My friend Sophie is very ill, so a little over a week ago she asked if I’d sit her dog Hallie. Though Hallie is a great big bitch and has a few odd personality quirks, she is a frequent visitor to Sunset and mostly knows how to behave herself out here. Also, Axel is her buddy and she generally follows his lead, so sometime after sunrise I let them out, then go back to bed and let them in again when I get up around 9. They’re both older dogs (Axel is 10 and Hallie 11 or 12), so about three hours of running around in the dewy, dewy grass is generally sufficient exercise, and they mostly just lounge and nap the rest of the day. Alas, it was different on the night of the 4th; though Trip prefers to spend 95% of his time outside, he is terribly afraid of fireworks, so as soon as they start he wants to be inside. But even inside, he gets spooked when the noise peaks, so on Saturday night the only way to keep him from running around, knocking breakables over, was to invite him onto the couch where I could pet him while assuring him that Danger Man would protect us from the scary noises (in all seriousness, I think the TV sound helped drown out the pops, cracks, and booms). Axel jumped up right beside him, which meant Hallie spent the next several hours in an elaborate dance: stand around looking forlorn until I tell her to lie down, then look at me as though she doesn’t understand until I point to the easy chair. Then get in the chair; lie contentedly for about 15 minutes; get up to wander around aimlessly until I tell her to lie down; lie on the floor for about 10 minutes; get up again and wander around aimlessly a bit more; then go back to looking forlorn and start the cycle again. Oh, well, it was only one night; the rest of the time, dogsitting is an easy way to help a friend, and barely even impacts my schedule.
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You owe me lunch. – “Officer” Caleb Pomazon
Today’s video was called to my attention by Jessica Crabbit on Whores’ Day, but this is the first time I’ve had space for it. The links above it were provided by Dan Savage, The Onion, Jesse Walker, Kevin Wilson, Phoenix Calida, Nun Ya, and IncarcerNation, in that order.
- R.I.P. Ann Blyth and Penelope Keith.
- Sometimes The Onion isn’t really satire.
- Zappa had the courage of his convictions.
- Another great moment in artificial stupidity.
- Why is this reporter fixated on the smoking?
- Just another cop demonstrating exactly what he is.
- Crime: shoplifting diapers. Penalty: summary execution of baby.
From the Archives
- Pregnant women & new mothers are uniquely vulnerable to state coercion.
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- How long will Western society allow cops to terrorize traumatized women?
- “Claiming age verification preserves online anonymity doesn’t make it so“.
- SCOTUS isn’t quite ready to allow full-on government censorship just yet.
- I’m fine with this as long as it’s only tech companies harming each other.
- Cop violence is never limited to members of the public, nor to male cops.
- Maine defines women as moral imbeciles, and men as our moral betters.
- It’s too bad most authoritarian diktats don’t blow up in politicians’ faces.
- Cop deals with problems as he was trained to, and everyone is shocked.
- “Rescue” profiteers demand government conjure “victims” from thin air.
- SCOTUS rules that the First Amendment does not apply on the internet.
- Contradictory laws are an inevitable result of rampant authoritarianism.
- The first prosocial application of facial recognition technology I’ve seen.
- Pretexts for this would not remain limited to “child porn” & “terrorism”.
- Microsoft makes censorship easier, when it should be making it harder.
- This is what Pride should be: a gigantic “fuck you” to authoritarianism.
- Cops will ignore the Constitution until doing so is actually criminalized.
- Schools could best help the US by actually teaching basic math again.
- The New Orleans city council rewards the NOPD for criminal behavior.
- One of those fools who thinks anything involving gadgets is laudable.
- Cops, pizza, Julian Sands, Sue Johanson,Alan Arkin, and much more.
- shitty laws were used against an actual violent criminal for a change.
- Societies’ tendency to self-lobotomize will probably never be solved.
- “Search” is the most common government euphemism for “molest”.
- He wasn’t a “former” cop when he repeatedly raped a teenage girl.
