The apparent path of the sun reaches its southernmost point at 15:59 UTC today, making this the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and the longest day of the year in the Southern. This is a time for remembrance, renewal and rebirth; I wish for all my readers the blessings of the season, and pray that all of you get all you hope for in the new year. Blessed Be!
Archive for December, 2021
Yule 2021
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays, paganism on December 21, 2021| 2 Comments »
Diary #599
Posted in Diary, tagged holidays, Presents, Toys for Tots on December 20, 2021| 1 Comment »
Because I like showing my toy drive donors what I did with their money, behold! These are the results of the shopping trip I mentioned last Tuesday; since the trunk was already full, I didn’t want to leave them in the back seat overnight. Immediately after taking this snap, I loaded them in the car and left my incall to return to Sunset, stopping by Olympia on the way to drop them off. Those with sharp eyes may notice I got two copies of “Sorry”; that’s because it was one of my favorite games as a kid so I buy at least one every toy drive. In general, I try to avoid duplication within a batch, but since each drive requires several trips I sometimes forget what I’ve already bought, and I reckon it doesn’t really matter anyhow as long as I maintain a rough balance of boyish toys, girly toys, unisex toys (including games) and toddler toys. Not in the picture: several books and DVDs (and a bottle of my favorite perfume) from some of my lovely gentlemen, which I found waiting for me when I arrived. And while I was in Seattle I also did the last of my own Christmas shopping, so now I can just concentrate on the last of the preparations for our celebration this weekend.
Links #598
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged animals, cops, holidays, imaginative fiction, language, Maryland, New Orleans, robots, sex toys, Texas, United Kingdom, video on December 19, 2021| 3 Comments »
It’s coming…it’s coming soon. – Rodolfo
This seasonal video is kinda brilliant on several levels. It was provided by Walter Olson, and the links above it by Tim Cushing, Missy Mariposa, Mike Siegel, Clarissa, David Ley, The Onion, and Mike Peters, in that order.
- It’s all-natural!
- R.I.P. Anne Rice.
- So that’s where I left it.
- I hate it when this happens.
- Well, at least the snakes are gone.
- Funniest thing I’ve read this month.
- It’s rare for a headline to blame cops rather than car or victim.
From the Archives
- Prohibition turns bodies into “crime scenes” which cops can violate at will.
- One of the smelliest turds from the collective Seattle anti-whore arsehole.
- DAs refusing to prosecute consensual acts are jury nullification writ large.
- Prohibition never eradicates the banned thing; it just helps shady actors.
- Some rescue profiteers pretend to be ex-pimps; this guy really was one.
- PREA does nothing while screws have absolute power over their victims.
- More cops using non-consenting people as props in a propaganda show.
- Why whore licensing never works is obvious to everyone but politicians.
- Remember, this is not slavery, but lucrative, flexible, voluntary work is.
- Sometimes the pigs make an example of an unusually-awful rapist cop.
- “Signs of sex trafficking” have continued to proliferate to absurd levels.
- NSWP on state surveillance and harassment of sex workers who travel.
- Backpage case judge claims the Backpage case “isn’t about Backpage”.
- Another rescue industry scam to exploit sex workers captured by cops.
- When South Korea provided “comfort women” to occupying US troops.
- When you give something to strangers, don’t be shocked if they sell it.
- The hotel industry is going to regret having collaborated with fanatics.
- Psychopathic sheriff loves staging entrapment schemes near holidays.
- Veteran activist Norma Jean Almodovar on leaving LAPD for sex work.
- The inane “wing” model leads its devotees down the road to Moronia.
- Pretending to be a sex worker gets the attention without the stigma.
- Why are men with so much to lose so goddamned stupid about sex?
- Cops think they can never have enough pretexts to harass people.
- Kiran Deshmukh of the National Network of Sex Workers in India.
- Cops, odors, Pooh, Charley Pride, John le Carré, and much more.
- Florida lets screws deport people after beating and raping them.
- The government’s latest sleazy trick: attacking with civil suits.
- Cops are deeply twisted and in dire need of professional help.
- Still doubt that politicians are deranged megalomaniacs?
