This is the time of year when the pigs, guided by their amazingly acute sense of smell, start spending a lot of time under the apple trees, feasting on drops. Then in the late afternoon, when they know dinnertime is approaching, they head back to the east paddock, where they know I’ll be bringing their dinners. Last week I heard them through the open window, and managed to catch them heading toward dinner; the fuzziness is due to the window screen because I knew if I took the time to go outside, they’d already have passed. Bonus: y’all get to see and hear Louie being a drama queen when Cicero just looks at him too hard.
If you use social media, you’ve undoubtedly seen games like this. Typically they get a moderate amount of attention, but recently I played this one and had a lot of responses trying to guess my answers. I say “answers” because it’s difficult to choose one single favorite; in fact, I’ve done three columns of favorite movies over the years. Because it proved popular on Bluesky, I decided to share it with my blog readers also.
- A teacher offers to help a lonely guy get a girlfriend.
- A brilliant guy is too preoccupied with his sinus problems to tell a woman he loves her.
- A bunch of cartoons about a big marble.
- A group of Hollywood assholes gossip about each other.
- An old man interferes with a real estate deal.
- An ad executive gets mistaken for a nobody.
- Some military guys barge in on a reclusive academic and his daughter.
- A guy makes an antiwar speech.
- A woman steals her school rival’s boyfriend.
The only one most people seemed able to guess was #6. Once you’ve given up, go ahead and take a look at the three “favorite movie” columns, and you’ll probably be able to get six or seven of them; if you get above seven, let us know in the comments!
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You’re not the future anymore! – Mark Zuckerberg, sort of
Though Tim Curry died only the day after Dolly Parton, I wasn’t going to cheat him of a proper sendoff. The links above the video were provided by Ryan Marino; Radley Balko; Scott Greenfield and Dan Savage; The Onion; Ryan Marino again; Amy Alkon; and Nun Ya, in that order.
- Sic transit gloria mundi.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- R.I.P. Tim Curry and Gloria Steinem.
- Simultaneously funny and horrifying.
- More great moments in artificial stupidity.
- Everything I see makes me more determined never to fly again.
- Why did anybody think something called a “cloud” was permanent?
From the Archives
- Civil rights violations claimed as “solutions” to politician-created problems.
- How long will America ignore the cost of its sick worship of state violence?
- Americans’ sick lust for torture turns imprisonment into a death sentence.
- When will the mainstream media admit that pigs in schools are a menace?
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- Politicians don’t even try to make their new laws Constitutional any more.
- Don’t label your product “My X” unless you’re marketing it to 1st-graders.
- I’m not sorry for women who happily threw other women to the leopards.
- The way local media parrots clearly-foolish copaganda is utterly pathetic.
- It’s rare a court rules an action so stupid even a cop should know better.
- Seattle is notorious for cloaking its police-statery in bogus “liberal” cant.
- Two forced-birth states are moving to legally reduce women to serfdom.
- Governments are growing increasingly bold in their internet censorship.
- The Japanese are the only people who can still tell fantasy from reality.
- Red/blue fools pretend anti-sex authoritarians “do not agree on much”.
- Prohibition can never actually succeed in eradicating the banned thing.
- Unusually, they didn’t pitch this as the rapist doing his victims a favor.
- Don’t teach kids about sex; fill their heads with anti-sex propaganda.
- I’m really pleased with how well Durabak works on wooden surfaces.
- Some censors believe KOSA won’t destroy the internet fully enough.
- The resources flushed down the “culture war” toilet are incalculable.
- Government thugs continue their crusade against Christian charity.
- It’s far too late to cram this djinni back into its bottle, God help us.
- When a headline asks a question, the answer is nearly always “no”.
- Elon Musk’s “DOGE” didn’t “fail”; it worked exactly as he intended.
- It only starts with political pariahs like sex workers or gun owners.
- Note that cases of actual coercion don’t look much like the myths.
- Government internet censorship attempts grow increasingly bold.
- Ex-politicians’ changes of heart are cynical attempts to fool God.
- Cops, animals, artificial stupidity, Helen Fisher, and much more.
- “Pastor and sex offender” is a large and ever-expanding group.
- A powerful look at men playing D&D on Texas’ death row.
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- The worship of Santa Muerte has expanded worldwide.
- Cops, Roger Corman, Jimmy Buffett, and much more.
