I’ve written before about how Grace’s cat Speck was much more closely bonded with her than is typical for cats, and after Grace died in January, Speck’s behavior slowly became more erratic. She’s always been one to stake out specific places to sleep in when she wasn’t with her humans, but when the weather started to get cooler in September she started choosing dirtier places, like the area around her litterbox, and as a result she started smelling to the point I was about to give her a bath. But first, I decided to try picking her up and holding her whenever I found her in such places, to get her out of the habit. It worked, and she soon started sleeping in nicer places again, like on the back of the sofa or in front of the French window. But she also realized that if she came up to me while I was on the computer and demanded my attention, I would let her sit in my lap and I could simply type around her. You can see her favorite posture below: sitting upright with her head in my cleavage and her little paws hugging me under my robe; if I let her, she will stay there for hours, and because she doesn’t actually impede my work or comfort I’m content to let her stay until I need to get up for some reason. Even then, she will usually go get herself a bite or a drink and then come right back as soon as I’m back at the keyboard. I don’t think I’ll ever really replace Grace in her affections, but I’m glad we both have someone to cuddle who reminds us of the friend we’ve lost.
Archive for the ‘Biography’ Category
Diary #799
Posted in Diary, tagged animals, Grace, psychology, Sunset on October 21, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Links #798
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged Catholicism, comics, cops, Georgia, Hawaii, I’m Sure You Feel Safer Now, illegal aliens, Never Call the Cops, Oregon, politicians, propaganda, racism, video on October 19, 2025| Leave a Comment »
[Journalists] act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to…rule by dividing. – Pope Leo XIV
Here’s a seasonally-themed a cappella medley called to my attention by Phoenix Calida; the links above it were provided by Aaron Ross Powell, Radley Balko, Ryan Cooper, IncarcerNation, Ryan Marino (x2), and Nun Ya, in that order.
- R.I.P. Drew Struzan.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- With apologies to Watterson.
- Another successful suicide by cop.
- An unending catalog of Trump’s crimes.
- What is wrong with people who do this shit?
- It’s good to see a Pope who sees the Zeitgeist.
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.
- 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.
- Florida screws all yell “Stop faking!” at victims after breaking their necks.
- You’ve heard of “burying the lede”, but this one just keeps getting worse.
- 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.
- Your “leaders” call this “correction”; “journalists” shouldn’t parrot them.
- Give aggressive thugs power over teens; what could possibly go wrong?
- It’s great to see anti-prohibitionist views quickly becoming mainstream.
- “Authorities” actually do something about a serial rapist of sex workers.
- If “authorized” busybodies can spy on you, so can “unauthorized” ones.
- Politicians and bureaucrats are empowered to force stupidity on others.
- Why does a vacuum cleaner need either a speaker or a wifi connection?
- Psychedelic destigmatization is happening more quickly than expected.
- It’s good to see a sex worker run for office, especially when she wins.
- As a tool of social control, pseudoscience is more useful than science.
- The cop who stood by and watched a rape has thought up an excuse.
- These tyrannies often start with sex workers, but never stop with us.
- No, this is a different Louisville cop stealing women’s nude pictures.
- Some still believe these sociopaths really want to “protect children”.
- UK admits “human trafficking” narrative is about migration control.
- Your regular reminder that my writing depends upon your support.
- Anyone with a functional brain could’ve predicted this outcome.
- Cops, wolves,San Francisco, Robbie Coltrane, and much more.
- The claims in these nuisance lawsuits are increasingly absurd.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, crypto-moralism, and much more.
- I’m content for the time being to keep things as they are.
- A custom arrangement to fit your needs and preferences.
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- It’s not only Louisiana cops who prefer to rape by proxy.
- Etowah County, Alabama needs to be sued into oblivion.
- If only there were a specific word for this sort of thing.
- Facts have absolutely nothing to do with US sex laws.
- Moral imbeciles are almost completely out of control.
- PayPal is becoming a major threat to civil liberties.
- The stupider the belief, the harder it is to debunk.
- Tim Ballard’s house of marked cards is collapsing.
- Sleeping with cops isn’t safe for men, either.
- Yet another curated selection of tweets.
