Early Sunday morning, Chekhov’s lady friend Yellowbird passed away in a Seattle hospital; she was 84 and had been suffering from a variety of health problems for the past several years. Then last year, the problems began to multiply, and by the beginning of this summer they grew beyond the typical problems of age; early last week she was diagnosed with a terminal neurological disorder, and by Saturday morning decided to let nature take its course. So the hospital increased her pain medication enough to let her sleep more deeply than she’d been able to do in months, and she passed away quietly in her sleep about 3:30 AM Sunday. Chekhov is taking it as well as can be expected; he had been her primary caregiver for the last few years, so nobody knew better how much pain she had been in, and how much it galled her to be unable to live the active lifestyle, including gardening and creating art, which she had maintained up until quite recently. So like me with Grace, he is deeply sad at the loss of someone he dearly loved, but also relieved that her suffering is at an end. He’s already told me plans to move back into his cottage soon; he’s never officially changed his residence, but for several years now has stayed with her. And I’m glad he’s coming back, because I don’t think he should be alone, and it will be good for both of us to have someone who understands nearby to talk to.
Archive for the ‘Obituary’ Category
Diary #851
Posted in Diary, Obituary, Philosophy, tagged Grace, psychology, Sunset on October 20, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Links #850
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged Arizona, bogus studies, cops, Florida, Minnesota, Never Call the Cops, New Mexico, STEM, Things We Choose To Do Together, video, Virginia, Washington (state) on October 18, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Our great-great-grandchildren will not starve; they will be squeezed to death. – Heinz von Foerster
This week’s video is a British PSA from 1973 (narrated by a voice you should recognize) which was called to my attention a couple of months ago by T. Greg Doucette; I decided to save it until it was seasonally appropriate. The links above it were provided by Kevin Wilson, Nun Ya, Anarres Ansible, IncarcerNation (x3), and Shiv Ramdas, in that order.
- R,I.P. Margaret Hamilton.
- Cops have many ways to be creepy.
- Just another Doomsday that didn’t happen.
- Cops murder black man to create TV show content.
- Another triumph for the cop suicide assistance service.
- What part of “not for any reason” is so hard to understand?
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
From the Archives
- Cops raping whores is so ubiquitous, others pose as cops to facilitate rape.
- Modern attorneys general are vile even by the low standards of politicians.
- They make these cases sound like the rapist was doing his victims a favor.
- “Non-consensual gynecological procedures” are just institutionalized rape.
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- Politicians don’t even try to make their new laws Constitutional any more.
- His magic clown costume would’ve made this very different for his victim.
- This will continue as long as fools teach children obedience to “authority”.
- Politicians will keep abusing civil suits until it’s declared unconstitutional.
- Child porn is only the first of many excuses to bleed internet companies.
- Cops, California, Piper Laurie, Keith Giffen, Lara Parker, and much more.
- I now have to do things for myself that Grace used to do for or with me.
- Nothing infuriates violent, self-important busybodies more than privacy.
- Your “leaders” call this “correction”; “journalists” shouldn’t parrot them.
- Give aggressive thugs power over teens; what could possibly go wrong?
- “Authorities” actually do something about a serial rapist of sex workers.
- If “authorized” busybodies can spy on you, so can “unauthorized” ones.
- Why does a vacuum cleaner need either a speaker or a wifi connection?
- Politicians and bureaucrats are empowered to force stupidity on others.
- The only way to stop these maniacs is to hit them where it hurts most.
- As a tool of social control, pseudoscience is more useful than science.
- These tyrannies often start with sex workers, but never stop with us.
- Your regular reminder that my writing depends upon your support.
- Medical emergencies are death sentences when cops are around.
- Anyone with a functional brain could’ve predicted this outcome.
- Artificial stupidity makes those who believe in it stupid as well.
- The claims in these nuisance lawsuits are increasingly absurd.
- Cops, popes, Trump crimes, Drew Struzan, and much more.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, crypto-moralism, and much more.
- I’m content for the time being to keep things as they are.
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- Etowah County, Alabama needs to be sued into oblivion.
- Prohibitionists never tire of treating adults like children.
- If only there were a specific word for this sort of thing.
- Wannabe preachers are often as bad as the real thing.
- This will not stop until SWAT cops murder a prankster.
- Facts have absolutely nothing to do with US sex laws.
- Tim Ballard’s house of marked cards is collapsing.
- One State, Two State, Red State, Blue State.
- Sleeping with cops isn’t safe for men, either.
- It isn’t merely disrespectful; it’s ghoulish.
- Zuckerberg’s sleaziness has no bottom.
- Yet another example of McNeill’s Law.
- The Throwback Thursday Chronicles.
- Pages from Throwback Thursday.
- Throwback Thursday’s Daughter.
