I was planning to take down the shutters sometime between yesterday and Easter, depending on the weather. But on Saturday it was so nice and warm I just decided to do it then, even though we are supposed to get a few more cold nights next week. I think the chilly nights will be made up for by warm days, and it’s nice to have more fresh air blowing through, plus I like being able to see the animals through the screens. In fact, I am planning in the next few weeks to extend the fence around the north side of the house, so the animals will be able to walk anywhere completely around the house except for the west side. Not only will that allow the animals access to another large expanse of green grass, it will also allow Cicero and Shiloh to get at fallen apples in the autumn. And since there are two large windows on the north side of the house, that will also allow us to see the animals in that direction. I like having animals around, so the more ways I can casually see them while going about my day, the more I like it. And I plan to install a sliding screen on the window behind where Grace normally sits, so that she can open it up and give treats to Cicero that way. It may seem silly, but that’s part of the pleasure of country life to me; being able to look out a window and see grass and trees and animals, even wild animals sometimes, is so much better for my mental and spiritual health then being subjected to a “view” which consists of nothing but concrete, glass, and automobiles, and background noise consisting mostly of traffic and sirens (occasionally broken by some person yelling in the distance). And now that I’m mostly finished with the building projects, maybe I’ll be able to actually relax and enjoy it this year.
Archive for March, 2023
Diary #664
Posted in Diary on March 21, 2023| 2 Comments »
Vernal Equinox 2023
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays, paganism on March 20, 2023| Leave a Comment »
The apparent path of the sun will cross the equator moving northward at 21:24 UTC today, signaling the beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and autumn in the Southern. Enjoy the milder weather to come, and Blessed Be!
Links #663
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Tyranny, tagged animals, Colorado, cops, disability, drugs, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, nostalgia, Pennsylvania, politicians, prisons, propaganda, racism, Stop faking!, Tennessee, Utah, video on March 19, 2023| Leave a Comment »
You’re going to kill me. – Lisa Edwards
Since every one of this week’s links, all provided by Cop Crisis, was just horrible, I’m sure y’all will understand if I inject some levity by way of the video.
- Stop faking!
- This cannot be reformed.
- Cop murders man for being afraid of cops.
- Laws only apply to the ruled, not the rulers.
- “Crime”: no license plate. Penalty: summary execution.
- Cop shoots man in back after failing to murder him with truck.
- It’s amazing how often people die mysteriously when cops are near.
- Politician claims shooting businessmen is “protecting the community”.
From the Archives
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- Somebody who isn’t me is actually applying critical thought to this claim.
- A timid but possibly important challenge to FOSTA from inside Congress.
- I dislike St. Patrick’s Day almost as much as I dislike St. Valentine’s Day.
- Trumpists are clinging to the “sex trafficking” narrative like grim death.
- The travel industry will regret collaboration with “trafficking” fetishists.
- People need to keep suing government actors for every single assault.
- Exploitation is, sadly, more common than not in the “rescue” industry.
- “Human trafficking” is nothing more than a dysphemism for sex work.
- “Sex trafficking” now means whatever authoritarians want it to mean.
- An attempt to take one weapon of racist persecution away from cops.
- Unless some country provides a haven, the open internet is doomed.
- They’ve chased this ambulance from Austin to Washington and back.
- “Packed” = “concentrated”. And the word for “tent facility” is “camp”.
- It took almost seven years for the press to finally catch up with me.
- Another cost of America’s sick worship of state-sanctioned violence.
- The government needs to be buried in lawsuits before this will stop.
- Japanese attempts to hide sexuality will never be enough for gaijin.
- A perfect storm of stupidity, sex fantasy and authoritarian violence.
- It looks as though at least one court is attempting to grow a spine.
- “Authorities” want to keep sex workers from protecting each other.
- I’ve never seen chicks grow and develop as quickly as this batch.
- Removing excuses cops use to persecute people is always good.
- Another specimen of the garbage the state pays to violate kids.
- Cops, businesses, Steven Banks, William Hurt, and much more.
- “Survivors” are exploited by prohibitionists, but some wake up.
- Texas cops routinely destroy lives by creating false memories.
- Your last bit of privacy during travel is about to be eliminated.
- An imaginary “offense” is excused by an imaginary “disorder”.
- It’s good to see the “sex addiction” myth slowly falling apart.
