Last week I wrote about how much I appreciate my readers’ generosity, and I got ample proof of it again before the week was out. On Wednesday I drove into Seattle as I do every three weeks, and I discovered this collection waiting for me (along with Vangelis’ last album) from a reader who often gets me nice things (and the note he included gave me an extra smile). Then the next day, I published a request for help with travel funds (because the skyrocketing price of fuel and everything else has really exacerbated my typical summer & travel anxieties), and within hours I had received about 70% of what I estimate the trip will cost me. And let me tell you, there is nothing as good for anxiety as feeling supported and cared for! As I sit at my desk writing this, there’s a dramatic difference in my emotional balance from when I wrote the request just a week ago; I feel calm and I’m looking forward to the journey, whereas last week I was trying to decide whether to rethink the whole thing. So thank all of y’all for being so amazing; it’s no exaggeration to say that y’all saved my whole trip.
Archive for June, 2022
Diary #625
Posted in Diary, tagged imaginative fiction, nostalgia, Presents, psychology on June 20, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Links #624
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Tyranny, tagged Brazil, California, Canada, cops, fascism, I can't breathe, Lower Education, New Mexico, prisons, psychology, sex toys, surveillance, United Kingdom, video on June 19, 2022| 1 Comment »
I can’t breathe. – Genivaldo de Jesus Santos
This song is here for the sole reason that it started going through my head last week. The links above the video were provided by Cop Crisis, Mike Siegel, Radley Balko, Kevin Wilson, Popehat, and Amy Alkon, in that order.
- I can’t breathe.
- Very like a whale.
- Modern fascism in action.
- Locking doors dissuades home invasion.
- Crime: bad driving. Penalty: summary execution.
- Next up, medical students warned about scary skulls.
From the Archives
- “The best way to avoid personal data breaches is not to collect such data.“
- Do I really have to add, “Not because you saw a man painting his house”?
- Maybe we’re about to witness the beginning of the end of these evil laws.
- “sex trafficking” panic imploding in a spectacular & entertaining fashion.
- Government often attacks with civil suits to reverse the burden of proof.
- This would be better news if judges didn’t rubber-stamp cops’ warrants.
- Governments use words to obscure meaning & oppress nonconformity.
- Sorry, but “democracy” isn’t supposed to be a synonym for “mob rule”.
- Nobody will be safe until this odious practice is ruled unconstitutional.
- If they actually punished wife-beating cops, they’d lose half of them.
- “Drugs” are a popular pretext for petty vindictiveness in US prisons.
- Trying to prop up the “Facebook pimps” myth with bogus “studies”.
- Your periodic reminder that a child-shaped toaster is still a toaster.
- US “authorities” keep pretending sex is an excuse for any tyranny.
- In which yelling “stop faking!” is described as “trying to wake her”.
- A former cop explains why there’s no such thing as a good cop.
- If I’m going to be hyperactive, at least I’m getting things done!
- Is the ACLU finally beginning to do the right thing, at long last?
- More fascism in action; don’t say sex workers didn’t warn you.
- Cops, aliens, hairy babies, Brave New World, and much more.
- Alex Vitale on what abolishing police would actually look like.
- Amazon and Microsoft want to have their cake and eat it too.
- Because obviously prohibition doesn’t ruin enough lives yet.
- In Florida, police violence against students increased 20%.
- Every year, my anxiety increases as the days lengthen.
- OnlyFans didn’t save sex workers; we saved ourselves.
- At their core, the Netherlands are still prohibitionist.
- Cops, government, “Spanish Flea” and much more.
- My two previous columns for the summer solstice.
- Cops, Jonah, birds, F. Lee Bailey, and much more.
- “News editors run sex trafficking hoaxes as fact.“
- Another sign that the moral panic may be dying.
- On seeing my name and work all over the place.
- Another cop demonstrating exactly what he is.
- Cops love murdering people by asphyxiation.
- Why I have trouble writing at Sunset.
- I suspect this isn’t going to end well.
- The schadenfreude is so very sweet.
- Laying the gravel for my bathhouse.
- Introducing Red Cloud Hosting.
- More from Juniper Fitzgerald.
- Finally removing an eyesore.
- Rapist cop of the week.