- Why all “100 best” lists are bad.
- This is only going to get worse.
- A month of good, spooky fun.
- A game of musical cars.
- Your “leaders” at work.
- ”Plain cowboy logic“.
- R.I.P. Miss Major.
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Links #849
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged Alabama, artificial stupidity, cops, drugs, Facebook, fantasy, Georgia, language, psychology, racism, scams, video, Welcome to the Future on October 11, 2026| Leave a Comment »
I’ve never seen [corruption] like this outside…of a TV show.
– Mark Begnaud
I recently remembered another favorite from Sesame Street, and it’s even seasonally appropriate! The links above the video were provided by Shiv Ramdas; Franklin Harris; Jesse Walker and Franklin Harris again; Mike Siegel; David Ley; T. Greg Doucette; and IncarcerNation, in that order.
- Impressively accurate for me.
- “Some believe” ≠ “100% confirmed”.
- R.I.P. Eva Marie Saint and Jim Bakker.
- “Smart” devices aren’t, part umpteen.
- Natural stupidity meets artificial stupidity.
- They keep demonstrating exactly what they are.
- Careless cops pick the wrong black man to try to frame.
From the Archives
- Nobody is going to give expensive cannabis edibles to your spawn for free.
- Thinking with the wrong head creates its own problems sans political help.
- How long will airlines accept liability for government-brand racial profiling?
- If you didn’t see where this was going, you haven’t been paying attention.
- When a crime resembling the myths really happens, a church is behind it.
- Nobody is safe until this odious practice is recognized as unconstitutional.
- As practical limits on surveillance vanish, legal limits are more important.
- Over 90% of all whores work illegally rather than submit to “registration”.
- Ordinary business arrangements get spun into “exploitation” and “crime”.
- The government is working to ensure these men die in their filthy cages.
- Looking-glass politicians say adding window to bathroom “adds privacy”.
- The impending dark age I have warned about for years has now arrived.
- Cop deals with disagreement exactly as paid to; all claim to be shocked.
- Another individual protection the Establishment is working to eliminate.
- Culture war is driven by idiots refusing to understand how things work.
- When it comes to surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- “Drug” fantasies are just a pretext for petty torture and fascist profits.
- It took seven years for people to start fighting wannabe book censors.
- Politicians believe “election” grants them license to practice medicine.
- Surely you didn’t think this would stop with libraries and the internet?
- The phrase “conspiracy theory” does not mean “any bizarre fantasy”.
- Anybody still using Facebook products deserves everything they get.
- Many overseas pharmacies don’t care about politicians’ permission.
- Cops, Lovecraft, Captain Kangaroo, Diane Keaton, and much more.
- These abuses are finally getting the attention they’ve long needed.
- Your regular reminder that my writing depends upon your support.
- It is not the job of libraries to enforce parental censorship choices.
- A reminder that I depend on your support to keep this blog going.
- “Worship leader”. How many variations on these titles are there?
- A program is not a “she”, and running a program is not “acting”.
- Every Friday the 13th, I ask non-sexworkers to stand up for us.
- As I’ve said many times, the urge to censor is a mental illness.
- The people the government empowers to police your sexuality.
- Politicians will never stop until privacy is completely abolished.
- In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- I can’t feel sorry for cops hoist with their own twisted petard.
- Some rapist cops are indiscriminate in their choice of victim.
- Cops, Russell Batiste, Jr, gay furry hackers, and much more.
- “Serious domestic incident” seems to mean he raped his ex.
- Conditioning kids to accept constant, intrusive surveillance.
- Privacy as we once knew it will soon be a thing of the past.
- Cops, dark ages, Nazca lines, John Amos, and much more.
- Because this kind of prohibition will surely be different!
- Goats view fences as challenges rather than barriers.
- Politicians keep openly trying to destroy the internet.
- The open internet is becoming a thing of the past.
- Welcome to the “safe” future you keep voting for.
- I’ve been wanting one of these for quite a while.
- Oh look, sensible people were correct as usual.
- All cops will have these within a few years.
- Throwback Thursday Meets the Wolf Man.
- The Ascension of Throwback Thursday.
- Sometimes I really miss the Beatles.
- Your “leaders” call this “correction”.
- Victor Throwback Thursday.
- Water for the piggies.
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Links #847
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged Canada, cops, drugs, Florida, Iraq, Pennsylvania, politicians, psychology, racism, Texas, video on September 27, 2026| Leave a Comment »
I had a few. – “Officer” Dustin Christina
This video, called to my attention by Mike Siegel, speaks for itself. The links above it were provided by Scott Greenfield, Kevin Wilson, Nun Ya, Jessica Pishko, IncarcerNation, Ryan Marino, and Mistress Matisse, in that order.
