Laughter is the Best Medicine
June 9, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll does not need Kantian epistemology to declare I DOUBT IT! She writes: When I arrived at Northwestern University in 1964, it represented the first time in my life that I had ever been away from my parents for longer than a week at Bible Camp. On my first day checking into Willard Hall women’s dorm, I had all my worldly goods with me: a small blonde Samsonite suitcase
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June 2, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Having studied Reader’s Digest in her youth, Ammo Grrrll recalls that that IT PAYS TO INCREASE YOUR WORD POWER! (And it pays to save our culture!). She writes: I was raised in a small rural Minnesota town, with two college-educated parents (my mother, two years of Teachers College; my Dad, a Pharmacy Degree on the G.I. Bill). Though my parents were both plenty smart, they were not big recreational readers.
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May 26, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll is not telling you to STAY IN YOUR LANE! She writes: Of all the stupid made-up expressions that are meant to shut discussion down and shut people up, “Stay in your lane!” has to be among the most offensive. “Excuse me, Mr. Colbert, or any other robotic loser who says that, but who died and made YOU The Lane Czar?” How ironic that most of the jerks saying
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May 19, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll recounts A DAY OF LIVING WHITE. She writes: You can’t call me Ishmael, because that is a guy’s name. At least for today. But this is my story. So call me Blanca McPaleface. I am White, okay? I had suspected as much for quite a while. For example, I had to get into college based on my grades and SATs. To my certain knowledge, I have never twerked
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May 12, 2023 — Scott Johnson
I can’t say I thought “Mongo Santa Maria” was the funniest line in Mel Brooks’s Blazing Saddles, but I thought it was funny and it has stuck in my mind for some 50 years. It comes to mind in connection with the indictment of Republican Rep. George Santos on federal charges this week. Mongo Santos Maria! Santos was just elected this past November and his offenses only came to light
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May 12, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll undermines timeless advice such as LIVE EVERY DAY LIKE IT’S YOUR LAST! She writes: Many things in life do not bear closer scrutiny. For example, the German humorist Otto von Bismarck said long ago something to the effect that “people who love sausage and respect The Law should never watch either being made.” Or, as the Spinal Tap musicians concluded when commenting upon a particularly unlikely and grotesque
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May 9, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Comfortably Smug foresees the future, not so far off, in our blue cities: Imagine living in a liberal city in five years. Cooking a can of bugs over an electric range and drinking bud light. — Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) May 9, 2023 That vision may actually be optimistic, as it doesn’t mention being assaulted if you venture out from your apartment to buy a fresh supply of bugs and Bud
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May 5, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Upon further reflection Ammo Grrrll offers A FEW MORE LIFE LESSONS. She writes: One of the sessions I did at Commenter-Con2 was called “30 things I’ve learned so far.” Well, now I have to add a couple. Here are just a few examples to give you a flavor of the Life Lessons I shared: If you give enough to charity, you will never, ever, no matter how many letters you
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May 2, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Washington Free Beacon reporter Alana Goodman covered yesterday’s hearing on Hunter Biden’s motion to reduce child support payments. Hunter is allegedly living on a shoestring. Goodman’s story is here. It’s a story made in tabloid heaven — so you can be sure the Daily Mail was on the case as well. Drawing on Goodman’s coverage, Andrew McCarthy notes a few of the anomalies in his column (behind NRO’s paywall). I
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April 28, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll feels our pain in ABUSED ELECTORATE. She writes: A friend of mine who had been a battered wife told me a very sad story about how domestic abuse works. She discussed with me an experiment that her therapist had told her about. I have only this conversation from 30 years ago and my memory of it. I don’t know the experiment or whether it was ever replicated, but
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April 21, 2023 — Scott Johnson
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell held an August 2021 “cyber symposium” in Sioux Falls to provide a forum for his claims of fraud in the 2020 election. He convened the symposium under the auspices of Lindell Management LLC, which I will refer to in this post as Lindell. The event took place over three days. Speakers included Ronald Watkins, Steve Bannon, and the son of Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro. I would
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April 21, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll reflects on Alan Jackson’s THE OLDER I GET. She writes: I know that Scott covers the music beat. I’m not trying to poach on his territory, especially since he does a darn fine job with it. But every once in awhile a piece of music just seems to fit perfectly as a theme song for what’s going on in your life. This has happened to me a few
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April 19, 2023 — Scott Johnson
As the Babylon Bee frequently proves, reality is catching up with satire. In November 2019 South Park anticipated the case of JayCee Cooper v. USA Powerlifting. Ramsey County District Judge Patrick Diamond has required USA Powerlifting to recognize Cooper’s self-identification as a woman so that Cooper can compete with the ladies who are weaker than he is. Judge Diamond has found USA Powerlifting liable under the Minnesota Human Rights Act
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April 17, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Anheuser-Busch has released a feel-good ad seeking to undo the damage its association with Dylan Mulvaney has done. The ad made me laugh because it has the feel of an outtake from Mr. Ed. It should be titled The Return of Mr. Ed. Looking around online for a video of the ad I came across the parody below. The parody video includes a second or two of the original with
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April 14, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll finds SURPRISES AT THE DOCTOR’S OFFICE. She writes: I believe in regular medical check-ups, if by “regular” you mean at decently spaced intervals such as ten years. Who wants to bother the Medical Community or even make them aware of your existence lest they either find something wrong with you or insist you get another COVID booster, conveniently mixed with this year’s flu variant shot? Better to keep
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April 7, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll has some advice in the self-help department. She urges us to HARNESS THE POWER OF PROCRASTINATION! While I generally did my homework in a timely fashion in high school, in college I took procrastination “up a notch,” as Emeril would say. How well I remember Finals Week the first quarter of my freshman year. It turns out – for an historic first time in college history — I
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March 31, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll may or may not be NEURO-DIVERGENT, WHAT A CRAZY TERM! She writes: When in the course of human lunacy the Left finds it necessary to destroy millennia-old institutions that have served humanity pretty well for, uh, millennia, they make up a stupid word that only the wokest cognoscenti are hip to. And then, SOMEHOW, within literally MINUTES, that’s the only acceptable word for whatever it is they were
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