- Yet another example of McNeill’s Law.
- The Throwback Thursday Chronicles.
- Throwback Thursday’s Daughter.
- Why all “100 best” lists are bad.
- This is only going to get worse.
- A month of good, spooky fun.
- Plumbing my new bathroom.
- A game of musical cars.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- Your “leaders” at work.
- Worst Phone Ever.
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In the News (#1582)
Posted in Current Events, History, Miscellaneous, News, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged activism, artificial stupidity, cops, disease, Enshittification, Georgia, I Spy, If Men Were Angels, illegal aliens, McNeill's Law, Minnesota, Never Call the Cops, porn, prisons, scams, Shame Shame, Stop faking!, The Puritan Recrudescence, Torture Chamber, transgender, Walled Garden on October 18, 2025| Leave a Comment »
You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else’s throat hoping they’ll give you a little thumbs up and like it. – Zelda Williams
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a legendary transgender activist…since Stonewall, died Monday at age 78…she…had suffered from health problems for some time and had recently begun receiving hospice care…In 1962, she moved to New York City, where she…performed in drag shows…[and] became a sex worker. She participated in the Stonewall uprising of 1969…and…[after h]er arrest…on a robbery charge…spent time in men’s prisons and mental hospitals in the early 1970s, [where] she was often severely mistreated…Upon regaining her freedom, she became an advocate for incarcerated trans people, especially trans women [cag]ed in men’s prisons and those who have survived police brutality…In the 1980s, Miss Major became involved in addressing the AIDS crisis…[and] after moving to San Diego…started a home health care agency, Angels of Care, to assist people with the disease…she [later] became a health educator with the Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center…and…[retir]ed to Little Rock in 2016…
“Non-consensual gynecological procedures” are just institutionalized rape:
The Trump [regime] is planning to [cage] immigrants at a Georgia jail that became known for…subject[ing women] to non-consensual gynecological procedures…the Irwin County D[unge]on…drew nationwide attention in the fall of 2020, when a number of [victims] and a nurse-turned-whistleblower [reveal]ed the [rampant] medical misconduct. After months of [unsuccessfully trying to repress the reports], the Biden administration stopped [lock]ing immigrant women there in 2021…Fourteen women sued ICE and Irwin…over the [viol]ations in 2021, [but there were] at least 40 [victims]…Early this year, the lawsuit was settled…
In Europe, the latest proposal for a “chat control” regulation put forward by the Danish presidency would require every internet-connected device to include government spyware…[which] would flag artwork, fan fiction, family photos and chats, relying on unreliable [computer algorithms]…Globally, [surveillance and censorship] laws…are driving users underground…virtual private network (VPN) usage has soared, as has usage of the privacy-centric Tor browser, which reached its highest level ever this year – nearly 20 million daily users, six times its long-term average…Tor was created by the US navy to counter authoritarian regimes when the “open Internet” was official US policy. Now…western [governments are]…becoming the authoritarians Tor was designed to circumvent, while the Tor network becomes the new “open Internet”…
This will not stop until SWAT cops murder a prankster:
…teenagers…are using [image-generation software] to create images of a disheveled, seemingly unhoused person in their home and sending them to their parents…[claiming] they let the…[imaginary person] in to use the bathroom, take a nap, or…get a drink of water…then, predictably, the parents lose their cool and demand they kick the [imaginary] man out. The kids, of course, record the whole thing, and post their parents reactions to TikTok…[some gullible] parents call the [cops, potentially leading to]…“a SWAT response”…
As in modern politics, the collapse of reality online is leading to real-world consequences.