- There is no “intelligence” in an automated high-resolution scanner.
- Note that cases of actual coercion don’t look much like the myths.
- A short EN Brown piece on the legacy of the Assange persecution.
- This will continue until the evil US immigration policy is reformed.
- Retrospectives of my blogging from June 2013, 2014, and 2015.
- Cops still use laws overturned in 2003 to harass gay men today.
- Unfortunately, a new Chromebook means more enshittification.
- One reason I added on to my house was to host guests at will.
- Your “leaders” work hard to ensure this happens more often.
- Cops, insects, Gailard Sartain, Bill Moyers, and much more.
- Your “leaders” call this “correction”, but you don’t have to.
- Crypto-moralists believe anything people enjoy is “unsafe”.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Kinky Friedman, and much more.
- I’m happy to have been proven wrong about her chances.
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- Cops are not known for intelligence and good judgment.
- In surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- Another of the many reasons not to play with chatbots.
- Good grief, don’t volunteer to be around them either.
- It’s rare that a rapist cop stops at only a few victims.
- The headline writer omitted the word “temporarily”.
- My three previous columns for Independence Day.
- Oh look, another “youth pastor”, what a surprise.
- Anyone “shocked” by this must live in a cave.
- Nearing the end of my annex project.
- The Wedding of Throwback Thursday.
- Good riddance to bad rubbish.
- Expanding my chicken yard.
- The Return of Fridaystein.
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Meta spent tens of billions of dollars on building the future of the internet, and all it has to show for it is a handful of bored children in the parking lot of an offbrand drive-thru restaurant. – James Ball
Without Let or Hindrance (#1459) 
[Democratic politician] Pete Buttigieg…and his [4-year-old] children were the [targets] of an [“]investigation[“] by Child Protective Services [because of a malicious] anonymous report…both children [were subjected to terrifying] forensic interviews where no family could be present. Because he…[is a celebrity the ordeal was over in] twenty-four hours…”It’s not lost on me that this happened soon after we shared photos of our family on social media for Father’s Day,” Buttigieg said in his statement…
An excellent essay on the failure of Zuckerberg’s “metaverse” fantasy:
Mark Zuckerberg was so convinced the metaverse was the next big thing that he renamed his company after it…investing more than $80bn…enough to…cover the UN’s humanitarian fundraising target for 2026—designed to support 87m desperate people worldwide—twice over…History…is littered with…major companies that bet on virtual reality…only to suffer extensive public humiliation and financial loss. In 1995, at the peak of its powers, Nintendo launched the Virtual Boy, a [hyperbolically-marketed] 3D system…[which] was discontinued…within six months of its launch…CEOs and venture capitalists told us the future was the metaverse, which would definitely involve NFTs, the blockchain, virtual land and more…Almost overnight, all of them are now pronouncing with equal confidence that the future is, in fact, in artificial intelligence—and the story sounds familiar…But we weren’t consulted on the metaverse, either, and as it turned out that mattered a great deal more to the companies than to us. There are limits to how far big tech moguls can impose their vision of the future…
There is only one way to stop this: aggressive prosecution of Elon Musk:
[Elon Musk] has long promoted [MechaHitler] as a [more vulgar] kind of chatbot…the [reason he] has leaned so hard into that strategy despite [lawsuits, criminal charges and] PR disasters…[is] that NSFW activities account for “well over half” of [MechaHitler]’s traffic …That includes using [MechaHitler] to generate actual porn, as well as “adult role-play chats” and “huge volumes of requests for erotica.” [MechaHitler] users have even apparently discovered that it’s cheaper to channel such requests through the company’s models intended for writing code…Some employees [are] less than thrilled with being assigned to work on “Ani,” [which is basically MechaHitler in drag]. Others [are]…”embarrassed and disturbed” by [MechaHitler creating]…sexualized images of…children…[unfortunately, the Trump regime doesn’t care and keeps shoveling billions into Musk’s money bin]…
