Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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DumbAndProgressive And DumberAndProgressiver
On the one hand, Ilove it when two of the darlings of Big Left start eating each other. As the fairly inexcusable and heinous Piers Morgan did in a sociall-media jape so colossally tone-deaf that I suspect it might have been a paid communication on Alexandria “Tide Pod Evita” Ocasio Cortez’s behalf. Morgan, commenting about…
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In Re The Matter Of State Of MN Vs. Heiderscheid
Important quote: “Lacking a gun permit is not an element of the crime of carrying a gun in a public place; rather, having a permit is an exception to the crime of illegally carrying a gun.”Therefore, being seen carrying a gun in public automatically gives the police a reasonable, articulable suspicion that the carrier is…
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An Exercise In Imagination
I’m trying to imagine the wave of outrage that’d ensue if someone were to observe a black man mouthing off to a bunch of “white supremacists”, and getting pummeled for his troubles, and say “well, he kind of had it coming”. Or a Jew, after getting lippy with some Nazis, “kinda brought it on himself”.…
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The Freedom To Kill Freedom, The Right To Squelch Rights
Ever notice how so much of the power “progressives” seek involves squashing the rights of others – especially those living in one-party “progressive” wastelands? I’ve been noticing a log of agitation in “prog” media against state pre-emption laws – laws that prevent cities, almost invariably “progressive” cities with authoritarian one-party rule – from passing laws…
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All The Wrong Reasons
I’ll admit it. I’ve never much cared for the Pledge of Allegiance. Even when I was much younger, the idea of pledging allegiance to a government skeeved me out. Governments should get the loyalty they deserve. Starting in my teens, when I was for any reason involved in saying the Pledge, I’d hold a clenched…
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Open Letter To Sen. Klobuchar And Every Single Minnesota DFLer
To: Sen Klobucharcc: the entire Minnesota DFL partyFrom: Mitch Berg, obstreporous peasantRe: Impeachment Now! All, What Senator Klobuchar said. You owe it to progressivism, to the children, and to all the hopey changey to start working on impeachment now, to make it your only priority, and to spend your every waking moment between now and…
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Damned If The U Of M Does, Doesn’t
Program at the U of M helps transgender women…sound like women…: “Every time [“Alice”, the transgender woman who is one of this story’s subjects] called [her grandmother] in high school, she would say, ‘Oh, your voice is getting deeper, you sound like you’re growing into such a nice man, you’re going to be like your…
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Human Cudgels
They don’t. This author is mistaken. The left doesn’t love Islam, they hate The Beav. You remember Leave it to Beaver, a typical show showing typical American society as it was? The left hates every single thing shown in that program. They are completely dedicated to reversing it.Instead of men married to women, gay marriage.…
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Safety
Not all government safety regulations are an idiotic waste of time. A window washer just fell off our building. The platform is attached by ropes to a metal contraption on the roof, but the metal contraption didn’t have enough weight so when the worker went over the edge, the contraption did too. The harness caught,…
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Professional Courtesy
I work in user experience – but I specialize in enterprise, engineering and IT software. Not marketing, e-commerce or “storefront” design. Because that stuff is not only boring to work on, but I get skeeved out by some of the tactics. And because I’m not the only one that’s onto ’em. The only tragedy about…
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Suckin’ On A Chili Dog Outside The Tastee Freeze
OK, so Jamestown never had a Tastee Freeze. Even better – we had Polar King! The home of all things cool and delicious on hot, dry, windy summer days… …provided you were willing to work for it. It was north of the college on the way to the airport – a solid mile and a…
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Intersectional Intersections On Top Of Intersectional Roundabouts
This American Life is a guilty…well, sometimes pleasure, sometimes intellectual hemorrhoid. Either way, the guilt is real. As is the pleasure, sometimes. This piece was a pleasure in the sense that it showed the Escher drawing that is modern intersectionality, and the nightmare it leaves modern Democrats (darn), as vividly as anything I’ve heard recently.