Experiencing any kind of medical emergency when cops are around is tantamount to a death sentence:
A new…federal lawsuit [has been filed by the family of] a Minnesota postal worker [who] died after [cops] and [screws deliberately] ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke – [choos]ing [instead to pretend] his medical emergency [was] drug impairment…Kingsley Fifi Bimpong…[was dumped] on a jail cell floor [and allowed to lie] in his own urine for hours without medical attention…On the night of November 16, 2024, [a pig saw] Bimpong…driving the wrong way…into oncoming traffic…after being pulled over, Bimpong appeared extremely confused. He couldn’t say where he lived or worked, even though he was wearing a USPS vest, and repeatedly said, “I don’t know”…[big pig] Martin Jensen [is supposedly] trained…to…distinguish…drug impairment from medical emergencies such as strokes…[but couldn’t be bothered to perform an] evaluation…[claiming it] would be “a whole bunch of time wasted”…[because] Bimpong [was black. So instead he]…was arrested for…DWI…[thrown violently to the floor] in a holding cell…and…[left him to die] in his own waste…for more than three hours…the…nurse was not called until…he [started] foaming at the mouth and having [a] seizure…Toxicology reports…later…confirmed no drugs were in his system…
It isn’t merely disrespectful; it’s ghoulish:
Dr. Bernice King, daughter of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr…has joined calls to stop the use of [machine learning image generators] to recreate deceased celebrities. King voiced support for filmmaker Zelda Williams, who…criticized [computer]-generated videos of her late father, Robin Williams…saying, “If you’ve got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop”…
Wannabe preachers are often as bad as the real thing:
In August, an adult stepson of Covenant Eyes cofounder Ron DeHaas was arrested in Michigan…Thomas Wideman…[was arrested for talking to a cop fantasy role-playing] online…as a 14-year-old [girl. Cops]…later found child [porn] on his phone…DeHaas covered some of his stepson’s $300,000 bond…
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Diary #798
Posted in Diary, tagged psychology, Sunset on October 14, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Every October, before the rains start mid-month, I put the atrium shutters back in place. But since I don’t have the energy I had even a few years ago, nowadays I tend to do that sort of chore on days when I feel I have the energy. That’s how I mucked out the henhouse a couple of weeks ago, and the system seems to be working. So when I had the urge to install the shutters a week ago today, I went ahead and did it. In the past, I’ve always installed the north-side shutters by myself, but waited until I had help for the much-larger south-side shutter. Well, this time I moved the ladder and all the shutters from the garage into place and installed the north-side ones as usual. But though I was winded from that, I decided for some unfathomable reason to attempt the south side alone. I leaned the ladder against the wall, put one end of the shutter on the ramp railing, lifted the other side to the top of the ladder, then climbed up a few steps and lifted the shutter onto the studs. To my surprise and pleasure, it went right into place on my very first try, and all I had to do was tighten down the wingnuts to secure it. Then I put the ladder away, et voilà; done until I take them down again somewhere between Easter and May Day. It may seem a small thing, but with Grace gone there are a lot of things she used to do for me or with me, that I now have to do for myself. So please allow me to celebrate these little victories which represent my settling into the way things must be now.
Links #797
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged acting, animals, cops, Florida, imaginative fiction, Michigan, Missouri, Never Call the Cops, nostalgia, politicians, racism, Tennessee, Texas, video on October 12, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Y’all gonna have to kill me, I will kill myself. – Jarrell Johnson
I came to know and love jazz and swing not only via my grandparents, but also via Captain Kangaroo, which used to feature what amounted to music videos with puppets. Alas, none of those bits from the show seem to be available online or anywhere else, but I did find this charming little slideshow backing one of the songs the Captain used to play. The links above it were provided by Jesse Walker, Mike Siegel, Amy Alkon, Scott Greenfield, and IncarcerNation (x3), in that order.
- R.I.P. Diane Keaton.
- Portrait of a psychopath.
- Lovecraftian entity of the week.
- Prosecutors don’t want justice, but victory.
- Was this “protecting” or “serving”? Hard to tell.
- No, your reason for calling them is not an exception.
- Crime: petty theft. Penalty: summary execution of bystander.
From the Archives
- Modern people are in deep denial about the ubiquity of historical sex work.
- Nobody is going to give expensive cannabis edibles to your spawn for free.
- Cops’ typical Halloween nonsense, now with fentanyl instead of marijuana.
- Thinking with the wrong head creates its own problems sans political help.
- How long will airlines accept liability for government-brand racial profiling?
- Sexworkers ask the Canadian Supreme Court to uphold its own judgment.
- If you didn’t see where this was going, you haven’t been paying attention.
- So much for SF’s pious BS about not sending cops to assault sex workers.
- 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”.