- FBI thugs are just federal cops, and behave accordingly.
- Providing some small help to needy kids in a lean year.
- Prohibitionists care only about “messages”, not facts.
- The best news we’ve had yet about Amazon’s Ring.
- Prohibitionists are targeting all online sex work.
- Your government refers to this as “correction”.
- Feds arrest doctors for trying to heal people.
- Cops, farts, Caroll Spinney, and much more.
- But please, tell me more about the “wings”.
- We finally have all of our roofing materials.
- Spending the holidays with my best friend.
- My previous columns for December 17th.
- Rapist cops of the week, 2019 and 2020.
- Cane is “contaminated” with sugar!
- I believe in Father Christmas.
In the News (#1198)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged abortion, agency denial, Arizona, asset seizure, brothels, California, consensual crime, cops, Creepy Coppers, drugs, Enablers, Facebook, Florida, law, lawyers, Legislators Gone Wild, Montana, Nevada, Never Call the Cops, New Zealand, Policing for Profit, porn, prisons, psychology, Texas, The Mob Rules, Thou Shalt Not, To Molest and Rape, Torture Chamber on December 18, 2021| Leave a Comment »
The federal government is literally paying state and local police to circumvent state law. – Justin Pearson
If only there were a concise word for “coerced into having sex”:
An Elk Grove [California cop], along with [his cop shop] and city of Elk Grove, are being sued by a woman who…was [raped by]…the [cop, whose identity the state is hiding so he can continue to prey on other vulnerable women]…in April, the woman called 911 to report the theft of her vehicle’s catalytic converter…When the [rapist, who was among the responding cops, discovered]…she was single, he took her number and [claimed] it would be used for the investigation…[but in actuality] he [used it to harass]…her…th[reatening] her son…if she did not [submit]…she complied [due to reasonable]…fear of retaliation…[but] called [a different cop shop]…to…report…the…rape [afterward]…
New Zealand cops apparently lack sufficient reasons to brutalize people:
New Zealand is [criminaliz]ing young people [who]…buy cigarettes in a rolling program that aims to make [every]…smoke[r in the country a criminal] by 2025…Each year the age limit will be increased until…[all Kiwis who smoke are criminalized]…As part of the strategy, cigarette prices have [been artificially] increased by 10 per cent every year for the 10 years between 2011 and 2020, but…the price hike has…creat[ed] a black market for cigarettes…
But just in case you thought politicians were capable of logic:
New Zealand has become the first country in the world to permanently legalise drug checking services, which will allow individuals to test the safety of illicit substances at festivals and other locations without the fear of legal repercussions…
So will services checking the safety of black market cigarettes be legal?
Until there are criminal penalties for this behavior, cops have no incentive to stop:
In [2016], Florida passed a law [intended to] reform…the state’s civil asset forfeiture process…But despite t[his]…Florida remains one of the most prolific practitioners of [legalized robbery, because]…local and state police can evade the new restrictions by [simply] working with the federal government [to divvy up the take]…In 2012, the Justice Department demanded that the police department in Bal Harbour, Florida—population 2,500—return $4 million in forfeited assets after audits showed the department had been misusing funds for lavish expenses, vehicles, payouts to snitches, and first-class travel…Bal Harbour police had been running a [so-called] task force…[which actually] laundered $56 million for drug cartels through undercover police bank accounts…police in the suburb of Sunrise, Florida…raked in millions by using well-paid snitches to lure cocaine buyers into town from around the country…and s[teal]ing their cash…a dozen members of the…vice squad had each made hundreds of thousands of dollars in overtime pay through the stings…
[A professional fantasist] and two…unnamed…[collaborators, backed by anti-sex extremists Morality in Media, have re-]filed a [previously-dismissed] lawsuit…against Nevada’s Governor [and others, seeking]…to put an end to legalized…prostitution in the state [because of their fantasies about it]…The lawsuit [bizarrely claims]…that…legalized prostitution…[is] “violating the thirteenth amendment’s ban on slavery”…Guinasso [also] argues that…prostitution [should be further criminalized because]…it…[allows women to] make a good living…
A district court judge has to do SCOTUS’ job because it won’t:
S.B. 8, the Texas law that bans abortion after fetal cardiac activity can be detected, relies on a novel enforcement mechanism…It authorizes lawsuits by “any person” against “any person” who performs or facilitates a prohibited abortion and promises plaintiffs at least $10,000 in “statutory damages,” plus reimbursement of their legal expenses, if they win. That “unique and unprecedented” arrangement …violates the state constitution’s standing requirements for civil actions, the separation of powers, and the right to due process…[ruled] Travis County District Court Judge David Peeples…His 48-page order emphasizes how the law’s “completely new” enforcement mechanism favors plaintiffs over defendants and warns that the same strategy could be deployed against all sorts of politically disfavored constitutional rights…”It is one thing to authorize taxpayers or citizens to file suits against government officials to make them obey a law, and…quite another thing to incentivize citizens or persons to file suits against other private citizens to extract money from them, with no pretense of compensating the claimant for anything”…
Since IANAL, I can’t judge whether SCOTUS arguments supporting its continued refusal to take action are specious or not. But they’re certainly convenient.