- R.I.P. Peter Max.
- Paging Dr. Dolittle.
- Some things never change.
- Cop murders student for getting lost.
- They keep demonstrating exactly what they are.
- Some studies just prove what everyone already knew.
- Everything I see makes me more determined never to fly again.
From the Archives
- The predictable result of giving aggressive men power over young women.
- What would you call a gang who conspired to rob a demented old woman?
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- How long will the US ignore the costs of its sick worship of state violence?
- This “monkey see, monkey do” parade is now parading around the world.
- This will continue as long as fools teach children obedience to “authority”.
- The less often I have to mooch like a public TV station, the happier I am.
- In the 21st century, censorship & surveillance are tightly bound together.
- Cops let one of their gang rape a baby for 2 years after he was reported.
- “Sexual misconduct targeting vulnerable women” is used to mean “rape”.
- Erosion of civil liberties starts with “undesirables”, but never stops there.
- Censorship is very popular in dark ages, which is why they’re dark ages.
- Cops excuse any right violation with magic words like “crime” or “gang”.
- The naive can’t grasp why so many women are reluctant to report rape.
- Tech cultists want to let a defective algorithm act as its own gatekeeper.
- It took prosecutors 13 years to get this from accusation to plea bargain.
- Stupid authoritarian diktats should always result in political humiliation.
- Who would waste good money to see a program parroting a dead man?
- Texas’ ice-pick self-lobotomization is becoming increasingly spasmodic.
- Predictable effects of prohibition appear; prohibitionists claim surprise.
- When “sex trafficking” is used to mean ordinary “Fly Me To You” deals.
- Politicians viewing kinky porn is less an issue than being psychopaths.
- “Sex trafficking” hysteria rests on pseudoscience, woo, and nonsense.
- Cops, metaphors, pumpkin people, David McCallum, and much more.
- What’s worse than chatbot “therapy”? Chatbot marriage “counseling”.
- Too bad cops don’t spend all their time fantasy role-playing together.
- Are amateurs really so sheltered that this sort of thing shocks them?
- Irish “gypsy whores” tales were quaint even before they were passé.
- Some politicians are starting to admit Shotspotter is a boondoggle.
- Women of childbearing age should avoid Alabama if at all possible.
- US institutions and norms used to curb politicians’ worst impulses.
- It’s impossible to know how many of these were actually murders.
- Cop and preacher is like the molester equivalent of a full house.
- Expect nothing but hypocrisy from any part of any government.
- A new censorship regime has been imposed on British subjects.
- If hope y’all realize these ads will be “personalized” by spying.
- In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, rubber chickens, and much more.
- A society can be judged by the way it treats its prisoners.
- The entire Utah rescue industry appears to be collapsing.
- What happens when puritans are not ignored as lunatics.
- Read this if you wish, but pay attention to the slant.
- Cops, library bats, Maggie Smith, and much more.
- Hypocritical trash behaving like hypocritical trash.
- Welcome to the “safe” future you keep voting for.
- In which Louie really makes a pig out of himself.
- Your “leaders” refer to this as “correction”.
- My three previous columns for Mabon.
- The Revenge of Throwback Thursday.
- A rapist cop’s evil begets more evil.
- Oh look, another “youth pastor”.
- Dark Throwback Thursday.
- A good year for tomatoes.
- Throwback Thursday, MD.
- This is called pomace.
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Links #846
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged animals, artificial stupidity, BDSM, Believe Them, Canada, cops, Enshittification, fascism, Florida, Georgia, Google, Hollywood, I Saw My Brain, illegal aliens, Indiana, New York, politicians, racism, Robocops, Texas, video, Washington DC on September 20, 2026| Leave a Comment »
They’re letting police do just about anything. – Randall Kallinen
When Dolly Parton died a few weeks ago, I seemed to be the only one who remembered this 1976 guest appearance on Captain Kangaroo; the video was clearly taken from the edited reruns of old shows aired on PBS in the late ’80s. Of particular note: Dolly reading a children’s book aloud, almost 20 years before starting her Imagination Library charity. The links above the video were provided by Mike Siegel; Radley Balko; Lucy Steigerwald; Mistress Matisse & Dan Savage; C.J. Ciaramella; IncarcerNation; and Radley Balko again, in that order.
- Fascism enables idiocracy.
- Polk County, Florida, again.
- Another taste of the new dark age.
- R.I.P. Jay Wiseman and Bob Mackie.
- They keep demonstrating exactly what they are.
- Man murdered for being security guard while black.
- Trump worshipers claim his name is a magical charm against entropy.
From the Archives
- Government thinks it even has the right to leer at the inside of your body.
- “Fentanyl” is now another porcine pretext for harassing & robbing people.
