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It wasn’t easy to decide which of Peter Schickele’s many “PDQ Bach” compositions to use for his memorial, but I eventually decided this one best demonstrated their flavor in a way one needn’t be a music nerd to grasp. The links above it were provided by Mike Siegel; Scott Greenfield; Popehat and Mike Siegel again (x2); Phoenix Calida (x2); and C.J. Ciaramella, in that order.
- Metaphor alert.
- “Repent, Harlequin!” said the Ticktockmen.
- R.I.P. Peter Schickele and Norman Jewison.
- Robot cars are a menace, and should be banned.
- Pseudoscience is already a lie, so she just compounded it.
- Some want these systems operating vehicles at highway speed.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
From the Archives
- Snitching apps first sold as anti-whore technology are widening their nets.
- I was fated to be threatened with state violence regardless of career path.
- Does any sane person still believe this is about anything other than profit?
- How nice of him to “volunteer” for a position that gave access to children.
- Everything about modern corporate work makes me happier I’m a whore.
- Is there anything narrower and meaner than the mind of a prison official?
- Laws enabling nuisance lawsuits will multiply until ruled unconstitutional.
- Prohibitionist profiteers will harass businesses until FOSTA is overturned.
- Hey, female cops; how’s that collaboration with the police state working?
- Politicians want to punish people for failing to do the literally impossible.
- Why do building supply stores carry products unsuited to the local area?
- Useful idiots keep giving government excuses for Orwellian surveillance.
- Cops will keep this up until people stop pretending adults dislike sweets.
- If prohibitionists want to “rescue” whores, why keep us from other jobs?
- We may be seeing the beginning of the end of these medieval practices.
- Nothing infuriates violent, self-important busybodies more than privacy.
- Authoritarians want people to forget the true nature of this psychopath.
- How often must I say, “Don’t let non-doctors inject filth into your body“?
- I guess they figure calling rape “sex trafficking” will net a larger payout.
- Sex work is a major part of the Thai economy, but don’t tell politicians.
- Alabama labels all escort ads “sex trafficking” & arrests all the women.
- Believing what politicians say is like trying to build a castle on a cloud.
- Even the use of the distancing “former” is the same as for rapist cops.
- Half a year old, but since the events were over a century ago anyhow…
- Do cops realize how stupid their narrative-mixing makes them sound?
- Hysterics claim typing words into an algorithm constitutes “violence”.
- Another good little article on interacting with sex workers on Twitter.
- Rashida Jones’ sleazy prohibitionism ties into a much bigger picture.
- Cops, Lisa Marie Presley, Adam Rich, Carole Cook, and much more.
- TSA goons can freely molest citizens, but this was a bit too blatant.
- The bipartisan war on the internet continues without even a pause.
- “Conversion therapy” has never been banned anywhere in the US.
- Cops, drugs, candles, Mira Furlan, Hank Aaron, and much more.
- Call prohibitionists what they are, not what they pretend to be.
- Calling politicians on their hypocrisy is an interesting strategy.
- Politicians are always happy to indulge cops’ violent fantasies.
- Cops, Lovecraft, Yvette Mimieux, Meat Loaf, and much more.
- Retrospectives of my blogging from January 2011 and 2012.
- Preventing a cascade of predatory “sex trafficking” lawsuits.
- Don’t worry, the Swedish model “decriminalizes the seller”!
- SCOTUS refuses to slay this monster of its own creation.
- My new propane water heater is connected and running.
- A microcosm of the whole “sex trafficking” moral panic.
- This guy needs to be put away before he murders her.
- This will continue for as long as the voters allow it to.
- 578,759 people total at a density of about 2 per km2.
- The first installment of a six-part review of Blake’s 7.
- Prohibitionism is an inherently violent belief system.
- The New York Times subtly speaks ill of the dead.
- Another step toward total financial surveillance.
- Another cop demonstrating exactly what he is.
- The US finally decides to call a spade a spade.
- Prohibitionism is a dangerous mental illness.
- They’ll use any excuse to protect their own.
- Sealing a roof gap against the rain.
- Rapist-cop enablers of the decade.
- More curated selections of tweets.
- The results of a tolerance break.
- Much more of this, please.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- Micro-events.
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Funnily enough, Shane Killian made Jeanette Breen the Biggest Bogon Emitter for last week:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDnQXTmRLzI
As someone who got chicken pox as a toddler, I do not want children to suffer from that, measles, rubella, mumps, polio, smallpox, diphtheria, tuberculosis, etc. I would also remind people that occupational licensing in medicine didn’t stop Andrew Wakefield from writing his infamous studies that tried to tie the MMR vaccine to Crohn’s Disease and Autism. (That isn’t going into Kenneth Stoller or Professor of Evolutionary Biology James Lyons-Weiler.)
The fact that I have no idea who any of those people are is a sign I’m living my life correctly.