- A long-overdue move by Mexico to throw off US domination.
- Columns like this one by Steve Chapman are no longer rare.
- Some US states are trying to bring back a form of serfdom.
- Your “leaders” know what’s best, so shut up and obey.
- Another step toward a fully-independent demimonde.
- When malodorous moralists went after Pepe Le Pew.
- Why do puritans pretend that shaming is “modern”?
- Matthew 21:31 seems pretty straightforward to me.
- Still doubt politicians are deranged megalomaniacs?
- Doctor Who has always been one of my favorites.
- My two previous columns for the vernal equinox.
- Cops, Metallica, Lyle Waggoner, and much more.
- This will definitely be uphill in most of Louisiana.
- Prohibitionists love victim-blaming sex workers.
- Your government calls this “border protection”.
- We told you so, over and over and over again.
- The framework for the wall of a new full bath.
- Tips for sex workers pivoting to online work.
- How China tries to keep the genocide quiet.
- How the pandemic is harming sex workers.
- There really is nothing new under the sun.
- This is going to hurt a lot of sex workers.
- It’s good when they feed on each other.
- Cops, covers, saints, and much more.
- I move to Sunset for the duration.
- I’ll bet you knew this was coming.
- Sex workers reaching out via art.
- Far too little, far too late.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- More Twitter stuff!
- Chick days.
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In the News (#1322)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged A Moral Cancer, adolescence, Arkansas, Capricious Lusts, censorship, consensual crime, drugs, Full of Themselves, Illinois, internet, law, lawheads, Maryland, Massachusetts, massage, New Mexico, politicians, prisons, rape, statistics, The Last Shall Be First, The Mob Rules, To Molest and Rape, Torture Chamber, transgender on March 18, 2023| 1 Comment »
The Nordic model has a stronger effect on increasing rape than criminalization does. – Huasheng Gao and Vanya Petrova
…in Illinois, a dangerous criminal record may not stop people from becoming licensed massage therapists…A conviction of sexual misconduct, prostitution, rape, or any other offense requiring registration as a sex offender automatically bars an applicant from obtaining a massage therapist license. But this is not the case for first-degree murder, armed robbery, aggravated battery…assault, stalking…and kidnapping…so [politicians want even more]…regulations for massage therapy license applicants…
Another study shows what’s already been shown over & over again:
Liberalizing prostitution laws “leads to a significant decrease in rape rates,” according to a study published in The Journal of Law and Economics, “while prohibiting it leads to a significant increase”…researchers Huasheng Gao and Vanya Petrova of China’s Fudan University looked at data from 31 European countries, spanning a period between 1990 and 2017. During this time period, eight countries (Spain, Denmark, Hungary, the Netherlands, Germany, Slovenia, Latvia, and Romania) liberalized their prostitution laws while six countries (Sweden, Croatia, Norway, Iceland, France, and Ireland) cracked down on prostitution…liberalizing…was linked to a significant decrease in rape rates, while prohibition was linked to a significant increase—but…”the magnitude of prohibiting commercial sex is about four times as large as that of liberalizing it”…The average rape rate in the sample countries was nine rapes per 100,000 people. Countries that liberalized prostitution laws saw a decrease of approximately three rapes per 100,000…[while] countries that…further criminalized…saw an increase of around 11 rapes per 100,000…
Prohibitionists always claim surprise when the predicted effects of one of their bans appear:
[Since] Massachusetts became the first state…to ban the sale of all flavored tobacco and nicotine products…four additional states have…imposed…similar policies…but the latest data from Massachusetts highlight the ban’s [predict]ed consequences [coming to pass]…As opponents of the flavor ban predicted, the law has incentivized black market sales of menthol cigarettes and flavored e-cigarettes…Revenue officials are s[teal]ing so many [smuggled] products, in fact, that they are running out of room to store them…tobacco tax revenue has fallen by approximately 22.6 percent over three years…[and] the decline in cigarette sales in Massachusetts coincided with substantial increases in sales in counties bordering the state…
This is a cop’s idea of “friendship”:
New Mexico [cop] Kevin Keiner [was rewarded with a paid vacation for]…raping a…woman [who foolishly believed he was her friend]…the woman…called…Keiner…to pick her up…after she’d gotten into a…[drunken] argument with her brother and another woman…Keiner [was wearing his magical clown costume when]…he picked the woman up [in his pigmobile] and took her to his home…The woman…blacked out….[and] the next thing she remembers is that Keiner was on top of her….Keiner [is of course claiming she wanted it and came onto him]…
The government needs to be buried in lawsuits before this will stop:
[Young people] detained [without having been convicted of any crime] at the Baltimore County Detention Center are locked up for 23 hours a day in rat-infested cells that sometimes flood with sewage water…The jail is [refusing to] comply…with federal laws governing juvenile detention, said Deborah St. Jean, director of the public defender’s Juvenile Protection Division. She asked for the “immediate transfer” of detained youth to the Department of Juvenile Services…
The primary principle governing politicians’ behavior is “monkey see, monkey do”:
…a bill that would require Arkansans to provide identification to use social media sites…is [being] sponsored by [a politician named] Tyler Dees…who [also] has another bill that…would require pornography websites to provide age verification…Th[e first] bill, seemingly modeled on one that recently passed in Utah, would open up the social media companies to civil and criminal penalties…
The Last Shall Be First (#1317)
“Bathroom bills” are back after blessedly vanishing for over three years:
A bill that would criminalize transgender people using restrooms that match their gender identity won initial approval in the Arkansas Legislature…The bill…would allow someone to be charged with misdemeanor sexual indecency with a child if they use a public restroom or changing room “of the opposite sex while knowing a minor of the opposite sex is present”…The legislation goes even further than a North Carolina bathroom law that was enacted in 2016 and later repealed following widespread boycotts and protests. That law did not include any criminal penalties…
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Annex 100
Posted in Diary, tagged Sunset, Washington (state) on March 17, 2023| Leave a Comment »
I was born and raised in a very wet climate, so I’m used to it; I lived in a drier one for almost a decade, and eventually decided I did not care for it, so here I am living in an extremely damp one again. What that means is, while people in much of the world are concerned with conserving water, our problem is a surfeit of water. And that means I’ve had to spend a great deal of time and effort, and more than a little money, on structures and measures designed to keep water out of places I don’t want it to be. There was a drip in the new bathroom which took me a year to finally stop, and of course I just finished fixing a leak in one of the hot tub seals, but I still can’t figure out what’s causing the persistent leak on the north porch every time it rains. I took off a ceiling panel so I could get in there, installed a new flashing with plenty of rubber sealant, and used several cans of expando-foam to close up the gap between the metal roofing ad the shingles of Chekhov’s cottage roof, and though most of the problem seems to have been solved from above, there’s still a drip below that I just can’t track down. I guess it isn’t really important; it’s on the porch rather than inside the walls, and it’s nothing like it was. But it still makes me crazy that try as I might, I just can’t see where the damned water is coming from. Worse come to worst, I’m just going to slather a lot of Durabak over the area when I’m waterproofing several other things this summer; with any luck that’ll also solve the intermittent problem in the walkway behind the tub.
Dimensions of Support
Posted in Miscellaneous, Perception, tagged activism, blogging, Presents, psychology on March 16, 2023| Leave a Comment »
It’s always been difficult for me to ask for what I need, even from close friends; exactly why this should be the case in a person who has absolutely no problem speaking her mind in any other way is a conundrum I’ve never been able to adequately explain even to myself, much less anyone else. But it’s something my friends have long noticed and lovingly chided me for, to very little avail. Now, I’ve never had a problem asking for payment for services; the issue only arises when there’s no direct quid pro quo. That’s why appeals for financial support from my readers are always difficult for me to write, and always seem awkward to my eyes when I read them. So when several of y’all responded to last month’s “Inner Circle” by subscribing at my new $10 per week and $25 per week levels, it was both satisfying and validating on several levels. The more obvious one is, of course, the economic dimension; things have been a bit tight since autumn, and with tax time coming up (much more painfully than usual thanks to a 50% increase in my property taxes) it was quite a relief for more to come in just in time, not to mention helping soothe my anxiety about the rest of the year. But there’s another dimension, too; such a positive, concrete response to my request helps to quiet that part of my brain which generates formless, unidentifiable anxieties about asking, and thereby makes it less scary to do it again in the future. So to my new subscribers, thank you for supporting me in two very important ways. And to those who haven’t joined yet: won’t you please consider adding your contributions to the team of generous folks who make my work possible and my life just a little bit easier?