The harder Australia tries to “crack down”, the more foolish it will look:
Australia’s prime minister vowed…to [magically] bullet-proof laws [enforc]ing a social media ban for under-16s as the government prepares legal action against platforms [for being unable to do the impossible]…The country’s [asinine] six-month-old experiment is being closely watched by many [wannabe censors] seeking to emulate it [as an excuse for mass surveillance of the internet]. Britain this month said it planned [to pratfall even hard]er [by futilely applying the attempt to] gaming and live-streaming platforms…also…85% of Australians aged 12 to 15 were still using social media three months after the ban took effect, according to a study of 408 adolescents…[but nitwits claim this is] a teething period…and teenagers [will surely start obeying] the [authoritarian] rules [any day now]…
Ford was shocked to discover that autocomplete can’t autocomplete cars:
Ford ha[d]…to rehir[e] hundreds of human workers after it…fired…[them under the idiotic delusion that chatbots could do their jobs. It re]hired over 350 veteran engineers…over the past three years in order to [correct] mistakes made by automated systems…[which] cost the company billions of dollars…Ford had been increasingly relying on [computerized] inspection systems…[only to discover] that [computer programs can’t think]…After rehiring [actual] engineers, Ford experienced a marked improvement in its quality standards…[surprising no one who isn’t a complete fool. Yet]…it [still refuses to] abandon its [attempts to replace humans]…
Medical privacy is going the way of the dodo:
…[Hospitals are attempting to] use…[chatbots] to detect or predict the risk of [domestic violence] in clinical notes, imaging reports, and other types of…data…The rationale is [supposed]ly well-intentioned…[because] only about 7% of [victims are willing to talk about it with strangers]…in clinical settings…However, [adults have the right]…to disclose [or not disclose private details of their lives] on their own terms…at a time and place that is right for them…[an algorithm] that detects [the “]risk[” of domestic violence violates that right. Furthermore]…patients are not told that they are being screened, and there is no option…that allows [them] to opt out. Only patients who are [informed of the snooping]…will know…[that their complex lives have been reduced and flattened into a “]score[” which becomes a permanent part of]…their medical record…[algorithm pushers pretend] the score is…only…available to the care team[, but that ship sailed long ago]…
Goons are now being dispatched to intimidate people for wrongthink:
After two [of Trump’s goons] tracked down a Syracuse woman…to [threaten] her [because she was mean to their gang on] social media…they went to Rochester to [threaten] David Streever…[who] was with his seven-year-old daughter at Moominworld in Finland…[because he wasn’t there, the goons threatened] Streever’s wife [instead, because he had dared to criticize their former boss]…Todd Lyons [in January. But after]…Streever and daughter Helen flew back to New York…[on June 25th, the goons tracked him] to [his] hotel, where they [would have barged in on him at 10 PM had]…the hotel staff…not [had the good sense to refuse to answer any questions about them]…Streever [later read] about [the same goons]…similar[ly threate]ning…Paigelynne Gonyea…[recognizing them from images captured by his doorbell camera. He has contacted] his credit card company to start an investigation of how the [goons discovered which hotel he would be in and when]…
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The saddest thing about the collapse of the US empire is that instead of a dignified decline or a catastrophic collapse, we had to endure the spectacle of the White House being turned into the White Trash House.
