Yellowbird wanted to try turkeys again, and they came in Friday so Chekhov brought them over. Unfortunately, by the next day one of them wasn’t doing too well; she seemed uninterested in the food or water even though the other one went right for them. By Saturday evening she was obviously dying, and before 10 PM she was gone; given that like chickens she was living on her yolk until Thursday, my guess is that she had some disorder that kept her from eating as normal. The other one has joined the other chicks, and though she’s smaller right now last year’s experience demonstrated that won’t be for very long. On Sunday I expanded the enclosure, which will give them more room to run around and should help to keep their water from constantly getting fouled; I was lucky enough to catch them in the act in this video, so you can see how the water needs to be cleaned so often at this stage of development. This coming Sunday they’ll be going out into their nursery in the henhouse; this past Sunday I finished mucking out the floor, bringing in fresh hay, rebuilding the nursery (the old chicken wire had corroded badly in our damp climate), and spreading fresh shavings in there so it will be ready for them this weekend. So tune in next week at this same time for a look at the new nursery and its quickly-growing occupants!
So many people still feel the need to wait for some business entity to temporarily carry a show they want to see, typically polluted with commercials, when home video has existed in one form or another for over 40 years and most shows can be permanently purchased for the price of a decent meal.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-15T18:02:27.299Z
Trump really does believe what he sees in movies.Here we see him attempting the Jedi mind trick.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-17T03:04:37.228Z
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" – Upton Sinclair
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-17T19:00:27.452Z
People who do not eat chips could be ‘left behind’, says Frito-Lay’s CEO
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-18T19:55:52.543Z
Funniest thing I've seen this week.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-20T08:52:14.194Z
It's garbage. It's shit. It's noise. It's paint hurled at a canvas. It's an overflowing toilet. It's hated by anyone who knows anything about art. It enriches fascists. It ignores consent and good taste. It's stupid. It's bad. It's a disease. It's random. It reeks. It's unwelcome. It's everywhere.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-21T18:50:08.193Z
Over a decade ago, I was warning young women not to let random people who aren't doctors inject filth into their butts.Now I'm warning young men not to hit themselves in the face with hammers.Really, y'all, plastic surgery is not something you can learn by watching YouTube videos.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-24T18:24:12.301Z
In traditional scholarship, caring about what other educated people thought about one's ideas was called "peer review", and it was considered intrinsic to the process.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-24T18:39:40.974Z
Concentration camps. Go on, you can type the words if you try. I believe in you. Just keep repeating the mantra, "I have a backbone, I have a backbone, I have a backbone", and you should be able to either type the words or just copy paste from here: "concentration camps".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-25T17:54:59.340Z
Stolen. The word you're looking for is "stolen", not "taken away"; that is a term reserved for parents disciplining their own children, ie "she took away his bb gun until he stopped shooting cats". The term for strangers permanently taking others' possessions is "stealing". They STOLE the crayons.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-26T17:56:06.044Z
Do history classes in New York teach students about William the Acquirer and the Acquisitions of Genghis Khan?
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-27T18:20:18.610Z
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nGK…
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-28T17:52:47.390Z
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-28T19:35:46.602Z
Those of you who weren't adults at the time of the Gulf War may not remember that it, more than any other event, created the 24-hour news cycle which has bedeviled the US ever since. It turned CNN from a low-rating sideline into a high-rating main event, and gave us the nauseating term "scud stud".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-02T17:39:49.401Z
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-03T18:01:27.024Z
Honestly, I don't know how you young gals put up with this. In my day (points with cane) all we had to worry about beside cops and bad clients was the puritanical old woman whom the publisher of the Yellow Pages (Barry Co IIRC) allowed to ban certain words in escort service ads.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-04T08:21:33.548Z
Trump replaces Barbie with Mr. Potato Head.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-05T20:02:33.887Z
Challenge for those who aren't religious fanatics: explain to those who *are* that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and that the burden of proof is NOT on those demanding such evidence.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-07T17:31:04.244Z
This is called a "win-win" scenario.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-08T17:44:05.190Z
If they simply phrased the headline truthfully as "women are falling in love with a fantasy of romance", people would recognize that this is nothing new.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-09T17:41:07.413Z
How quaint. Those of us who still play real old-fashioned D&D are going to start looking like people who bake all of their own bread instead of buying Wonder Bread.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-10T17:00:58.084Z
There's illiteracy, and then there's *functional* illiteracy, and then there's…whatever this is.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-11T03:40:34.394Z
People who are terminally online habitually type out bizarre, unpronounceable sequences of letters and symbols which attest to how little of their lives are spent actually speaking to normal people in real life.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-11T19:07:51.122Z
Future history students will refuse to believe it when their professors tell them that one of the factors that precipitated the 21st-century dark age was gambling fanatics intentionally falsifying records for profit. Having taught history, I can hear the adolescent voices already: "That's stupid!"