In the News (#1246)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged California, censorship, child "protective" services, cops, domestic violence, Florida, If Men Were Angels, Illinois, LGBT rights, politicians, prisons, rape, South Carolina, Stalkers in Blue, Texas, The Cop Myth, The Last Shall Be First, To Molest and Rape, Torture Chamber, transgender, United Kingdom on June 18, 2022| Leave a Comment »
They do it just because they can. – Richard Serrano, of abusive screws
[The state of Illinois hides] disciplinary records for [screws after]…four years…So WBEZ and ProPublica used the files that are available to try to piece together how the system responds when…[screws inflict mayhem on] prisoners…Through that effort, WBEZ and ProPublica identified 18 Illinois [screws] who…had [brutalized] or sexually [assaulted victims caged] in the state’s prisons…including at least] one [murder]…all 18 held onto their jobs after the [atrocities]; 11 remain employed by the Illinois Department of [Torturing Caged People] today…
The…pastor of a Southern Baptist church in South Carolina has been charged with molesting a child under 16…Tracy Darin Turner resigned [on] April 18, 2021, from Trinity Point Church [after somebody reported him to the cops]…
Like inviting a vampire into one’s home:
[A British cop named] David Longden-Thurgood…[raped a] woman…[he had met] on the Bumble dating app…after a day of…exchanging sexualised messages and…naked selfies, the woman invited him to her home…but…repeatedly said “I don’t want sex”…when she noticed Longden-Thurgood taking his boxers off, she told him [again and]…he replied “don’t worry we won’t have sex”…then, “without warning”, [raped her]…
Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do:
A Florida [cop]…hid Apple AirTags in his ex-girlfriend’s car and bag to track and stalk her…Javier Magarin…was [rewarded]…with [a paid vacation]…after she…report[ed] the [harassment] to his employer…[Magarin also threatened her]…and…canceled [her airline reservations by]…logg[ing] into her email account…
The Last Shall Be First (#1230)
Seeking a temporary halt to a deranged jihad:
A new lawsuit…is challenging [Texas] Gov. Greg Abbott’s di[ktat] to [persecu]te parents who provide gender-affirming care to their transgender children. The lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and Lambda Legal on behalf of three families…[and] also seeks to block the state from [persecu]ting any families that belong to PFLAG…The state is currently blocked from investigating one family that brought a prior legal challenge. This lawsuit seeks to widen the number of people who cannot be [persecu]ted under the di[ktat]…
The Last Shall Be First (#1232)
Politicians are competing to see who can criminalize parents for the most deranged reasons:
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis [blovia]ted…that he might urge the state’s child protective services to investigate parents who take their children to drag shows…The [threat was in response]…to…videos showing young children attending a Dallas drag show…which…were…the [subject of performative outage by other members of DeSantis’ playground “culture war” team. The other team, in order to prove they had just as little respect for Constitutional rights, responded by demanding]…new gun laws…
It’s hardly strange that a typical, representative cop became chief:
Noble Waidelich rose through the ranks of the Ukiah [California cop shop]…and eventually [became] chief. [He abused his fiancee] Amanda Carley…[until] she packed her things and moved her children out of the house they owned together in 2015…“It started out as a shove and him standing in the doorway when I wanted to take a break. Then he was throwing me down on the table and swerving into oncoming traffic, threatening to drop me off in the middle of nowhere,” Carley said. She did not hesitate to disclose the abuse to her friends and co-workers…[but despite being backed up by her kids and another cop named] Freddy Kepplinger…Waidelich was not questioned…[despite] evidence of the injuries Carley had endured…[the district attorney] declined to file criminal charges against Waidelich…and [instead]…interrogated [Carley] and threatened [her] with criminal charges…
Annex 70
Posted in Diary, tagged Sunset on June 17, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Last week started out dry enough that I was able to get up on the roof and fix the one persistent leak we still had. It was in the first roof section involving multiple panel directions; I hadn’t learned yet to think about how the rainwater would flow, so I attached one section under a joint when it should’ve gone over, thus producing a steady drip that grew worse as a rainstorm continued. It would’ve been a nightmare to take it all apart and redesign it, but fortunately I didn’t have to; I simply used a few short pieces to install an outer layer to act as a guard, the sealed the edges with silicone. I didn’t have to wait long to test it; last Thursday it rained cats and dogs all day, and not a single leak. So I can now declare the roof officially solid! I still have to install gutters and trim out a few spots that don’t look nice, but at least we can now walk from the back door to either cottage without getting wet. I can leave the tools there safely overnight, and we were even able to work on the walls Thursday while it was raining, safe and dry within the atrium. You’ll see pictures of that next week, but here’s the current one; I tried to get a picture which would clearly show the ridgecap, but most of the angles made it look really strange or bent, so I settled on this one.
