Just a little less than a year ago, I was contacted by a producer from a UK-based production company making a documentary series on the story of Ashley Madison; long-time readers will recall that I played a small part in exposing the company’s scam long before it became common knowledge. It turns out that when the documentary writers were doing their research, they dscovered a heap of internal Ashley Madison emails complaining about my expose in general and having a cow over my publishing screenshots of their bot-creating interface in particular. The company was so worried, in fact, that it resorted to what Ken “Popehat” White refers to as “bumptious legal threats”, trying to intimidate me into taking down the column (fat chance) by foolishly threatening me with a libel suit while also claiming that I had published proprietary information (ie, admitting that my statements were not libelous because they were true). Anyhow, Ken told them (in a legal way, of course) what they could do with their suit, and I watched with glee as everything I said was eventually proven correct. The fact that I knew about it long before the proof became common knowledge was fascinating to the documentary producers, and so they sent a camera crew to Sunset last October to interview me. Anyhow, the documentary premiered on Hulu last Friday, and though the reviews seem mixed people are telling me my part was great, so give it a watch and see for yourself!
Archive for July, 2023
Diary #680
Posted in Diary, Perception, tagged Ashley Madison, lawyers, Maggie in the Media, scams on July 11, 2023| 4 Comments »
Thirteenth Anniversary
Posted in Biography, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged activism, blogging, censorship, internet, psychology on July 10, 2023| 4 Comments »
I’m planning to keep sounding the alarm…until either death or the Establishment stops me. – “Twelfth Anniversary”
Those who have been reading his blog for a long, long time (by internet reckoning) have undoubtedly noticed that I don’t write as many full essays as I used to. When I first started I wrote an entire full-length essay every single day, and now it’s only once or twice a week; as of this week, I’m stepping it down one more notch to about once a week. Two days a week are news columns (which are far more labor-intensive than you might think, due to the cross-indexing and tagging), one a links column, one a diary, one a construction update, and now I’m adding a “Throwback Thursday”. Plus of course the monthly features like my “Back Issue” and selections of tweets. Two years ago, for the eleventh anniversary of this blog, I explained the reason for the shrinking:
…First…I’m doing a lot of other things (both personal and professional) which take up increasing amounts of my time; second, because in the time I’ve been publishing The Honest Courtesan I’ve aged from “still able to see 40 in the rear-view mirror” to “just able to make out 60 on the horizon”; third, because censorship keeps increasing with no end in sight, and I’d rather not be going full speed when the Establishment drops a wall in front of me; and finally, because I’ve already published over 4000 posts and I feel as though I’m starting to repeat myself a little too often. Furthermore, I’m no longer one of a very few voices crying out in the wilderness; there are now lots of sex workers publishing a lot of powerful content in more mainstream venues than I ever had the patience and humility to approach, and our message finally appears to be penetrating the thick skulls of politicians, the soft ones of reporters, and even the empty ones of the American public. In short, my work is no longer as vital as it once was, and since I was one of the loudmouthed harlots who helped create the social climate which made all this possible, I think I’ve earned at least a little rest.
All that is, unsurprisingly, even more true than it was two years ago, especially the bits about aging and increasing censorship; even if thirteen years isn’t that much in the big scheme of things, every year counts double when you’re burning your candle at both ends. And even though older folks like me tend to think of 13 years as not an especially long stretch, consider the difference between 1910 and 1923 (or between 1933 and 1946, or 1953 to 1966, or 1990 to 2003); the world and the culture have changed quite a bit since I started this project, and in a world of YouTube and TikTok blogs are beginning to look as quaint as radio shows did in 1959. So even though I intend to keep the promise in today’s epigram (because, as most of you can probably guess, it would be nearly impossible for me to do otherwise), I’m sure y’all will understand if I let myself coast more often rather than frantically pedaling all the time.