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-13T17:28:41.148Z
On Bluesky this morning, I'm seeing the usual mixture of political & aesthetic posts.On Twitter, I'm being attacked by incensed Millennials apparently unable to comprehend why a 60-year-old woman who neither has kids nor watches TV doesn't know about a gimmick kid food first sold in the late '90s.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-14T18:22:27.167Z
"Police shoot black man in the back."There, FIFY.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-15T17:24:47.878Z
Boo hoo hoo, his diaper is wet and nobody wants to play with him.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-16T02:40:56.057Z
I think @ryanlcooper.com called it correctly: Trump will go down as one of the Great Idiots of History.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-17T17:24:50.126Z
Deep respect for Tony Moore.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-18T17:14:20.090Z
So THIS is where Big Balls went.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-19T17:41:07.379Z
Après moi, le déluge.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-20T18:08:32.460Z
People idolize flawed human beings, creating statues of them as though they were pharaohs & literally putting them up on pedestals, only to tear them down again as soon as the flawed human is found to have been flawed.We could save so much time and energy by simply not setting up humans as gods.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-21T07:47:25.342Z
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Don’t be so careful in time of death.
In the ’50s and early ’60s, it was typical for TV sponsors to feature the show’s characters in commercials which aired during the show. I’ve been re-watching The Beverly Hillbillies lately, and I was delighted to find this PSA from an episode which first aired in September 1963. The links above the video were provided by IncarcerNation, Nun Ya (x2), Stephen Lemons, Franklin Harris, Violet Blue, and IncarcerNation again, in that order.
- It’s comin’ right for us!
- Rest in Ignominy, Paul Ehrlich.
- An artificially stupid translation.
- Enshittification in the physical world.
- More lost episodes of Doctor Who discovered!
- I think I already saw this Doctor Who episode.
- What part of “never” is so difficult to understand?
From the Archives
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- Is a shiny new status symbol really worth being spied on & price-gouged?
- Texans & residents of several other states now need VPNs to watch porn.
- If you need the State to compel your teen to submit, you’ve already lost.
- Unless this insanity is found unconstitutional, things will keep worsening.
- Prohibition can never succeed, regardless of what it attempts to prohibit.
- Using the mad emperor’s two favorite bugaboos to ramp up surveillance.
- The inevitable result of giving aggressive men total power over women.
- Politicians are terrified of losing ways to destroy peaceful citizens’ lives.
- Forcing the government back from establishing a dangerous precedent.
- The predictable result of teaching kids passive obedience to “authority“.
- The fashionable “monkey see, monkey do” parade has escaped the US.
- WaPo “discovers” something I’ve been writing about for over a decade.
- Wayne County has openly stolen thousands of cars with similar tactics.
- How long will America ignore the costs of its worship of state violence?
- UK politicians are still bleating nonsense about “pimping” and “pizza”.
- Amazon eagerly hands data from internet-connected devices to cops.
- How does this affect Florida’s more widespread censorship problem?
- This anti-abortion law seems to be specifically targeted at doctors.
- This insanity will worsen until these maniacs are forcibly stopped.
- People everywhere are getting sick of prohibitionist censorship.
- Wouldn’t it be nice if there were at least a few adults in office?
- Didn’t this ignorant clod used to be a comedian or something?
- In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- Will the 11th Circuit suck Florida politicians’ dicks on this?
- Cops, irony, bagpipes, George Foreman, and much more.
- Curated selections of tweets from winter 2024 and 2025.