- Cops believe “a woman wanted to be raped by a random cop” is credible.
- 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”.
- Cop deals with disagreement exactly as paid to; all claim to be shocked.
- Cops, Sergio Aragonés, Loretta Lynn, Angela Lansbury, and much more.
- I find it sweet that so many people are so enchanted by our pig, Cicero.
- Another individual protection the Establishment is working to eliminate.
- When it comes to surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- Authoritarians are working toward worldwide criminalization of speech.
- Something advertised as spyware is spyware, and people are shocked?
- Another ex-whore thinks it’s her job to cheat her sisters out of money.
- Profiteers will continue to harass businesses thus while FOSTA stands.
- Politicians believe “election” grants them license to practice medicine.
- Surely you didn’t think this would stop with libraries and the internet?
- Many overseas pharmacies don’t care about politicians’ permission.
- Funny how many cops who are willing to pay prefer underage girls.
- 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.
- 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.
- About a twelfth of the time his long string of crimes deserves.
- 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.
- 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.
- In case you’ve ever wondered where the good cops are.
- We might be about to see the end of the open internet.
- Because this kind of prohibition will surely be different!
- Politicians keep openly trying to destroy the internet.
- PayPal is becoming a major threat to civil liberties.
- I’ve been wanting one of these for quite a while.
- Consider the massive waste on display here.
- All cops will have these within a few years.
- Throwback Thursday Meets the Wolf Man.
- Connecting my new bathroom plumbing.
- Sometimes I really miss the Beatles.
- Your “leaders” call this “correction”.
- Victor Throwback Thursday.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- Water for the piggies.
Diary #797
Posted in Diary, tagged animals, Sunset on October 7, 2025| 1 Comment »
The biggest problem with keeping goats is that they view fences as challenges rather than barriers. It doesn’t matter if there’s plenty of brush and grass within the paddock; the presence of a fence makes whatever grows on the opposite side more attractive in a goat’s mind. I was hoping that since Hercules was the only goat, and the other animals were happy inside, he would mostly stay inside, but NOPE; he apparently wants me visible at all times, and if I’m not he will immediately get out and find me. And when I’m inside, that means he comes up on the porch and looks in the French door. On Saturday, he kept doing it so much I decided to wait until after dark before putting him in, but that didn’t work either; within an hour he was back on the front porch. Then I left him there all night, hoping it would dissuade him; he was still there Sunday morning. I would assume this is due to his training as a pack goat, to keep the leader in sight; if that’s the case perhaps the behavior will slowly attenuate as he becomes used to Sunset. If not…well, I’ll just have to cross that fence when I get to it.
Links #796
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged Alabama, apes & monkeys, Arizona, cops, illegal aliens, Illinois, New York, propaganda, STEM, The Implosion Begins, Theatrics, United Kingdom, video on October 5, 2025| Leave a Comment »
All radio stations and most of their DJ’s are a part of the intelligence community. – Jacob Chansley
When Jesse Walker recently tweeted an article about the bicentennial of the Erie Canal, I went to YouTube to find a video of this folk song, and was delighted to find this excellent version by Bruce Springsteen. Jesse also shared all the links other than “toxic” (IncarcerNation), “Jane Goodall” (Mike Siegel), and “television” (Yasmin Nair).
- Sounds legit.
- The toxic fruit of a toxic tree.
- R.I.P. Viv Prince and Jane Goodall.
- Bill & Ted’s Existential Adventure reviewed.
- When fascist rulers watch far too much television.
- The woman who made the Doctor Who theme what it was.
From the Archives
- My 1st profession has become as much an authoritarian target as my 2nd.
- This appears to be all that’s left of the once-popular “gypsy whores” myth.
- Politicians will pay for “self-care” for cops “traumatized” by raping whores.
- Cops won’t drop this fantasy until local media stop obediently parroting it.
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- Amazon also eagerly hands data from internet-connected devices to cops.
- If “official” busybodies can spy on you via your car, so can unofficial ones.
- “Child porn” is here used as pretext for mass surveillance on a vast scale.
- “Cop murders wife/girlfriend & claims it was suicide” is a common theme.
- Anyone whose brain isn’t rotted by prohibitionism could’ve predicted this.