- Sleeping with a cop is dangerous even for other cops.
- PayPal is becoming a major threat to civil liberties.
- Chatbot usage actively harms brain functions.
- Cops, language, ice cream, and much more.
- This childish puritanism is so exhausting.
- Thoughts on the Bonnie Blue gang bang.
- Don’t let computers call them, either.
- Another “security” system that isn’t.
- Presentation isn’t my strong point.
- Laura Agustín on her new project.
- The Throwback Thursday Squad.
- Good riddance to bad rubbish.
- Zuckerberg is out of his mind.
- Cop is a cop is a cop is a cop.
- Sunset is a place for friends.
- Throwback Meets Thursday.
- It’s about goddamned time.
- Much more of this, please.
- Cicero loves apple season.
- Greenback Thursday.
- The Beat Goes On.
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The…State has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. – Stanley v. Georgia
This will never stop until all cops who murder prisoners are charged with murder:
LAPD…[pigs]…beat…a handcuffed and restrained [mentally ill] man multiple times…[in a cage until he died]. Jose Carlo Hoyos-Munoz…[was repeatedly chok]ed, elbowed, and kneeled on [by several over]weight [pigs] in three separate incidents…Hoyos-Munoz…“lost his mind”…and [attacked several members of his family, but had been in custody for]…approximately 20 hours…[when cops decided it was vitally important to the entire human race that he be] fingerprint[ed immediately instead of turned over to mental health professionals. So they oinked the magic words]…”non-compliant” a[t him]…before [a gang of] six [pigs violently attacked]…him…and [hobbled]…him…[When he continued to act like the extremely mentally ill person he was, the gang ludicrously oinked the magic word “]safety[“]…at…him…to [justify another brutal gang assault, which this time included repeatedly kicking him in the head and]…pressing [his] face into [a] cot…un[til he collapsed]…and [stopped] breathing…[LAPD is hiding] the names [and faces] of the [murderers]…
“Sex trafficking” is now entirely a Trump regime propaganda weapon:
…When young people enter the country seeking asylum without their parents, they are generally released to a sponsor, often a family member already living in America…These youth [“UACs”] are supposed to keep their addresses current in order to follow up on their applications for asylum and immigration court dates, but not all of them do…[Trumpists] have claimed, with[out] evidence, that UACs were being placed with unvetted or unfit sponsors, [call]ing…this… “human trafficking”…as a[n excuse] to limit migration…[the] Trump [regime]…claim[s] that…300,000 [of these minors a]re considered “missing”…this number is an utter invention—most UACs live with their sponsors, and some are now adults. Nevertheless, Trump’s DHS has prioritized locating these young people [in order to]…deport…[them]. Later stages of the program a[re] intended to locate UACs and charge their sponsors with…crimes…such as trafficking…[or] violations of the Mann Act…ICE has hired [bounty hunters] to [track] immigrants, including UACs[, like animals, and goons] have…[revoltingly referred to raids intended to abduct schoolkids as] “wellness checks”…
It’s been 4 years since this cop fad died out, long enough for Americans to forget:
Florida [copaganda] officials [claim] a statewide [“]operation[“] has helped find dozens of…children [and teenagers whose records the state had misplaced, or who were living with someone other than the court-assigned custodial parent or guardian]. Florida [psychopath-] General James Uthmeier [claimed] 163 children were [“]recovered[“, but in reality few were actually children and none were actually]…missing…Officials…[also tested a new euphemism for jails used to cage young people the State has decided to brand “]human trafficking[” victims, namely]…[“]designated recovery hubs[“]…
These “missing child operations” were innovated in Georgia in September 2020 after the pandemic made actual “stings” much more difficult, and became popular with cop shops all over the US for about two years. They’re constructed by combining a few arrests of sex workers and clients with mass arrests of teens in foster care and shelters and pretending they’re related.