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I would never have guessed that so many people online not only don’t know what a Socratic question is, but are so insecure about their ignorance they call such questions “stupid”. But last week a parade of clowns on Bluesky declared that such a question I posed was not only “stupid”, but also not a Socratic question at all because…they believe all Socratic questions follow some kind of rigid and predictable form, I guess. Given that they could simply have consulted the Wikipedia entry I linked above, this cannot be a mere failure of education; it appears to be a manifestation of Asimov’s observation that Americans seem to think that “democracy” means an ignorant opinion is equal to an educated one. Another factor is that very few (two people as of this writing) of those who responded with more than a “like” or retweet seem to have actually understood the question that was being asked. Unfortunately, there’s a great deal of that online; most people seem to glance at a sentence or tweet, recognize a few words, quickly form their own question from those few words, and respond to that mistaken notion of the question rather than the one which was actually asked. I’m not sure if that has to do with the “guess the meaning” school of reading which was popular in US public schools for several decades, or if it’s a manifestation of the inability to focus that seems to plague many younger Americans, or both. Most social media users would rather guess at the meaning of a tweet and vomit out a quick reaction than actually read the question asked and consider it before replying, or else simply ignore it and move on to something else. They seem to consider it some kind of moral failing to simply bypass things without spewing out some kind of reaction, yet at the same time they don’t want to invest the cerebral effort to answer like a rational adult rather than like an ill-bred and rather stupid child who would rather be playing in the mud than actually [ugh] thinking.
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I liked Pride so much better when it was one day celebrated by grass-roots organizations than a whole month ballyhooed by major corporations with rainbow-hued consumer goods, and with hypocritical expressions of solidarity from politicians and cops.
– “June is Tweeting Out All Over”
One…aspect of my neuroatypicality…[is] that…[I] spend [a lot of] time composing and performing a kind of music only I can hear.
– “The Music in the Numbers”
Unfortunately, societies’ tendency to self-lobotomize into stagnation and decay is something that will almost certainly never be solved.
– “The Eternal Frontier”
The only moral form of warfare is War of Assassins, in which the only combatants and the only legitimate targets are the rulers, their henchmen, and their agents. – “War of Assassins“
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If there are no punishments for violating someone’s rights, they’re not really rights at all. – Hemant Mehta
The only religion which it’s actually free to practice in the US is Christianity:
The Supreme Court has made it official: Religious freedom only applies if you’re a conservative Christian…[by] rul[ing] 6-3…that a Rastafarian man whose hair was cut off against his will—violating his religious beliefs—had no legal remedies available to him…Damon Landor…hadn’t cut his hair in decades because he follows the Nazarite vow—which includes a reference to Numbers 6:5: “… No razor may be used on their head… they must let their hair grow long.” He continued that vow even after entering two Louisiana jails in 2020, for a five-month sentence…[but] when he was transferred to a third [dungeon]…Landor worried they might try to cut his hair to fit in with [victim subjugation] policies, so he showed [screws] paperwork [of]…The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000…[which] says prisons that receive federal funding can’t violate someone’s religious beliefs unless there’s a really good reason for it…They threw his paperwork in the trash, handcuffed him to a chair, and shaved off his hair. He later sued…both the prison and the individual [screw]s for violating his rights…[but] writing for the majority, Justice Neil Gorsuch said [because the screws didn’t want to follow the law]…they couldn’t be held accountable…
Madison Square Garden compiled a list of activists who have publicly criticized [its] use of facial recognition…in…a document…accessible to [anyon]e in…the company…MSG[‘s owner] Jim Dolan[, who also owns Radio City Music Hall]…has…a reputation for being pernicious against his perceived enemies, [and] is…keeping track of specific people who take issue with [his creepy surveillance]…The…list…[includes] three people who have criticized MSG’s use of facial recognition: Evan Greer…of…Fight for the Future; Albert Fox Cahn…of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project…and…[Adam] Schwartz…of [EFF, and]…includes background information…social media handles and…screenshots of [criticism]…“The fact that MSG is creating dossiers on activists who say things they don’t like shows exactly why private companies should not be allowed to use dangerous surveillance technologies like facial recognition,” [said] Greer…“Given their recent treatment of a trans woman trying to use the bathroom…I’m also not surprised they misgendered me”…
Goons are now being dispatched to intimidate people for wrongthink:
