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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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