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Incented
A man attacked homeless people, telling them to get out of his city.Naturally, I deplore violence of any sort. But it got me to wondering – which is more likely to solve the homeless problem in his town: beating the homeless while demanding they leave, or giving them food, shelter and privileges that law-abiding citizens don’t…
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MyLyssa Has Questions. Mitch Has Answers.
SCENE: Mitch BERG is walking down Grand Avenue, looking for Grand Avenue Distillery Supplies. As he looks in the storefront, MyLyssa SILBERMAN, Reporter for National Public Radio’s Saint Paul bureau, covering the “Fake News” and “Diversity” beats, gets out of a cab. SILBERMAN: Merg! BERG: (Nonplussed) Er, hi, MyLyssa. What’s up? SILBERMAN: I’m curious. You…
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Fearless Prediction
The “militia” making the threats in Oregon will turn out to be a bunch of Portland activists, and resolute leftists. It’s possible I’m wrong – it’s a big country. But over time, one never goes broke assuming the depravity of the extreme left for political behavior you can’t explain otherwise. It’s a borderline-corollary to Berg’s…
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What Chu Wantin’ In De White Man’s World
Over this past weekend, I saw the movie “Rocket Man”, the Elton John biopic. And while it was a good movie, as these things go – more below – it left me with one huge, nagging question unanswered. To wit: what ghastly crime did Bernie Taupin see Reginald Dwight/Elton John commit, and promise to keep…
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The New Racket
A refugee who wants to come to the United States can apply and wait for approval. May take years. Meanwhile, you sit in the refugee camp overseas.A person who sneaks into the United States can apply for asylum. Your approval also may take years. But meanwhile, you’re released into the United States and given a…
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The Problem…
…with trying to run a society with the entitled cranks that make up so much of the modern left is that if you’re a consevative, they really, really hate you and the idea of sharing a society with you. University of Texas “Anarchist” (really Maxarchist) group promises to “dox” students who joint the campus’s conservative…
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Do The Time
What’s the appropriate penalty for throwing a cigarette butt on the ground? What if it’s a lit cigarette?What if it’s a lit cigarette in an area prone to wildfires?this seems light, to me. If your car doesn’t have an ashtray, carry an empty Coke can in drink holder with a few drops of water in…
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Sins Of The Fore-Fore-Forefathers
SCENE: Mitch BERG is waiting in line to get into a Saints game. As he scans the program, Avery LIBRELLE rides up on a segway. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Er…(looks around, sees no escape) hey, Avery. LIBRELLE: White people owe black people reparations! BERG: Huh. So you mean that people who’ve never been enslaved are owed…
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Not Funny
Proposal to outlaw jokes on campus to fight sexual harassment, if it offends the most sensitive person they can dig up. Wouldn’t it be easier to go back to single-sex colleges? No different sexes, no sexual harassment. And if someone offends you badly enough that your honor demands satisfaction, perhaps bring back dueling? It certainly would…
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The Very Difficult Simultaneous Right And Utterly Wrong Trick
Alexandria “Tide Pod Evita” Ocasio Cortez claimed yesterday that ICE runs “concentration camps” for illegal immigrants, and that makes our treatment of illegals the equivalent of the Holocaust. MSNBC drone Chris Hedges leapt to her defense: If you spend a few minutes learning some actual history, you will find out that concentration camps are different…
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The Wrong Profile
The unqualified David Hogg couldn’t get into a junior college in Florida on his merits, but Harvard grabbed him because he’s got the right Social Justice profile. Kyle Kashuv – who survived the same shooting – got into Harvard on his merits. Or so he thought. Kashuv explains in this twitter thread: 1/ THREAD: Harvard…
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Diversion
New York is ending the religious exception for vaccinations.Do we really believe Orthodox Jews in New York are the ones bringing back once-eradicated diseases? There’s no connection between illegal immigrants from sh**hole countries and rising cases of measles and tuberculosis?This is the same logic as taking guns away from law-abiding citizens, or looking for your lost…
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