Two…[ICE goons threaten]ed…a Syracuse [New York] woman…[in an attempt] to [censor her] social media account[, claiming she was mean to them]…PaigeLynne Gonyea said she believes they [we]re referring to a January post where she named the [goon] who [murdered] protester Renee Good. Gonyea was working as a poll worker…at the Central Library…when [the goons showed up]. She…invited them in[side because]…she did not want to meet them outside alone…The [goons] handed [her] a form letter [full of Trumpist] threats…[of] prosecution…“They tried to scare me into signing it”…she said…she does not intend to delete her post…[but instead contacted] the attorney general’s office…[her US representative, the] Mayor [of Syracuse] and the New York Civil Liberties Union…
Only Rights Can Stop the Wrongs (#1532)
Never forget that this started with censorship of internet porn:
Anastasia Ovsyannikova…has been detained [in Russia for being] on [OnlyFans]…She gained fame through her collaborations with Diana Shurygina, wh[o]…was [also] arrested in Moscow earlier this month [when cops staged a theatrical raid] on her apartment and [stole] cameras and [other] filming equipment…the…p[er]secution is part of a growing wave of cases targeting women over online adult content. In a separate case, a woman named Anastasia F. was detained in Yekaterinburg on similar charges [for] posting explicit content on OnlyFans…The Kremlin has for several years sought to position the country as more [puritanical]…But this stance hardened a[s part of its propaganda campaign to draw attention away from its disastrous] invasion of Ukraine in February 2022…
Western nations are competing to out-China China:
[Politicians have]…unveil[ed] a [uniparty collaboration] on [the massive internet surveillance and censorship bill named]…KOSA…[which] now…includes age verification for [any website that any politician points at while belching “]sexually explicit[“, plus provisians allowing the government to control the design of] video game[s] and…social media…platforms…[plus threats to attack]…platforms [which refuse] to silence users [enough for politicians’ tastes]…
This was always the endgame, regardless of claims to the contrary:
In its quest to outlaw abortion across the country, the [forced birth] movement has [long courted the wishy-washy by claiming they want]…women who get the procedure…spared punishment, while doctors and others who make it available should be p[ersecuted]…But a growing number of [forced-birth fanatics] are starting to [drop the mask,] argu[ing] that the only way to stop women from ending their pregnancies [is] to arrest them. The [unmasking] is coming as [forced-birth fanatics] express frustration that the number of abortions happening now is higher than [before] Roe v. Wade was overturned, largely because [women don’t want fanatical strangers controlling their bodies]…
Reason needs to be far more skeptical of the outlandish claims of chatbot pushers:
…Utah has passed several laws and initiatives to [funnel]…healthcare [money into the hands of chatbot purveyors], including a[n ill-considered scheme] launched earlier this year to allow…chatbots to fill prescriptions…[via a fascist collaboration named] Doctronic…[so far] the project [only allows algorithmic refills of ongoing]…prescriptions and medication for asthma, diabetes, and other c[hronic] health conditions. Patients still need to visit a[n actual] doctor for new prescriptions…but…[as AMA executive John Whyte points out] “It’s really a concern about a slippery slope. Do we start here with prescriptions, then all of a sudden, is it going to lead to diagnostic tests?”…Doctronic [claims] its platform is guided by the opinions of board-certified physicians[, but the exact same statement is made by insurance companies about the medical washouts whom they employ to deny claims]…
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I’m pleased to report that Axel is completely off of the trazodone which the shelter had him on. When I first got him at the end of November, he was on 400mg/day, an immense dose for a 20kg animal. So I immediately started weaning him off, at first reducing the dose by 50mg/day every week, then once we were down to 100mg/day slowing the reduction to 25mg/day every few weeks. At the end of April he was down to 25mg/day, then for all of May 12.5mg/day, and then at the beginning of June I started skipping days between doses; since I saw no difference in his behavior between med days and no-med days, his last dose was a week ago, Monday the 22nd, and he’s just fine. He no longer chases the cats or snaps at strangers, and he isn’t nearly as high-strung as he was just a few months ago; about the only relics of his former problems are a tendency to eat cat shit (I know it isn’t an unusual dog behavior, but I’ve never owned a dog that did it before) and some separation anxiety. He no longer gets upset when he doesn’t see me, unless I go off in a car; when I get back, even if I’m only gone for a couple of hours, he cries and runs around when I return until I pet him and calm him down. Given that I was told his first owner died when he was seven, my guess is that the owner went off to the hospital in a car and never came back, so he is afraid when I leave in a car. But other than those comparatively minor issues, I’d say he has passed his good boy tests with flying colors, and demonstrated that he was exactly the right choice to bring into our Sunset family.