- Just another of those nonexistent false rape accusations.
- Indiana’s float in the “monkey see, monkey do” parade.
- Would you want a rapist lurking around your daughter?
- The predictable result of “fetal personhood” snake oil.
- Cops, Uranus, Bert I. Gordon, Topol, and much more.
- Violent censors trying to appear more “reasonable”.
- Tennessee is now apparently emulating Alabama.
- My two previous posts for the vernal equinox.
- The word “pause” means a temporary stop.
- Cops, poop, Vernor Vinge, and much more.
- Cops view alcoholism as a rape facilitator.
- Another disgusting genital inspection law.
- Taking the shutters down a bit too early.
- This outcome was unsurprising for Italy.
- Burble burble BLUE STATE burble drool.
- Throwback Thursday: The True Story.
- A wood-burning stove for the atrium.
- Rapist cops don’t only target women.
- Chicks growing like weeds, as usual.
- Another curated selection of tweets.
- The “Swedish model” helps women!
- Fridaystein Meets the Wolf Man.
- Grace loved dragons.
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Hawley is…trying to substitute…politicians for…scientists and health professionals. – Elizabeth N. Brown
When mere accusation is sufficient, anyone can wield the state’s weapons:
[Actress] Rebel Wilson‘s…public relations team discussed plans to create anonymous websites that [libel]ed the producer of The Deb [by accusing her] of [“]sex trafficking[“]…In a recording obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, digital fixer Jed Wallace instructed…publicist Melissa Nathan to assert without evidence that the producer, Amanda Ghost, is a “madame” whose work involves procuring young women for wealthy and powerful men…Nathan’s The Agency Group…deployed websites featuring character-assassinating claims about Ghost…on [order of]…Wilson’s production company…The now-deleted site…[says] “she turned full pimp”…[and] refers to Ghost as the “Indian Ghislaine Maxwell”…
The Last Shall Be First (#1470)
Governments are asserting ever-greater control over people’s medical care:
The…4th Circuit…upheld West Virginia’s ban on Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming surgeries in a unanimous ruling on…10 March…arguing with little evidence that gender-affirming care for trans adults was [a] “dangerous…experimental procedure”…[and bizarrely] claim[ing] that trans people had become “disdainful of their sex” and [should therefore be forced to]…“appreciate their sex” [by government diktat]…The…ruling is the first time a federal court…[has upheld] a restriction on healthcare for trans adults…human genomics academic Dr Jey McCreight branded the ruling “complete nonsense scientifically,” saying it was based on “fascist eugenics, not biology”…
May the same happen to every company which does this:
In January 2023, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti announced…that the company was making a hard pivot to…[computer-generated] slop…neither insiders nor the public were particularly compelled by the move…[but] Peretti doubled down…shuttting down its Pulitzer Prize-winning BuzzFeed News division…[in favor of computer-generated] quizzes…and…sloppy…repetitive [chatbot-generated articles]…the company’s stock [predictably] took a massive beating…[and it] reported a net loss of $57.3 million in 2025…an official statement [said]…“there is substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern”…Peretti [is so delusional he is]…now…hoping to bring “new AI apps to the market”…
These things are designed to appeal to the dregs of humanity:
A claimant giving evidence in the High Court [of the UK] was fed answers through [perve]rt glasses he was wearing that were connected to his mobile phone…Laimonas Jakstys…[then lied about] the…glasses [when confronted]…Jakstys gave his evidence through an interpreter…After several questions, [Sarah Walker, counsel for the defendants, told the judge]…she could hear an interference coming from around Mr Jakstys and [him to remove] his glasses…After a few further questions…Jakstys’ mobile phone started broadcasting [his coach’s voice] out loud…The following day, the judge directed that the [glasses and phone be held by his solicitor]…
Prohibition can never succeed, regardless of which substance is prohibited:
A new bill introduced by [prohibitionist lunatic] Josh Hawley…would [criminalize] medication abortion across the country. To support this [scheme], Hawley is relying on a…highly deceptive report that purportedly shows abortion-inducing drugs are unsafe…[to force the] FDA…[to rescind] approval of the drug mifepristone…and [also encourage prohibitionist grifters and opportunists]…to sue abortion pill manufacturers…women can still (fairly easily, it seems) have abortion-inducing medications shipped to them, [render]ing [Hawley’s scheme unfit for its stated purpose from square one]…
Under a totalitarian regime, medical personnel cannot be trusted with personal information:
…in December…Alexia Moore took 200mg of Misoprostol…[in] Southeast Georgia…[then went to a] hospital…and…[delivered a] premature [girl which doctors kept alive for about an hour]…Moore was arrested [in early March] and charged with murder…Georgia [law]…essentially deems a [fetus] alive once [fetal cardiac myocyte activity can be measured]…
Government thugs don’t care how many lives are destroyed by their evil:
…Angela Lipps…spent nearly six months in jail after Fargo [North Dakota cops carelessly accused her of]…bank fraud [based on nothing more than error-prone] facial recognition software…Lipps told [cops] she had never been to North Dakota [nor]…ever been on an airplane until [the pigs abducted] her to North Dakota…She r[otted away] in a Tennessee jail for nearly four months…awaiting extradition….Her attorney, Jay Greenwood…obtained her bank records and pr[oved]…Lipps was more than 1,200 miles away in Tennessee at the time [cops lied that she was]…in Fargo…[the pigs refused to] pay for her trip home, leaving her stranded [in North Dakota]. Local defense attorneys helped cover a hotel room and food on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, and a local non-profit, the F5 Project, was able to help her return to Tennessee…While jailed and unable to pay bills, Lipps lost her home, her car and her dog…
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The apparent path of the sun will cross the equator moving northward at 14:46 UTC today, marking the beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and autumn in the Southern. Enjoy the milder weather to come, and Blessed Be!
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The surest way to lose my cooperation is to accompany the demand with a phrase like “you must”, “you are required to”, “it’s the law”, etc. – “Off the Green”
Some of life’s greatest pleasures are pleasant precisely because they’re so ephemeral; if rainbows were always a feature of the sky, few would ever bother to look up at them in wonderment and appreciation.
– “Diary #663”
Baby-step reforms…are mostly intended to distract activists and hush timid human rights campaigners. – “Lack of Evidence (#1421)”
[Trump] wants to make the US status as the world’s cop official, complete with the cop power to terrorize whoever he likes on a whim without anything resembling consequences. – “Client Kingdoms”
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Every day felt like a week. Every week felt like a month. Every month felt like a year. – Owen Ramsingh
Cops will victimize anyone they can catch:
An 80-year-old man was recently arrested in Plattsburgh, New York…[during a Father]land Security [raid]…on…a massage business…the Clinton County Sheriff’s Office [collaborated with Father]land Security [to] execute…the [raid, with cops getting]…the…[white male victims while Father]land Security [gets]…the…Asian women [who are typically raped and robbed prior to deportation]…
The Puritan Recrudescence (#1057)
It’s sad that in the 21st century we’re still debunking claims that semen has magic powers:
…the…centuries-old myth…that sex or orgasm before a competition diminishes athletic performance…has repeatedly failed to [be] support[ed by]…numerous studies…whi[ch]…have shown that sex and orgasm are more likely to increase testosterone than decrease it. Now, a particularly well-designed laboratory study…[by] Spanish researchers…[has shown that] masturbation produced small but statistically significant improvements in certain performance measures…[including] increased total exercise time…[and] greater handgrip strength…there were no negative effects…[and] testosterone levels were actually higher in the masturbation condition. Cortisol levels were also elevated, suggesting increased physiological arousal rather than depletion…
Politicians really want to be able to define anything as “obscene” at will:
A new Ohio bill seeks to [penalize] companies who provide online resources for the state’s public schools and libraries…[if a politician later points at anything in those resources while belching the magic word] “inappropriate”…the companies would [be subjected to] a three-strike rule, in which they would be notified…and given the ability to “cure” the resources [by censoring them on demand]…The bill would [also censor] resource[s including]…drugs, tobacco, alcohol, gambling, [any] illegal activities…or…LGBT…[people]…
Elon Musk and all his “DOGE” goons should spend the next few decades in prison:
…a [typical and representative “]DOGE[” goon named John Solly who]…had access to two highly sensitive [Social Security] databases…share[d] the information with his [new] private employer…a c[ompany named Leidos]…an unprecedented breach of security protocols…[foolishly enabled by SCOTUS. Solly bragged] to…several co-workers that he possessed two tightly restricted databases of U.S. citizens’ information…on a thumb drive. The databases…include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names…he a[sked]…the whistleblower…[for] help transferring data from a thumb drive “to his personal computer so that he could ‘sanitize’ the data before using it at [Leidos” and]…the…colleague…refused to help him…because of legal concerns, [but Solly bragged] that he [did not care that it was]…illegal [because the mad emperor would pardon him]…
