That’s what happens when you don’t answer questions. – Jason Ball
Of their many moving songs, this one seems most appropriate to honor the passing of the Pogues’ frontman & songwriter Shane MacGowan. The links above the video were provided by Mike Masnick; Mike Siegel (x2); Stephen Lemons and Jesse Walker; C.J. Ciaramella (x2); and IncarcerNation, in that order.
- Nightmare of the week.
- A really low bar for “terror”.
- Where’s “fraud prevention” in this?
- R.I.P. Shane MacGowan and Elliott Erwitt.
- More cops demonstrating exactly what they are.
- “The most transparent police force in the country“.
- Cop murders man for grieving over his mother’s death.
From the Archives
- Thought you could avoid the Gestapo by taking a bus rather than a plane?
- Australian cops envy the FBI, and want to run their own kiddie porn sites.
- I wish news outlets would stop publishing their rulers’ wanking fantasies.
- There’s nothing to stop tyrants from simply bringing “Choke Point” back.
- When victims have nothing to steal, cops profit by fucking up their lives.
- Burying government in lawsuits is the only way to slow its depredations.
- If prohibitionists want to “rescue” whores, why keep us from other jobs?
- This omits to say that the spy devices were designed and built in China.
- I’ll believe Facebook is actually going to do this when it actually does it.
- A bureaucratic disaster viewed through the lens of a dying moral panic.
- It’s unlikely this will pass the Senate, but it’s a sign of change anyhow.
- When government loses one excuse for violence, it will invent another.
- More folly from the UK’s decade-long campaign to censor the internet.
- Almost 30 years before he was caught, then another 6.5 before trial.
- Cops, robots, “alternative medicine”, Mike Nesmith, and much more.
- I think we have enough evidence to start calling this “McNeill’s Law”.
- “Drugs” are a popular pretext for petty vindictiveness in US prisons.
- The absurdity becomes more obvious when we substitute “toaster”.
- Cops, prohibition, sushi, Ben Bova, Chuck Yeager, and much more.
- No, Parler doesn’t have a “porn problem”; it has a spam problem.
- “Law enforcement worker” is a new low in cop-crime obfuscation.
- “One Hand” Kristof launches yet another pro-censorship crusade.
- It’s only one step from “all commercial vehicles” to “all vehicles”.
- It usually starts with “vice criminals”, but it never stops with us.
- A brief timeline of the steps I’ve taken to make Sunset a home.
- Why local laws banning facial recognition are feel-good bullshit.
- All internet “porn” censorship schemes have similar endgames.
- Cops, curses, Christine McVie, Robert Clary, and Greg Bear.
- Will the feds interfere with this as they did in Philadelphia?
- Supporters of mass incarceration worship Holy Hypocrisy.
- I hope the Institute for Justice has already contacted her.
- Anything can be “trafficking” if you use your imagination.
- A big step toward ending the disastrous War on Drugs.
- Your “leaders” know what’s best, so shut up and obey.
- It’s getting harder to tell the preachers from the cops.
- Professionals have been telling y’all this for decades.
- A break in the rain = more time to work on the roof.
- Another of those nonexistent false rape accusations.
- A new nadir for photographs in the US news media.
- Rapist cops of the week for 2020, 2021, and 2022.
- Congress won’t stop until it controls the internet.
- The old strip club business model is a dead duck.
- Three weeks from my official semi-retirement.
- My last run into Seattle before Christmas.
- Another sign we’re past the watershed.
- Cops just love them some kiddie porn.
- Tracy Quan remembers Carol Leigh.
- A nearly-perfect Christmas tree.
- Improvements to my bathroom.
- On the magic of morning snow.
- St. Nicholas loves whores.
- R.I.P. Phil Harvey.
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