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The reality of human sexuality is a whole world; describing it requires at least four dimensions plus time. – “Two-Dimensional”
- One who thinks a dog must be forced to lick humans has never met a dog.
- Prohibition turns people into “crime scenes”, to be violated by cops at will.
- It’s good to see “sex trafficking” lies being attacked from many directions.
- Even USA Today rags are reporting debunkings of “sex trafficking” myths.
- I hope “sex trafficking” doesn’t become an all-purpose excuse for women.
- Amateurs: a menace to public health who should be licensed & regulated.
- Violet Blue exposes the connection between a number of anti-sex op-eds.
- Just in case you think being a “legal” sex worker protects you. And again.
- Thai whores love contradicting prohibitionists who claim they’re “victims”.
- 140-year-old myths used to justify same old pogroms vs consensual sex.
- Massage parlors are popular cop targets ’cause they’re low-hanging fruit.
- Pigs & prosecutors destroy yet another site sex workers use to stay safe.
- Another sleaze tricks young would-be sex workers in order to rape them.
- So nice when “sex trafficking” bullshit is called out in mainstream media.
- Those behind this train wreck should consult theologian Benjamin Corey.
- Popular porn site shames customers for enjoying a popular type of porn.
- I suspect these rapists are the ones discussed in the original of this title.
- Say you’re “fighting sex trafficking” & stupid people will give you money.
- Control freaks clutch pearls about a thing that doesn’t exist & never will.
- Tax money used to vomit anti-whore propaganda all over the landscape.
- Only parts not profoundly ignorant are those that’re profoundly obvious.
- Naturally, Baton Rouge couldn’t let itself be out-pruded by New Orleans.
- Cops are “excited and jazzed up” to trick people and destroy their lives.
- Say what you like about Larry Flynt; he’s a dedicated foe of censorship.
- Cops, historical figures, ignoramuses, Cassandra, Senpai & much more.
- How “Walk Free Foundation” comes up with ridiculous “slavery” figures.
- Cops discarding pretense that this is about anything other than pillage.
- Kari Lerum on the wrongheadedness of opposition to decriminalization.
- Theologian Benjamin Corey: most outspoken Christian sex worker ally.
- In US media, “sex trafficking” is now just a dysphemism for “sex work”.
- Ladies, please stop putting hotel-room selfies in your ads immediately.
- Politicians realize cops’ scam is too obvious, pretend to be “concerned”.
- Up by 27% from the last nonsense “estimate” less than two years ago.
- The first pretense that there is an “FBI list” of “top 15 trafficking hubs”.
- It’s especially pleasing for me when my friends write about each other.
- Even where sex work is legal, whore stigma is an ever-present danger.
- It’s so funny to watch prudes’ heads explode over something so banal.
- Articles on sugar dating appear to be starting to shed the moral panic.
- If this dude clutched his pearls any more tightly, he’d strangle himself.
- Should a sexually-traumatized man go to a whore to lose his virginity?
- State allows religious fanatics to brainwash women at a remote cabin.
- Because anything can be “evidence of prostitution”, even if you’re 12.
- The people prohibitionists want in charge of “protecting” sex workers.
- Remember when busybodies actually had to spy on people in person?
- Deon Haywood of Women With a Vision on The Girlfriend Experience.
- A vacation in Southeast Asia makes anyone a “sex trafficking expert”.
- Two dimensions of sexuality isn’t much of an improvement over one.
