities radio off and on for a good chunk of the past three decades. And truth be told, this is the first time I’ve seen a promotional campaign that says… …that someone is still alive.
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Nuance
Governor Klink lies about “censorship”. Hey, he’s the head of the Democrat Governors Association. He’s got to serve as a model for the rest of them. Now, I think I read “Charlotte’s Web” in fourth grade. So it’s been a bit. And I’d forgotten this bit – which is something that makes me seriously wonder……
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In A Perfect World
There’s a conceit among the lace-underwear crowd that war is the same as it was in the MIddle Ages in Europe – “armies” squaring off in a field for some perfunctory jousting and stabbing leading to the exchange of land or a change in royal wedding plans. The modern equivalent would be a sort of…
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Maybe He Should Stick With Food-Pr0n Selfies?
Don’t get me wrong. Jason DeRusha – former Channel 4 reporter and morning anchor, turned afternoon drive guy at the once-great WCCO – isn’t a bad guy. I’ve met him, engaged with him a time or two, and by Twin Cities media standards he’s OK. He’s no Bob Collins, anyway [1] But if I were…
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Too Easy?
Sure. But life isn’t all shooting three-pointers. Sometimes you take the layup.
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It’s MLK Day…
..and I”m taking a long weekend, myself. With that in mind, I’ll urge you to listen, as I do this time every year, to Reverend King’s final, and in some ways most iconic, speech, “I’ve Been To The Mountaintop”. “I Have A Dream”, full of vigor and hope, gets all the headlines; “Mountaintop” is both…
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Guilt By Tangential Association
Brandon Herrera is one of my favorite Guntubers. I watch him mainly for his detailed, frequently off-color, mostly hilarious, and technically interesting gun takedown vids. He’s sort of like Ian McCallum, only gleefully NSFW. This clip – going over a lawsuit by one of the victims of a (thankfully) failed mass murder attempt against a…
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I Read Deena Winter In The “Minnesota Reformer” So You Don’t Have To
Earlier this week, the Minnesota Reformer – a news outlet financed by “progressive” plutocrats iwth deep pockets – did its review of AlphaNews’s “Minneapolis Has Fallen”. The claims – well, I’ll let the tweet do the talking for the piece, entitled “I Watched Minneapolis Has Fallen So You Don’t Have To”. Let’s go briefly through…
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Pronouns: Ass/Kicked
I have a few transgender people in y social circle. All of them did their transitions, for whatever reason, as adults. I treat them with respect. They (mostly) reciprocate – I’ve had no ugly little moments over pronouns. Because that’s kinda the point – voluntary human interaction requires some degree of mutual respect, as opposed…
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20,000
Apropos not much – but I looked at my stats about two minutes ago, and saw that there were precisely 19,999 posts published on this blog. Which makes this 20,000! It’s kind of like watching your car go from 99.999 to 100K, only it takes a lot longer…
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Meet The New Boss. Same As The Old Boss
So, Saint Paul has a new city council. Sort of. Just like the old city council, the new one treats the knobs and levers of government power as their toy and playground. They’re just a little more overt about it: And in terms of waving “Progressive” bloody sheets about in public? Again – same as…
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Now That San Francisco Solved All Its Problems
The SF City Council voted to clean up all the sh*t on the streets. Hahahahaha. Just kidding. The Cantina Band voted to throw their immense weight and foreign policy power behind a cease fire in Gaza: No word if a pre-emptive stolen land declaration on behalf of Hamas was included in the decree. Question: what…
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