A rare court judgment lessening the government’s ability to persecute thoughtcrime:
In Stanley v. Georgia, 394 U.S. 557 (1969), the Supreme Court created an exception to the rule that the government may freely restrict or punish speech that is…legally obscene, holding that possessing such material in one’s home is protected, as the First Amendment does not permit the government to punish people for private thoughts…And while sexually explicit images of real minors…that require…child abuse to create…[constitute an] unprotected category where even private possession is unlawful, the Supreme Court held in Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, 535 U.S. 234 (2002), that “virtual” CSAM not involving real minors…falls within Stanley’s protection. That’s been settled law ever since. But that didn’t stop the federal government from prosecuting the private possession of sexually explicit [computer-generated] images of [imaginary] minors in United States v. Anderegg…The Seventh Circuit [reject]ed [the prosecutors’ arguments], affirming th[at]…the First Amendment protects private, in-home possession of obscene depictions of non-existent minors…
Burble burble BLUE STATE burble drool:
The California legislature [has] passed…A.B. 1709…a sweeping ban on social media use for young people under…16. This…deeply flawed piece of legislation [intentionally] cuts young people off from essential information and experiences, particularly harming vulnerable youth and marginalized groups who often find safety in supportive online communities they can’t access offline…platforms would be prohibited from offering virtually every functional recommendation algorithm and basic input…to anyone under 16…By labeling these basic tools as “addictive,” the bill relies on…[pseudo]science [demonizing] youth social media use…A.B. 1709 is a massive privacy and free speech nightmare. Denying young people access to digital forums (or stripping out the basic tools needed to navigate them) does nothing to make young people safer or healthier…and…age-gating requirements will force everyone to give big tech companies even more personal information…
Safetyism has always enabled totalitarianism:
…the city [council of] Pflugerville[, Texas]…unanimously voted to terminate their [contract] with Flock S[urveillance]…resulting in the city turning off all 28 Flock License Plate Reader cameras leased by the city and covering them with plastic bags…[after learning that over 400 agencies had accessed its Flock system…even though only 83 had authorization]…the city…has requested that all city data be deleted immediately and permanently [but it is doubtful Flock will comply]…
Cops will abuse warrantless surveillance for as long as it exists:
A Texas [cop ab]used [the] Flock [surveillance network] more than 10,000 times to [stalk] an ex-girlfriend, her family members and other people she had relationships with…Zachary Anthony Klein…was…investigated [after one of his victims discovered]…the [stalking and initiated]…a public information request [so the cop shop could no longer ignore his crimes]…that…[were committ]ed “nearly all hours of the day and night”…from June 2024 to December 2025…The ex-girlfriend [said]…Klein was…obsessed…with the idea she was cheating on him and would often look through her phone…he…also…threatened to find and kill someone she had a prior relationship with…
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I haven’t forgotten that I estimated Lost Angels would be released around June, but long-time readers know that I’ve never been especially good at estimating when my books would come out; The Essential Maggie McNeill came out six years after I first announced I was working on it, and even The Forms of Things Unknown was much later than originally announced. The main reason my books tend to come out so much later than my most hopeful predictions is that I’m not working from an advance, which means I need to prioritize my bread-and-butter writing first. But another part is that I’m a rather moody person (I know you’re shocked at this revelation) and will sometimes procrastinate some step or another for months until I get into the right frame of mind. But this time, I have what I believe to be a better excuse: Chester Brown has been busy with other projects, and since he does these covers for me out of friendship I don’t like to hassle him as though I were some kind of entitled ingrate. But I recently decided to email him to ask if he was still busy, and he replied that he was, but if we waited until he wasn’t the cover would never be done. So he included a rough sketch of his cover concept and I was pleased and excited by it; I shot back a little input, and I suspect it won’t be terribly long before he is done. So I’m not going to make another estimate which will probably also be wrong, but I will say that I think it’s not improbable that it will be out this year.
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For those who find [drag shows] offensive, the solution is relatively simple…just don’t go. – Judge David Hittner
When will amateur women learn cops are dangerous sex predators?
[A Baltimore cop named] Daniel Oxendine…[raped] a woman…[who foolishly approached] him to [ask him to] drive her…home…[when they got there,] Oxendine [forced his way] inside and [raped] her…Investigators [believe]…he may have [had other victims so he]…is being held [without bail]…
[The prominent anti-female autonomy group] Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America [has] signed a letter calling on the Department of [In]justice…to interpret a 19th century anti-obscenity law as a national abortion ban. It’s the first time the country’s largest anti-a[utonomy] organization has publicly endorsed this interpretation of the Comstock Act, signaling that a once-fringe reading of the dormant law has gone mainstream within the [forced-birth] movement—and that these groups are coming for more than just abortion pills…Comstock bans mailing any article or thing that can be used for abortions…including…devices and other supplies sent to brick-and-mortar abortion clinics. These same drugs, devices, and supplies are also used for routine obstetric care, including miscarriage management and treatment of postpartum hemorrhage…
Your regular reminder that regardless of what evil laws fanatics impose, abortion medication will still be available by mail unless the US entirely criminalizes shipping things.