Links #679
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Obituary, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged acting, comics, cops, Florida, Italy, Rome, STEM, The Cop Myth, video on July 9, 2023| Leave a Comment »
If thou have a great black bowl in thy hand and it be full of good ale and thou leave anything therein, thou puttest thy soul into greater pain. – The Heege Manuscript
I recently saw a Twitter thread asking for people’s favorite David Bowie songs, and I honestly have to say this is mine; I’ve liked it ever since it was in heavy rotation when the film came out. The links above it were provided by Jesse Walker; Lenore Skenazy; Kevin Wilson; Jesse Walker again; Radley Balko; Elizabeth N. Brown; and Conner Habib, Dan Savage & Franklin Harris, in that order.
- Pompeiian pizza.
- Goofus and Gallant at 75.
- What scares you the most?
- 15th-century stand-up comedy.
- 23 years late and mostly shit, but a start.
- Cops shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near kids.
- R.I.P. Julian Sands, Sue Johanson, and Alan Arkin.
From the Archives
- Clearview specifically markets to those who claim a monopoly on violence.
- If Koch was really “surprised” by this, she isn’t much of an anthropologist.
- Supporters of restrictions on “offensive” speech helped create this lunacy.
- Some Westerners still claim China isn’t trying to exterminate the Uighurs.
- Latin American state violence vs trans women is starting to get attention.
- First it was supposedly about “terrorists”, then “sex trafficking”, and now:
- Real humanitarians are fighting against racist “anti-trafficking” schemes.
- Hey female cops, how’s that collaboration with the police state working?
- When a politician does the right thing, it’s usually for the wrong reason.
- So many “enlightened” countries still believe disease is caused by “sin”.
- Your periodic reminder of what “going after the pimps” actually means.
- Prohis say I’m a godlike being, existing in many places simultaneously.
- This could’ve been a decent article, but it’s not worth wasting time on.
- Cue “freeze peach” morons vomiting nonsense about fires & theaters.
- I wonder how long it’ll be before she conveniently “commits suicide”?
- Prohibitionists’ next target isn’t just Pornhub; it’s all online sex work.
- “Sex trafficking” fetishists think all films must promote their fantasy.
- In some places, male teachers who do sex work can keep their jobs.
- Every few years, Utrecht thinks of a new way to harass sex workers.
- On the erosion of the legalization/decriminalization line in Australia.
- Women with young children should avoid Alabama if at all possible.
- Every amateur “sex scandal” makes me happier I’m a professional.
- The war against drugs other than nicotine continues to wind down.
- “Gender-critical feminists” are also virtually always prohibitionists.
- Any internet-connected device can and will be used to spy on you.
- Victoria will become the world’s 4th jurisdiction to achieve decrim.
- Scientists who create weapons of oppression are moral imbeciles.
- Facebook didn’t think the face-eating leopards would eat its face.
- Apparently, Florida prosecutors don’t know when to stop digging.
- The sexual behavior of “pastors” closely resembles that of cops.
- Cops, monsters, Doctor Who, Richard Donner, and much more.
- US courts are happy to allow US censorship of non-Americans.
- Compare with Germany’s disdain for sex workers’ livelihoods.
- It usually starts with sex workers, but it never stops with us.
- SCOTUS makes its disinterest in potty-obsession quite clear.
- The NY Times is still pretending “Pizzagate” is about cranks.
- A “No shit, Sherlock” headline from the ever-confused Vice.
- Another “youth pastor”, another string of underage victims.
- The crusade to reduce Americans to serfdom continues.
- Some tyrannies are too loathsome even for some cops.
- It’s amazing how much faster work goes at floor level.
- If this shocks you, you haven’t been paying attention.
- This vulture feeding frenzy is going to get a lot uglier.
- Cops, Carl Reiner, Ennio Morricone, and much more.
- At long last, my chickens have started laying again!
- My two previous columns for Independence Day.
- Imagine how many others like him are still free.
- Finishing the construction of Chekhov’s cottage.
- My eleventh and twelfth anniversary columns.
- Cops, James Caan, Sweet, and much more.
- A record-breaking heat wave hits the PNW.
- Such pro-life, very protecting children.
- The first roof supports are in place.
