I was concerned this would be a lean year for the toy drive, but my generous gentlemen are coming through as usual! Yesterday I spent all I’ve received so far, and this is what it looked like after I got most of it into my trunk. If you’re wondering why some of them look wet, it’s because it was raining cats and dogs all day yesterday; I would’ve waited for a clear day, but the next one predicted is the 21st, which is obviously too late. Luckily, there’s now a Toys for Tots donation box at Tractor Supply, so I needn’t drive all the way to Olympia; this load was only in my trunk for long enough to drive to the other side of the strip mall to drop them off. It’s not as much as in previous years; I’ve used a $20 per toy limit for ten years now, but I had to raise it to $30 this year, and I was shocked to see how much some things have gone up. But y’all still have another week, so if you’d like to see the toys bought with your contributions next week, you know what to do!
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Diary #806
Posted in Diary, tagged holidays, Presents, Toys for Tots on December 9, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Links #805
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged artificial stupidity, comics, cops, Italy, Montana, Never Call the Cops, Ohio, politicians, psychology, racism, restaurants, Texas, United Kingdom, video on December 8, 2025| Leave a Comment »
I feel the tallow’s bovine powers eliminating the vaccines from my blood! – Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (sort of)
Since I’m not really a reggae fan, I wasn’t familiar with Jimmy Cliff, but I really dig this song. The links above it were provided by Anarres Ansible, Nun Ya, The Onion, T. Greg Doucette, Jesse Walker, and IncarcerNation (x2), in that order.
- Merry Cthulhumas!
- The power of superheroes.
- The Onion scores another bullseye.
- No, your reason is not an exception.
- R.I.P. Jimmy Cliff and Tom Stoppard.
- Being anywhere near cops can be deadly.
- What part of “never” is so hard to understand?
From the Archives
- Parents don’t feel guilty enough for an ugly violation of a daughter’s trust.
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- “Bathroom bills” are a political fad undeterred by courts or public protest.
- I wish news outlets would stop publishing their rulers’ wanking fantasies.
- Cops, Charles Dumont, Marshall Brickman, Hal Lindsey, and much more.
- “Deprivation of rights” is the feds’ catchall charge vs embarrassing cops.
- If prohibitionists want to “rescue” whores, why keep us from other jobs?
- Progressives keep backing police violence in the name of “public health”.
- A bureaucratic disaster viewed through the lens of a dying moral panic.
- It’s unsurprising that cops treat family members like they treat others.
- More folly from the UK’s decade-long campaign to censor the internet.
- Another fine example of McNeill’s Law, courtesy of “Moms for Liberty”.
- Let’s hope every one of Ballard’s profiteer partners go down with him.
- This obfuscatory language is more intentionally-confusing than usual.
- Texas doesn’t care how many women die because of its terrible laws.
- I think we have enough evidence to start calling this “McNeill’s Law”.
- Cops, nightmares, Shane MacGowan, Elliott Erwitt, and much more.
- Texas’ ruling psychopaths blame doctors for being afraid of prison.
- “Law enforcement worker” is a new low in cop-crime obfuscation.
- Politicians tried to slip one of their rapist cronies back into power.
- Cop shops don’t actually give a damn about sexual “misconduct”.
- It’s only one step from “all commercial vehicles” to “all vehicles”.
- Totally credible, especially considering he was a cop at the time.
- It usually starts with “vice criminals”, but it never stops with us.
- Never forget that this started with censorship of internet porn.
- Politicians’ obsession with citizens’ genitalia has gone federal.
- A detailed account of one Uyghur man’s escape from China.
- Cops, curses, Christine McVie, Robert Clary, and Greg Bear.
- Charity is especially important when prices keep going up.
- A society can be judged by the way it treats its prisoners.
- Anything can be “trafficking” if you use your imagination.
- It isn’t often cops reap the consequences of their crimes.
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- FBI thugs are just federal cops, and behave accordingly.
- It’s getting harder to tell the preachers from the cops.
- A new nadir for photographs in the US news media.
- Cop + preacher = sexual menace to legal minors.
- The old strip club business model is a dead duck.
- Throwback Thursday Meets the Space Monster.
- St. Nicholas loves whores. Yes, that St. Nick.
- Your “leaders” refer to this as “correction”.
- Tracy Quan remembers Carol Leigh.
- Christmas trees and Toys for Tots.
- Improvements to my bathroom.
- On the magic of morning snow.
- Good riddance to bad rubbish.
- This just keeps getting better.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- Throwback Wednesday.