When Ends Don’t Meet
Posted in Diary, Miscellaneous, tagged activism, pragmatism, psychology on June 16, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Not much scares me outright, but anxiety is a different matter; I’ve suffered from it since childhood, and though it never completely goes away, I’ve mostly learned to manage it pretty well except for circumstances I’ve mentioned before: air travel, long summer days, dealing with bureaucracy, etc. But there’s one cause I haven’t had to worry about since my early teens and had hoped I would never have to worry about again: inflation. I’ve always thought that was a serious misnomer, because the problem isn’t really that prices are going up; it’s that the value of the currency is going down. I’ve never been any good at saving, so at least I don’t need to worry about cash reserves shrinking in value. But now that I’m semi-retired, my budget is much tighter than it used to be, and I don’t have a lot of wriggle room; also, I’m not yet finished my construction project, and the price of everything I need for it has increased dramatically. And next month, my normal summer and travel anxieties will be compounded: I’m going to a conference in Las Vegas, but summer standby flying is even more nerve-wracking than ordinary standby flying; not only are there more people traveling, more of them are airline employees (often with kids), therefore far fewer available seats. And even when my outbound flights are OK, the return flights into Seattle are usually a negative-number-of-seats-available nightmare (I’m told it’s due to the fact that many cruises depart from Seattle). So I’m planning to drive to the conference instead of flying; I want to make two other stops on the way there, so the flights would just be a logistical mess anyway even if I wanted to try it. However, the skyrocketing cost of gasoline is causing me considerable anxiety about that strategy; I estimate it might cost me as much as $1000 (still cheaper than if I had to buy multiple airline tickets, but stressful nonetheless). So if you aren’t hurting and appreciate my work, would you consider a gift of fuel funds so I can get to Vegas to A) meet with a couple of folks about possible consulting gigs that might stabilize my financial situation for the next few years; and B) rattle some cages about supporting sex worker rights? If it helps, remember that I actually kinda like road trips, and one of the stops is to visit a friend I haven’t seen in almost three years, so you’d also be subsidizing a little vacation for me.
In the News (#1245)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged A Broker in Pillage, abortion, asset seizure, Canada, Colombia, cops, Droit du Seigneur, Georgia, Hawaii, If Men Were Angels, Kansas, law, Magic Formulae, pimps, Poland, porn, pregnancy, propaganda, Property of the State, rape, Served Cold, South Carolina, surveillance, To Molest and Rape, Under Duress, underage on June 15, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Asset forfeiture laws imperil people’s rights to property and due process. – Elizabeth Patton
What the people who enforce “sex trafficking” laws are really like:
[Typical and representative Honolulu cop] Mason Jordan [i]s a “hands-on sexual offender of multiple children” who allegedly bullied victims to send him their nude pictures and…[then tried to force them into] prostitution…[with him as] pimp…he…also [liked to fantasy role-play]…as a teenage girl [online] to…stalk…[threaten, and attempt to blackmail] a woman…
Nobody will be safe until this odious, contemptible practice is recognized as unconstitutional:
…Kansas [cop shops] raked in $21 million through civil asset forfeiture over the past two years, according to a report…by the Americans for Prosperity Foundation…less than one-quarter of the owners have been convicted of a crime…half of all [that stolen loot]…had a value of $3,100 or less, meaning it would be impractical in those cases, if not a net loss, to hire an attorney to try and recover one’s property…the numbers…omit [the federal governent’s cut of the spoils, amounting to] more than $5 million…
Remember this next time somebody tells you that “cop checks” actually work:
[At least nine cops in British Columbia] engag[ed] in “disgusting, appalling” behaviour as they went to “extreme lengths” to prove they were not cops…[they] penetrated a colleague using a vegetable, [shat] on [each]…other and exposed their genitalia…[so-called] experts [who somehow didn’t know cops did stuff like this]…are now calling for an immediate overhaul of undercover tactics…[law professor] Kent Roach…expressed concerns over the liberal use of deceptive and even violent tactics which Canadian police are allowed to use in undercover operations…
Most tyranny starts with governments claiming they want to “protect” people:
Poland has officially started recording pregnancies in a digital database when [women] seek medical care…The country…has a near-total abortion ban with narrow exceptions…[which means that] every pregnancy that doesn’t end in a live birth is a potential crime scene [in the authoritarian mind]…the Polish government…[claims] it’s simply trying to protect [women] from X-rays and medicines that could harm the…[fetus and pretends that]…only medical professionals will have access to the data…[but even if true, that hardly seems likely to withstand cop demands]…
“Youth leaders” = “youth pastors” = predatory perverts:
A…youth leader at two South Carolina churches…has been charged with sex crimes involving children…William Pinckney Carpenter III…[molested] victims as young as 7 [between 2016 and 2021]…
Rapist cops never stop until they’re caged or dead:
A…[typical and representative Georgia cop] pleaded guilty to raping a woman [in]…2019…David Wilborn…[used the pretext of a traffic] stop [to]…block…a car with his p[igmobile]. After…[humiliating the driver], he [raped the passenger at gunpoint. After]…Wilborn [left]…the victim immediately called police…Wilborn was sentenced to a term of life in prison to serve 25 years without parole, with the balance on probation. He must also register as a sex offender. Wilborn was previously a…[cop in] Atlanta…but resigned after…[sexually assaulting a woman in] 2007…
As OUR collapses, expect it to engage in increasingly-petty interference with sex workers’ lives:
The abrupt cancellation…of the Latin American adult industry conference, LALExpo, has been linked to a single press release from controversial, Mormon-led U.S. organization Operation Underground Railroad…As the local religious and conservative campaign attempted to sway local officials into denying LALExpo…permits, OUR issued a press release on June 3…seemingly attempting…to insinuate that the trade show’s sponsors were somehow responsible for “human trafficking”…
Diary #624
Posted in Diary, tagged imaginative fiction, Presents, psychology on June 14, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Every so often I like to remind my readers and patrons how important your support is to me. In these uncertain times, it’s really reassuring to know that my writing is important enough to many of you that you choose to do more than simply throw a compliment my way now and again. For some of you, support takes the form of a subscription, money you send every month to help me pay my bills; in lean times (such as right after tax season) those small amounts add up and keep me in the black. Others prefer to send me nice things from my Amazon wishlist; I try to keep it populated with lots of things I really want, rather than just expensive trinkets and designer gewgaws. Take this book a reader (who prefers to remain anonymous) sent me a couple of months ago; it’s a collection of early comic strips from one of the creators of the genre. It’s something I’ve wanted for a long time, but since it’s out of print I couldn’t justify the rather steep price, but since one of my admirers sent it as a present I could enjoy it without guilt (as I’m currently enjoying the second volume, received from a different reader just last week – you know who you are, and thank you!) So whether you prefer to send me practical help to put food on the table, or to send “hyacinths to feed my soul”, please know that “appreciation” is far too mild a word to describe my feelings of gratitude to all of y’all.