- A “Celebration of Margo’s Life”.
- A road trip with Mr. Spock.
- The Colossus of New York.
- Population 77,434.
I find paywalls distasteful, and so many people find this blog valuable as a resource I just can’t bring myself to install one. Furthermore, I find ad delivery services (whose content I have no say over) even more distasteful. But as I’m now semi-retired from sex work, I can’t self-sponsor this blog by myself any longer. So if you value my writing enough that you would pay to see it if it were paywalled, please consider subscribing; there are four different levels to fit all budgets. Or if that doesn’t work for you, please consider showing your generosity with a one-time donation; you can Paypal to maggiemcneill@earthlink.net or else email me at the same address to make other arrangements. Thanks so much!
In the News (#1353)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged A Moral Cancer, advertising, Arizona, bad customers, Canada, censorship, cops, crypto-moralism, disease, Drawing Lines, drugs, Facebook, fascism, Google, I Spy, internet, law, No Escape, Pennsylvania, pregnancy, propaganda, Property of the State, rape, surveillance, The Prudish Giant, Thou Shalt Not, To Molest and Rape, Whither Canada?, You Were Warned on July 8, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Sex workers…should have access to the same legal mechanisms to enforce their agreements as any other service provider. – Jessica Rose
The headline writer omitted the word “temporarily”:
A days-long ban by Instagram on dozens of kink and sex-positive creators [has been] lifted [for now]…Those impacted by the bans, which lasted from June 22 to June 28, still…[somehow can’t understand why the compulsively-censorious Facebook, which owns] Instagram…blocked [their accounts again as it did two and a half years ago], and [naively expect] explanations of how those involved in the sex-positive community can safely interact on [the] platform…without [being lumped in with those dirty, bad sex workers Facebook has repeatedly censored for years without a peep from the “sex positive community”]…
Pregnant women & new mothers are uniquely vulnerable to state coercion:
…in 2016…Congress passed the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act…[which] included a one-word change to…federal law…requir[ing] newborns vaguely identified as “affected by” illegal drugs to be flagged to child protective services. In this new iteration, [politician]s removed the word “illegal”…[so] hospitals…were required to [snitch to pigs] any time a newborn was “affected by” any substance, legal or [otherwise]…Many [states] responded by expanding child abuse reporting requirements to include the use of prescription medications during pregnancy…States such as Arizona…doubled down on investigations…women [have been] reported after taking antidepressants, anxiety and ADHD medications, and even over-the-counter cold medicine…some…were reported after testing positive for the fentanyl in their epidurals. States are even less forthcoming about how many…newborns are [abducted under this pretext]…
I’m happy to have been proven wrong about her chances:
A Halifax sex worker has won her small claims court case over an unpaid fee from a client in what her advocates say is a huge step toward strengthening the rights of all sex workers…On Jan. 26, 2022, Brogan Sheehan…[agreed] to provide companionship services to a man named Bradley Samuelson…at a rate of $300 per hour. Seven hours…later…after [a great deal of hassle]…he finally paid her $300, leaving a balance of $1,800…Samuelson [bizarrely] argued that a contract for sexual services is not enforceable in law because it’s an illegal contract…[but adjudicator Darrel] Pink ruled that the contract was enforceable…because sex work is not illegal, [therefore] it follows that normal commercial law benefits afforded by civil law should be available to sex workers…Samuelson voluntarily hired her, agreed to pay for her services and communicated intent to pay…[he] was ordered to pay Ms. Sheehan $1,800 plus interest and costs, which he did on May 24. Ms. Sheehan said she’s relieved and proud that the victory now clears the way for other sex workers to seek a legal remedy when clients refuse to pay, which happens often…
It’s rare that a rapist cop stops at only a few victims:
A [typical and representative] Philadelphia [cop] already [caged] on child sex assault charges is now charged with dozens more sex crimes that stem from his [long career as a rapist cop]…Patrick Heron…has [been]…charged…in 19 new cases…from 2005 to 2019…the 233 new counts…include kidnapping, [anal rape, child molestation, rape, witness intimidation]…sexual assault, child sexual abuse, indecent assault, and [rape of a caged woman]…
When it comes to surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down:
Numerous government agencies, including the FBI, Department of Defense…[NSA, and] Treasury Department…have purchased vast amounts of U.S. citizens’ personal information from commercial data brokers…a partially declassified…report released on June 9…shows the breathtaking scale and invasive nature of the consumer data market and how [it] directly enables wholesale [unconstitutional] surveillance of people. The data includes not only where you’ve been and who you’re connected to, but the nature of your beliefs and [highly-flawed] predictions about what you might do in the future…[this] information, coupled with the now-ubiquitous decision-making a[lgorithms]…like ChatGPT, significantly increases the threat to privacy and civil liberties by giving the government access to sensitive personal information beyond even what it could collect through court-authorized surveillance…
Crypto-moralists believe people enjoying something is enough reason to declare it “unsafe”:
“The dose makes the poison.” That’s always what you have to bear in mind when you hear any claim about whether some substance…is “toxic”, or even “causes cancer”. Many “poisons” only do…harm at very high concentrations, and even water can be toxic if you drink enough…the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), is about to declare that aspartame…is “possibly carcinogenic” …[despite being] repeatedly…declared safe by multiple health authorities over the years after dozens of studies…the IARC [has]…four categories…Group 1 is things they think definitely cause cancer. Group 2A is things that are “probably carcinogenic”. Group 2B is “possibly carcinogenic”. And Group 3 is “not classifiable”. Aspartame isn’t currently…on the list, but [IARC wants]…to add it to Group 2B…[along with] aloe vera…working as a carpenter…joiner…[or] dry cleaner…[and] pickled vegetables…Group 2A…[includes] red meat…working night shifts…[and] drinking hot beverages…At a certain level, all of these things might be hazardous to our health – but what is that level?…
Google has followed [Facebook] in announcing it will block Canadian news content from its search engine in Canada after [Canadian politicians refused to back down from foolish demands it pay for the “privilege” of linking to other websites]…The Liberals say the law is meant to end tech titans’ dominance of the digital advertising market [by reversing the centuries-old traditional advertising relationship (where companies pay to have their products advertised in mass media) via magical proclamation]…platforms would face fin[es on top of the extortion fees] for failing to [dance in the way politicians demand, so the only way for these companies to win is not to play]…
I find paywalls distasteful, and so many people find this blog valuable as a resource I just can’t bring myself to install one. Furthermore, I find ad delivery services (whose content I have no say over) even more distasteful. But as I’m now semi-retired from sex work, I can’t self-sponsor this blog by myself any longer. So if you value my writing enough that you would pay to see it if it were paywalled, please consider subscribing; there are four different levels to fit all budgets. Or if that doesn’t work for you, please consider showing your generosity with a one-time donation; you can Paypal to maggiemcneill@earthlink.net or else email me at the same address to make other arrangements. Thanks so much!
Annex 114
Posted in Diary, tagged Sunset on July 7, 2023| 2 Comments »
We’re slowly getting closer to the completion of my annex project, but when I was recently asked to show pictures that would give an idea what the whole thing looks like right now, I realized I couldn’t really do so. This, then, is an attempt at one such picture; it was taken while standing right in front of the bathroom door, aiming southeast. The hot tub with its fountain (I’m going to try to get a short video of it in action soon, when I top off the tub) is on the right, and to the left you can see the bar and the little shrine, though the bar is currently cluttered with tools and the like because there’s still some work to be done. I’ll be working on one of those projects pretty soon, namely connecting the chimney for the wood-burning stove; I wanted to wait until the dry season was officially underway. Around here, that’s July and August, so I’ll tackle it around the middle of the month. After that I’m going to apply some Durabak to the line where the atrium roof joins the roof of the main house (which still has a minor but annoying leak in heavy rain) in hopes of sealing it up, and while I’m at it I need to do a section of the shop roof which has a similar small-but-irritating leak. Then I’m going to coat the ramps, which at least won’t require going up on a damned roof. Compared to what I’ve already accomplished, though, none of that should be too bad, and this winter the area should be much warmer and cozier (if you enlarge the photo you can probably see the firewood rack and kindling box Jae set up, just left of the stove). And even though we’ve still got a few things to accomplish, at least it’s starting to look like an actual room rather than just a construction site. 