Arizona screws think they can cure mental illness by torture:
Day after day…Rahim Muhammad slammed his head into the prison cell door…[because he] heard voices that told him to harm himself. But instead of providing counseling…Arizona prison staff repeatedly gassed Muhammad with pepper spray…more than 40 times over eight months [in the past year]…In one two-week period, Muhammad was pepper sprayed 15 times. Sometimes [screws] gassed him twice a day…[or] shot him at close range with a pepper ball gun…The treatment…was recently highlighted in the [class action suit over medical neglect in Arizona prisons. Screws]…have no psychiatric training, but nevertheless told Muhammad that his frequent self-harming behavior is a choice…and…”We’ll gas you, we’ll shoot you, and we’ll tase you until you stop”…Muhammad has spent the majority of the past seven years in…[solitary confinement]…causing [even more] harm…
Setting an example for his underlings:
The [typical and representative] East Helena [Montana] chief of police…admitted…that he distributed child pornography in 2019 using [Facebook]…William Daly Harrington…faces a mandatory minimum five years to 20 years in prison…[and] a $250,000 fine…[he was caught] in September 2020…[after] Facebook Messenger [told cops]…that the Facebook Messenger account…belong[ing] to Harrington….sent…child pornography…[to another] account…
Written in Blood
Posted in Perception, Philosophy, The Dark Side, Tyranny, tagged activism, Business As Usual, censorship, cops, holidays, hysteria, politicians, The Red Umbrella, violence vs. sex workers on December 17, 2021| 3 Comments »
Even as the “sex trafficking” panic implodes, those who…use…it as an excuse for violence have redoubled their efforts. – “Before It Gets Better”
If you are a regular reader, you’ve probably noticed that I’m no longer writing new essays for those occasions I’ve observed with polemics for the past decade. As I wrote last March, “It’s time for older activists like me to move into a more advisory role…[and] as part of that shift, I think it’s time for me to stop writing new essays on this topic, lest I grow irrelevant due to repetition.” And so, as I have already done on every other such occasion this year, I present a collection of statements I’ve previously made on this topic:
Most people are far too frightened of reality to admit that their government wantonly enacts laws and procedures whose specific and intentional purpose is to destroy the lives of anyone it has designated an “enemy of the state”.
– “The Body Count”
This jihad is no more “well-meaning” than the Drug War, alcohol Prohibition, Jim Crow or any other campaign of government violence against individuals and civil rights. – “Malice Aforethought”
A…large…fraction of the violence committed against sex workers is committed directly by armed agents of the state, often though not always under the excuse of “gathering evidence” for our “crime” of having impure thoughts about otherwise-legal sex. – “Against Violence”
The State…wants to send “messages” against [sex,] drugs and many other forms of pleasure; against free thought, free speech and free movement; against self-determination and self-ownership; and most of all against the dangerous idea that it does not own you and has no right to control your body, your mind or your possessions. – “Sending Messages”
Until our society grows up and stops believing in ridiculous fairy tales about magical sex acts and ritual purity, sex workers will continue to be treated as disposable. – “December Seventeenth”
The state, Western religions, and carceral “feminists” teach that a woman who has sex for practical reasons rather than emotional ones is robbed of her “purity”, and that an “impure” woman would be better off dead. – “On December Seventeenth”
We…honor our dead not merely by weeping for them, but by fighting for the day when no more of us have to die for a sick and twisted fantasy of governmental control over the private choices of individuals. – “Honoring Our Dead”
“End demand” and Swedish model proponents…respond to copious evidence that the approach harms sex workers by denying it, insisting that the harm is actually good…or simply dismissing it as a “price worth paying” for their fanatical dream of a society in which sex is entirely under government control.