Goodbye, ACLU; Hello FIRE
Posted in Current Events, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged activism, censorship, ethics, left-right myth on June 13, 2022| 3 Comments »
As I wrote almost two years ago,
The ACLU of old is, alas, no more. Gone is the organization so passionately devoted to civil liberties that it paid for a team of Jewish lawyers to defend literal Nazis’ right to free speech; in its place is an organ of the Democratic party whose main concern is keeping its cash flow as high as possible by parroting its primary donors’ beliefs (often in childish tweets repeating some a priori statement in all caps, over and over, without a word of justification), and never ever ever challenging those beliefs, no matter how anti-civil-rights and factually wrong they may be…
Unsurprisingly, free speech is the area in which ACLU’s position has degenerated most shamefully, because it’s no longer popular with their “progressive” authoritarian base. But fortunately, there’s a younger civil rights organization which is now expanding its remit to take up the ball ACLU has not merely dropped, but actively cast aside…and it’s doing so to the plaudits of former ACLU heavweights:
…The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is renaming itself the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression and keeping the “FIRE” acronym as it launches a drive to promote greater acceptance of a diversity of views in the workplace, pop culture and elsewhere…the group’s president, Greg Lukianoff, said…FIRE has raised $28.5 million for a planned three-year, $75 million litigation, opinion research and public education campaign aimed at boosting and solidifying support for free-speech values…FIRE’s new expansion is…a challenge of sorts to the ACLU, which has faced criticism in recent years for drifting from its unapologetically pro-free-speech roots and taking a more direct…partisan [role]…Many of FIRE’s founders and backers are former leaders of the ACLU who have grown disillusioned with the group under its current executive director, Anthony Romero, who left the Ford Foundation to take over the storied civil liberties organization in 2001. In 2020, FIRE released Mighty Ira, a laudatory documentary film about Romero’s predecessor, Ira Glasser, focusing on the ACLU’s work from the 1970s through the 1990s. Glasser, who serves on a FIRE advisory board, said in an interview that he “strongly encouraged” FIRE to broaden its free-speech work in part because the ACLU seems to be abdicating that role…
Links #623
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Tyranny, tagged animals, Arizona, California, cops, Florida, I can't breathe, Moloch, New York, North Carolina, prisons, psychology, teachers, video on June 12, 2022| 1 Comment »
I can’t breathe. – John Elliott Neville
Raymond Scott’s 1937 composition, “Powerhouse”, is best remembered for its extensive use in classic Warner Brothers cartoons, but few know its name or have ever heard it in its entirety, so Maggie is here to fix that for you. You’re welcome. The links above it were provided by Cop Crisis, Radley Balko, Fiona Harrigan, Mike Siegel, Popehat, and Marc Randazza, in that order.
- I can’t breathe.
- Just protecting and serving.
- California court declares bees are fish.
- Who could possibly have predicted this?
- Cops brag about abducting child for writing naughty words.
- It’s amazing how often people die mysteriously when cops are around.
From the Archives
- China tortures people until they plead guilty to crimes they didn’t commit.
- Australian politicians just as invested in wrecking the internet as US ones.
- Another move to hide migration control behind the “trafficking” narrative.
- Cops: When you’ve lost older white rural men, you might as well give up.
- Europeans prefer fantasies to admitting black women have adult agency.
- If prohibitionists want to “rescue” whores, why keep us from other jobs?
- Journalists are beginning to recognize what a huge backfire FOSTA was.
- Redbridge has a long history of harassing women, but this is a new low.
- Cops are responsible for more violence than any other US social group.
- Every school needs to rid itself of thugs who stalk and attack students.
- A celebrity accomplished what do-nothing “safe harbor” laws couldn’t.
- FWIW, the DEA mostly conducts old-fashioned Stasi-type surveillance.
- Amazon eagerly hands data from internet-connected devices to cops.
- Spanish court says govt has no power to suppress sex worker union.
- Another excellent article by stalwart friend of whores Mark Draughn.
- If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many is a video worth?
- Just a few choice selections of police brutality from the past week.
- Infantilizing young adults does not help the, regardless of motive.
- Chinese takes its misinformation campaign into the 21st century.
- Most “incels” are more of a danger to themselves than to others.
- When a “study” makes silly claims like this, look for the reasons.
- “I usually assign 1984 to my students; now we will be living it.“
- I had one of the rare side-effects from the COVID vaccination.
- Racist persecution of massage parlors is popular in California.
- Australian sex workers are challenging crypto-moralism.
- They’re going way beyond fake Facebook profiles now.
- It’s so convenient to outsource tyranny to computers.
- “Those who engage in sex work are our constituents.“
- Will South Africa decriminalize province by province?
- Preparing my brain for the summer anxiety season.
- Cops, flying dildoes, B.J. Thomas, and much more.
- Pigs now routinely use spy drones for surveillance.
- A “best of” collection of resources for new clients.
- Cops, caffeine, Florida, Telstar, and much more.
- In the US, the victim would’ve been arrested.
- How to help me, with money or without.
- Cops, dogs, Rasputin, and much more.
- Finally starting on the bathhouse roof.
- Curiosity offends the state, comrade.
- Getting my self-care back on track.
- Hail causes sex trafficking!
- A week of lovely presents.
- 52 posts in my backyard.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- Stop faking!