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Meet Axel
Posted in Diary, tagged animals, psychology, Sunset on December 5, 2025| 1 Comment »
I’ve been feeling as though I should get another dog, since Trip prefers to be outside most of the time. So Jae’s been watching the Humane Society website, and we decided to bring this fella home on Saturday. His name is Axel; he’s nine years old and has been with them for two years, so he’s pretty neurotic. He shook a lot for the first 48 hours, and is so nervous they sent him home with tranquilizers that I’m supposed to wean him off of as he improves. I think he will be a lot better within the next few months; his main triggers seem to be noise and rapid movement, which is why he’s had several failed adoptions (little kids in the home). But Sunset is quiet, and there are not too many fast-moving things here; he likes Trip and doesn’t seem to care about Speck, and he was already calmer and quieter by the day after we brought him home. By yesterday he was behaving mostly normally when I’m the only one around, though he’s still very excitable if anything out of the ordinary happens. So I think that once he realizes he’s not going to have to go back to doggy prison, he’ll adjust to life here just as Louie and Hercules did, and will make a fine addition to the Sunset family.
Throwback Thursday in 3D
Posted in Biography, Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, tagged blogging, hysteria, psychology, restaurants, slavery, Where Are the Protests? on December 4, 2025| Leave a Comment »
I don’t need to dig up those skeletons to be sure that they’re still there.
– “Quarter Century”
Natty uniforms and ugly racist rhetoric are window-dressing for fascism, not its defining characteristics.
– “Soft Fascism”
Americans are only concerned about how others have sex; they don’t really want to know where their overpriced coffee comes from. – “Where are the Protests? (#1394)”
Diary #805
Posted in Diary, tagged animals, Sunset, video on December 2, 2025| Leave a Comment »
As you can see, Hercules has adapted to life at Sunset; he has calmed down dramatically and learned the routine. When I go out to feed the chickens and collect the eggs a little after noon, he lines up at the fence with Cicero and Louie to get his treat, then joins them in eating a scoop of corn I throw over the fence. I still need to keep him apart from Jonathan for dinner, but the rest of the time they’re best buddies and when I look out first thing in the morning they’re usually grazing or browsing together in the paddock. That’s all the Sunset animal news for today, but be sure to visit this coming Friday to meet our newest resident!
Links #804
Posted in Biography, Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged acting, animals, Colorado, cops, fantasy, I’m Sure You Feel Safer Now, lawheads, Missouri, New Jersey, nostalgia, politicians, psychology, Utah, video on November 30, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Now, even those with nothing useful to say can tell the whole world exactly, or more often vaguely, what they think. – Lane Brown
As I mentioned last month, I was never much of a KISS fan. However, the band did have a part in one special moment of my growing up: this song was the very first one I ever slow-danced to with a boy (at our 8th grade graduation party). The links above it were provided by Angela Keaton (x3); Phoenix Calida and Dan Savage; C.J. Ciaramella; Ryan Cooper; and Mike Masnick, in that order.
- Pronoun error.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- Improved magic underwear.
- R.I.P. Udo Kier and Gramma.
- Dramatically more of this, please.
- Why are so many people so stupid nowadays?
- What a pathological need for attention looks like.
From the Archives
- “Sex trafficking” isn’t the magic brain-pause spell it was for over a decade.
- Cops will never stop doing this while the state keeps giving them pretexts.
- Governments won’t stop until privacy of any kind is absolutely impossible.
- Mark Draughn on the aftermath of the Backpage persecution & show trial.
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- Calling 911 = calling cops. Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever.
- Seems Mexican cops care more about sex workers’ lives than US cops do.
- Trying to ban laws that were known to be unconstitutional when enacted.
- Blaming behavior on an imaginary “addiction” is not taking responsibility.
- Another judge doing what judges should do often: nullify tyrannical laws.
- The government thinks you shouldn’t be allowed any privacy whatsoever.
- Apparently, the government isn’t yet done torturing Spear into madness.
- They try to make it sound like the scumbag was doing his victim a favor.
- People pretend “politician hires whores” is something more than a yawn.
- Give aggressive thugs power over teens; what could possibly go wrong?
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Chuck Woolery, Earl Holliman, and much more.
- Cops are now being dispatched to intimidate people for “bad” thoughts.
- Local politicians’ virtue-signaling is powerless vs the fascist panopticon.
- Uniforms & racism are window-dressing for fascism, not defining traits.
- “Officials” demonstrate their contempt for those they have power over.
- Idaho apparently wants to chase away as many physicians as possible.
