The big thing is just how dangerous this is. – Jeremiah Fowler
While looking for a video to feature in this column, I discovered that Blondie drummer Clem Burke had passed on; since his work is prominent in what is probably my favorite Blondie song, here it is. The links above the video were provided by Franklin Harris, Popehat, IncarcerNation (x2), Mike Masnick, Lenore Skenazy, and Franklin Harris again, in that order.
- R.I.P. Jay North.
- This week in artificial stupidity.
- No, your reason is not an exception.
- It’s hard to tell if this was “protecting” or “serving”.
- Anyone shocked by this should not be considered a legal adult.
- Do I really need to say, “Not because a guy was playing with his son”?
- The Daily Fail discovers a script rejected by The X-Files as too farfetched.
From the Archives
- Overseas pharmacies sell to US customers without “Mother-May-I” games.
- Clearview is again trying to rehabilitate its reputation among useful idiots.
- Government tried to establish a precedent that it need not feed prisoners.
- Medical experts speak out against the copaganda term “excited delirium”.
- Irrelevant authoritarian spouts irrelevancies to promote authoritarianism.
- Note that the dysphemism “sex trafficking” is conspicuously absent here.
- Only a politician would “punish” a crime by criminalizing legal business.
- Some still believe these sociopaths are motivated by “child protection”.
- Claiming this was a “mistake” will allow them to do it again and again.
- Alabama can’t let Texas beat it in the psycopathic cruelty department.
- Nobody will be safe until this odious practice is ruled unconstitutional.
- Monsters claim the “right” to persecute and torture sexual minorities.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Clarence “Frogman” Henry, and much more.
- Politicians are always happy to wreck lives by inventing new “crimes”.
- Louisiana politicians can think of a way to make any legal fad worse.
- Indiscriminate murder is so much easier when blamed on machines.
- Regular readers know that I like seasonal weather to be seasonal.
- Seems like a significant fraction of child porn is spread by cops.
- The West is complicit in the Chinese genocide of the Uyghurs.
- Thai sex workers are still fighting US-imposed prohibitionism.
- The program which first recruited kids as spies and snitches.
- The “Online Safety Bill” is becoming a UK version of FOSTA.
- Let’s hope we can soon say, “Good riddance to bad rubbish”.
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- Cops, totalitarianism, Gilbert Gottfried, and much more.
- Watching the fall of Asstoon has been such a pleasure.
- My 25th anniversary of living with my best friend.
- Safetyism is the police state’s most powerful fuel.
- Goodness, who could have ever predicted this?
- On timely blessings and pennies from heaven.
- Is this idiotic enough yet? Can we stop now?
- A strange, anticlimactic ending to this saga.
- Your “leaders” refer to this as “correction”.
- The Swedish Model claims another victim.
- Cops, cheese, Al Jaffee, and much more.
- No woman is safe from predatory cops.
- A history of the Backpage persecution.
- A nice soak in a recently-repaired spa.
- Turns out he isn’t just a wannabe cop.
- Humpty Dumpty, federal prosecutor.
- The Terror of Throwback Thursday.
- A review of Doctor Who “Flux”.
- More delightful conversation.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- Floating roof headers.
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On the tariff list, I agree that they are clearly dumb as rocks, but in the case of Gibraltar the post is wrong. Gibraltar is not part of the UK customs area, and can have different import duties from the UK. So, indeed, the US can impose separate tariffs on goods imported from Gibraltar in order to protect itself from being inundated by billions of dollars worth of Gibraltarian products [Sarcasm intended]. On the other hand, Reunion is part of France, and including it separately is simply idiotic.