- Humans: a swarm of self-important flies panicking over a rotting cow pie.
- Australian cops bravely protect imaginary children from imaginary abuse.
- This will continue as long as fools teach children obedience to “authority”.
- This “monkey see, monkey do” parade is now parading around the world.
- This phrasing strongly implies strangling a woman while on duty is A-OK.
- Missouri politicians govern by edict, sans tiresome democratic processes.
- If something like “trafficking” propaganda happens, it’s usually a church.
- Keep plunging that ice pick in; the bad thoughts will go away eventually.
- Asstoon’s surveillance company will keep outing sex workers to the pigs.
- Why does society allow its medical system to be used for state violence?
- The wholly-predictable results of bad laws, happening just as predicted.
- Is a shiny new status symbol really worth being spied on and harassed?
- The real culprit: invasive surveillance & onerous infantilization of teens.
- The Japanese are the only people left who can tell fantasy from reality.
- Never forget that “filter” used thus is merely a euphemism for “censor”.
- Government often attacks with civil suits rather than criminal charges.
- Anyone who’s ever closely known a narcissist will see the truth of this.
- One of the people the government empowers to police your sexuality.
- The state enriches itself via unconstitutional warrantless surveillance.
- Curated selections of tweets from September 2023, 2024, and 2025.
- Sleeping with a cop is dangerous even if the woman is a cop herself.
- Don’t infantilize young victims of government brutality as “children”.
- As if rude assholes talking loudly on cell phones wasn’t bad enough.
- Politicians will never let go of prohibitionism until they’re forced to.
- All laws should sunset after 10 years unless intentionally renewed.
- Cops, immigrants, Tom Bombadil, Tito Jackson, and much more.
- “Pastor and sex offender” is a large and ever-expanding group.
- Arresting men for fictitious “crimes” against imaginary people.
- Surprising absolutely no one who understands McNeill’s Law.
- Because obviously prohibition doesn’t ruin enough lives yet.
- It’s a good thing I don’t get emotionally attached to poultry.
- All those who facilitate cops’ evil are enemies of humanity.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Robert Redford, and much more.
- A society can be judged by the way it treats its prisoners.
- I’m honestly unsure why this doesn’t happen more often.
- The “cops bearing gifts” PR scam is not limited to adults.
- Authoritarians, like leopards, cannot change their spots.
- Can a sex worker win an election in the puritanical US?
- Wannabe preachers are often as bad as the real thing.
- “Criminality” is a status defined entirely by the State.
- Cops, “records”, Roger Whittaker, and much more.
- The open internet is becoming a thing of the past.
- AHF has a history of financial shenanigans.
- My first and only guest column by a robot.
- Zuckerberg is completely out of his mind.
- What is wrong with doctors who do this?
- “Smart” devices aren’t, part umpteen.
- My recipe for fried green tomatoes.
- The Curse of Throwback Thursday.
- Modern Throwback Thursday.
- Thursday of Throwbacks.
- Goldilocks blackberries.
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Links #845
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged acting, animals, artificial stupidity, California, Catholicism, cops, domestic violence, ethics, Florida, internet, Kentucky, Louisiana, Never Call the Cops, politicians, teachers, vaccines, video on September 13, 2026| Leave a Comment »
That was fun. – Polymarket bettor
A few months ago I got a deluge of links all at once, but I have found only using seven a week usually makes these columns more manageable; that’s why you’re seeing slightly less-current links lately, but I think we’ll be back to normal by the end of October. The links above the video were provided by Shiv Ramdas, Ryan Marino, Jesse Walker, Franklin Harris, IncarcerNation, C.J. Ciaramella, and Mistress Matisse, in that order.
- Instant karma.
- Bread and circuses.
- R.I.P. Cassandra Wilson.
- R.I.P. Leslie Parrish and Peter Cullen.
- What part of “never” is so hard to grasp?
- Another great moment in artificial stupidity.
- Uthmeier believes he’s literally holier than thou.
From the Archives
- 1984-esque rewriting of history by political regimes & their servant media.
- Beijing’s scheme to silence Chinese expatriates becomes more aggressive.
- Government thinks it even has the right to leer at the inside of your body.
- The state owes substantial damages to those it wrongfully makes pariahs.
- Ambulance-chasers give themselves the power to rob internet companies.
- A reminder that these vulnerabilities were intentionally installed for cops.
- A high-powered rifle should be able to take this out from a safe distance.
- Bloodthirsty politicians are furious about having their crusades thwarted.
- Another toothless “judgment” vs Clearview which will help only lawyers.
- 7 years since we’ve had an example of what real sex slavery looks like.
- Power begets the lust for power, the most dangerous of all perversions.
- Will Texas now try to stop people from crossing the border into Mexico?