The Last Shall Be First (#1567)
It should be a felony to propose a bill that is facially unconstitutional:
U.S. District Judge…David Hittner [has once again] ruled that Texas’ law banning drag shows around minors is “facially overbroad” and “unconstitutionally vague”…Hittner had originally ruled SB 12 unconstitutional in 2023, shortly after it was passed…[but psychopath-]General Ken Paxton appealed [the] ruling to the…Fifth Circuit…which…sent the case back to Hittner…who…[pointed out that] banning…[any] performance…that…”appeals to the prurient interest in sex”…might…apply to performers as varied as Elvis Presley…Dolly Parton, and Miley Cyrus…
These showboat bills waste public money for politicians’ virtue-signaling; the only allowable defense should be that the politician was too stupid to understand the plain language of the Constitution.
When Ambulance-Chasers Run the Hospitals (#1626)
The open internet will soon be a thing of the past:
…[Facebook] has settled with 52 state and local Attorneys General who had sued the company in some form or another [using the excuse of “]child safety[“]…the years-long case…against [it] ends, and [Zuckerberg] pays…approximately $18 billion…[and] will implement a bunch of changes to its platforms…everyone involved knows full well that no government could mandate these feature changes without violating the First Amendment. But now that it’s in a “settlement”…people are cheering this on, without realizing the damage it will do…For a few decades now, when basically all Attorneys General would get together to threaten and/or sue tech companies, it was almost always over bullshit headline grabbing claims where the AGs either had no jurisdiction or ability to legally do anything…these efforts are so resource intensive, so expensive, and so draining that it’s no surprise that most companies end up “settling” by agreeing to do things that the government simply cannot force a company to do. But because it’s a “settlement” people act like it’s not the government doing it…The other bit of background worth understanding here is that [Facebook] has been…practically begging for Congress to pass child safety legislation that only the largest companies (like itself) could comply with…[such as] FOSTA…it’s been pretty consistently losing the innovation race, and the government granting it a regulatory moat that smaller competitors can’t cross would be a godsend…[especially when i]t looks like…“losing” a lawsuit…
He was named “Deputy of the Year” for exemplifying cops’ true nature so well:
[A Florida cop named] Michael Fultz [was allowed to] resign…[rather than being fired] for…extreme…sexual misconduct, racism, and abuse…Brevard County named Fultz its Deputy of the Year in 2025. The day of the ceremony [his] ex-girlfriend sent a letter…to the sheriff’s office with a long list of complaints about his behavior…which [prompted]…the…discover[y that] he’d used Flock to stalk her…[further] investigation found Fultz had posed for pictures as Adolf Hitler, freely used racial slurs in texts, masturbated on camera in his p[igmobile, shoved his gun into]…his ex-girlfriend[‘s]…mouth during sex [and took pictures, and] repeatedly [covered]…his motorcycle [license plate while speeding over 100 mph so he could look like a big man on]…Instagram and TikTok…the sexual encounter where…he [threatened to murder his girlfriend] occurred [immediately after he murdered a man in April 2025, then blamed his victim]…
Cops will abuse warrantless surveillance for as long as it exists:
A…[Kentucky cop was actually]…suspended…and…charge[d] for [repeat]edly using license plate reader cameras to track and harass [his ex-girlfriend] in Kentucky and Indiana…Asad Zahir …used…Flock…to conduct more than 2,000 searches on [her] from January through May of this year, [despite]…an Indiana…[“]protective order[“] against him…Zahir…[abused the system so egregiously Flock’s software reported him to his bosses]…
Cops are angry that people hate unconstitutional surveillance:
A…Florida [cop shop] used “decoy” Flock cameras that a…[pig] 3D-printed at home to “bait” [citizens concerned about unconstitutional surveillance]…then charged a man with three felonies after he cut down and destroyed one…Oviedo, Florida mayor Megan Sladek said she “had NO idea” that [cops were planning this scam]…Despite the decoy camera being worth, at most, several dollars worth of plastic filament, Evan Meyer was charged with…[“]attempted[” felonies]…Meyer ad[mitted that he targeted the make-believe] camera…specifically…[because it] was close…to his house…The [pig scheme] is reminiscent of Amazon “package sting” [scam]s that several [cop shops] attempted several years ago, in which empty Amazon boxes were placed on people’s porches while p[igs lurked to spy]…result[ing] in zero known arrests…