- “Operation Choke Point” was indirect; this goes straight for the throat.
- Americans don’t really care where their overpriced coffee comes from.
- Watching Tim Ballard’s reputation go down in flames is so very sweet.
- Women of childbearing age should avoid Alabama entirely if possible.
- “Sex predators” usually hold positions of authority over their targets.
- Asking us to feel sorry for a man who was hoist with his own petard.
- It’s rare that government departments stop their own depredations.
- It’s too bad they don’t spend all of their time preying on each other.
- The prosecutor in this case rode it to become AG of Massachusetts.
- What my new bathroom looked like two days before Thanksgiving.
- Why I avoid “Black Friday” and collect toys for needy kids instead.
- Amazon’s fascist collaboration with cops just keeps getting worse.
- Reporter tries to bury the lede; headline writer won’t participate.
- “Safety” as pretext for petty torture and fascist profitmongering.
- Blogging retrospectives from November 2012, 2013, and 2014.
- Could this evil industry be shut down in the name of “security”?
- Cops, animals, heavy metal, Marty Krofft, and much more.
- Perhaps we’re nearing the end of this nasty, twisted saga.
- Cops, vampires, Bruce Lee, Irene Cara, and much more.
- My atrium is no longer a construction site, but a room.
- “Presumption of innocence” doesn’t apply to whores.
- It takes a lot to make me delay my tree-trimming.
- Your “leaders” refer to raping kids as “correction”.
- My two previous columns for Thanksgiving.
- At least they weren’t trying to make porn.
- It’s not like it’s their money, after all.
- A textbook example of McNeill’s Law.
- Your “leaders” call this “correction”.
- Throwback Thursday vs. Baragon.
- A Yuletide message from Annie.
- Well, that didn’t take long.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- When it rains, it pours.
- Oh, what a surprise.
- Throwback Tuesday.
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Another Throwback Wednesday
Posted in Biography, Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Words, tagged animals, artificial stupidity, blogging, internet, language, left-right myth, Mad Libs, psychology, Sunset, Twitter on November 26, 2025| Leave a Comment »
What Americans have done to the venerable word “liberal” is a crime in and of itself.
– “Meet the Tweets”
Why is it so many pictures on the internet are taken by people who apparently don’t comprehend why a photo framed as a vertical rectangle is called “portrait” style? – “Tweets for Long Nights”
I don’t actually mean to collect stray animals, but it does seem to happen more frequently than random chance would account for.
– “Diary #699”
People who interact with [chatbots] think they’re interacting with an ancestor of Commander Data or C3PO, when in actuality they’re merely accessing a program that’s roughly as aware of their existence as the software that runs modern slot machines is, often with similar psychological results. – “Mad Libs“
Diary #804
Posted in Current Events, Diary, Fiction, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged imaginative fiction, nostalgia, Presents, psychology on November 24, 2025| 1 Comment »
Anyone who’s ever perused my Amazon wishlist has probably noticed that it features a lot more weird, nerdy things than the expensive “luxury” things most guys seem to like buying for sex workers. That was true even long before I retired, and it’s even more so nowadays. The reason, as I’ve explained before, is that I put things I actually want on my list, and my tastes run to the odd and nerdy. In the last couple of weeks, several of my generous readers have sent CDs and DVDs from the list, and several of the DVDs were of old movie serials. I’m quite pleased about that because, as some of you have noticed, I’ve increasingly turned my back on the modern world this year. Now, a large fraction of my TV and movie viewing has always consisted of things that aren’t current at the time I view them, and I rarely read any fiction written after I was born (and almost never after I graduated from high school). But since early summer that’s even more true than usual, and probably half of my current entertainment was created between 1920 and 1960. Part of the reason is practical; the new adventure fiction series I’m working on takes place in the 1920s and ’30s, so immersing myself in period fiction helps with mood and color. But the rest of it is purely emotional; this blog and its attendant social media focus mostly on current events, and I needn’t explain how absolutely awful those events have become. Simply put, by the time I’m done with blog writing every day, I am so sick of 21st century political atrocities and media enshittification that I cannot handle one more minute of it. So to those of you who have indulged me with these gifts, please accept my heartfelt gratitude not merely for the kindness of a gift, but also for helping me find temporary solace from a world which feels increasingly hostile to me.
Links #803
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged artificial stupidity, California, comics, cops, games, imaginative fiction, New York, politicians, robots, video on November 23, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Premium users can also converse with Satan. – Chrissy Callahan
When I opened YouTube in search of something last week, this was at the top of the page. Naturally I could not resist. The links above it were provided by Jesse Walker, Ryan Marino (x2), Mike Masnick, The Onion (x2), and IncarcerNation, in that order.