- This is exactly why chatbot “therapy” needs to be banned immediately.
- Will the mainstream media finally admit pigs in schools are a menace?
- It’s very difficult for an ethical person to respond to unethical attacks.
- One of the people the government empowers to police your sexuality.
- Bounty hunters are toxic filth made even more dangerous by fascism.
- This screw only started his rapist career by attacking caged women.
- Sleeping with a cop is dangerous both to women and their children.
- Texas seems uninterested in controlling its psychopathic politicians.
- More unintended but wholly predictable consequences of bad laws.
- He wasn’t a “former” cop when he repeatedly raped a six-year-old.
- I tried to edit out as much of the nauseating bootlicking as I could.
- It’s rare for cops to actually be indicted for murders they commit.
- Dare I hope fewer coroners are willing to cover up cops’ crimes?
- Seems like a significant fraction of child porn is spread by cops.
- Oh what a surprise, how could anyone have predicted this, etc.
- “Pastor and sex offender” is a large and ever-expanding group.
- It’s too bad they don’t inflict all of their violence on each other.
- What was once pure fraud can now be accomplished in reality.
- In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- It’s good to see Asstoon in hot water over his poor judgment.
- Every Friday 13th, I ask non-sex workers to stand up for us.
- Too bad all authoritarian organizations aren’t so short-lived.
- “Program” is a helluva euphemism for “criminal conspiracy”.
- Everything cops and other “justice” officials tell you is a lie.
- All those who facilitate State evil are enemies of humanity.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, natural stupidity, and much more.
- Cop shops love their obfuscatory, blame-shifting language.
- Cops won’t drop this fantasy until media stop parroting it.
- Just another kind of federal cop, with behavior to match.
- Artificial stupidity makes those who use it stupid as well.
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- Just another kind of screw, acting like any other screw.
- Had he not been caught, this would’ve soon escalated.
- Not even Australia is safe from Swedish rot-fanatics.
- Can’t y’all settle on one term for preachy molesters?
- Cops, scientists, James Earl Jones, and much more.
- Cops, kaiju, undead, Gary Wright, and much more.
- The rugs from my incall fit quite well in the atrium.
- The Backpage trial has become an evil self-parody.
- This was merely a way for politicians to save face.
- I now find comfort living in a past that never was.
- Piggies enjoying a cool sprinkler on a hot day.
- Your “leaders” refer to this as “correction”.
- One thing I do not have is a green thumb.
- This just keeps getting more entertaining.
- Cop violence is never limited to adults.
- Thursday: Thrown Back and Loving It.
- When will this censorship fad end?
- House of Throwback Thursday.
- I, Throwback Thursday.
- Not a youth pastor.
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Links #844
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged acting, artificial stupidity, Australia, California, Canada, China, Colorado, cops, drugs, I’m Sure You Feel Safer Now, Mad Libs, Rome, sex toys, Shame Shame, Spain, video, Washington DC on September 6, 2026| Leave a Comment »
You’re not the future anymore! – Mark Zuckerberg, sort of
Though Tim Curry died only the day after Dolly Parton, I wasn’t going to cheat him of a proper sendoff. The links above the video were provided by Ryan Marino; Radley Balko; Scott Greenfield and Dan Savage; The Onion; Ryan Marino again; Amy Alkon; and Nun Ya, in that order.
- Sic transit gloria mundi.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- R.I.P. Tim Curry and Gloria Steinem.
- Simultaneously funny and horrifying.
- More great moments in artificial stupidity.
- Everything I see makes me more determined never to fly again.
- Why did anybody think something called a “cloud” was permanent?
From the Archives
- Civil rights violations claimed as “solutions” to politician-created problems.
- How long will America ignore the cost of its sick worship of state violence?
- Americans’ sick lust for torture turns imprisonment into a death sentence.
- When will the mainstream media admit that pigs in schools are a menace?
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- Politicians don’t even try to make their new laws Constitutional any more.
- Don’t label your product “My X” unless you’re marketing it to 1st-graders.
- I’m not sorry for women who happily threw other women to the leopards.
- 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.
- Seattle is notorious for cloaking its police-statery in bogus “liberal” cant.
- Two forced-birth states are moving to legally reduce women to serfdom.
- Governments are growing increasingly bold in their internet censorship.
- The Japanese are the only people who can still tell fantasy from reality.
- Red/blue fools pretend anti-sex authoritarians “do not agree on much”.
- Prohibition can never actually succeed in eradicating the banned thing.
- Unusually, they didn’t pitch this as the rapist doing his victims a favor.
- Don’t teach kids about sex; fill their heads with anti-sex propaganda.
- I’m really pleased with how well Durabak works on wooden surfaces.
- Some censors believe KOSA won’t destroy the internet fully enough.