In the News (#1244)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged A Broker in Pillage, agency denial, asset seizure, Catholicism, censorship, cops, disease, drugs, homosexuality, If Men Were Angels, law, libraries, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, politicians, porn, rape, Social Distancing, Spain, sporting events, Swedish model, The Course of a Disease, The Last Shall Be First, The Mob Rules, Thought Control, To Molest and Rape, Wisconsin on June 11, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Reliance on [police] to enforce Covid-19 restrictions has created…human rights violations. – Amnesty International
A father and son pair of former church pastors were charged…with multiple counts of sexual assault of a child. Scott Huse, 64…and…Travis Huse, 42…[were] involved with the Apostolic Worship Center and former Evergreen Christian Academy in Elton [Wisconsin]…
Michigan is among the greediest, most unscrupulous states in this regard:
Michigan…[politicians have] open[ed] a dangerous loophole by authorizing [cops to rob]…travelers at Michigan airports [by pointing at them and oinking out the magic word “drugs”]…That change represents a substantial reversal of reforms that Michigan enacted in response to complaints…[bill sponsor Graham] Filler [paused from fellating cops to belch out a host of idiocies such as]…”ill-gotten gains”…”secure”…and…”reform”…
The Course of a Disease (#1093)
The Spanish case of the Swedish rot is especially virulent:
Spanish…politicians [are]…aiming to outlaw all forms of…sex work…including…audiovisual productions, magazines or internet content deemed “pornographic”…politicians within [socialist ruling party] PSOE, which took power in 2019…have taken up the abolition of sex work as their personal cause…the party’s General Vice-Secretary Adriana Lastra…last month took to the press to promote a change in the Spanish penal code to mandate up to three years of jail time for anyone paying for sex…
The Last Shall Be First (#1115)
Another perverse genital inspection law:
…the “Save Women’s Sports Act,” bans schools and colleges in Ohio from permitting “individuals of the male sex” from participating in women’s sports…The bill does not explain what the “male sex” or “female sex” is. It does not say “trans” or “transgender” anywhere in the bill. It doesn’t talk about birth or biological sex. What it does instead is give people the power to dispute the sex of an individual athlete. Then it falls upon that athlete to prove their sex by going to a physician and getting a signed statement confirming the athlete’s sex based on only…”The participant’s internal and external reproductive anatomy…normal endogenously produced levels of testosterone…[or] analysis of the participant’s genetic makeup.” The bill…[also] authorize[s] individuals or schools…to sue the school, school district, or conference who allowed the trans woman to play and be awarded damages…The bill’s wording is similar to one passed in Idaho in 2020 that is currently being challenged in federal court…
In the authoritarian mind, for students to voluntarily allow other people to examine their genitalia for the purpose of pleasure is a “crime”, but for the same students to be forced by law to allow strangers to examine their genitalia for the purpose of bigotry is “protection”.
Oh look, it’s what I was saying TWO FUCKING YEARS AGO:
“Widespread reliance on punitive approaches to enforcing public health” harms marginalized groups, says Amnesty International. A new report…suggests quarantine rules and other COVID-19 restrictions were especially damaging for groups already more likely to face discrimination, police harassment, and unjust criminalization. Amnesty International calls on governments to reject using criminal sanctions to implement public health goals and “refrain from implementing repressive policies” in the name of protecting pubic health…”Contrary to the often-voiced claim by governments that ‘we were all in this together’, the truth is that their responses to Covid-19 have been experienced unequally…[especially by] people who are homeless, engage in sex work, or use drugs, as well as people “targeted because of their sexual orientation or gender identity and expression”…
Rapist cops don’t only target women:
A [typical and representative] Philadelphia [cop who raped and]…sexually assault[ed men]…over the course of more than a decade was found guilty…of multiple crimes, including rape…Philip Nordo…often targeted [men] who were already handcuffed or shackled…
There is nothing as contagious as a bad idea:
CatholicVote, which calls itself “America’s top Catholic advocacy organization,” has launched a “parent-led movement” called Hide the Pride to “empty libraries of LGBTQ content aimed at kids.” It encourages members of the public to first collect signatures protesting library Pride displays containing children’s books, then to check out all of the books on display…After the titles are checked out, they then advise to “place the Pride books on a shelf out of reach of children” and email or mail the signatures to the library…a…school board candidate in Maryland did the same thing, though she didn’t stop at kids’ books. Heather Fletcher checked out all the LGBTQ books on the library Pride display in the Brunswick Public Library…she [bloviat]ed, “This has…to do with the preservation of innocence”…
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