You wake up one day and discover you’re dead. – Ned Johnson
Windsor McCay, the cartoonist who created the classic comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland, was also an early animator; I recently found this century-old example of his work. The links above the video were provided by Mike Masnick, Jesse Walker, T. Greg Doucette, Scott Long, Ryan Marino, and Walter Olson, in that order.
- Government efficiency.
- Editors are not optional.
- No, your reason is not an exception.
- Imperial goons torture migrant at airport.
- This is pure fantasy by psychological illiterates.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
From the Archives
- Give aggressive men power over teen girls; what could possibly go wrong?
- Journalists keep obediently referring to senseless violence as “correction”.
- Want “safe” schools? Stop paying sexually-aggressive thugs to lurk there.
- In addition to being a “pastor”, he’s also a wannabe cop. Quelle surprise.
- “Sex trafficking” fetishists share creepy fantasies about Ukranian women.
- Sometimes the difference between upper & lower house becomes visible.
- Politicians can’t resist using popular web services to expand surveillance.
- Stories about child-molesting cops are larded with obfuscatory language.
- The mainstream media won’t admit to their part in creating this disaster.
- A politician with even a vestigial sense of morality is a rare thing indeed.
- Teachers are supposed to be robots who have no lives outside of school.
- It’s past time cops stopped being allowed to cover up murders so easily.
- A decent article despite journalistic credulity about prohibitionist claims.
- Apparently, I was destined to be criminalized regardless of career path.
- Some censors are so mentally ill they feel threatened by tree sexuality.
- Sows love fantasy role-playing as sex workers in order to harm people.
- Only the organization is “nonprofit”; those who run it can make plenty.
- Even lurking in schools part-time is as much opportunity as cops need.
- The people who need “correction” are the ones who enable this horror.
- Airports are among cops’ favorite places to lurk in order to rob people.
- The zeal for censorship isn’t limited to the US or so-called “right wing”.
- Seemingly-consensual sex with a cop may actually be something else.
- No rumor is so stupid that some politician won’t believe and repeat it.
- Cops really don’t care if they ruin people’s lives with wild accusations.
- Censors are now pretending ideas they don’t like constitute a “crime”.
- Once in a while, there’s evidence of the way cops act toward women.
- Ambulance-chasers don’t care who gets hurt as long as they cash in.
- This will make little difference until cops’ power is severely curtailed.
- I used to like hoaxing on April Fools Day, until it stopped being fun.
- Savannah Sly & Tarah Wheeler, writing for the Brookings Institute.
- Tennessee’s float in the current “monkey see, monkey do” parade.
- At least some minds aren’t warped by the moronic “wing” fantasy.
- Retrospectives of my blogging from March 2012, 2013, and 2014.
- A roundup of efforts in various states to change prostitution laws.
- Bitcoin is a kind of folk devil for economically-illiterate politicians.
- This evil fascist scheme needs to be eradicated, root and branch.
- What Swedish criminalization proponents do: lie & harm women.
- This is the first time I’ve seen a woman falsely accused of rape.
- Rather than actually filing a lawsuit, ACLU prefers to dilly-dally.
- Cops, parodies, King Lear, Louis Gossett, Jr, and much more.
- Cops and other control freaks, C.W. McCall, and much more.
- Another authoritarian “monkey see, monkey do” parade.
- Why are amateurs so damned averse to using condoms?
- Cops, the undead, lemon pound cake, and much more.
- Can’t y’all settle on one term for preachy molesters?
- Another victory for US evangelical prohibitionists.
- There’s at least one principled librarian in Texas.
- Throwback Thursday and the Monster from Hell.
- Giving the henhouse its semi-annual cleaning.
- Curiosity offends the state, comrade.
- The pullets move into their playpen.
- Another curated selection of tweets.
- My two previous posts for Easter.
- On pigs, fences, and chainsaws.
- Fancy lighting for my atrium.
- Once a cop, always a cop.
- A “Tornado of Bad Ideas”.
- Rapist cops of the week.
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