In the News (#1321)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged A Broker in Pillage, abortion, asset seizure, cops, Facebook, fascism, FBI, If Men Were Angels, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Panopticon, propaganda, rape, scams, sex offender registry, Shame Shame, surveillance, The End of the Beginning, The Prudish Giant, To Molest and Rape on March 15, 2023| 2 Comments »
Lifetime registries are wrong. – James H. Maynard
A precedent here could be used against all such evil “registries”:
In New Jersey, individuals found [guilty of]…any act of child abuse or neglect are [condemned to] the state’s child abuse registry for life…one New Jersey man is challenging [that]…in court [because]…those on the registry are barred from working in a wide range of fields, including some that do not involve work with children, like substance abuse programs, county mental health boards, or jail diversion programs. While the registry is not publicly accessible, a person’s registry status will show up in some background checks…K.C…was placed on the registry after he admitted to committing a sexual offense against a sibling when both were minors. Even though K.C. has not re-offended in the 25 years since…and has since been removed from the state’s sex offender registry—he is stuck on the state’s child abuse registry…
Clearly “lay pastors” are no better than “youth pastors”:
A [typical and representative] lay pastor at a Big Rock [Illinois] church was sentenced…to 15 years in prison after being convicted of sexually assaulting and abusing a 9-year-old…Mark Rivera…will have to serve at least 11.7 years before being eligible for parole but will receive credit for the approximately three years he has spent in jail or on electronic home monitoring…
A cop from the original of this title is trying to weasel out of the consequences of his actions:
A [typical and representative] Syracuse [New York] cop [who tried] to silence one of his victims in…2019 is hoping to use his veteran status to avoid yet another criminal conviction. Chester Thompson…is seeking to resolve…witness tampering and criminal contempt charges by undergoing a program designed for military veterans beset by [PTSD]…It’s unclear whether prosecutors will accept Thompson’s application for the program, which could also include probation and other supervision…Thompson lost his job in 2015 [but suffered only] two misdemeanor official misconduct convictions after admitting to [rap]ing…two…women…[by] using his authority to coerce them…His [rape]s have cost city taxpayers $900,000 in a civil settlement. But…in July 2019…he…tr[ied] to talk one of his victims out of continuing her lawsuit…[despite] a court order prohibiting…contact with his victim…
And yet bird-brains still believe realistic porn cartoons are the worst use for this technology:
U.S. Special Operations Command, responsible for some of the country’s most secretive military endeavors, is gearing up to conduct internet propaganda and deception campaigns online using deepfake videos…The plans, which also describe hacking internet-connected devices to eavesdrop in order to assess foreign populations’ susceptibility to propaganda, come at a time of intense global debate over technologically sophisticated “disinformation” campaigns, their effectiveness, and the ethics of their use. While the U.S. government routinely warns against the risk of deepfakes and is openly working to build tools to counter them, the document from…SOCOM, represents a nearly unprecedented instance of…a…government — openly signaling its desire to use the highly controversial technology offensively…
Amazon’s fascist collaboration with cops just keeps getting worse:
The week of last Thanksgiving, Michael Larkin…[of] Hamilton, Ohio…[let cops have] footage from [hi]s…Ring video doorbell, one of…21 Ring cameras in and around his home and business…The [cops] were [spy]ing…on a neighbor, and…wanted videos of “suspicious activity” between 5 and 7 p.m. one night in October. Larkin [foolishly]…thought that was all the[y]…would [deman]d. Instead, it was just the beginning. They asked for more footage…the[n]…a week later, Larkin received a notice from Ring itself: The company had received a warrant, signed by a local judge….[demanding] footage from [all of his] cameras…[including those inside his home and business]…whether or not Larkin was willing to share it…
Why does anyone still trust Facebook?
