I made the huge error of conducting a dowsing rod session and asking if “Carroll” was present. – Brocarde
I’m not one to waste hours on YouTube, but every so often a video catches my attention as this modern fable did; I think you’ll enjoy it, too. The links above it were provided by Mike Siegel, Kendra Holliday, Franklin Harris, C.J. Ciaramella, Mike Masnick, Nun Ya, and Popehat, in that order.
- Sounds legit.
- R.I.P. Helen Fisher.
- Medieval dog names.
- Headline of the week.
- The woman who never was.
- This week in artificial stupidity.
- A newly-discovered Aesop’s fable.
From the Archives
- Once a government takes more power, it never really relinquishes it again.
- They’ve got what they wanted: positive attention from censorious asshats.
- Kids are not a kind of insurance policy against boredom in later adulthood.
- Authoritarians believe their subjects are either very stupid or very gullible.
- This time Rolling Stone wasn’t alone in gulping down a load of codswallop.
- Opportunists will continue to harass businesses until FOSTA is overturned.
- Prohibition turns bodies into “crime scenes” which cops can violate at will.
- Americans’ sick lust for torture turns imprisonment into a death sentence.
- Politicians don’t even try to make their new laws Constitutional any more.
- America ignores the costs of its sick worship of state-sanctioned violence.
- The way local media parrots clearly-foolish copaganda is utterly pathetic.
- It’s rare a court rules an action so stupid even a cop should know better.
- Two forced-birth states are moving to legally reduce women to serfdom.
- By this standard, Johnny Cash is lucky he was never accused of murder.
- Red/blue fools pretend anti-sex authoritarians “do not agree on much”.
- Don’t teach kids about sex; fill their heads with anti-sex propaganda.
- The State has changed the excuse from “morality” to “animal abuse”.
- I’m really pleased with how well Durabak works on wooden surfaces.
- A good argument for refusing to roll over and let yourself be robbed.
- Some censors believe KOSA won’t destroy the internet fully enough.
- Give sexual predators total power over women; what could happen?
- It only starts with political pariahs like sex workers or gun owners.
- Expect the equation of human sexuality with pollution to increase.
- Modern fascism has spun a terrifyingly-extensive surveillance net.
- The dawn of a nightmarishly-dystopian surveil-and-snitch state.
- People like this are the norm in policing sex, and always will be.
- “Pastor and sex offender” is a large and ever-expanding group.
- I’ve never seen such an absurdly specific nutritionist claim.
- The government’s evil clown show continues in a new ring.
- Wells Fargo is among the worst perpetrators of this abuse.
- A powerful look at men playing D&D on Texas’ death row.
- Another Vermont city achieves de facto decriminalization.
- Fentanyl is being inserted into every popular scare myth.
- Legalese for “get out of my courtroom, you opportunist”.
- The worship of Santa Muerte has expanded worldwide.
- It’s nearly always cooler at Sunset than it is in Seattle.
- It’s getting harder to tell the preachers from the cops.
- Cops, Roger Corman, Jimmy Buffett, and much more.
- Most people are moral cowards; proceed accordingly.
- Gee, I wonder why this happens so often in Ireland?
- Preparing the house roof to support the atrium roof.
- Of all construction tasks, I hate painting the most.
- Cops, headlines, psychopathy, and much more.
- Cops, Queen Elizabeth, Ozzy, and much more.
- Is professional BDSM legal in New York?
- No woman is safe from predatory cops.
- Another cop demonstrating what he is.
- The weather last year was very weird.
- “Youth pastors” are as bad as cops.
- Laura Agustín on her new project.
- Throwback Meets Thursday.
- It’s about goddamned time.
- Cicero loves apple season.
- Monkey see, monkey do.
- Rapist cops of the week.
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