Readin’, ‘Ritin’, and…um…
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, Tyranny, tagged politicians, propaganda, STEM on July 6, 2023| 1 Comment »
The best thing schools could do to help the US political situation would be to actually start teaching basic math again. It’s stunning how much economic demagoguery would be undermined if the average American could do straightforward long division or calculate averages. Here’s a real simple one for those who don’t grok yet: 1,000,000,000 (1 billion) divided by 333,000,000 (333 million, the approximate US population) = 3. Here’s another one, slightly more difficult, but still no big deal: 32,250,000,000,000 (32.25 trillion) divided by 333,000,000 (333 million, the approximate US population) ≈ 97,000. Let’s do one more for good measure: 32,250,000,000,000 (32.25 trillion) – 4,500,000,000,000 (4.5 trillion) = 27,750,000,000,000 (27.75 trillion).
I think I’ve made my point now; if you still don’t get it, you’re probably an American voter.
In the News (#1352)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Perception, Tyranny, tagged agency denial, anal sex, Apple, bogus studies, censorship, cops, fantasy, Finding What Isn’t There, I Spy, If Men Were Angels, Illinois, law, LGBT rights, License To Rape, Maine, Maryland, oral sex, Peeping Toms, politicians, porn, rape, rescue industry, surveillance, Swedish model, The Course of a Disease, To Molest and Rape, TSA, United Kingdom on July 5, 2023| Leave a Comment »
The Online Safety Bill poses a serious threat…and could put UK citizens at greater risk. – Apple
Oh look, another “youth pastor”, what a surprise:
…Rejoice Lutheran Church [in Geneva, Illinois] hired the Rev. Michael C. Willis to lead its youth ministry in 2016…[he] was ordained as a pastor in 2022 [and accused of possessing and disseminating child pornography in March of this year]…Willis was arrested [on June 27th]…
Finding What Isn’t There (#1005)
Human trafficking [opportunists want people to believe their outrageous fantasies of imaginary]…traffickers operat[ing] with impunity…[and] predators rent[ing passive, inert] children for commercial sex, and [complain that] governments fail to implement [violent] enough action plans…governments [regularly] identify [far fewer “victims” than the rescue industry pretends there are]…governments around the world reported identifying only 115,324 human trafficking victims in the last year…slightly lower than the high of 118,932 victims identified in 2019…[even though] the [fantasiz]ed number…is [still] increasing [despite all evidence to the contrary. Profiteers now claim] 27.6 million people in…forced labor or sex trafficking…
“Search” is the most common government euphemism for “molest”:
…the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held 3-0 that the Federal Tort Claims Act allows lawsuits against the government when TSA screeners [sexually] violate passengers. Two months ago, the Fourth Circuit held the same, and previously the Third and Eighth Circuits took the same path in 2019 and 2020, respectively…the government attempts to combine two laws to preclude any lawsuits against anyone. First, the Westfall Act allows the government, when one of its employees gets sued for on-the-job conduct, to say, “sue us instead of the employee.” This would not be a problem — the treasury is more likely to pay a judgment than a random TSA employee anyway — except they next use the Federal Tort Claims Act, which basically says…the government can’t be sued for…assault and battery when committed by anyone other than an “investigative or law enforcement officer.” So the argument is: 1) you have to sue only the government, but 2) the government isn’t liable. Luckily, now four appellate courts have concluded that TSA screeners are “investigative or law enforcement officers”…and the government may be sued for their…misconduct.