In the immediate aftermath of the reversal of Roe v. Wade, women worried data from their period-tracking apps could be used to prosecute them…Now, women…need to consider what they write in chat logs, direct messages, and search bars online….ProPublica…found that at least nine online pharmacies that sell abortion medication — Abortion Ease, BestAbortionPill.com, PrivacyPillRX, PillsOnlineRX, Secure Abortion Pills, AbortionRx, Generic Abortion Pills, Abortion Privacy, and Online Abortion Pill Rx — were sharing information like users’ web addresses, relative location, and search data with third-party sites like Google. That kind of exchange opens that data up to discovery as part of [cop rooting, as in]…the case of Jessica Burgess…who is accused of helping her daughter…[obtain medica]tion in their home state of Nebraska….key…evidence…[included] chat logs…[eagerly handed to rooting pigs] by…Facebook…
Absolutely nothing is “safe” if government actors know where it is:
The [FBI]…regularly s[teal]s cash, cars and other valuables that belong to people who aren’t accused of any crimes. Months later, many of those people receive a dense, boilerplate notice stating that the FBI plans to keep their property forever, without any explanation of why—a blatantly unconstitutional practice. That’s what happened to Linda Martin. When the FBI [stole] her life savings from a safe-deposit box during a 2021 raid of US Private Vaults in Beverly Hills, Calif., she [naively] assumed her money would be returned [by the robbers]…but several months later, she—and hundreds of other innocent people who had their safe-deposit boxes taken—received a notice stating that the government wanted to [keep] her money…the Institute for Justice [has] calculated that from 2017 to 2021 Justice Department agencies gained more than $8 billion through forfeiture, with the FBI taking in more than $1.19 billion of that bounty…In an earlier lawsuit…regarding the US Private Vaults raid, a federal judge declared the FBI’s notices “anemic” and immediately halted forfeiture proceedings…Unfortunately, that ruling applied only to the named plaintiffs in that suit…So [Ms. Martin has]…filed a new class-action lawsuit…seeking to help anyone nationwide who received one of the FBI’s [robbery-justification] notices…
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Diary #663
Posted in Diary, Philosophy, tagged animals, Sunset on March 14, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Despite my age and its attendant painful levels of maturity, I always look forward to this as the time of year when I get to have a box of tiny dinosaur clowns in my bathroom for three weeks. Regular readers will remember that the bathroom is the best place to raise them; it’s warm, safe from cats, and in a location where everyone in the household can set eyes on them several times per day. When I go in to wash my face first thing in the morning, I can change their water and top off their food (if necessary), and I always like to spend a few minutes watching their silly antics (running around banging into each other, standing in the corner peeping as if unable to turn around, etc). In just a few weeks they’ll be gawky pullets, well on their way to chickenhood, but in the meantime they’re terribly cute for a painfully-short time. And that’s OK, because let’s be honest: if they stayed baby chicks for long, pretty soon their constant peep-peep-peeping would be just another background noise like dogs barking or floorboards creaking. Some of life’s greatest pleasures are pleasant precisely because they’re so ephemeral; if rainbows were always a feature of the sky, few would ever bother to look up at them in wonderment and appreciation.
Literacy Atrophies
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, tagged language, libraries, psychology, teachers on March 13, 2023| 4 Comments »
When I was in library school in the early ’90s, one of the topics of discussion of interest to students training to be children’s librarians was the problem of classic children’s literature becoming inaccessible to modern readers. There are two factors in determining the proper age range for a children’s book: the first is of course its level of difficulty, and the second its subject matter. If a book is too difficult for most children of the age it’s intended for, few will be able to enjoy it, and if the subject matter is too mature or too childish for the kids who can read it, it will languish unread. Children of the period in which children’s literature first flourished, the late 19th and early 20th centuries, read at a level well above that of their average modern peers, with the result that by the time modern children are able to read a book, its subject matter and/or tone is too juvenile to hold their interest. As a result, many books regarded as classics are now mostly read by nostalgic adults. And as I recently discovered, the problem has only worsened in the past 30 years:
Students at Harvard now struggle to read The Scarlet Letter, a novel that was once one of those most commonly taught in high schools. pic.twitter.com/UkzPIsBhAI
— Stephen Pimentel (@StephenPiment) February 28, 2023
The Scarlet Letter is not remotely difficult to read for people who have a normal high-school level of literacy; Hawthorne’s style is pretty clear and direct by the standards of Gothic literature. But I suppose it’s difficult for people who think “your” and “you’re” are both spelled “ur”, capitalization is optional, and punctuation is “rude”. If it’s been years since you read Hawthorne, judge the clarity of his style for yourself with this example, my favorite of his stories. And then consider that if Harvard students can’t read something so simple, we’d better hope politicians start making immigration easier so people from countries with functional educational systems can come here to do the brain work.