- The resources flushed down the “culture war” toilet are incalculable.
- Government thugs continue their crusade against Christian charity.
- It’s far too late to cram this djinni back into its bottle, God help us.
- When a headline asks a question, the answer is nearly always “no”.
- Elon Musk’s “DOGE” didn’t “fail”; it worked exactly as he intended.
- It only starts with political pariahs like sex workers or gun owners.
- Note that cases of actual coercion don’t look much like the myths.
- Government internet censorship attempts grow increasingly bold.
- Ex-politicians’ changes of heart are cynical attempts to fool God.
- Cops, animals, artificial stupidity, Helen Fisher, and much more.
- “Pastor and sex offender” is a large and ever-expanding group.
- A powerful look at men playing D&D on Texas’ death row.
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- The worship of Santa Muerte has expanded worldwide.
- Cops, Roger Corman, Jimmy Buffett, and much more.
- Sleeping with a cop is dangerous even for other cops.
- PayPal is becoming a major threat to civil liberties.
- Chatbot usage actively harms brain functions.
- Cops, language, ice cream, and much more.
- This childish puritanism is so exhausting.
- Thoughts on the Bonnie Blue gang bang.
- Don’t let computers call them, either.
- Another “security” system that isn’t.
- Presentation isn’t my strong point.
- Laura Agustín on her new project.
- The Throwback Thursday Squad.
- Good riddance to bad rubbish.
- Zuckerberg is out of his mind.
- Cop is a cop is a cop is a cop.
- Sunset is a place for friends.
- Throwback Meets Thursday.
- It’s about goddamned time.
- Much more of this, please.
- Cicero loves apple season.
- Greenback Thursday.
- The Beat Goes On.
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Links #843
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged acting, animals, Antarctica, cops, disease, Florida, illegal aliens, Illinois, Never Call the Cops, Norway, prisons, psychology, STEM, Texas, Torture Chamber, video, Washington (state) on August 30, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Get on the fucking ground…I will fucking tase you. – cop to “missing child”
Even with all of her songs to choose from, this felt to me like the most appropriate tribute to one of the world’s most beloved human beings. The links above it were provided by Radley Balko; Mistress Matisse; T. Greg Doucette; Ryan Cooper and Scott Long; Nun Ya (x2); and IncarcerNation, in that order.
- At the Mountains of Madness.
- Aboard the SS Queen of Ulthar.
- No, your reason is not an exception.
- R.I.P. Dolly Parton and King Harald V.
- Dust storms are back, now with added fungus!
- They keep demonstrating exactly what they are.
- What part of “never” is so difficult to understand?
From the Archives
- Google has made violating its users’ consent a standard business practice.
- Ignoramus censors don’t understand why people ignore their stupid laws.
- It’s been a while since we’ve heard from the “Campaign Against Toasters”.
- Cop deals with disagreement in typical cop fashion; the press is shocked.
- Pigs may only excuse sexual assault as a “search” if the victim is female.
- Young women are using “sex trafficking” as an excuse for violent crimes.
- Feigned sympathy for “trafficking victims” applies only to “perfect” ones.
- Had he not been caught at this stage, he’d have soon moved on to rape.
- Amateurs repeatedly botch what sex workers have done for many years.
- Keep plunging that ice pick in; the bad thoughts will go away eventually.
- Politicians embrace “magic fentanyl” myth; will the media finally drop it?
- Totally-predictable results of bad laws are happening right on schedule.
- Some believe they can live forever by eliminating all pleasure from life.
- The government will say anything to ensure Lacey dies in a filthy cage.
- Politicians really believe they can control people’s thoughts via threats.
- A newspaper publisher dies on her feet, at least figuratively speaking.
- The fascist owners of most of these allow cops to root in them at will.
- Unembellished “sex trafficking from a store” scary tales are now rare.
- The sick lust to know everything about everybody has consequences.
- This will continue until there are federal criminal charges for doing it.
- Americans flush incalculable resources down the “culture war” toilet.
- That word appears, but 15 paragraphs in and blunted by qualifiers.
- Retrospectives of my blogging from August 2013, 2014, and 2015.
- This will continue until the evil US immigration policy is reformed.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Morgus, Phil Donahue, and much more.
- Tyrannies often start with sex workers, but never stop with us.
- The cop establishment is trying hard to hide this one’s crimes.
- Cops, faux environmentalism, Arleen Sorkin, and much more.
- In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- An especially vile Gestapo weapon: fake “child porn” charges.
- Bootlickers say child porn is OK if the criminal is a good shot.
- Some cops don’t limit themselves to one type of creepiness.
- You’d think “youth pastor” would be a big red flag by now.
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- Politicians can always mine tragedy to justify more evil.
- A new film adaptation of Chester Brown’s Paying For It.