– “End Violence, Not Demand”
The propaganda which drives this moral panic paints all prostitutes as pathetic, childlike victims suffering from mental illnesses which render us unable to make decisions for ourselves, thus justifying our abduction, imprisonment, deportation, robbery and rape. – “A Day Against Hate”
The laws criminalizing our profession allow weak-minded men (and even some women) to convince themselves that since we are “criminals” we don’t deserve to be treated like human beings. – “The Red Umbrella“
The Limits of Resolution
Posted in Philosophy, tagged imaginative fiction, STEM on December 16, 2021| 2 Comments »
My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose…I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of, or can be dreamed of, in any philosophy. – J.B.S. Haldane, “Possible Worlds” (1927)
If you’re anything like me, you were already tired of the “We’re living in a simulation” nonsense before it even got as widespread as it is now. The idea that what we perceive as reality might not actually be real goes back at least to Plato’s cave and the Hindu concept that the universe is the dream of Brahma, but for the genesis of its current popularity we must turn from the sublime to the ridiculous, namely the movie The Matrix (which stole both its name and its central concept from a 1976 episode of Doctor Who and many of its details from the works of Philip K. Dick, most notably Ubik, but does justice to neither). This currently-popular version of the philosophical exercise postulates a creation with the grandeur and inescapability of what we might call the “primordial simulation” models (wherein the “simulation” is either the natural state of the universe or was created by an eternal demiurge far beyond the comprehension of any being within the simulation), yet residing within some physical realm at least resembling the “simulated” universe in which we are imagined to exist. Expressed more succinctly, the modern “simulation” fantasy as typically conceived imagines a simulacrum of a universe created by some finite being or beings for some definable purpose and existing within some physical instrumentality. And such a model is, due to those arbitrary limitations, pure claptrap.
The problem with this version of the idea lies in the very concept of a “simulation” as a thing that requires a “simulator”, rather than recognizing it a state intrinsic to the mathematical structure of the cosmos itself (a la Plato) or else as a product of a form of existence as far beyond our comprehension as the totality of the universe is beyond any given individual who might ponder their state of existence (as in Hindu cosmology). But the Matrix-style simulation fans aren’t imagining an open-ended, intrinsically unknowable system; quite the opposite. Instead, they postulate a very complex but still finite formal system, resident within something like a supercomputer (albeit an immense and very advanced one). However, no formal system can adequately describe itself*, which means it also cannot adequately model itself; any simulation of this sort must therefore be of dramatically smaller scope and lower resolution than the world in which its simulating mechanism resides, just as no fictional world or electronic simulation within our world can ever be as large or complex as our world. If our universe were truly a finite simulation within a knowable, physical system, there would be some point, probably but not necessarily on the scale of the infinitesimal, that we would be able to perceive the limits of granularity. Sooner or later, our instruments would reach a point at which the resolution of our universe was no longer sufficient to allow us to subdivide structures into still-smaller parts, and given that our theoretical models already extend down to phenomena smaller than a billionth the size of the smallest particles we can detect, which are themselves far tinier than the electrons whose movements define the contents of our own computers, I think it’s safe to say that isn’t likely to happen.
*If you’ve never studied Kurt Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, here’s a very accessible book which might help you to understand both its narrow implications for mathematical modeling of phenomena and its philosophical implications for the universe as a whole.
