Laughter is the Best Medicine
July 6, 2023 — Scott Johnson
MSNBC has an update on the location of the cocaine baggie found in the White House over this past weekend. “Multiple officials” are now claiming the cocaine was found near the West Executive entrance “in a much more secure place…near the Situation Room” and next to “where, for example, the vice president’s vehicle is parked.” That is apparently supposed to be a clue and it would explain a lot. However
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June 30, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll finds the THE RIGHT TO BE SEEN in the penumbras formed by emanations. She writes: I am not a constitutional expert. But my husband, the famous novelist Max Cossack, is. So argue with him at your own peril. And it’ s been a long time since 9th grade Civics Class when we studied the Bill of Rights, among many other things. What I mostly remember about 9th grade
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June 23, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll has SOME THOUGHTS ON PERPETUAL INDULGENCE: She writes: Let me state for the record that I am NOT A FAN of making fun of anybody else’s religion. But I am even less of a fan of our culture’s obsession with “PERPETUAL INDULGENCE.” Which thread I will get to in a minute. But The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence! What a great and accurate name for these obnoxious haters pretending
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June 22, 2023 — Scott Johnson
University of Minnesota Law School Professor Richard Painter holds himself out as an ethics guru. During the Trump administration, for his numerous appearances on MSNBC, Painter also held himself out as a Republican critic of Trump. When he undertook a campaign for the United States Senate in 2018, however, he challenged incumbent appointee Tina Smith as a Democrat in the DFL primary. Indeed, he ran to Smith’s left. Painter is
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June 16, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Father’s Day approaches and Ammo Grrrll is AGAIN WITH THE DADDIES. She writes: Sunday is Father’s Day. In a rush of “premature congratulation,” let me express my profound gratitude to every man I know personally or virtually, who devoted 20, 30, 40 years of his life helping to raise smart, independent-thinking, God-fearing children. They will grow into, or have grown into, law-abiding, tax-paying Americans. And most importantly, young working adults
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June 13, 2023 — Scott Johnson
At his Racket News site, Matt Taibbi has a new subscribers-only post on Dr. Peter Hotez, star of stage and screen during the Covid epidemic. Taibbi calls his post “Notes from the Memory Hole: The Great Double-Talking Vaccine Scientist.” The long post by Taibbi comments on a video mashup by Matt Orfalea of Hotez’s greatest hits. Taibbi introduces the video in his post: Few health figures have been more visible
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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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