The state of Maryland has repealed the Unnatural or Perverted Sexual Practice Act, which criminalized any sexual act outside of vaginal penetration…the Woodhull Freedom Foundation submitted testimony in February…explain[ing]…“We cannot allow antiquated and discriminatory laws to remain on the books and leave us vulnerable to prosecution…This exact ordinance was used to arrest four gay men as recently as 2021…[despite] the Supreme Court’s ruling in Lawrence v. Texas…[which] Maryland’s ordinance stood in direct opposition to…
The politician who spearheaded the repeal was apparently motivated by the reversal of Roe v Wade, reasoning that the same court might overturn Lawrence.
He wasn’t a “former” cop when he repeatedly raped a teenage girl:
A [typical and representative cop] turned criminal defence barrister has been jailed for 16 years for the rape and indecent assault of a teenage girl more than 30 years ago. James Boyle, now aged 69, w[orked for the] Cambridgeshire Police when…he [repeatedly raped his victim] between 1986 and 1991…The judge…[also fin]ed Boyle…£4,500…[and condemned him to] the sex offenders’ register…
The pretexts for such surveillance would not long remain limited to “child porn” and “terrorism”:
Apple has become the latest operator of an encrypted messaging service to raise concerns about the UK’s [misnamed] Online Safety Bill…join[ing]…WhatsApp and Signal in opposing a provision that would allow [surveillance & censorship agency] Ofcom…to use “accredited technology” to identify child [porn] “whether communicated publicly or privately” and swiftly take it down. Apple is calling for the bill to be amended to offer explicit protections for end-to-end encryption…[because] forcing companies to scan messages for illegal content, even if using an approach such as client-side scanning, would fundamentally [break] this encryption and hence the privacy and security of users. Apple previously [delay]ed plans to [spy on users in this way] after a backlash from privacy advocates…The government[‘s entire defense of] that the bill…[has been to repeatedly barf out the word] criminals…
The Course of a Disease (#1347)
Maine officially defines women as moral imbeciles, and men as our moral superiors:
Gov. Janet Mills signed a bill into law Monday that [imposes the Swedish model of] prostitution [law o]n Maine. The new law…[defines women as unable to consent to sex when money is involved, in the same way underage girls are deemed legally unable to consent to any sex, therefore] eliminat[ing] criminal charges for [the specific crime of prostitution] while [defining men as full adults with sexual agency who]…can still be criminally charged…Supporters [of the model ignore both these legal implications, and the measurable rise in violence against sex workers and rape in general which resulted when the model was imposed on] Canada, Ireland, Sweden and France…
I find paywalls distasteful, and so many people find this blog valuable as a resource I just can’t bring myself to install one. Furthermore, I find ad delivery services (whose content I have no say over) even more distasteful. But as I’m now semi-retired from sex work, I can’t self-sponsor this blog by myself any longer. So if you value my writing enough that you would pay to see it if it were paywalled, please consider subscribing; there are four different levels to fit all budgets. Or if that doesn’t work for you, please consider showing your generosity with a one-time donation; you can Paypal to maggiemcneill@earthlink.net or else email me at the same address to make other arrangements. Thanks so much!
Independence Day 2023
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays on July 4, 2023| 1 Comment »
“The United States is but the latest in a long succession of great Western empires…[whose successors] will admire America for the ways in which she was great, and criticize her for the ways in which she was awful, just as Americans do the civilizations which came before her. And tourists from that future nation will one day visit the ruins of the great American cities…” – “Successor“
Diary #679
Posted in Diary, tagged psychology, Sunset on July 3, 2023| Leave a Comment »
One of the reasons I wanted to add on to my house was so I could have guests anytime I like. Last week my friend Sophie told me she wanted to get out of Seattle for a couple of days, so she came over on Saturday, and yesterday we had a cookout (with Chekhov and Yellowbird in attendance). I had found some nice strawberries on sale last week, so I made a strawberry shortcake for dessert, and though it probably would’ve been better had I taken this picture before we ate it, I still wanted to share. Next week my friend Angela is coming for a few days, and the week after that a very trusted gentleman; I reckon that means it’ll be rather late in the month before I can get to installing the stovepipe, but we’ll see. None of this probably seems very exciting, but honestly I’ve already had far more adventure in my life than is good for me. So homemade desserts, visits from friends, and watching shows with Grace while stoned are just right for this stage of my life; here’s hoping I get a lot more of the same, and as little as possible to disturb the peace and happiness I’ve found at long last.
