Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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I Heard It On The NARN
Today’s setlist!
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It Seems Appropriate
This bit, from Thomas Sowell, seems appropriate…: …in light of Big Media’s meltdown over a number of Twitter suspending the accounts of a number of “journalists” who were, by any rational definition, doxxing Elon Musk. And after two years of social media canceling those who said there are two genders, that masks are pointless, and…
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The Real Authoritarians Debate, Part 1: Defining The Terms
Last week, this blog received something of a challenge: A debate on “who the fascists actually are in modern American society”. \ But one of the key tenets of a meaningful debate is to make sure you agree on your terms. What is… …well, let’s start with the state that each side in American politics…
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Evolution
The headlines tell a heart-rending story: new Florida congressman, heralded as the first “Gen-Z” member of Congress, can’t afford an apartment in DC. If an intellectual titan like Reich is yakking about it, it must be worth a look. And, sure enough…: When he’s sworn into office next month, Florida Democrat Maxwell Frost will become the…
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Circling The Drain
The hits keep coming for Minneapolis, as more restaurants are calling it quits: In Minneapolis alone, a number of long-standing institutions have called it quits. Rock Bottom Brewery, Seven Steakhouse and Sushi, Williams Pub and Peanut Bar, Amore Uptown and Stella’s Fish Cafe to name a few. Some of them date back to long before…
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Waiting On “Wilson Derangement”
I flipped on NPR last night to catch a (large) part of a Terry Gross interview with historian Adam Hochschild, on his new book about the grave threats to democracy during World War 1. And it was a dismal time indeed. “Sedition”, defined broadly, threw thousands in jail. The Department of Justice deputized people to…
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Body Count
Two people murdered at downtown Saint Paul’s Central Avenue transit station on Monday night: Officers responded about 8:30 p.m. to the corner of Fifth and Cedar streets, where they found two people suffering from apparent gunshot wounds in the stairway/elevator structure that connects the skyway to the Green Line Central Station light rail stop, according…
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Inevitable
DeSantis tops Trump in a new poll – and not by a little bit. Emphasis added by me: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) leads former President Trump by 23 points among Republicans in a hypothetical GOP presidential primary, according to a poll released Tuesday. The USA Today-Suffolk University poll found that 56 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning voters prefer…
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ROI
Well, the latest testing statistics show that Minnesota teachers are doing a less than average quick job of teaching students how to do math clearly someone at the admin knows how numbers that up.They spent $4 million on contributing to the DFL‘s sweep of the 2022 elections. And now, they’re after their payoff: Union president…
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In Which I Pummel
Big Left’s latest atrocity against the language – a perversion that looms large in the “Twitter Files” story – is the debasement of the terms “Attack” and “Safety”. One example: The “attack” was more commonly or germanely known as “showing evidence of wrongdoing on Fauci and Roth’s parts”, of course. And the fact that Roth…
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Let Them Eat Pasta!
Anyone remember Mika McFeely? He’s sort of the Filene’s Basement version of Ed Schultz, another guy who got his start talking about grown men chasing balls around fields, and decided to go into being a political, talking head. He’s the Heitkamp family’s token liberal on KFGO in Fargo, and proof that the talent bench for…
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Dissonance, Cognitively
I was listening to MPR last week (so you don’t have to), and almost had to pull the car over when I heard this interview – with Beverly Gage, historian and author of “G-Man – J Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century”. And I almost pulled off the road because the generic…
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I Heard It On The (Sunday) NARN
Today’s song list:
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I Heard It On The (Saturday) NARN
Today’s song list:
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Diverse!
Outgoing speaker Pelosi poses with her cheerleaders… …hahaha. Just kidding. She’s posing with (most of) the female members of the White Houe press corps… …oops. Distinction without much difference. Anyway, here’s the photo: Now, the cynics among you – like the Tweeter I’m linking – might scoff “Whoah, check out all that diversity!”. Pish-tush. Some…
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Proof Of Concept
How certain is the DFL that at least a plurality of Minnesota voters just aren’t very good at logic, civics or critical thinking? Sure enough that they’re treating the $17 Billion “Surplus” a big win for progressive governance, and proof of some divine mandate: What it actually is, of course, is a combination of: Mark…
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Downtown’s Back, Baybee! (Part II)
Close on the news that two of downtown Minneapolis is nicer office towers are going up for auction, to avoid foreclosure? The Hilton, one of downtown‘s premier hotels, and site of the NARN‘s first big surprise triumph (the 2004 debate party between George Bush and John Kerry, where we expected and planned for 100 attendees,…
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Memorial
20 years ago, this blog observed the Pearl Harbor anniversary by noting the annual gathering of hundreds of survivors – and the time, men in their late 70s on up – and noted the jarring statistic that at that time, the generation of World War 2 veterans was passing on at a rate of about…
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Peak Bureausotan
The MN Department of Natural Resources is apologizing for… …well, I’ll let the story explain it: “Yesterday we sent out the latest issue of the Trailblazer newsletter with a theme of gratitude. Today I’m sharing with you our deep regret for unintentionally omitting wópida, which is the Dakota word for ‘thank you,’ from what we had intended…
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Be Still, And Know That We Are Government
To: Minnesota Peasants. Er, Citize…Subjects. Let’s go with Subjects.From: Minnesota State GovernmentRe: Take Comfort Your paycheck is worth 8% less than it was last year. The price of food and gas is waaaay up. Your rent is going up. Lots. The cost of borrowing has more than doubled. The schools are failing – and your…
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I’m Old Enough To Remember…
…when the center-right Christian satire site [1] Babylon Bee got banned from Twitter for “misinformation” – for writing satire – and not a single media outlet lamented the erosion of freedom. To say nothing of gundecking, at government request, stories from Mark Dayton’s health up through Hunter Biden’s kickbacks to “Big Guy”. I’m old enough…
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Today’s Joke. Tomorrow’s Reality
Part 243,320: By 2028, feminists who want to meet with women – as in, people born with two “X” chromosomes – will have to meet underground.
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Heavy-Handed Metaphor Alert
A bar and restaurant explicitly aimed at revitalizing Downtown, and at “bringing Minneapolis together”,as a “place of healing for people” as one of its owners said, and overturning the image of downtown Minneapolis as a crime-ridden area enmeshed in a death spiral, has… …oh, do I even need to finish the sentence? I mean, let…
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Convenience
SCENE: Mitch BERG is walking around Uptown Minneapolis trying to decide which pop-up brunch joint to go to. Absorbed in thought, he doesn’t notice Avery LIBRELLE has approached LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Oh,Go…olldarnit, Avery, how have you… LIBRELLE: Shut up. Why aren’t Republicans condemning Donald Trump’s latest attack on Demoracy? BERG: Republicans and conservatives are, in…
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“Dark Money Is Baaaaad”
“But our money is for a good purpose, so…”
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