A [typical and representative Pennsylvania cop named]…Francis Connell Collier…was…killed…in a [shootout]…with [other cops]…who…[were trying to arrest him for] rape of a[t least two] child[ren]…beginning when they were about five or six years old…from 2001 through…2004…
The only way to ensure data is not abused is not to collect it:
Spain’s data protection authority…imposed a total fine of €950,000 on Yoti Ltd, the British digital identity and age verification company, after finding three distinct violations of [law]…the AEPD has [also] ordered Yoti to implement corrective measures within six months…Yoti’s…app allows users to create a verified identity account by uploading a government-issued identity document and taking a selfie…Yoti [claimed] that the facial scan it performs does not constitute biometric data…because…the purpose is not to uniquely identify users but to authenticate them. The authority [sensibly] rejected this [ridiculous] argument…
Some of these “suicides” are murders; others are people driven to suicide by barbaric abuse:
S[crews] at the nation’s largest [concentration camp] have placed bets on which [of their victims] will be the next to die by suicide…Camp East Montana [was refurbished from a WWII-era concentration camp used to falsely imprison US citizens of Japanese descent]…On an average day…around 3,000 [ICE victims] are [imprisoned there without adequate]…food [or]…medical care…
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If you’ve never had another living creature under your care, you may never have considered how much time and effort is spent dealing with their poop. Babies need to be changed several times a day, and if you’re in a city dogs need to be walked (out in the country they just let us know when they want to go outside); cat boxes need to be cleaned about twice a week, and henhouses need to be “mucked out” twice a year. That means using a shovel to remove all the “poultry litter”, which is merely a concise term for the revolting mixture of decaying hay or shavings, molted feathers, spilled food, and fecal matter which builds up on the floor over time. I generally do it in March before I get the nursery ready, then again in September or early October as it begins to turn cold. But when I did it last autumn it really wore me out (like any shovel work, it’s rather strenuous), so a couple of weeks ago I decided to start filling just one bucket every day (when I go in to check feed & water and collect eggs) and dumping it on the compost heap; that way the work is spread out so as to be less exhausting and less odious. While the chicks are still in the brooder, their poops are generally so tiny it’s no big deal to clean the shavings every week for the three weeks they’re inside; once in a while a chick gets a turd stuck to her butt-feathers, but it’s typically easily removed with fingernails (if you’re a parent you’ve touched worse, and there is such a thing as “soap” when the task is done). But this time one of the chicks arrived with a hardened mass of feces; I’m told this is called “pasty butt” and it can actually kill them if not removed, because their vent gets clogged. And it’s not easy to remove; it’s so hard and baby chicks are so fragile that one can’t simply pull it off, which means filling a basin with warm water and dipping her butt into it to soften the mess before removal. Once I was done I got to see and hear something one doesn’t encounter every day: a chick fart, as she squatted and emptied her chute with an audible “poot”. It has been a week since then and she seems fine now, so I think we’re past the danger. And I’m sure y’all enjoyed this fascinating discussion of literal chickenshit, so it’s a win all around.
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Is this idiocy starting again? From the 1920s to the early 1960s, animation was correctly viewed as a format everyone could enjoy. The theatrical cartoons of the Golden Age of animation (late 1930s to mid-1950s) were largely intended for adult theatrical audiences, and the animated TV shows of the early ’60s (such as The Flintstones and Jonny Quest) were prime-time shows intended for all ages. It wasn’t until the late ’60s, around the time that the eldest Baby Boomers were reaching adulthood, that American nitwits suddenly decided en masse that “cartoons” were only for “children”; Japan and Eastern Europe never bought into that, so their animation art developed while America’s sank into a kiddie ghetto from which it did not begin to emerge until The Simpsons premiered on The Tracy Ullman Show in 1987. Let’s not return to the “animation is for kids” fallacy, please.
