Don Surber’s Weekly Highlights
Once again, Don Surber is back with his very own brand of ribald humor, recaping the events of the past week and lampooning the usual characters.
Media
The Subscription Losses at The Washington Post Say More About the Subscribers Than the Newspaper Itself
As would be expected, the whole of the professional media have been reacting to the significant layoffs at The Washington Post. I do not normally read Frank Luntz, but, lazing in bed this frosty morning, and scrolling through Twitter — I still refuse to call it 𝕏 — I clicked on the linked article from …
Academia’s Assault on the History of Western Civilization
What is the main opposition to requiring or teaching Western Civilization survey courses? Why is teaching the considerable and important political and social contributions Western civilization has made to the world a bad thing?
The slow death of The Washington Post
asAs someone who has a great fondness for newspapers — I delivered them when I was a teenager, and, being mostly deaf now, I have to read the news, not watch it on television — I was greatly pleased when billionaire Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post from the Graham family, which could no longer …
Don Surber’s Weekly Highlights
Don Surber ranges far and wide as he recaps events facing our nation, from foreign policy to Democrat corruption led by such notables as the last Democrat Vice Presidential nominee.
NFL Football Fantasy: The National Felon League
The sports media has discovered the perfect business model: take a tiny group of NFL players who get arrested each year, replay their mugshots across every platform, and convince America that the league is basically a roaming pack of concussion-addled pirate warlords.
Multiple Institutions Reach A New Low
The 4th Estate’s coverage of an illegal alien leaving his child alone marks a new low. But they are not alone. Other institutions have shown themselves pathetic in this matter.
Minneapolis: Watching a Color Revolution Come Home (Live, Local, and “Mostly Peaceful”)
Minneapolis isn’t “going through a moment.” Minneapolis is running a script.
And not the kind of script where everybody just hugs it out at the end and the credits roll over a lake with a canoe and a golden retriever. This is the other kind—the kind you used to see overseas, the kind cable news used to narrate like a nature documentary: Observe the fascinating uprising in its natural habitat. Note the coordinated chants. The symbolic signage. The sudden appearance of professionally printed banners that definitely came from someone’s garage printer.
America is Squandering its Common Sense
One day, perhaps 50 years from now, historians will look back on the years between 2020 and 2025 and conclude that America was a nation that chose to abandon common sense and reality
Minnesota & Minneapolis Declare War on America
Not since slave-loving Democrats provoked the succession of Southern states from the Union have Democrats demonstrated such hatred for America, but that is exactly what is happening today in Minnesota and Minneapolis.
Anus and Genital Rashes: Fox News, Big Pharma, and the Breakfast-Time
I turn on Fox News for the same reason a man checks the weather before he goes outside: I want to know what’s coming, and I’d prefer not to be blindsided by it. Is the world on fire? Are we at war? Did Congress accidentally pass something useful? Did somebody somewhere do something so insane it requires a full segment and a therapist?
Venezuela raid leaker jailed. WaPo worried.
You may recall that both the Washington Post and New York Times knew about the military’s plans to arrest of Maduro and his wife shortly before the January 3 raid. Both papers declined to use the story.
Elon Musk helps get information out of Iran and to the rest of the world
As we have previously noted, the credentialed media have been publishing rather little on the popular uprisings in Iran. Slightly more has been coming out, but information has still been sparse. More information has been coming out over social media, though, interestingly enough, far less on Bluesky than on Twitter, at least as far as …
Beat the Press; In this administration, everyone pushes back against reporters
Meet the Press began as a weekly show where a group of reporters interviewed a Washington politician, politely taking turns asking questions. It devolved into the mess you see these days. For years Republicans never pushed back.
Minnesota Fats, Somali Fraud, and America’s Dishonest Media
Were he alive today, there is little doubt that Minnesota Fats would be amazed and perhaps a bit envious of the $9 billion hustle currently in progress in his namesake, Minnesota—especially given the fact that the mainstream media seems content to ignore it entirely.
The Political Agenda Behind Year-End ‘Economic Collapse’ Stories
The news stories at the end of the calendar year are different from the news stories the rest of the year. From mid-December through mid-January, there’s a different kind of article that fills the newspapers and floods our websites: the year-end summary.
The Upside-Down Gospel: How Stranger Things Steals from the Bible, but Forgets the Cure
Stranger Things didn’t invent spiritual warfare—it just put it on a BMX bike and added synth music. The show works because it’s parasitic: it feeds on biblical ideas already baked into Western consciousness. Shadow realms. Invasive evil. Possession. Sacrifice. Redemption. None of this is new.
Is the Age of the Printed Book on the Brink of Demise?
During a discussion in a journalism class I was teaching at the University of Illinois a few years ago, I posited the following question: What do you think has been the greatest, most impactful invention in the world during the past 1,000 years?
Running reporters ragged; Trump’s White House South gives him time to golf, talk to heads of state, and blow up ISIS encampments
In Trump’s second presidency, the nation marches on and the twits in the media have to work over the holidays. The poor silly saps have had to come up with their own lines because the DNC doesn’t have enough money to staff peddle their talking points, narratives and lies.
Some Final Screwed Up Posts From 2025
As a great year closes out, the last week brings some really strange views from our liberal friends.