- How long before Google becomes completely useless?
- Prohibitionists always end up with egg on their faces.
- This sleazebag tried to frame a woman for his crime.
- Cops, useful idiots, cultural shifts, and much more.
- Con artists use moral panics to fleece the gullible.
- Modern monogamy is becoming increasingly sick.
- Privacy as we once knew it is a thing of the past.
- It was obvious this would turn out to be sordid.
- The best year for fruit since I bought Sunset.
- It only starts with demonized minorities.
- The US Constitutional order is no more.
- Rapist cops don’t only target women.
- Throwback Thursday’s Hungry Dead.
- Fracchia vs Throwback Thursday.
- Don’t fret, it’s for your “security”.
- Ghost of Throwback Thursday.
- Redoing the atrium lighting.
- Another round of Durabak.
- Much more of this, please.
- Good weather for slugs.
I find paywalls distasteful, and so many people find this blog valuable as a resource I just can’t bring myself to install one. Furthermore, I find ad delivery services (whose content I have no say over) even more distasteful. But as I’m now semi-retired from sex work, I can’t self-sponsor this blog by myself any longer. So if you value my writing enough that you would pay to see it if it were paywalled, please consider subscribing; there are four different levels to fit all budgets. Or if that doesn’t work for you, please consider showing your generosity with a one-time donation; you can Paypal to maggiemcneill@earthlink.net or else email me at the same address to make other arrangements. Thanks so much!
Links #842
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged acting, censorship, Colorado, cops, Idaho, imaginative fiction, internet, language, Never Call the Cops, Ohio, psychology, racism, video on August 23, 2026| Leave a Comment »
I just love a captive audience. – Whitney Lynn
I always enjoy sharing my earworms, especially when they explain things about my daily life such as why I often call my pig Louie by singing, “Louie Louie Louie Loo-eeeee”. The links above the video were provided by Mike Siegel; Shiv Ramdas; Angela Keaton and Mike Masnick; Radley Balko; IncarcerNation (x2); and Mike Siegel again, in that order.
- Not the Onion.
- So funny I don’t care that it’s 13 years old.
- R.I.P. Hayden Panettiere and Juan Tamariz.
- I’m glad I haven’t used eBay in about 20 years.
- Another triumph for the police suicide-assistance service.
- This won’t stop until payouts come from the cop pension fund.
- Everything I see makes me more determined never to fly again.
From the Archives
- I’m sure they occasionally yelled “Stop faking!” at him as he wasted away.
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- This time, a “sex trafficking” lie was told to divert blame for bad behavior.
- Is there no concise term for “commission of a nonconsensual sexual act”?
- Uber encourages its drivers to spy on riders and betray them to the pigs.
- Blaming torture & neglect on a building is brazen even by cop standards.
- Erosion of civil liberties starts with “undesirables”, but never stops there.
- Compare with the “nail parlor trafficking” & “car wash trafficking” myths.
- Keep plunging that ice pick in; the bad thoughts will go away eventually.
- Burying government in lawsuits is the only way to slow its depredations.
- Only a prohibitionist could imagine that 10 subjects constitute a “study”.
- I’m sure the people of Maui didn’t want her dirty whore money anyhow.
- This is exactly why chatbot “therapy” needs to be banned immediately.
- Can you imagine any non-cop getting such a love tap for forcible rape?
- Cops, mass hysteria, Tommy McLain, Terence Stamp, and much more.
- One of the people the government empowers to police your sexuality.
- Apparently this preacher wasn’t the molester, but is covering for him.
- If you didn’t see this one coming, you haven’t been paying attention.
- A few judges are still willing to choose the Constitution vs politicians.
- A program that did one thing well tried to be all things to all people.
- It’s almost like the judge is intentionally setting up another mistrial.
- Why are people shocked when men paid to behave violently, do so?
- Sometimes I just can’t take cops’ sophomoric pomposity seriously.
- The “forced sex trafficking abortions” trope never quite caught on.
- Local media obediently parrots copaganda, no matter how foolish.
- The front of a wedge must by its nature be thinner than the rest.
- It’s too bad they don’t inflict all of their violence on each other.
- Florida censors lose every challenge, but it doesn’t stop them.
- The claims in these nuisance lawsuits are increasingly absurd.
- Cops, signs, Johnny Hardwick, Bob Barker, and much more.
- Cops, cults, Gena Rowlands, Wally Amos, and much more.
- Curated selections of tweets from August 2023 and 2025.
- Anyone who thinks this is “justice” is part of the problem.
- Sleeping with a cop is just as dangerous for female cops.
- Artificial stupidity makes those who use it stupid as well.
- There are many ways for governments to rob people.
- Another “youth pastor”, another distancing “former”.
