Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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Let The Orgy Of Overreach Begin!
They’re Democrats. They’re in power. I mean, what do you expect? That may be the good news, in the long run.
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Meaning
A friend of the blog emails: The number of words that have totally lost their meaning over the last couple of weeks is astonishing. Coup, treason, sedition, insurrection and now unity. What’s next. Anyone’s guess. They join other terms – “white privilege”, “white supremacy”, “ Anti“ – pretty much any western virtue…
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Common Sense
A frequent commentor asked: “What utility does a ghost gun have that aserial numbered gun does not?” It’s a question frequently asked by those in favor of “common sense” guncontrol. To which I reply: “What utility does a Catholic have that an Anglicandoes not? Why can’t we have common sense Catholic control?” And, “What utility…
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Planet Of The Humans, Part 5 – Fizzle On The Launchpad
In the eighties and nineties, the cultural clichés about young people getting started in life were Hollywood’s fables about the young and gorgeous, weighing offers for competing top-tier business and law schools, on their way toward earning a solid middle class income straight out of school. Tom Cruise in Risky Business was looking at Harvard,…
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Today Is The Day…
…where we turn over control over “concern about the deficit and national debt” from one party to the other. UPDATE: Also the date many of us become “domestic terrorists” in the eyes of the ruling party and Media (ptr). UPDATE 2: On the other hand, today is the beginning of the period where Covid will…
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When You Fall In Love…
…see to it that you fall in love with someone who swoons over you like Big Media swoons over… …well, any Democrat, any time, anywhere, in any office.
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Playbook
Big Left has been openly salivating about a “wave of ‘white supremacist terror’ that’ll dwarf 9/11″ for years, now. No – seriously. Years. Does it seem like they’re wishing it to be so? You’re not alone: Need an Orwell reference? Authoritarians always need a boogieman. And like Orwell’s Eurasia and Eastasia, or Hitler’s “Reichstag arsonists”…
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Planet Of The Humans, Part 4: Red On Red
So far in this series, I’ve ascribed blame for the dismal downward curve in the greatest society in the history of the world – from the apogee in the early nineties to the riot at the Capitol amid dueling thud-witted social media chanting mobs – to some easy suspects; the President himself, the extreme Progressive…
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#Progsplaining
Kendall Qualls was the GOP endorsed candidate for the 3rd Congressional District seat in this past election. Having lost that time, he’s on to something potentially bigger – starting a conversation with the black community about…itself. The DFL’s brain trust needs to stomp on that idea, but quick: I raise you this, Zach: Imagine an…
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The Farther I Got…
…in reading this story about theories about Neanderthal women, which becomes more slathered anthropomorphized gender theory as it progresses, I full expected to see it theorized that prehistoric women wore pink Sabertooth cat hats and spoke in hashtags. Is it just me?
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For Posterity
Worth reading.
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Ineffective
Study from Stanford University concludes lock-downs have no significanteffect on Covid spread and the small effect they might have, could beachieved by less restrictive means. I doubt it’ll stay up long, once Liberals realized it provesConservatives were right all along: there is no scientific basis forlock-downs and Stay Home orders, and without a scientific basis…
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Against The Woke Mob Before It Was Cool
I’m not going to say I’m the world’s biggest Angela Merkel fan. American fans of Merkel tend to be be the kind of people who think soccer is a gripping watch and that Governor Walz’s knobs and levers are a great metaphor for communicating complex public health policy to the knaves. Er…people. But she was…
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I’ve Got A Fever, And The Only Prescription Is More Knobs And Levers
For all of the pomp and circumstance and portent of Governor Klink’s grand proclamations on Covid policy, the inescapable fact is that he ahd his administration are doing a terrible job: And the graphic here spells it out pretty starkly – Minnesota is lagging pretty much everyone. Maybe the Governor is hoping to put that…
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We Have Come Down From The Mountain
Today is Martin Luther King day. And it’s time to be intellectually honest – to today’s Big Left, if he were alive, he’d have been canceled decades ago. Because the historical record – one you have all seen, over and over, the “I Have A Dream” speech – flies in the face of the Critical…
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Technical Difficulties
We’ve got some problems going on today, on the hosting end (I hope). Posting will be relatively light until things get sorted out. Time was, these sorts of server glitches we’re not uncommon – every 12 to 24 months, they would be a day when things just needed a quick reset. . Of course, while…
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Technical Difficulties
We’ve got some problems going on today, on the hosting end (I hope). Posting will be relatively light until things get sorted out. Time was, these sorts of server glitches we’re not uncommon – every 12 to 24 months, they would be a day when things just needed a quick reset. . Of course, while…
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Berg’s 18th Law Is A Rhetorical And Moral Gill Net, Whose Reach Has No Escape
I’ll admit to two things: Having seen how the radical left works up close and personal, when I saw the Capitol riot the week before last I thought “I’d wager a shiny new quarter they had some “encouragement” from provocateurs from the left””. At the same time, after two months of hearing about legal “Krakens”…
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#Unexpected, As Usual
That was then: This is now: Remember – it’s all about science. We are “science” = political expediency.
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Planet Of The Humans: Operational Pause
I was a pretty popular guy at work this week – well, truth be told, I still am as of today, Friday, so I’ll finish “Planet of the Humans” next week.
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It’s Reform Time
Imagine this: you are walking through downtown…er, Brainerd. It’s dark out, with a tinge of fog in the air. A car full of rural youth with mischief on their minds rolls up and jumps out. One has a gun, another a baseball bat. They are making loud, rural-youth-y noises. In a split second, you discern:…
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Berg’s Seventh Law Is A Sledgehammer
Democrats. after an election when media both mainstream and social worked overtime to install them in office, propose to “rein in the media”: During a lengthy Instagram Live on Tuesday evening where she revealed that she feared for her life during the siege, the “Squad” member accused the mainstream media of “spewing disinformation” ahead of…
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#Unexpected
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: A couple of days ago, I urged application of Berg’s 18th Law of Media Latency to the events at the Capitol. I was right. The FBI has charged a Leftist for the Capitol riot. He was running a false flag operation, dressing as a Trump supporters to infiltrate the…
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Planet Of The Humans, Part 3: Steam
Democracy can’t survive if we can’t trust our institutions. We’ll come back to that. Steamed In Tom Wolfe’s 1987 satire Bonfire of the Vanities, a young black man is run over by a car driven y a millionaire bond trader. A Bronx DA and couple of New York cops investigate. In one part of the…
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