In the News (#1197)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged Above the Law, agency denial, All-Purpose Excuse, Apple, Australia, Austria, cell phones, censorship, consensual crime, cops, Creepy Coppers, disease, domestic violence, Droit du Seigneur, Europe, Facebook, fascism, FBI, Germany, I Spy, Kenya, libraries, Morality Lessons, politicians, porn, propaganda, rape, rescue industry, sex offender registry, Social Distancing, surveillance, teachers, Tennessee, Texas, The Cop Myth, The End of the Beginning, Thought Control, vaccines on December 15, 2021| Leave a Comment »
The amount of child porn [on US government computers] is just unbelievable. – Daniel Payne
The End of the Beginning (#1015)
The key to breaking these evil laws is recognizing that they are punishment, not mere “registration”:
A federal judge…had harsh words for Tennessee [bureaucrats and pigs] who continue to enforce retroactive punishments against [people illegally condemned to the “]sex offender[” registry]…some of whom [were] co[nvicted]…decades before the state’s sex offender law took effect…In April, a different federal judge, also in the Middle District of Tennessee, ordered two men be removed from the…registry, finding that it was unconstitutional to [retroactively] subject them to…laws that were written after they [were] co[nvicted. Judge Aleta]…Trauger cited the April ruling and other similar recent rulings…[including a] 2016 rul[ing] against the retroactive enforcement of a Michigan sex offender law…
Biden is trying to wrest control of the “sex trafficking” narrative back from the Trumpists:
The Biden administration…released an updated National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking…based on four pillars, prevention, protection, prosecution and partnerships. Prevention i[s actually a euphemism for “propaganda”], protection involves in[fantilizing sex workers] and [migrants], prosecution involves [more money to cops and other carceral mechanisms,] and partnerships involves strengthening [fascist collaborations with the rescue industry]…
“Lockdowns just have one consequence…and that is making poor people an awful lot poorer“:
…with COVID-19 cases rising in Europe, several countries are implementing lockdowns all over again, often with clearly punitive motivations…Austria’s government announced that police would enforce a lockdown exclusively against unvaccinated citizens…in Germany…a new lockdown was announced…for unvaccinated people, barring them from almost all public places except for pharmacies and supermarkets…Though statewide lockdowns have eased in Australia, the country is constructing internment camps for those who test positive for Covid, along with their Covid-negative “close contacts”…Initially marketed to the public as a means to “flatten the curve” and “slow the spread,” lockdowns now represent one of the most draconian aspects of the perverse New Normal that has metastasized amid an atmosphere of seemingly endless emergency…an array of scientific studies and data demonstrat[e]…that they likely caused more deaths than they prevented. The lethal impact of lockdowns was particularly pernicious in the Global South, where hundreds of millions of the world’s most vulnerable people were driven into a cascading humanitarian crisis. As the World Food Program warned in 2020, “135 million people on earth are marching towards the brink of starvation” as a result of their economies shutting down to supposedly inhibit the spread of COVID-19…
This subtitle is no exaggeration:
Over the past 14 years, the Central Intelligence Agency has secretly a[llowed]…at least 10 of its employees and contractors [to get away with] committ[ing] sexual crimes involving children…only one of the individuals was ever charged with a crime…few faced any consequences beyond the possible loss of their jobs and security clearances…CIA insiders say the agency resists prosecution of its staff for fear the cases will reveal state secrets…One [spook molested] a 2-year-old and a 6-year-old. He was fired. A second employee purchased [child porn]…he resigned. A third employee…[habitually viewed] child…[porn] while on agency assignments…the CIA took [no action] against him. A contractor who [interacted] with an…FBI agent [fantasy role-play]ing as a [teen] had his contract revoked. [The] only one…[who] was charged with a crime…was also [already] under investigation for mishandling classified material…The CIA [refers to allowing spooks to get away with sex crimes as]… “tak[ing]…allegations of possible criminal misconduct…seriously”…
But hey, at least the CIA doesn’t run its own child porn sites as the FBI does.
