Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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Drunk Teenagers With Keys To Dad’s Bulldozer
We’ll allow for a moment that ‘Medium.com”, when the subject is race, criminal/social “justice” or the economy, is like Tumblr for people with unsupportably high self-esteem . With that being said, this happened this morning: Now, for whatever reason it’s not loading for me at the moment, or I’d be llinking to it. I’ll try…
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The Inmates Are Running The Asylum. And The Schools.
Schools in Edina – once known as a good school district – are Pictures of Normandale Elementary School in Edina show students eating their lunch outside with hats, coats and mittens on. “Since the beginning of school, I learned that essentially if you brought a lunch from home, you were eating outside,” said Carissa Palm, the…
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Unvaccinated Survivor
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Had a rough weekend. Low grade fever, chills, sensitive skin, slept for hours. Finally got a lab test on Tuesday: positive for Covid. No Thanksgiving for me. You guys can split my share of the pie. I’m fortunate to have a mild case. Four days of down time, about…
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If There’s A Solution…
…to the crime wave currently sweeping the Twin Cities, it’ll likely be when parts of the state with functional two-party systems start catching slopover. Which may be happening: Big Left and Big Media will spin this as racist, naturally – to them, suburbs = racism (says they, from their cozy strongholds in Crocus Hill, Kenwood…
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Trial And Error
SCENE: Mitch BERG is walking through the Cub Foods on Larpenteur, gauging the level of shortage going on, when Avery LIBRELLE almost literally bumps into him. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Aw, ssshhhhhure enough, it’s Avery. How are you… LIBRELLE: People going places where people don’t know who they are, and might be angered by their presence,…
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I Was Reliably Informed…
…that this was impossible. #Weird
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Does Anyone But Me…
…get the impression that the members of the power-clique known as “the Squad” – AOC, Ayanna Presley, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar – got the way they are because they were the “Mean Girls” in Junior High, and either never grew out of it or recovered that inner character flaw when they got into power?…
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Profiles In Courage
To: Senator KlobucharFrom: Mitch Berg, Irascible PeasantRe: Whoah, There… Senator Klobuchar, Thanks for taking a clear, principled stance on controversial issues like… (checks notes) …repealing Daylight Savings Time. It’s a time for leaders to lead. But don’t fly too close to the sun. That is all.
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The Anti-Kaepernick?
Did the Boston Celtics bench Enes Kanter for dunking on the Chicoms? What a difference a year and a few tweets slamming China for slave labor make. Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter has seen his playing time severely diminished after posting a series of social media messages attacking NBA partner China for oppressing its peoples,…
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The Modern Conundrum
I was told that if I voted for Donald Trump, school boards would be overrun with domestic terrorists. And they were right. “For those who got an issue with this critical race theory equity, this is something I fight for, for my children,” Austin reportedly said during the school board meeting . “How dare you…
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Our Betters Have Spoken
Author Thomas Ricks on Twitter: Three blocks from my house, August 26,2020. Well, there is a dumbass dupe in the conversation.
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Faith Noah More
NOTE: This blog’s editing tool, “Word Press”, just keeps getting worse and worse. It ate the lede, literally, for this piece. We’ll try again. I’ll cop to a certain amount of Schedenfreud, watching the array of reliably “progressive” and utterly un-funny late-night talk shows sinking beneath Greg Gutfeld. Four years of Donald Trump made conventional…
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The Shorter Rittenhouse Prosecution Summation
Self-defense is bad, unless you’re a rioter. Brawling is good. No, really.
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This NPR story – about a group of black families buying property in Georgia to try to create a black, utopian city – is full of unspoken, and semi-spoken, assumptions that Honky is going to mess the whole thing up. Speaking as a person of honk, I wish them all well in their oddly segregationist…
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Swallowed By The Cracks
This story came out last week. On one hand, a round of applause for the locals who grabbed the guy. The good news: People are getting sick of criminals. The bad news: Perhaps they’re also getting sick of a system that coddles criminals, and are ready to start doing order (if not justice, in the…
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Game On
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals says — no mandate for you: A federal appeals court has upheld its stay on President Biden’s vaccine-or-test mandate for companies with at least 100 employees. In a 22-page ruling on Friday, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the mandate was “fatally flawed,” and barred the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)…
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Dereliction Of “Duty”
And to think some say the “elite” media is utterly delusional: I mean, I get the theory – it’s not quite the puffery it appears to be at first glance. A media that conscientiously checks and balances government is, in fact, vital – not only to democracy, but to the functioning of a free society.…
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I Shouted Out Who Killed Joseph Rosenbaum, When After All, It Was You And Me
The Kyle Rittenhouse case – involved in jury instrucitons today, and going to final attorney summations today – is plenty complicated, but about some fairly simple questions: Did Rittenhouse instigate or participate in instigating two different deadly-force incidents in which he used lethal force on four people, with two dead, one seriously injured, and one…
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The Thing About Virtue-Signaling…
…is that as the things considered “Virtues” change, so do the signals.
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There Are Many Ways To Destroy A Civil Society
Incenting people to snitch on each other over personal and business decisions is one of them. “But wait, Mitch – the fact that you didn’t say anything against the Texas abortion law’s incentives for filing actions against abortion providers or customers speaks volumes“. It sure does. I’m not necessarily wild about that part of the…
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Walz: Rules Are For Suckers
People filing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and Data Practices Act (DPA) requests over the past few years have wondered how it is that Governor Walz leaves such a light state-documented electronic trail. Could he just be old fashioned? Or, like Paulie Cicero in Goodfellas, maybe he just never does business electronically? Well, no: Because…
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It’s Veterans Day
I’ve said it in the past; I’ve always found the practice of thanking veterans for their service to be a little…off. Nothing against those that do say it – but it’s always felt a little strange to me. “Thanks for taking a couple years out of your life, in many cases going around the world…
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I Was Told…
…that if I voted for Donald Trump, it would usher in a post rule-of-law society. And they were right!
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Voting With Their Feet
I’m encouraged by the fact that young people of all political stripes are more pro-Second Amendment than the rest of society. This is one of ’em. More, faster. More, faster.
Got any book recommendations?