We’re going to take [your] baby one way or another. – LA sheriff’s deputy
In memory of the passing of Tony Bennett, I chose this video of him performing his signature song on MTV Unplugged in 1994 to illustrate his undying appeal across decades and generations. The links above the video were provided by Dan Savage, Jesse Walker (x2), Scott Greenfield, Mike Masnick, Franklin Harris, and Scott Hechinger, in that order.
- RIP Tony Bennett.
- Young Florida man.
- Headline of the week.
- Ooooh, so scary, kids!
- “He loved Big Brother.“
- The Tautology Bar & Grill.
- Just protecting and serving.
From the Archives
- My 1st profession becomes as much a target for authoritarians as my 2nd.
- Those claiming the right to control nonconsenting individuals are my foes.
- Unsurprised at the number of sleazebags who accused the doctor of lying.
- Nothing will stop those more concerned with burglars than a police state.
- This psychopathic wacko even makes some “rescue” fans uncomfortable.
- In case anyone still doubts that politicians are deranged megalomaniacs.
- Corporations are becoming the favored tool of censors around the world.
- I’m sure “anti-trafficking” crusaders will be going after this any day now.
- It’s striking how the sexual behavior of “pastors” resembles that of cops.
- 41% of cops admit to beating their wives. Some don’t stop with beating.
- San Francisco pigs are unsatisfied with waiting for useful idiots’ consent.
- Is “this tool of oppression is only sold to oppressors” meant to reassure?
- Politicians’ war on the internet moves us another step toward idiocracy.
- Government wants blacks to think of rational thought as a white thing.
- The abuses committed by the “therapeutic state” are rarely so blatant.
- Crypto-moralists pretend their lust to ban is about “health” or “safety”.
- The European Court of Human Rights just keeps kissing racists’ arses.
- Nobody will be safe until this odious practice is ruled unconstitutional.
- Hawley’s long history of spouting self-aggrandizing lies about whores.
- People so often die mysteriously while cops just happen to be nearby.
- I’m skeptical this will accomplish anything, but it probably can’t hurt.
- Swedish model pushers are starting to be recognized as copsuckers.
- Will Western media ever stop tiptoeing around calling this what it is?
- The biggest problem with working through someone else’s platform.
- Prohibitionist attempt to destroy Leeds red light district is defeated.
- I’ve always been a homebody, but now it’s even more pronounced.
- Useful idiots never see where “hate speech” laws inevitably lead.
- Cops, sharks, Henry Mancini, William F. Nolan, and much more.
- Twitter accidentally admitted what everyone already knew.
- On the ethical abomination that is cop glorification drama.
- Internet-connected devices surreptitiously eavesdropping.
- Trans men are also targets of violence and discrimination.
- Just another of those nonexistent false rape accusations.
- US newsmedia panic over hysteria of their own making.
- Anything that helps demystify sex work is a good thing.
- Cops, curses, puritanism, “Jolene”, and much more.
- It’s that whole “could vs should” thing again.
- For me, travel never fails to provoke anxiety.
- This is quickly moving into the mainstream.
- Apparently, fentanyl hysteria is contagious.
- Moving into phase 2 of the annex project.
- What other country does this sound like?
- My little rose bush moves out to Sunset.
- To St. Mary Magdalene on her feast day.
- “Destroying lives in order to save souls.”
- In which I learn the basics of welding.
- This “youth pastor” had an assistant.
- Cops, Mungo Jerry, and much more.
- My two-week trip to Freedom Fest.
- Rapist cops of the week.
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