- R.I.P. Burt Meyer.
- Artificial blasphemy.
- Teddy Ruxpin, enshittified.
- A LOT more of this, please.
- If only satire were a blowtorch.
- The best satire cleaves closely to the truth.
- Crime: petty theft. Penalty: summary execution.
From the Archives
- It’s good to see someone with a functional moral compass addressing this.
- It’s no longer unusual to see this type of article on “sex trafficking” myths.
- The latest entry in the now-fashionable “monkey see, monkey do” parade.
- 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.
- When rapists only face consequences ’cause a prosecutor is squicked out.
- Unless people learn to respect free speech again, this will only get worse.
- All promoters of state violence conspire for cops to get away with crimes.
- Your “leaders” want more such hell-holes to torture even more people in.
- A reminder that Grady Judd is an utterly loathsome excuse for a human.
- Keep plunging that ice pick in; the bad thoughts will go away eventually.
- These attempts to destroy the internet are going to keep getting worse.
- Unusually, this isn’t slanted like the rapist was doing his victims a favor.
- Cops are now being dispatched to intimidate people for “bad” thoughts.
- Useful idiots destroy any hope of rebottling the facial recognition djinni.
- On Beijing’s growing campaign to silence Chinese people outside China.
- At the height of “trafficking” hysteria, this wasn’t considered a problem.
- When it comes to surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- What moral imbeciles condemned him to the registry in the first place?
- This is inevitable when men are given this kind of power and privilege.
- Some still believe these sociopaths are motivated by “child protection”.
- A detailed look at what happens when an entitled rapist cop is caught.
- Watching Tim Ballard’s reputation go down in flames is so very sweet.
- Surely you didn’t think this would stop with libraries and the internet?
- For those laboring under the delusion that Nevada is whore-friendly.
- Authoritarians want more hell-holes to torture even more people in.
- If only US cities could flush their toxic waste before somebody dies.
- Long, bright days disrupt my sleep even after the sun finally sets.
- This insanity will worsen until these maniacs are forcibly stopped.
- Cops, Kevin O’Neill, John Aniston, Ned Rorem, and much more.
- Never forget that this started with censorship of internet porn.
- I’m sure they helpfully yelled “Stop faking!” at him as he died.
- “Feminism” is slowly, falteringly, moving away from misogyny.
- Another reminder that my writing depends on reader support.
- This creepy shit appears to be a cop’s twisted idea of “flirting”.
- Dumb “anti-trafficking” events are now mostly ads for sports.
- Ambulance-chasers can’t wait to capitalize on mob rule laws.
- Michael Lacey writes from the government censorship cage.
- You’d think “youth pastor” would be a big red flag by now.
- A society can be judged by the way it treats its prisoners.
- Cops, imaginary flights, Lou Donaldson, and much more.
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- The main phase of this evil self-parody is finally over.
- It’s always lovely to see them feeding on each other.
- Can’t y’all settle on one term for preachy molesters?
- A curated selection of tweets from November 2023.
- This would be hilarious if it were their own money.
- There is no such thing as “artificial intelligence”.
- I don’t actually mean to collect stray animals.
- Just another typical and representative cop.
- Cops, grisly murder, Alien, and much more.
- Toward the end of privacy, everywhere.
- Grace is diagnosed with throat cancer.
- More curated selections of tweets.
- Throwback Thursday’s Creature.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- R.I.P. Carol Leigh.
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Diary #803
Posted in Diary, tagged animals, Sunset on November 18, 2025| Leave a Comment »
It didn’t take long for Jonathan to get used to having Hercules around, but as of last week they seem to have become friends. At the end of each day, I give them each a scoop of oats & feed, but because Jonathan takes his time eating while goats bolt their food, Hercules is always done first and will immediately try to push Jonathan out of the way to get the rest of his. So what I’ve been doing is to feed Hercules inside the chicken coop and Jonathan in the stable, so that Hercules can’t bother Jonathan while he’s eating. It only takes about 10 minutes, so I just go about my business and return to let Hercules out once Jonathan emerges from the stable. And for the past week, I’ve found him waiting patiently outside the gate every single day for his rude friend. From Hercules’ direction, he seems to prefer grazing or browsing within sight of Jonathan for most of the day. So though I can’t yet tell if Hercules’ presence will control the ground cover, at least Jonathan has another creature whose habits are more like his than the pigs’ are.
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