Links #678
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged California, cops, I’m Sure You Feel Safer Now, lawheads, Michigan, New York, Ohio, prohibitionist myths, racism, restaurants, scams, STEM, teachers, United Kingdom, video on July 2, 2023| Leave a Comment »
You have New York City saying…the guy who defends himself against the mugger…deserves life in prison. – Amy Swearer
This is another of those songs which was once well-known (enough to appear in TV commercials), but probably isn’t anymore. Whether you’re familiar with it or not, enjoy. The links above it were provided by Mike Siegel; Jesse Walker; Rick Horowitz (x2); Dan Savage and Clarissa; and Ally Fogg, in that order.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- Restaurateurs learning from cops.
- Cops murder man for getting in accident.
- Couple threatened for shopping while black.
- R.I.P. Sheldon Harnick and John Goodenough.
- I’ll take “Things That Never Happened” for $500, Alex.
From the Archives
- No public library is safe from censorship by politicians who hold the purse.
- Most porn performers have to supplement film income with outside work.
- To the state, false face scanning positives aren’t a bug; they’re a feature.
- SCOTUS expands one of the greatest legal abominations ever conceived.
- Contrast the speed with which states pass laws increasing cops’ powers.
- Yet another rescue industry “hero” is revealed as an opportunistic fraud.
- A government allowed to censor one thing can also censor other things.
- Removing excuses cops use to persecute people is always a good thing.
- Cops arbitrarily group unrelated arrests & call it a “sex trafficking sting”.
- The State’s insulting idea of compensation for a mass public gang rape.
- Is there any non-troglodyte who still denies police violence is epidemic?
- FOSTA just keeps splashing egg all over the feds’ stupid, violent faces.
- Why are most people surprised to find out that cops are habitual liars?
- Authoritarians love their wanking fantasies of mind-reading machines.
- If only there were a concise word for smuggling humans to sell them.
- How many mass graves before people stop believing religion is good?
- Some conservatives are starting to see the danger of police violence.
- They’ve discovered their moral compasses at least 20 years too late.
- The ACLU has finally noticed financial discrimination vs sex workers.
- It only took the courts five years to recognize the obvious this time.
- Even if this wasn’t a commercial transaction, it’s certainly adjacent.
- Another study proves what sex workers have been saying all along.
- The US government is now claiming sex workers are actually spies.
- The “missing” children were actually abducted by the government.
- They won’t stop until privacy of any kind is absolutely impossible.
- Even the government itself recognizes what a disaster FOSTA is.
- These charges followed the accusations by almost three years.
- Prohibitionists’ real goal is to completely ban online sex work.
- Cops, futurism, dead people, Cab Calloway, and much more.
- Because obviously prohibition doesn’t ruin enough lives yet.
- A resurgence of the 20th-century “whore as criminal” myth.
- Conditioning kids to accept constant, intrusive surveillance.
- Retrospectives of my blogging from June 2011 and 2012.
- Anything can be “trafficking” if you use your imagination.
- A few statistics to further dispel the myth of heroic cops.
- Cops, heat, appliances, John McAfee, and much more.
- There are many ways for governments to steal things.
- The ugliest part of a peak moral panic: lynch mobs.
- A politician claims that spying isn’t actually spying.
- So many rapist cops, so many underage victims.
- A retrospective of my blogging from June 2011.
- Taking that nasty old roof off of the wellhouse.
- The construction of my first guest cottage.
- Still another abomination from Alabama.
- Another barely-into-summer heat wave.
- No woman is safe from predatory cops.
- I’m pretty tired of climbing on rooves.
- A tiny visitor to the construction site.
- No, your reason is not an exception.
- Another curated selection of tweets.
- 22 vultures coming in for the kill.
- Cops, jazz, and much more.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- The arrival of Cicero.
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