Links #662
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged animals, California, consensual crime, cops, Florida, Georgia, Hollywood, imaginative fiction, lawheads, Mexico, politicians, psychology, restaurants, Texas, Twitter, video, Washington DC on March 12, 2023| Leave a Comment »
No one wants to hear the Cookie Monster say he’s going to kill their family. – LA business owner
Some of you may know the name of Wayne Shorter, the great jazz saxophonist whose passing is commemorated by this week’s video. But few will know the name of Ricou Browning, the diver, underwater stunt man and underwater cinematographer who played the “gill man” in The Creature from the Black Lagoon and also directed many underwater action sequences in movies of the ’50s & ’60s, notably Thunderball. The links above the video were provided by Jesse Walker, Franklin Harris, Jesse again, Franklin again, Scott Greenfield, Joe Lancaster, and Fiona Harrigan, in that order.
- Headline of the week.
- Serious anger management issues.
- Where’s Kolchak when you need him?
- R.I.P. Ricou Browning and Wayne Shorter.
- Bureaucrats claim threats motivated by “safety”.
- Crime: shoplifting. Penalty: summary execution.
- No pleasure is so small that a puritan won’t try to ban it.
From the Archives
- Cops, movies, censorship, Max von Sydow, the One Ring, and much more.
- Those who actually need “correction” are the ones who enable this horror.
- A “study” claiming such impossibly-tiny numbers can be safely dismissed.
- Prohibitionists demonstrate their sociopathic need to control others’ lives.
- Whores are morons whose lives must be micromanaged by governments.
- It took fifty pigs to entrap a woman for the “crime” of introducing people.
- I’m sick of the current popular obsession with people’s genes & genitalia.
- Burying government in lawsuits is the only way to slow its depredations.
- Even journalists reporting these abuses euphemize them as “correction”.
- 41% of cops admit to beating their wives; some don’t stop with beating.
- So many “enlightened” countries still pretend disease is caused by “sin”.
- ”Happy endings” have apparently become a matter of national security.
- China has adopted a method of subjugation invented by the Assyrians.
- Did somebody in charge actually develop a particle of moral judgment?
- Future historians will refer to the 20th Century as “the Prohibition Era”.
- While sex work is marginalized, sex workers will be targets for creeps.
- Repurposing a disused tag to feature sex worker activism of this type.
- Another article trying to elicit sympathy for a cop’s criminal behavior.
- If they actually punished wife-beating cops, they’d lose half of them.
- Louisiana can always be counted on to make a bad idea even worse.
- The urge to control women cannot be stopped by a mere pandemic.
- Will WA politicians accept progress, or demonstrate their hypocrisy?
- One can never have too many anti-Swedish criminalization articles.
- It’s about time they started using their money to fight censorship.
- Do prosecutors think scoring points trumps a harassment lawsuit?
- Disgusting men never tire of blaming women for their own rapes.
- Politicians don’t think “science-driven policy” applies to sex work.
- Mar Brettmann will say anything to sell her anti-whore snake oil.
- Far too many people adore authoritarian public health schemes.
- Cops lie so frequently, they can’t tell which lies are believable.
- The typical politician’s response to criticism: doubling down.
- Sows cry, “We didn’t know the leopards would eat our faces!”
- Harassment like this will continue until FOSTA is overturned.
- Ever notice how often predatory cops’ targets are underage?
- Support posts for the northwest roof section of my annex.
- Indian politicians want to help demolish the internet, too!
- Cops, bureaucracy, tea, Emilio Delgado, and much more.
- Costumed criminals regularly abduct and torture people.
- Cops, beer, Norton Juster, Doctor Who, and much more.
- It’s a bad idea for a sex worker to pay no income taxes.
- Still think this djinni can be stuffed back into its bottle?
- Signed copies of Ask Maggie, Volume II are available!
- Florida prohibitionists are completely out of control.
- The old strip club business model is a dead duck.
- The conclusion of my 6-part review of Blake’s 7.
- I called this a hoax as soon as the story broke.
- Just another cop demonstrating what he is.
- Sex worker rights is not an isolated issue.
- The Swedish model protects sex workers!
- What is wrong with doctors who do this?
- Crypto-moralism rots people’s brains.
- A nice review of The War on Whores.
- A panel on the idea of “free love”.
- Why we can’t have nice things.
- The orgasm tool for women.
- Fan letters are so inspiring!
- On the death of Orville.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- It’s chick time again!
- R.I.P. Jack Hammer.
- Presents!
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