Shot in the Dark

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  • Things Continue To Go Just Great!

    Brooklyn Park WalMart to close: A Walmart spokesperson said after a “careful and thoughtful review process” the company made the “difficult decision” to close the location on Friday, April 21.  In a statement, they added that the store didn’t perform  “as well as we hoped” and didn’t meet the company’s financial expectations, but employees will be able…

  • As Predicted

    Last December 8, when the DFL was crowing about having a “$17.6 Billion Surplus”, I noted tha the so-called “surplus” was nothing but bIllions of dollars in federal Covid stimulus dollars, routine Minnesota DFL overtaxation (plumped up by receipts driven up by inflation in the cost of the goods being taxed, and that all of…

  • When Reality Is Absurd, Parody Is Pointless

    The University of Helsinki gives climate activist Greta Thunberg an honorary PhD in Theology . The Babylon Bee should sue for trademark infringement.

  • Inhuman

    The latest casualty of Democrat rule? $1 Pizza in NYC: You’re paying for those “stimmy checks” and failed banks one way or the other, peasant.

  • Defined

    SCENE: Mitch BERG is spreading salt and grit on his sidewalk, trying to stay ahead of the thaw-refreeze cycle. So engrossed is he, he doesn’t see the Nissan Leaf with GUTTERBALL GARY and CAT SCAT, both bloggers at the (possibly fictional) progressive blog MinnesotaLiberalAlliance.Blogspot.com“. They pull to a stop and get out of the car.…

  • Metaphor Alert

    A billion dollar train with nobody on it runs a stop signal and rams a car that had the right of way pinning it between it and another LRT train. Is there a more perfect bunch of parallels for government in the Twin Cities these days?

  • Continuous Learning

    Mayor Frey and Chief O’Hara announced last week that Minneapolis will be much better prepared the next time there’s a major crisis. For starters, all rioters will get a free lunch, courtesy of Minnesota taxpayers.

  • Dog Whistle

    We talked last week about Peggy Flanagan’s absurd take on parenting. Here it is again: She followed up with this photo. Check out that righteous Bowie knife. There are only three interpretations for this symbology: Not sure which it is. I’m open to suggestions. Speaking of which – I have four friends that one could…

  • Who’s The Boss

    I enjoy every broadcast I do. I joke – about 65% tongue in cheek – that the worst day on the air is better than the best day off the air. But some are better than others. Hour two, last Saturday, was fun even by that standard. My guest for the first half-hour, Cassie Fredregill,…

  • I Heard It On The NARN

    Here’s Gary Gross’s first piece on guest Cassie Fredregill’s battle with the Little Falls school board. Read ongoing coverage at Freedom and Prosperity. Today’s Progressive Minnesota Social Media Depravity competition: – Bronze: Keith Ellison – Silver: Melvin Carter – Gold, Platinum and Uranium: Peggy Flanagan Here’s today’s song list:

  • One Morning In The Duchey Household

    SCENE: It’s an ordinary morning in the home of Edwin DUCHEY, Proprietor at the (possibly fictional) progressive blog “MinnesotaLiberalAlliance.Blogspot.com”.    DuChey was badly scarred by a childhood in which he was routinely bullied – by much younger children. He’s sitting in the living room, sorting through emails on his phone, as his partner, Stacey Hinton, Executive Director of…

  • So Lets Make Sure We’re Clear On This

    Being. a good parent (or parent-state) means making sure kids can’t get tobacco, or tobacco subvsitutes like vape, even if the vape is a way of quitting smoking (as it was for at least one young person close to me)… …but making absolutely certain they can chemically and surgically neuter themselves without adult consent…: The…

  • Defining His Place

    So what exactly does Mayor Carter do? Fix roads? No. Put criminals in jail? Please. Play the social media game? Well, now we’re onto something: I bet he has a completely lit Instagram account…

  • Metaphor Alert

    The latest Moms Want Action tweet. Like everything MWA says, it’s counterfactual… …but let’s stick with appearances and play a game of “Where’s Waldo”, where “Waldo” = “a black person”. \ See her back there? Peering over the shoulder of the woman with ELCA Hair, not that that narrows it down any? White, upper-middle-class female,…

  • Primary Education

    The culture war is fought and lost or won in a million little nooks and crannies in our society. The collective perception of historical ephemera that tumble-dries together to form “the public consciousness” is one of those collections of crannies. And somewhere in that perception floats the collective dog’s breakfast of ideas and ideals that…

  • Sartre Was So Close

    “Hell is other people”, said the French existentialist philosopher. Close, but no cigar. Hell is, however, most things “public”. Like the behavior in public waiting rooms on public transit lines by certain members of the public. Metro Transit is shutting down the indoor waiting area at the Hennepin Avenue transit station due to what I’m…

  • Public Service Announcement

    It’s been my pleasure and privilege to participate in the “Speaking Proudly” speech tournament since 2019. The tournament is for high school girls – grades 9-12, in public. private, charter or home school – to speak about democracy in America. If you know a high school age girl who’s interested, applications are due by the…

  • And To Think That People Call WCCO TV A DFL PR Firm

    This is how they describe the free lunch bill: A “tax cut”. I suppose public education is a “tax cut” because parents aren’t doing teaching at home, too?

  • As The Forefathers Warned

    This is a new Australian Army recruiting video. Who are they training to fight? Taliban? ISIS? The Chinese? After three years of absurdly restrictive Covid regulations met by some strenuous civil and less than civil resistance, they are not just training to fight Australians – who are officially disarmed – but they are putting that…

  • Unsafe Space

    That wave of right-wing terror they’ve been warning us about for the past fifteen years is apparently nigh, and coming for Jacob Frey: The progressive mayor of Minneapolis is fearing for his life since receiving an uptick in death threats… Well, yeah. After giving free reign to leftists, including all but inviting “Anti”-Fa to attack Trump rallygoers,…

  • Contempt

    It was probably 15 years ago that I wound up running into a young Assistant US Attorney at a social event. We got to talking – as I am wont to do with, well, people. What quickly became evident in talking with him – early 30s, graduate of an Ivy League law school after having…

  • Priorities

    SCENE: It’s1989, in the home of TONI and MELVIN Carter (JR.). Melvin is a police officer; Toni an aspiring politician. They sit on a couch in the living room, watching the news. Their 10 year old son Melvin the III walks into the room. MELVIN III: Mom? Dad? MELVIN JR: Yes, son? MELVIN III: What’s…

  • Things I Dream About

    One of mine is that one day, I get a chance to respond to a grievance pimp like Cori Bush tyhe way Alex Epstein does here (around 1:30 into the video): Til I do, I guess I’ll just keep practicing. And eating my vegetables.

  • Isolationists Fighting The World

    Democrats, especially the MN DFL, pine for European style “social democracy” – or at least the kind they’ve incorporated into their romantic interpretation of 1970s-style Swedish and Danish socialism. Their teenage-girl-level keening is selective – they are quiet about the fact that Denmark, for example, has no minimum wage. But for the most part, DFLers…

  • All The Way Down

    Tens of millions of dollars of daycare assistance, bundle up in cash and sent overseas. Same with hundreds of millions of dollars of food assistance. And now… The city of Minneapolis is a huge graft machine. Same with the state, under DFL control.

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