- Some rapist cops are indiscriminate in their habits.
- This situation is not going to get better on its own.
- The open internet is becoming a thing of the past.
- Sleeping with cops isn’t even safe for male cops.
- The 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art.
- What kind of warped mind thinks this is OK?
- All cops will have these within a few years.
- This is an extremely dangerous precedent.
- Your “leaders” refer to this as “correction”.
- On the pervasive rot of enshittification.
- The atrium bathroom is finally done!
- A bad year for fruit at Sunset.
- Expanding the chicken coop.
- Son of Throwback Thursday.
- Much more of this, please.
- Throwback at Thursday.
- The Throwback Theory.
- The Beat Generation.
- Meet the Flintstones.
Links #841
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged animals, artificial stupidity, California, cops, imaginative fiction, internet, language, psychology, Tennessee, Texas, universal criminality, video on August 16, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Jail erodes every aspect of a person’s agency. – Lindsey Krinks
I recently watched all the Charlie Chan movies Chekhov had in his collection. The low-budget Monogram Chan pictures of the 1940s weren’t as good as the 20th Century Fox ones of the 1930s, but though Mantan Moreland, who played Chan’s chauffeur in the ’40s pictures, was typically paired with Benson Fong as “Number Three son” for comic relief, a couple of the films included guest appearances by Moreland’s former vaudeville partner Ben Carter, allowing the two to show off the very funny ‘indefinite talk” routine which made them famous. The links above the video were provided by Jesse Walker, Anarres Ansible, Mistress Matisse, IncarcerNation, Nun Ya, T. Greg Doucette, and IncarcerNation again, in that order.
- R.I.P. John Crowley.
- The ultimate online art search.
- Artificial stupidity vs. the marmots.
- Teen murdered by cops for being thirsty.
- Cops hound teens to death over petty theft.
- Another triumph for the police suicide-assistance service.
- Violently sweeping the failure of the American dream under the rug.
From the Archives
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- Swedish model is not decriminalization of any kind, “partial” or otherwise.
- Trump claims to love the military, yet his regime keeps harming veterans.
- If only there were a concise term for “having sex with someone helpless”.
- Clearview was invented as a tool to use against migrants and minorities.
- Cop deals with problems exactly as trained to; reporter calls it “unusual”.
- Once bitcoin exchanges got in bed with government, this was inevitable.
- 41% of cops admit to beating their wives; some don’t stop with beating.
- If you need this to control your teen offspring, you’ve already lost them.
- Cop deals with problems exactly as trained to, and everyone is shocked.
- The 100% predictable results of bad laws are coming right on schedule.
- Using women’s murders as an opportunity to moralize via scare quotes.
- Cops really don’t care how many false positives these systems shit out.
- Censors, ambulance-chasers, and imbecilic judges vs the Constitution.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, William Friedkin,Robbie Robertson, and more.
- More states need to protect vulnerable people from this evil nonsense.
- The hotel industry is going to regret having collaborated with fanatics.
- It looks like British subjects will soon need a VPN to access Wikipedia.
- The entire “troubled teen” industry needs to be sued out of existence.
- Texas tacitly admits it wants women with problem pregnancies to die.
- Government wants total control of both internet & financial system.
- Funny how many cops who are willing to pay prefer underage girls.
- Why are people shocked when men paid to behave violently, do so?
- One of the most flagrant abusers of this unconstitutional practice.
- It’s lovely to be told that it really is OK to be a little bit frivolous.
- Another credulous regurgitation of prohibitionist propaganda.
- This is such a sterile way to say, “repeatedly raped them”.
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- In surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- Cops, “environmentalism”, Jim Lovell, and much more.
- “Prostitution” is such a handy excuse for surveillance.
- Seems like there’s more to this than we’re being told.
- These companies need to be bankrupted by lawsuits.
- No religion has a monopoly on preachy molesters.
- The open internet is becoming a thing of the past.
- Texas wants to have its blood and drink it as well.
- A curated selection of tweets from summer 2024.
- Working to eliminate a few stubborn roof leaks.
- Republics take work, and most people are lazy.
- All types of prohibition are doomed to failure.
- Cops, satire, horror movies, and much more.
- This raid was not remotely “unprecedented”.
- Laws are for the peasantry, not the rulers.
- What is wrong with doctors who do this?
- Granddaughter of Throwback Thursday.
- Better late tomatoes than no tomatoes.
- Another fine example of McNeill’s Law.
- And now for a word to my sponsors.
- Phrenology for tech worshipers.
- In remembrance of Jim Larkin.
- A year of perfect fruit weather.
- Bride of Throwback Thursday.
- Cop is a cop is a cop is a cop.
- Throwback Thursday’s Army.
- Note that little word “yet”.
- Rapist cops of the week.
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