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November 11, 2018 — Steven Hayward
Scott Johnson joins me this week for a podcast book party for the launch of a collection of columns from “Ammo Grrrll,” Ammo Grrrll Hits the Target. Susan Vass (Ammo Grrrll’s real name when she votes) is a retired stand-up comic, and this episode talks about the terrifying world of comedy club performances, where “you either kill or you die;” why comics are the most needy performance artists—even more than singers, and
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June 5, 2017 — Paul Mirengoff
Yesterday I wrote about Kathy Griffin’s weepy press conference in which she portrayed President Trump not as the offended party in her beheading fantasy picture, but rather as the latest in a long line of “older white man” who have tried to derail her career in comedy. I wondered whether Power Line’s resident female comedian, “Ammo Grrrll,” agreed with Griffin’s claim that women face great difficulty making their way in
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August 4, 2014 — John Hinderaker
Ammo Grrrll passed through town today, en route from her high school reunion in northern Minnesota back to her current home in the Southwest. She arrived in town heavily armed, with two friends–her best pals in high school–in tow. So of course, I volunteered to take them all shooting at my favorite range. It was a lot of fun; it’s pretty much guaranteed to be if you blow up enough
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April 20, 2024 — Steven Hayward
This week’s ad-free episode is probably better thought of as a Two Whisky Happy Hour, because John Yoo is away on a lecture- and Philly-cheesesteak-procurement tour back east, and Lucretia is also out of action this weekend, too, though she appears in this episode by proxy, so to speak. So two whiskies it is. Last weekend, Lucretia and I offered a keynote duo-presentation for Ammo Grrrll’s annual CommenterCon conference in
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April 19, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Hey, you, you may or may not want to MIND THE GAP! Ammo Grrrll writes: My dear friend from teenage years on, who was married to a Brit for a considerable period of time, told me that British culture, while generally kind, polite, and tolerant, tends to be much more risk-averse than American culture. The Brits believe it is wholly good to protect their citizens from any and all behaviors
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April 12, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll contemplates RENEWAL AND RENAISSANCE. She writes: Every single winter in Minnesota – and several summers here in Arizona – I have looked in dismay at the trees and other dormant, frozen, or parched foliage in my yard and said, “Well, THAT ain’t comin’ back.” And I am always wrong. It feels good to be wrong. That which looks dead and gone springs to life, warms the heart, and
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April 5, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll gets in the spirit of a renowned international day with CELEBRATE NORMIES’ INVISIBILITY DAYS (Days ending in “Y”). She writes: Lordy, how many more “rights” can be found in our Constitution that were never mentioned, intended, or dreamed of by our genius Founding Fathers? Most famously, of course, in the shadows and penumbras and emanations and voodoo portion of that famous document, written in invisible ink, came the
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March 29, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll proudly celebrates her Power Line anniversary and announces the publication of Over My Limit – Ammo Grrrll’s Tenth Year of Shooting Fish In A Barrel. She writes: The NSFW but hilarious comic Ron White has the famous wonderful line (at least 30 years old, so I feel comfortable quoting it) about being unable to avoid further trouble when arrested: “I had the right to remain silent, but I
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March 22, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll looks into the future: I THINK THAT I SHALL NEVER SEE…quite a few things! Joyce Kilmer, author of the beloved and universally known American poem “Trees,” declared that he thought that he would “never see / A poem as lovely as a tree.” Soon I shall list some things that we cannot BELIEVE we HAVE seen. And then several things that, like Mr. Kilmer, we will never see.
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March 15, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll has seasonal thoughts on WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM PROFESSIONAL SPORTS – especially BASEBALL. She wants commenters to know that she “will be slightly less interactive today as her son is here and we will be at a Spring Training game. It is just a coincidence (honest!) that this column was next up in the pipeline.” She writes: Unless you are very lucky, the first thing you learn
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March 8, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Nietzsche may have been on to something with THE WILL TO POWER! Thus spake Ammo Grrrll: This may come as a shock to my faithful readers, but I am no student of Philosophy. For some survey course, I was forced to read Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. I went to the used bookstore on campus and found a copy. When I got back to the dorm, I found that
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March 1, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll is not CLOTHING THE EMPEROR. She writes: In the middle of an unhinged hateful rant about Donald J. Trump AND especially about us, his “cult-like” wretched, stupid followers, Bob Costas let slip on the CNN ‘s Smerconish show that Biden is too old and needs to step aside to avoid losing to President Trump. He actually invoked the Emperor and His New Clothes image in reference to Biden.
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February 23, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll wants you to prepare for PREPPING AND OTHER POINTLESS ACTIVITIES. She writes: So some friends of ours ordered a whole bunch of MRE meals in case we experience an EMP attack which knocks out all of our electricity. For at least awhile, I would welcome the absence of television, computers, and cellphones. In other words, in my case, returning to 1958, which was when we got TV. Playing
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February 16, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll fires off PART 3: LIES WE ARE FORCED TO BELIEVE – AND TO REPEAT. She writes: There is no way that we can possibly cover ALL the Orwellian lies and woke absurdities that we are forced to swallow daily AND repeat if we want to sit with the Cool Kids in the Lunchroom. Or have a job or a bank account. Most lies have been addressed by others,
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February 9, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll has a few more LIES WE WERE TOLD – INADVERTENTLY. Part 2 of a Series. She writes: Most of the “lies” we were told as children – often BY children – were not so much lies as hilarious misinformation. No, seriously, worse even than MSNBC or The View. Now our School District had at least two certifiably insane women teachers in grades K-6 whose main qualification appeared to
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February 2, 2024 — Scott Johnson
What we have here is/are LIES AND MISINFORMATION, a 3-part Series — Part 1: LIES WE TELL OURSELVES. Ammo Grrrll writes: Where would we pathetic, disappointing human beings be without “the little white lie”? If we honestly answered every inquiry as to whether or not “this dress makes me look fat,” or if we think that hideous haircut is flattering, we might have no friends. With few exceptions, men would
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January 26, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll sees EVERYDAY MIRACLES IN THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. She writes: Before we begin today, let me just say that EVERY SINGLE TEAM I developed the slightest rooting interest in during the playoffs – LOST! Hoping to monetize this skill, I am offering to root FOR the opponents of your pet team for a price. Say, $100? A girl has to use what meager skills she has.
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