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I did realize that a full-grown turkey could not live comfortably in a henhouse with chickens, but what I did not realize was just how much trouble it would be. First, he injured himself trying to get through the chicken door, so I had to let him in and out through the walk-through door for the past couple of months. He also kept trying to flap his wings inside, which meant every day I had to deal with the feeder getting knocked loose (and the feed consumed 50% faster), most of the water being dumped on the ground, electrical cords being knocked loose, and nasty shit getting everywhere, producing a reek that was intolerable even by chicken standards. But then I realized that in addition to all that, the hens were pecking him so badly he had bloody sores under his tail and on his back between the wings. So last week I shooed him out into the paddock, which was not easy; he whacked me with his wings (which are much stronger than one would expect) and kept running in every direction other than the one where I wanted him to go. That was through the open gate, which meant several of the chickens took advantage of it even though he wouldn’t, which meant they needed to be shooed back in once I finally got him out. He then spent several days just lurking outside the fence, staring in with an expression I interpreted as the avian equivalent of a child with no money pressing his runny nose against the window of a candy store. But on Saturday he started wandering around a bit, and on Sunday he was up in the north paddock hunting for bugs in the grass. He later joined the pigs and goat eating the corn I throw over the fence; I’d been giving him some separately from the pigs, but on Sunday he joined them so I just doubled the amount. All in all, this looks like the way to do it, should I choose to raise more large fowl in the future, but next time I’ll do it before the injuries start accumulating.
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Do you really want to live in a world where everyone must suffer the consequences of every mistake, act of desperation, bad decision, foolish choice and even false accusation forever, without any hope of escape no matter how blameless his life is after that? – “Permanent Record”
- Economists don’t have a monopoly on stupid assumptions about sex work.
- Amazon’s not a library, but given prominence this is a censorship attempt.
- Be skeptical of claims about the sexual habits of the “younger generation”.
- I’m sure you feel safer now that police “investigated” this “sexual assault”.
- Christina Slater on Seattle’s persecution of men who seek consensual sex.
- Houston judge orders hotel to pay off cops & discriminate vs sex workers.
- “Pedophiles” can shoot dangerous “male gaze” radiation through internet.
- Trying to turn Lawrence into a “monogamous vanilla amateurs only” club.
- If there are so many “sex trafficking victims”, why keep making up tales?
- This woman is so puffed up, I think she’d pop if one stuck her with a pin.
- Minnesota tries to cash in on “sex trafficking” hysteria before it vanishes.
- “Sex addiction” is now being used as a defense for violent sex offenders.
- Seattle “officials” think harm reduction principles only apply to drug use.
- Sometimes land grabs are more subtle, even if reporters’ language isn’t.
- Are politicians really stupider than other people, or does it just seem so?
- Pompous ass seems committed to braying out of both sides of her maw.
- Being a “legal” sex worker doesn’t protect you, so stop your bootlicking.
- Sweden emasculates its men, wonders why Swedes are having less sex.
- The myth of “sex addiction” sprang from “social construction of gender”.
- Prosecutors claim sex workers are victims and criminals simultaneously.
- Latest battle in France’s ongoing war on Muslimahs’ personal autonomy.
- Cops, lost cities, weird fantasies, flat maps, prohibition and much more.
- I’m glad to see well-spoken & “out” sex workers appearing on podcasts.
- Cop thinks she can “build communication with sex workers” by robbery.
- US “authorities” turn driving a friend to work into “child sex trafficking”.
- Say you’re “fighting sex trafficking”; stupid people will give you money.
- Most politicians are more careful when indulging in drugs with hookers.
- What happens when cops “enforce” laws against acts that hurt nobody.
- Once again, Liz Brown exposes the tyranny of “fighting sex trafficking”.
- Reporters should be ashamed of their attempts to shame sex workers.
- Gary Johnson’s position on sex work wasn’t quite so muddled in 1991.
- Philippine president carrying “War on Drugs” to its logical conclusion.
- Remember, cops: raping whores is OK; it’s paying us fairly that isn’t.
- A client who isn’t afraid of the cops and their stupid shaming tactics.