- This fascist group is the most terrifying of the whole rescue industry.
- Most people are so naive they don’t realize this is par for the course.
- I wonder what % of those who spout this rubbish actually believe it?
- Close enough considering human aesthetics are the main attraction.
- Canadian prohibitionists desperate to cash in before panic implodes.
- Monthomery County produces some of the sweetest schadenfreude.
- Another overly-broad and mindlessly-draconian “revenge porn” law.
- “Residential farm” = “doing menial agricultural labor for their keep”.
- Politicians say too few lives are being destroyed for consensual sex.
- Should a woman control her sexuality to make others comfortable?
- The bullshit is so deep in this, you’ll need waders to get through it.
- At least one actress won’t be vomiting out anti-whore propaganda.
- Cops openly admit being lazy fascists; the public just stays asleep.
- SCOTUS demolishes what little was left of the Fourth Amendment.
- Does this writer actually understand the meanings of these words?
- I’m not sure how working for free could be considered a “protest”.
- Cops claimed they didn’t know if this murder was hate-motivated.
- Feminist pornographer wins right to re-launch her fetish website.
- Another good interview with Chester Brown about his new book.
- This looks like another case in which everyone involved is awful.
- Rolling Stone tries to fish its credibility out of the anti-sex toilet.
- Even horrifying cases don’t look like the “sex trafficking” myth.
- Irish iterations of the “gypsy whore” myth are the silliest ones.
- What “legal but heavily regulated” actually looks like in action.
- Louisiana decides to create EVEN MORE “children” to “protect”.
- That whole “freedom of speech” thing was nice while it lasted.
- The reporter seems to be trying to hide what happened here.
- Why do massage parlors bring puritans out of the woodwork?
- Prohibition turns every individual’s body into a “crime scene”.
- Glenn Kessler has had to debunk this prohibitionist lie twice.
- Sex rays can penetrate walls, locked doors & privacy panels.
- Being an ignoramus is no impediment to a career in politics.
- Facebook demonstrates the dirty-mindedness of its censors.
- Now just imagine if this were the law, and always available.
- Dan Savage interviews Emily Bazelon and Mistress Matisse.
- RAPING a whore is OK; it’s only paying her that’s an issue.
- Planning to fly to New Orleans for the Desiree Conference.
- The people prohibitionists want in control of sex workers.
- An anti-whore propaganda show disguised as a “debate”.
- “Sex trafficking” laws keep getting broader and scarier.
- Innocent young man caged for 9 years by lying cops.
- Surveillance beyond the wildest dreams of the Stasi.
- This just keeps getting stupider with every iteration.
- You know that “negative secondary effects” bullshit?
- An ignoramus makes a film about “sex trafficking”.
- How can I get established as a booker & screener?
- Once in a while an insanely-broad law is defeated.
- A ludicrous masturbatory fantasy from San Diego.
- Possibly the last appearance of Aella the Amazon.
- Cops, pets, Florida, Mozart, scams & much more.
- Cops, insanity, one-sided fistfights & much more.
- On Rolling Stone‘s descent into total irrelevance.
- Cops, laws, toys, Picasso, 2001 and much more.
- Once again, actual figures disprove the hysteria.
- So this happened to my friend Maggie McMuffin.
- A Swedish cop’s self-congratulatory pig porn.
- Cops say having sex is “as serious as it gets”.
- Why hike or stand when you can motorcycle?
- Mike Crawford on being a male sex worker.
- A huge victory for the adult video industry.
- Because prohibition always works so well.
- What makes your favorite clients special?
- Sometimes the changes are incremental.
- Another cop, another prostitution sting.
- Not quite a rapist cop, but bad enough.
- In which I officially become a celebrity.
- Definitely not a police state, no sirree.
- “Authorities” secretly analyze tattoos.
- Study shows kids believe stupid shit.
- How I became one of the cool kids.
- The many rapist cops of the week.
