Midwest Chick's Place

(A.K.A. Non-Original Rants)

–Co-opting good stuff from all over the ‘Net and maybe some original thoughts—ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE

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  • Read the fine print–the Government is NOT here to help

     A bunch of folks in Texas entered a sweepstakes for free energy for a year.  Apparently they didn’t read the fine print, because just by entering the sweepstakes, they also had to opt-in to a program that allowed power companies to control web connected smart thermostats.  And now they’re whining because their temperature in their… Continue reading

  • So, Juneteenth. The new Federal holiday? Seriously?!?

    So despite the fact that the press insists that this ‘holiday’ is already celebrated in 47 states, I’d never heard of it until a couple of years ago.  It is the day that Texas abolished slavery, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.  Not really anymore a federal or multi-state thing any more than Cinco de… Continue reading

  • RIP Frank Bonner

     Herb from WKRP:  Played his character to the hilt.   Continue reading

  • Buh-bye Victoria's Secret

     So, no more Victoria’s Secret Angels.  Instead of the long and lanky supermodel types, they’re going so woke that Victoria’s Secrets will all be told in bankruptcy court. In addition to the completely annoying Megan Rapinoe (who has pretty much made me swear off of eating Subway), they have ticked off all of the boxes… Continue reading

  • It's just a piece of cloth, what does it hurt??

     So remember back before Fauci started the mask craze–where he said that it was better not to wear one?  I do.   Do you remember when the Surgeon General went a bit further to explain why not to wear one?  It was because people touch their faces more when they have masks on and so are… Continue reading

  • Feel the burn, Russia-style

    And it’s not the burn of good vodka on a cold winter night:  Putin asked NBC News who ordered the assassination of Ashli Babbitt. I never really thought of her murder as an assassination, but now that he mentions it….   It was quite the setup and we still don’t know who fired the shot, even… Continue reading

  • First Bill Maher and now Jon Stewart?

    Somebody must have been putting the Red Pill in these guys’ Kool-Aid.   The left is drowning in the saliva of their own nervous breakdowns.*  Their thought-heroes aren’t staying to the progressive script.  They can’t handle it.  And it’s glorious. Maher decided to take his fellow liberals to school on racism (hint:  he said, truthfully, that… Continue reading

  • Takes the Wall Street Journal a while to catch up

     Wow!  Cutting edge reporting from the vaunted WSJ.   They have noticed that “Fake Reviews and Inflated Ratings are still a Problem with Amazon“. Dang, no shit.  Really? Most of the article is behind a firewall and I honestly don’t think there’s anything hidden in there that will serve to enlighten me but one wonders if… Continue reading

  • Well, here's another way to get payola

     There’s several ways to get money in a backchannel kind of way.   You can get on company boards but then there’s a whole tax issue.   You can ‘write’ a book (once the advance is in your pocket, you’re golden–it doesn’t even need to get published). You can get a connection to a company like Netflix… Continue reading

  • What if we just started making people define their terms?

     I know that was kind of nebulous, but bear with me.   I posted a little while ago about a a guy who has based his entire career on racism.  But he couldn’t define it. Now we have a group who, in their manifesto, says “There’s no excuse for misogyny” calling Kayleigh McEnany a ‘blow up… Continue reading