Why end-to-end encryption is only the beginning of security:
It is common to hear marketing language about “end-to-end encryption” and “private messaging” for basically every communications app out there…[but] not every “encrypted messaging service” is made equally…your message app may leak metadata, contacts, and even message contents. A recently uncovered FBI document obtained by a group called Property of the People…illustrates just how important your choice of private messenger can be…Nine popular messaging applications are included in the document: Apple’s iMessage; Line, a Japanese message app; Signal, an open source encrypted chat platform popularized by Edward Snowden; Telegram, which originated in Russia and is now based in Dubai; Threema, a paid encryption chat…with servers based in Switzerland; Viber, which was developed in Cyprus and then bought by the Japanese conglomerate Rakuten; the Chinese Swiss army knife app WeChat; Meta’s WhatsApp; and Wickr [Me], which is a chat service that Amazon Web Services apparently owns…of the[se]…iMessage and WhatsApp are particularly susceptible to FBI snooping. Telegram and Signal score far better…Line and Viber are also relatively bad picks…
The article goes into detail about what information specifically the feds can get from each app.
Thought Control (Censorship Roundup)
Hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars wasted to cater to a politician’s showboating:
A Texas school district pre-emptively pulled more than 400 books from its libraries for review following…[political grandstanding by censorious politician] Matt Krause…The school district said in a statement Tuesday that it was reviewing the books “out of an abundance of [fear]” to “ensure [none of our librarians can be prosecuted by violent lunatics with delusions of grandeur]…For us, this is not about politics or censorship, but rather about [protect]ing [our staff and covering our butts]”…
Why are people shocked when men paid and encouraged to behave violently, behave violently?
A [cop] in Kenya [murder]ed his wife and five others in a rampage before taking his own life…Benson Imbasi…who was described as…”[typical and representative]”…first shot his wife in the neck with his AK-47 rifle before walking out of their home and “shooting at innocent members of the public”…Two other people who were wounded remain in critical condition…
Diary #598
Posted in Diary, tagged activism, ethics, games, holidays, Toys for Tots on December 14, 2021| Leave a Comment »
I was concerned my toy drive would be a bit sparse this year, but two gentlemen came through at the last minute, doubling my total donations! What you see here represents only the first half of my shopping; I’m doing the rest this afternoon, then tomorrow I’ll be dropping off the entire collection at the Toys for Tots donation center in Olympia, which also covers Grays Harbor County (which is where I live). As y’all may already know, this is my charity of choice; it’s been a part of my Christmas since 1997, so it’s very important to me that it goes well and I have a lot of toys to donate every year. So for all those who helped, please accept my sincere gratitude once again! And if you wanted to help but forgot or missed the deadline, please contact your local Toys for Tots campaign to make a last-minute donation (many will still accept donations through this coming weekend). Giving to others, whether loved ones or strangers, is really what this holiday is about, and if you make it a tradition as I have I think you’ll find you get a great deal more out of the festival than you otherwise might.
Creepy Coppers
Posted in Current Events, Tyranny, tagged Above the Law, cops, Creepy Coppers, Follow Your Bliss, porn, Stalkers in Blue, To Molest and Rape on December 13, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Cops are so prone to sexual aggression and violence I’ve had to regularly add tags relating to the topic to prevent any one subheading from becoming too glutted with incidents to be useful. So far we have To Molest and Rape, which collects most articles about rapist cops; Business as Usual, which includes cops who rape sex workers specifically; License to Rape, which features cops sexually assaulting women using the pretext of “searching” or the like; Stalkers in Blue, which collects incidents of stalking and sexual harassment by cops which fall short of rape; Torture Chamber, which includes sexual violence among the many other kinds of violence inflicted by screws on people they keep locked in cages; and Above the Law, which tracks rapes by cop-adjacent creatures such as prosecutors, probation officers, spooks, feds, politicians, judges, rent-a-cops, bureaucats, etc. But over the past few years, I’ve seen so many cops busted for child porn and related crimes, I’ve decided to spin them off into this new category with their own kind. I’ve linked every item for the past six years which would have been listed under this tag had it existed at the time: they are To Molest and Rape #695, 712, 803, 949, 985, 989, 1015, 1019, 1057, 1109, 1110, 1118, 1149, 1155, 1156, 1166, 1177, 1181 and 1196; Above the Law #609 and 1012; Morality Lessons #1008; and Do As I Say, Not As I Do #694, 1074, 1119, and 1176. Any future updates to these items will be filed under “Creepy Coppers”, which will also be used as a secondary tag for cases in which child porn appears alongside rape or sexual assault, and cop child porn cases under Follow Your Bliss.
