A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end – but not necessarily in that order. – Jean-Luc Godard
My online friend Patrick, late of the Popehat blog and creator of the hilarious DPRK News parody Twitter account, passed away of longstanding health problems last week. There is nothing I could say which would express the grief of those who knew him as well as Ken White’s eulogy, so I’ll leave it at that. I don’t know what sort of music he liked, so I’ll honor his fondness for the weird with this unusual cover of Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” (which is still not as strange as the last one). The video was provided by Mike Siegel, who also supplied “aliens”, and the other links are from Mirriam Zary, Yasmin Nair, Fiona Harrigan, Mark Bennett, C.J. Ciaramella, and Popehat, in that order.
- Stop faking!
- It wasn’t aliens.
- R.I.P. Jean-Luc Godard.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- “Smart” devices aren’t, part umpteen.
- Another cop demonstrating exactly what he is.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
From the Archives
- Prohibition turns bodies into “crime scenes” which cops can violate at will.
- The events which eventually led to decriminalization in New South Wales.
- “An investigator can’t just pick up a murder weapon with ungloved hand.“
- “Legalization” features weird, arbitrary laws from obsessive bureaucrats.
- 41% of cops admit to beating their wives. Some don’t stop with beating.
- Meanwhile, the “enlightened” West just watches a genocide in progress.
- The media flail against a hysteria they’ve worked for decades to create.
- Serial rape is just one of the fringe benefits afforded to Florida screws.
- Why local laws banning surveillance technology are feel-good bullshit.
- Cops and politicians think barfing out “children!” excuses any tyranny.
- Judge reverses one iota of government persecution of two journalists.
- About damned time, considering they backed Amnesty six years ago.
- Did you ever wonder why the government stopped harassing bitcoin?
- It might be wise to restrict this to fully-anonymized online accounts.
- Deaths from a black market product? Just expand the black market!
- It’s rare for a UK article on sex work to be so free of dysphemisms.
- “Sex trafficking” is imploding in spectacular & entertaining fashion.
- A good general overview of political attacks on Dutch sex workers.
- Top-down government censorship has returned with a vengeance.
- On the collectivist campaign to rob the world of a beneficial plant.
- What the people who enforce “sex trafficking” laws are really like.
- Why do people refuse to see injustice until it’s inflicted on them?
- “Inappropriate contact with inmate” = “rape of a caged woman”.
- Oh look, someone in Hollywood appears to have grown a spine.
- On the deeply misogynistic basis of modern “consent” dogma.
- Cops, Escher’s diner, Sodom & Gomorrah, and much more.
- Prohibitionists learned nothing from the Atlanta massacre.
- “We’re not going to sit around and wait to be prosecuted.“
- Cops, vegetables, shoggoths, little boys and much more.
- The same everywhere sex work is at all criminalized.
- Spooge-based sexual assaults are growing worse.
- Cops, tombs, George Harrison, and much more.
- Laws are for the peasantry, not the rulers.
- Improving cell phone service at Sunset.
- Basically the same as a “youth pastor”.
- Getting the first steel rafter into place.
- My two previous columns for Mabon.
- Another curated selection of tweets.
- A week of invisible improvements.
- Sliding smoothly into autumn.
- Presented without comment.
- How I dress to buy steel.
- Stop faking!