- Imagine if $100,000 was spent on services instead of spreading lies.
- On the fantasy that “predators” use video games to abduct children.
- Not rape, but he sure seems to think it was his privilege to fuck her.
- More groups are speaking up in favor of sex work decriminalization.
- Louisiana politicians destroy scores of jobs with the stroke of a pen.
- Nearly all “sex offender” laws are this unconstitutionally overbroad.
- Ally uses the Desiree Alliance conference to introduce larger issues.
- Another violent cop, another black woman profiled as a sex worker.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
- How does this dude think he’ll get around UK brothel & avails laws?
- Why do economists make such dumb assumptions about sex work?
- Despite its appearance in Rolling Stone, this is an excellent article.
- “Punitive and stupid” describes all “sex offender” registration laws.
- You’re supposed to be a libertarian, Gary; this ain’t rocket science.
- Rent in exchange for sex isn’t “free”; it has been paid for with sex.
- Cops frame young men for supposedly “seeking sex with children”.
- They’re not going to like legalization & protectionism if they get it.
- Exactly like the World Cup two years ago. Why can’t people learn?
- Ian O’Doherty with another denunciation of prohibition in Ireland.
- Over 90% of violence against sex workers comes from the police.
- One of the rare times you’ll ever see me actually assist the cops.
- Cops, Orwell, Sweden, King Arthur, laws, magic and much more.
- Why won’t those who know anti-sex dogma is bullshit speak up?
- Putting extraordinary restrictions on cops is not remotely unfair.
- Cops, stubbornness, Ron Obvious, girl-girl BDSM & much more.
- Melissa Petro on the stigma faced by sex workers with children.
- These “experts” don’t criticize “john shaming” when cops do it.
- Canada’s new law “protects” sex workers from lonely old men.
- There’s no “if” about it; Melania Trump is or was a sex worker.
- Transmen are also the subjects of violence and discrimination.
- Mexican police do little to protect the transgender community.
- It’s always so sweet when a rescue industry scam is exposed.
- The problem is not with the act, but with the laws against it.
- Pig invents new excuse for criminalization of sex with goats.
- Another of those cases whose reported details don’t add up.
- Yet “leftists” are still surprised that “feminists” are anti-sex.
- The government stole all of Rentboy’s legal defense money.
- “Temporary protective custody” = indefinite imprisonment.
- To what extent is sex work criminalization tied into racism?
- This unsupported and hysterical assertion reeks of racism.
- “Sex trafficking” may be the first truly global moral panic.
- How can a young guy get an escort to take him seriously?
- Two men convicted for non-crimes against a non-person.
- Mounting opposition to “abstinence only” sex education.
- Because female sexual “purity” trumps individual rights.
- Satan, vindication, cops, laws, Sweden and much more.
- Just another reminder of what “rescue” actually means.
- Another health organization issues a pro-decrim report.
- Sydney Brownstone with an update on a sleazy rapist.
- On the slow decline of the devadasis in Indian society.
- In which I announce the return of my ability to travel.
- Not a bad introduction to the concept of whorearchy.
- Amateurs, does this kind of stuff actually shock y’all?
- August is also before the heat death of the universe.
- The result of stigma, encouraged by criminalization.
- “Dear Prudence” calls a reader on her whorephobia.
- Remember, this is pretended to be about sex work.
- Too much for the tiny, narrow minds of politicians.
- Irish cops start implementing the Swedish model.
- Most whores love Dolly as much as she loves us.
- Wow, that’s some MIGHTY “suppression” there!
- How prohibitionists want to “help” sex workers.
- Just a typical case in a typical American prison.
- A policewoman decides to turn to honest work.
- Slowly but surely, we’re forcing them to listen.
- Hmm, where have I heard this pattern before?
- OMG, WHORES KNOW HOW TO USE PHONES!!
- The government is culpable in these assaults.
- In other news, Pope announces he’s Catholic.
- Another murdered transwoman, and another.
- Actually, this isn’t the “Nordic model” at all.
- How can my wife improve her sexual skills?
- This is, as we’ve seen before, pure bullshit.
- This situation is not even close to “unique”.
- A memorable cam duo with Lorelei Rivers.
- On the lie of “negative secondary effects”.
- So much for “negative secondary effects”.
- Why do sex workers prefer older clients?
- The boot has to be on somebody’s neck.
- Sweden’s “liberal reputation” is bullshit.
