Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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Just Desserts
Attorneys representing Nick Sandman, the Covington Kid who was the subject of Big Left’s two minutes’ hate a couple weeks ago, have started the wheels rolling on lawsuits. Over fifty of them: “The legal counsel representing Nick and his family, Todd McMurtry and experienced libel and defamation lawyer L. Lin Wood of Atlanta, have said…
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Free, And Still Not Worth It
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Amazon Prime members can read Kindle books for free. The one I’m reading now was advertised as a realistic action thriller, so I thought I’d take a chance. Why not? It’s free, if I hate it, I just push delete. I’m three pages in. Milton, the main character is…
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Echoes Over The Desert
As a native of North Dakota, I’ve always found southern Minnesota winters to be a bit of a letdown (although last week certainly got my attention). But there are those who find the whole thing rather brisk, and prefer hiking to shoveling snow. And so they retire to other states. Turns out Arizona is the…
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This Time It’s For Real
A friend of the blog writes: Have you noticed the Star Tribune is really running a lot of Amy articles lately? Just an observation. Why yes, as a matter of fact, I have. Why, it’s almost as if they are “shaping the battlefield” on behalf of their former columnist’s daughter.
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Kamala Harris Is Everything That’s Ugly And Stupid About Government
The thing about “progressivism” is that while it flaps its jaws about “helping” the vulnerable, it inevitably ends up harming them. Give them a $15 minimum wage and mandatory sick time? Get them laid off! Attack landlords for the “quality” of housing they provide? Make housing unaffordable! Kamala Harris, in her celebrated (by the media)…
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Hostile Takeover
When private health insurance was unable to provide uniform affordable coverage, Congress had no choice but to take it over through Obama-care. The success of that program proves the principle is sound: government must do what private industry can’t do.Thousands of people are without electricity during dangerously cold weather. Private power companies have demonstrated they are incapable of…
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A Conservative Is A Liberal That’s Been Mugged
It’s not just an aphorism! DC/Baltimore area liberal political comic lives it out: Tim Young was heading to one of D.C.’s newest hotspots—The Wharf—when his life changed.He was walking down a well-lit section of M Street at about 7:45 p.m. Wednesday when two men approached him—one of them had a gun.“Terrified. You know, when I…
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As Much As I Do Music Trivia…
…I could only get one right myself.
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Someone Give This To Ron Latz
Remember that quip you get from every bobbleheaded liberal when you remind them that the Second Amendment is supposed to be about defending freedom against tyranny? “What?”, they inevitably respond, “you’re going to fight at tank with your AR15?” (No, I won’t have to, because if the government comes for the guns, it’ll be the…
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Buzzkill
Buzzfeed circles the drain. Kyle Smith watches it spinning: Founded in 2006, BuzzFeed is, as of this year, a teenager, and as is true of many teens it has an unrealistic view of its own likely future. BuzzFeed dreams of landing the Disney prince of profitability by dolling itself up in two ways. One is to cut costs. Unload most of the…
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How Meta
What better way to commemorate “the worst movie ever made” than with one of the worst written movie reviews ever excreted?
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The Wrong Lesson
Four Houston cops were shot (and another sustained a non-gunshot injury) serving a warrant against a couple of drug dealers. That’s bad enough. Worse? Houston Police Officers’ Union President Joe Gamaldi was upset: “We are sick and tired of dirt bags trying to take our lives when all we’re trying to do is protect this…
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Virtue-Filing
If this law passes, you will be able to march down to the County Recorder and pay $46 to have them record your Affidavit of Virtue.Well, that’s not the exact title. It’s called “Discharge of Restrictive Covenant Affecting Protected Classes.” It has no legal effect. Restrictive covenants which discriminate against protected classes already are unenforceable,…
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I Need To Hit That Powerball. Stat.
I’ve never been a yuge Pink Floyd fan. But if you had to pick a guitar player whose style is probably most like mine, it’s probably David Gilmour. And Gilmour is selling off most of his guitar collection for charity, including some seriously iconic pieces: The instruments that will be on the auction block at…
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Freedom Dies In “Efficiency”
Alternate title: “Ryan Winkler tries to make the trains run on time”. The DFL majority in the House has moved all the House’s committees under the Ways and Means committee – meaning that Ways and Means chair Lyndon Carlson can can move bills around, and forward to votes, without a whole lot of scrutiny: According…
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She’s So Cold
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Minneapolis and St. Paul public schools are closed today. I’m getting old, my memory isn’t what it was. I remember looking forward to snow days, but did we get cold days off school? My sister claims there were a couple of occasions when the country kids didn’t have to…
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Comforting The Comfortable
To: Andrew Zimmern, Celebrity ChefFrom: Mitch Berg, irascible peasantRe: Appreciation! Chef, I caught this on Twitter over the past weekend: Although the government shutdown is ending, at @lucky_cricket_west_end we are planning to continue to serve all those with a Fed Gov ID throughout next week, Monday-Friday, 2-5pm. We realize that furloughed workers will continue to…
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In Which Tide Pod Evita…
…calls for a repeal of the First Amendent: We cannot allow the financing of misinformation campaigns to shape our democracy. We can disagree on policy, but climate change is real. Period. Proud to have joined @chelliepingree on this letter asking for greater responsibility to our democracy and planet. https://t.co/5hLsg1FmgT — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 28,…
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So Proud To Be A Minnesotan
Ilhan Omar – perhaps the most powerful person in Minnesota today in terms of foreign policy – twote: A US backed coup in Venezuela is not a solution to the dire issues they face. Trump’s efforts to install a far right opposition will only incite violence and further destabilize the region. We must support Mexico,…
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Another Day…
…another hypocrite. Back in the nineties, there was a hilarious list circulating around this “internet” thing I’d just encountered – a list of rabidly anti-gun New York pols and celebrities who had New York City carry permits. They included a slew of actors, politicians, and – most ironically at the time – the frothingly anti-gun…
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Not To Indulge In Schadenfreud…
…over the recent layoffs in the hipster millennial junk news industry… …but in this case, it’s Iowahawk doing the Schadenfreud. Another @iowahawkblog work of art pic.twitter.com/BDhiXxUKRo — SixStringTweets (@SixStringTweets) January 25, 2019 I can’t tell if sound more like a Nebraska outtake or a Jay Farrar demo.
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Your Symbol
So the police roll up to a house, and the woman meets them out at the curb with two black eyes and a face puffed up from having been punched a couple times. The guy comes to the door in a, er wife beater (don’t look at me, I don’t invent these terms) without a…
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State Of Disunion
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Article 2, Section 3 of the Constitution provides: “He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.” The State of the Union originally was a letter the Present sent…
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Open Letter To All The Media Working The “Displaced Federal Worker” Angle
To: Most Of You In Big MediaFrom: Mitch Berg, Irascible PeasantRe: Perspective All, I remember back in 2003, during the post-9/11 recession, when my field was in its “last hired, first fired” phase, and I – a single parent with two kids – got laid off from a contracting job after my old startup closed.…
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