- So you wanna work in a brothel?
- Self-care and whale-watching.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- Is P411 actually dangerous?
- A very busy month.
- Red Light Legal.
- Mea Culpa.
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They were having a pancake and sushi luncheon.
I was not familiar with Ibrahim’s work, but I quite liked this piece Jesse Walker selected to accompany his obituary. The other links above the video were provided by IncarcerNation, Nun Ya, Mike Siegel, T. Greg Doucette, Radley Balko, Missy Mariposa, and IncarcerNation again, in that order.
- No, your reason is not an exception.
- Dr. Lilly never considered this possibility.
- R.I.P. Abdullah Ibrahim and Daveigh Chase.
- Cops are a menace to everyone in their vicinity.
- More cops demonstrating exactly what they are.
- Every once in a while, justice makes an appearance.
- Crime: suspected petty theft. Penalty: summary execution.
From the Archives
- Everyone who spread “sex trafficking” hysteria contributed to this tragedy.
- Vast sums of time, money & energy, flushed down the “culture war” toilet.
- Why do we need “permits” to exercise our speech rights in the first place?
- Both sides in the culture war have completely taken leave of their senses.
- Cops won’t drop this fantasy until “reporters” stop obediently parroting it.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Donald Sutherland, Martin Mull, and much more.
- “Inappropriate sexual behavior with a young lady” = “molesting a 12 YO”.
- Australia expands Drug War, feigns surprise at predictable consequences.
- The government thinks you shouldn’t be allowed any privacy whatsoever.
- How much will the ER cost when someone punches you for filming them?
- Keep plunging that ice pick in; the bad thoughts will go away eventually.
- These algorithms make those who use them as stupid as the algorithms.
- Cops aren’t the only violent trade whose members feel sexually entitled.
- To “admit” something is to confess to something true, not to a delusion.
- I doubt this is the kind of lawsuit Louisiana politicians wanted to attract.
- Cops simply ignore putative cop-control laws without criminal penalties.
- Canadian politicians ignore events in other parts of the Commonwealth.
- France’s lust to spy on citizens and censor the internet hits an obstacle.
- One who ruins lives over arbitrary diktats trips up over a similar diktat.
- Cops, fantasies, Sheldon Harnick, John Goodenough, and much more.
- This silly tale is more pathetic now that the trope has largely died off.
- This barbarity began using the excuse of “fighting human trafficking”.
- Kool-Aid drinking politicians refuse to believe their own experiences.
- Are there actually naifs who believe speed traps are about “safety”?
- This is too useful a tool of state control for the rulers to give it up.
- One of the most flagrant abusers of this unconstitutional practice.
- Corporations have become the favored tool of censors worldwide.
- It’ll take a lot more such rulings before this political fad is buried.
- Reporter tries to bury the lede; headline writer won’t participate.
- Uber already encourages its drivers to spy on riders for the pigs.
- Seems like a significant fraction of child porn is spread by cops.
- The claims in these nuisance lawsuits are increasingly absurd.
- Assange was freed as soon as it became politically expedient.
- When a woman dies by hanging, it’s nearly always a murder.
- Even cops are starting to admit Shotspotter is a boondoggle.
- Chinese rename other people’s villages against their wishes.
- Composing and performing a kind of music only I can hear.
- Don’t think this will only be used to persecute the “other”.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Dr. Demento, and much more.
- The dystopian future of Minority Report has arrived.
- The only moral form of warfare is War of Assassins.
- Just another kind of cop, with typical cop behavior.
- A curated selection of tweets from June 2024.
- Prohibitionism is a dangerous mental illness.
- Throwback Thursday’s Bloody Nightmare.
- The annex bathroom is almost finished.
- No shit. Sensible people did tell y’all.
- It wasn’t the best year for tomatoes.
- The tiniest pullet egg I’ve ever seen.
- Throwback Thursday’s Great Love.
- Working on Sunset’s outbuildings.
- Your “leaders” at work.
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