- Censors are now pretending thoughts they don’t like constitute a “crime”.
- There is nothing “shocking” about a cop abusing a minor or anyone else.
- If prohibitionists want to “rescue” whores, why keep us from other jobs?
- Frisco pigs are no longer satisfied with waiting for useful idiots’ consent.
- Partisans don’t give a damn about sex workers, despite contrary claims.
- “Banned Books Week” used to be little more than an academic exercise.
- Politicians no longer care about whether their diktats are Constitutional.
- It’s rare to see a modern judge explicitly rule in favor of self-ownership.
- Texas’ ruling psychopaths want to kill women and ruin doctors’ careers.
- Idaho paper approves of sheriff appointing himself chief library censor.
- Euphemism for “Cop gets a teenage girl drunk so he could molest her”.
- When sex work is marginalized, sex workers are targeted for violence.
- Making a hobby of accusing strangers of felonies might be dangerous.
- “Police explorer” programs are grooming schemes for predatory cops.
- Retrospective of my blogging from September 2012, 2013, and 2014.
- “Drugs” are a popular pretext for petty vindictiveness in US prisons.
- Cops, cheese, artificial stupidity, Kris Kristofferson, and much more.
- Why are people shocked when men paid to behave violently, do so?
- “Having sexual relations” is such a neutered way to say “molesting”.
- Politicians use the same airy-fairy censorship excuses everywhere.
- Your irregular reminder that this blog depends on you for support.
- This will never stop until it is treated as what it is: armed robbery.
- The number of politicians who support such reform is very small.
- Maybe it’s a bad idea to teach kids to blindly submit to authority.
- It’s always a pleasure to watch experts trash harmful sex myths.
- Another sexual predator specifically targets traumatized women.
- Cop and preacher is like the molester equivalent of a full house.
- Seems like a significant fraction of child porn is spread by cops.
- Cops, flying, Michael Gambon, Alice Cooper, and much more.
- Most Americans still believe France is a sex-positive society.
- Even the distancing “former” is the same as for rapist cops.
- Literally making mincemeat out of small green tomatoes.
- Just another of those nonexistent false rape accusations.
- Surely you didn’t think this would stop with LGBT books?
- A “majority” can be just as authoritarian as a dictator.
- Transforming an open space into a functional shower.
- Expect use of this term to continue expanding wildly.
- PayPal is becoming an active threat to civil liberties.
- Spokane allowed this animal to run wild for years.
- The stupider the belief, the harder it is to debunk.
- Prohibitionism is a dangerous mental illness.
- They’ll use any excuse to protect their own.
- Cops, Coolio, Judy Tenuta, and much more.
- Prohibition inevitably leads to exploitation.
- Your “leaders” refer to this as “correction”.
- Throwback Thursday vs. the Mummy.
- The last part of building the stable.
- The first fire in my atrium stove.
- The Evil of Throwback Thursday.
- Trying to replace my old boots.
- Rapist cop of the week.
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Diary #796
Posted in Diary, tagged animals, Sunset on September 30, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Meet Hercules, the newest resident of Sunset. Ever since Jae gave Shiloh to a petting zoo over a year ago, the grass in the paddock has been getting out of hand; Jonathan just doesn’t eat enough by himself to keep it all clear. So I asked Jae to find someone giving away a goat, and she succeeded just over a week ago. Hercules was trained to be a pack goat, but just over a year ago he escaped his pen and ate most of a sack of feed; somehow, he managed to survive the resulting colic, but never really recovered enough to be a pack animal again, so his owners just wanted to give him to someone who needed a brush eater. Last Wednesday we took Jae’s van up to Port Angeles to get him, and for the past week I’ve kept him tied to a post with a long enough rope for him to graze and browse; on Sunday I tried letting him off the rope for a while, but as soon as we went inside he found the stile and within minutes was standing on the front porch. So he’s tied up again; yesterday I got a tag for his collar and today I’m going to put a temporary block on the stile, and we’ll try it again. The other animals seem okay with him; Jonathan lived with goats for the first few years of his life, and the pigs are mostly just ignoring him. So here’s hoping he settles in and is able to adequately perform the function I got him for.