Links #597
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged animals, Arizona, artificial stupidity, cops, drugs, holidays, language, lawyers, robots, scams, United Kingdom, video on December 12, 2021| 5 Comments »
Who would have thought drinking dirt would make me feel so so good?
Since Mike Nesmith passed away this week, I’d like to share “The Monkees’ Christmas Episode” from 1967. If you don’t have time for the whole thing, at least listen to their very lovely a capella performance of the 16th century Spanish Christmas carol “Riu Chiu”, starting at 20:47. The links above the video are from Rick Horowitz, Stephen Lemons, Jesse Walker, Kevin Wilson, Walter Olson, Mike Siegel, and Cop Crisis, in that order.
- As one does.
- R.I.P. Mike Nesmith.
- I’ve seen this one already.
- Some people want this operating cars.
- It’s good to see somebody else saying this.
- What all “alternative medicine” looks like to me.
- Cop murders man in wheelchair after low-speed chase.
From the Archives
- Australian cops envy the FBI, and want to run their own kiddie porn sites.
- Law & Order: SVU once again exploits sex workers to spread copaganda.
- A timid but perhaps important challenge to FOSTA from inside Congress.
- When victims have nothing to steal, cops profit by fucking up their lives.
- Hey, female cops; how’s that collaboration with the police state working?
- Just in case you thought screws restricted petty sadism to the prisoners.
- 41% of cops admit to beating their wives. Some don’t stop with beating.
- There’s nothing to stop tyrants from simply bringing “Choke Point” back.
- Burying government in lawsuits is the only way to slow its depredations.
- This omits to say that the spy devices were designed and built in China.
- Support for decriminalization is becoming the norm among economists.
- It’s unlikely this will pass the Senate, but it’s a sign of change anyhow.
- When government loses one excuse for violence, it will invent another.
- The hotel industry is going to regret having collaborated with fanatics.
- Alabama’s latest entry in the “sex trafficking” idiocy-spewing contest.
- UK politician claims to be “shocked” by the existence of sex workers.
- Just another state-funded rape camp in Florida; nothing to see here.
- Funny how nail techs are only “trafficked” in the UK, but not the US.
- Cops, prohibition, sushi, Ben Bova, Chuck Yeager, and much more.
- The truth about Cambodian brothels is no “sex trafficking” fantasy.
- Will “PTSD” replace “sex addiction” as an excuse for bad behavior?
- Even being dead can’t protect you from sexually-aggressive cops.
- No, Parler doesn’t have a “porn problem”; it has a spam problem.
- “One Hand” Kristof launches yet another pro-censorship crusade.
- Why local laws banning facial recognition are feel-good bullshit.
- A brief timeline of the steps I’ve taken to make Sunset a home.
- The moronic claim that pictures magically “rewire” the brain.
- These predatory lawsuits won’t stop until FOSTA is repealed.
- Reporters of color debunk racist “sex trafficking” fantasies.
- Just in case you doubted this was about total genocide.
- If not for stigma, he could simply have hired a domme.
- They’re trying to fix facial recognition’s technical flaws.
- A big step toward ending the disastrous War on Drugs.
- “Don’t talk to cops” also includes written statements.
- Cops, brides, songs, D.C. Fontana, and much more.
- Congress won’t stop until it controls the internet.
- THIS SEX TRAFFICKING IS OUT OF CONTROL!
- Three weeks from my official semi-retirement.
- Your government refers to this as “correction”.
- Sex workers need your help more than ever.
- Evelyn Hernández’ nightmare still isn’t over.
- My last run into Seattle before Christmas.
- Another sign we’re past the watershed.
- We’re getting very close to implosion.
- Another big Toys for Tots haul!
- Peak white van hysteria.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- Are you a pimp?
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