- Things I’m not going to tell you about.
- Sex drives technological development.
- The end of regular fictional interludes.
- When a sick infatuation is frustrated.
- Kaytlin Bailey at the Fringe Festival.
- Undermining statutes of limitations.
- Getting my vacuum cleaner back.
- Canada wants a “pimp town” too.
- Yet this isn’t called “trafficking”.
- Sweden, the feminist paradise.
- William Blake on politicians.
- Baltimore police are typical.
- The past exonerative tense.
- A week of highs and lows.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- Rapist DA of the week.
- Holy idosing, Batman!
- A really intense week.
- Fascism in action.
- Zero equals zero.
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Get on the fucking ground…I will fucking tase you. – cop to “missing child”
Even with all of her songs to choose from, this felt to me like the most appropriate tribute to one of the world’s most beloved human beings. The links above it were provided by Radley Balko; Mistress Matisse; T. Greg Doucette; Ryan Cooper and Scott Long; Nun Ya (x2); and IncarcerNation, in that order.
- At the Mountains of Madness.
- Aboard the SS Queen of Ulthar.
- No, your reason is not an exception.
- R.I.P. Dolly Parton and King Harald V.
- Dust storms are back, now with added fungus!
- They keep demonstrating exactly what they are.
- What part of “never” is so difficult to understand?
From the Archives
- Google has made violating its users’ consent a standard business practice.
- Ignoramus censors don’t understand why people ignore their stupid laws.
- It’s been a while since we’ve heard from the “Campaign Against Toasters”.
- Cop deals with disagreement in typical cop fashion; the press is shocked.
- Pigs may only excuse sexual assault as a “search” if the victim is female.
- Young women are using “sex trafficking” as an excuse for violent crimes.
- Feigned sympathy for “trafficking victims” applies only to “perfect” ones.
- Had he not been caught at this stage, he’d have soon moved on to rape.
- Amateurs repeatedly botch what sex workers have done for many years.
- Keep plunging that ice pick in; the bad thoughts will go away eventually.
- Politicians embrace “magic fentanyl” myth; will the media finally drop it?
- Totally-predictable results of bad laws are happening right on schedule.
- Some believe they can live forever by eliminating all pleasure from life.
- The government will say anything to ensure Lacey dies in a filthy cage.
- Politicians really believe they can control people’s thoughts via threats.
- A newspaper publisher dies on her feet, at least figuratively speaking.
- The fascist owners of most of these allow cops to root in them at will.
- Unembellished “sex trafficking from a store” scary tales are now rare.
- The sick lust to know everything about everybody has consequences.
- This will continue until there are federal criminal charges for doing it.
- Americans flush incalculable resources down the “culture war” toilet.
- That word appears, but 15 paragraphs in and blunted by qualifiers.
- Retrospectives of my blogging from August 2013, 2014, and 2015.
- This will continue until the evil US immigration policy is reformed.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Morgus, Phil Donahue, and much more.
- Tyrannies often start with sex workers, but never stop with us.
- The cop establishment is trying hard to hide this one’s crimes.
- Cops, faux environmentalism, Arleen Sorkin, and much more.
- In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- An especially vile Gestapo weapon: fake “child porn” charges.
- Bootlickers say child porn is OK if the criminal is a good shot.
- Some cops don’t limit themselves to one type of creepiness.
- You’d think “youth pastor” would be a big red flag by now.
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- Politicians can always mine tragedy to justify more evil.
- A new film adaptation of Chester Brown’s Paying For It.
- How long before Google becomes completely useless?
- Prohibitionists always end up with egg on their faces.
- This sleazebag tried to frame a woman for his crime.
- Cops, useful idiots, cultural shifts, and much more.
- Con artists use moral panics to fleece the gullible.
- Modern monogamy is becoming increasingly sick.
- Privacy as we once knew it is a thing of the past.
- It was obvious this would turn out to be sordid.
- The best year for fruit since I bought Sunset.
- It only starts with demonized minorities.
- The US Constitutional order is no more.
- Rapist cops don’t only target women.
- Throwback Thursday’s Hungry Dead.
- Fracchia vs Throwback Thursday.
- Don’t fret, it’s for your “security”.
- Ghost of Throwback Thursday.
- Redoing the atrium lighting.
- Another round of Durabak.
- Much more of this, please.
- Good weather for slugs.
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