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Cool off, give [your husband] a break. – cop, just before woman’s murder
Since the Taliban doesn’t want anyone to hear these women play, it is my great pleasure to share the video as a big “fuck you”. The links above it were provided by Ryan Marino, Walter Olson, Nun Ya, Popehat, IncarcerNation, and Ryan Marino again, in that order.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- This is an attack on all of humanity.
- What part of “never” is so hard to understand?
- When artificial stupidity meets natural stupidity.
- Crime: petty theft. Penalty: summary execution.
- Was this “protecting” or “serving”? It’s hard to tell.
From the Archives
- Politicians like to pretend their “monkey see, monkey do” float is different.
- “Sex addiction” will be used to excuse crime until judges stop accepting it.
- Appeals for financial support from my readers are difficult for me to write.
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- Both sides in the culture war have completely taken leave of their senses.
- Sick minds think it’s OK for male cops to barge into a women’s bathroom.
- The only way to keep personal data from being abused is not to collect it.
- Beware of men who “volunteer” to be in positions of authority over kids.
- “Multiple sex-trafficking charges and continuous sexual abuse of a child“.
- Bird-brains still believe realistic porn cartoons are the worst use for this.
- Maybe a few more big lawsuits will teach corporate busybodies a lesson.
- Puritans claim consensual sex constitutes “a dangerous criminal record”.
- “Bathroom bills” are back after blessedly vanishing for over three years.
- Give sexually-aggressive thugs power over teens; what could go wrong?
- Must be well-connected for Big Pigs to care about his girlfriend’s report.
- The main principle of politicians’ behavior is “monkey see, monkey do”.
- Politicians no longer care whether their new diktats are Constitutional.
- Cops usually make up some pretext for their armed robbery schemes.
- One of the people the government empowers to police your sexuality.
- The government calls this “correction”; for anyone else to is a choice.
- The government needs to be buried in lawsuits before this will stop.
- Another study shows what’s already been shown over & over again.
- Major events provide an excuse for State violence vs “undesirables”.
- The mad emperor has absolutely no idea how tariffs actually work.
- Absolutely nothing is “safe” if government actors know where it is.
- Note that cases of actual coercion don’t look much like the myths.
- Amazon’s fascist collaboration with cops just keeps getting worse.
- It didn’t take long for this one to demonstrate exactly what he is.
- Prohibitionists claim surprise at predictable effects of their bans.
- A precedent here could be used against all such evil “registries”.
- Prohibition turns the body of every citizen into a “crime scene”.
- Cop excuses produced by human bootlickers are bad enough.
- In mass surveillance, fascism runs rings around communism.
- I just can’t feel sorry for cops sexually abused by other cops.
- Because obviously prohibition doesn’t ruin enough lives yet.
- Cops, Roy Ayers, Carl Dean, George Lowe, and much more.
- Baby-step reforms are mostly intended to distract activists.
- I always manage to be surprised by how fast chicks grow.
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- Clearly “lay pastors” are no better than “youth pastors”.
- “Criminality” is a status defined entirely by the State.
- The conclusion of my two-part review of The X-Files.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Joe Camp, and much more.
- Chicago originally hid this costumed rapist’s picture.
- Why is Florida such a perpetual cavalcade of crazy?
- A tutorial on ethanol extraction of THC from resin.
- Actual pigs, singing cartoon pigs, and much more.
- Tracking down persistent leaks in the atrium roof.
- Animals loved Grace as much as she loved them.
- The 5th Circuit is, as usual, somewhat confused.
- A box of tiny dinosaur clowns in my bathroom.
- Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever.
- Laws are for the peasantry, not the rulers.
- These ghouls have absolutely no shame.
- Taste the Blood of Throwback Thursday.
- What did this guy think he was, a cop?
- Why does anyone still trust Facebook?
- This is a cop’s idea of “friendship”.
- Flesh for Throwback Thursday.
- On the atrophy of literacy.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- Oh, what a surprise.
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