Diary #795
Posted in Diary, tagged animals, Sunset on September 23, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Because if I don’t say it, most of y’all probably will by the end of this column: Louie is really making a pig out of himself. Every year, once the apples start dropping from the trees, both pigs visit the trees at least once a day to, well, pig out. But this year, Louie has practically camped out there; by the time I show my face roughly two hours after dawn, he’s already gobbling, and even when he takes a break he mostly just naps in place or very nearby. He eats so much I don’t even bother to make him dinner right now because he isn’t interested; by the time the sun is approaching the horizon he’s already snoozing in the stable. I’ve even seen him fall asleep while on his way somewhere; he just suddenly stops waddling and sinks to the ground, and within a few minutes he’s snoring. Loudly. Twice he’s managed to constipate himself, and let me tell you he does not like the taste of mineral oil (not that I blame him). Right now I start getting the giggles every time I need to interact with him; pigs are always comical creatures to me, but there’s something extra funny about a constipated, narcoleptic pig, as long as both are temporary conditions (as I assume they will be).
Links #794
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged acting, artificial stupidity, cops, domestic violence, Hollywood, imaginative fiction, Massachusetts, Never Call the Cops, Oklahoma, politicians, racism, STEM, teachers, Texas, video, Washington DC on September 21, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Who thought of this? – Brent Chapman
Everybody knows Popeye, but did you know he was introduced to the screen (he first appeared in the “Thimble Theater” comic strip in 1929) in a 1933 Betty Boop cartoon? By the end of the following year he had already replaced Betty as the Fleischer Studio’s biggest star. The links above the video were provided by Carol Fenton, Mike Siegel, Phoenix Calida, Ryan Marino, IncarcerNation, The Onion, and T. Greg Doucette, in that order.
- Leadership!
- R.I.P. Robert Redford.
- Tooth is stranger than fiction.
- This week in artificial stupidity.
- Artificial stupidity grows more deadly.
- The best satire cleaves close to the truth.
- Cop just randomly abducts random woman.
From the Archives
- Everyone who spread “sex trafficking” hysteria contributed to this atrocity.
- Government thinks it even has the right to leer at the inside of your body.
- Cops, robots, aliens, Patrick Nonwhite, Jean-Luc Godard, and much more.
- “Fentanyl” is now another porcine pretext for harassing & robbing people.
- Australian cops bravely protect imaginary children from imaginary abuse.
- This will continue as long as fools teach children obedience to “authority”.
- The hysteria is imploding so hard, it’s falling all the way back to its roots.
- This phrasing strongly implies strangling a woman while on duty is A-OK.
- Asstoon’s surveillance company will keep outing sex workers to the pigs.
- This is no more “raunchy” in Taiwan than Halloween costumes in the US.
- If prohibitionists want to “rescue” whores, why keep us from other jobs?
- 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.
- 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.
- Sleeping with a cop is dangerous even if the woman is a cop herself.
- It’s more than a bathhouse, and my terminology should reflect that.
- Don’t infantilize young victims of government brutality as “children”.
- Politicians will never let go of prohibitionism until they’re forced to.
- Any information you give to cops can and will be used against you.
- All laws should sunset after 10 years unless intentionally renewed.
- India protects rights the West now seems determined to destroy.
- Cops, immigrants, Tom Bombadil, Tito Jackson, and much more.
- Just because his victim was gullible doesn’t make this not rape.
- “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.
- The state is only sympathetic to imaginary “perfect” victims.
- Because obviously prohibition doesn’t ruin enough lives yet.
- 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?
- A selection of tweets from September 2023 and 2024.
- It’s getting harder to tell the preachers from the cops.
- This vulture feeding frenzy is going to get a lot uglier.
- Cops, “records”, Roger Whittaker, and much more.
- Quotes from my “Banned Books Week” columns.
- Cathy Reisenwitz interviews me on her podcast.
- Some Louisiana cops prefer to rape by proxy.
- AHF has a history of financial shenanigans.
- My first and only guest column by a robot.
- Your “leaders” refer to this as “correction”.
- 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.
- Thursday of Throwbacks.
- Goldilocks blackberries.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- Our outside cat, Rocky.
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