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).
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Diary #795
Posted in Diary, tagged animals, Sunset on September 23, 2025| Leave a Comment »
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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Diary #794
Posted in Diary, tagged animals, disease, Sunset, vaccines on September 16, 2025| 1 Comment »
It’s a good thing I don’t get emotionally attached to poultry, because we haven’t had a good year for them. I’m guessing it’s bird flu; we lost one of the red hens in July, then the turkey on the 1st, then one of the young white hens on the 10th. They always go the same way: they’re extremely sluggish and keeping to themselves one day, then the next day I find them dead, away from the others and facing into a corner. I am guessing the behavior is an instinctive one, designed by evolution to keep the disease from spreading to other members of the flock. Once I discover the dead bird, I put on gloves and remove it immediately. I am guessing they’re getting it from wild birds that land in the coop; I recently found a dead Steller’s jay not far from there. So far it looks like isolated cases of infection rather than a full-blown poultry epidemic, but I’m keeping my eyes on them, and I sincerely hope we’ve seen the last of it because I really don’t want to have to deal with figuring out how to vaccinate them when the vaccine isn’t readily available in the US.
Diary #793
Posted in Diary, Fiction, Philosophy, tagged imaginative fiction, Lost Angels, New Orleans, psychology on September 9, 2025| Leave a Comment »
I’m finally almost finished with “Until the End of Days“. I finished the rough draft late last week, and on Sunday I wrote the prologue; it may seem strange to non-writers that I saved the prologue for the end of the process, but it was necessary because the story is told in first-person, and I wanted to know everything that happened in the tale (which grew in the telling) before I tried to introduce it. Part of the reason was practical; if there were any important details I had not managed to fit into the narrative, I wanted to mention them in the prologue. But another reason was that I wanted to be able to identify as fully with the POV character as possible, since I wanted the tone of the prologue to be more personal. The word count is now in the vicinity of 19,000 words, and I still have a bit of editing to do, (such as describing three major characters more fully), so I think it’s fair to call it a novella. I’ve really worked at developing the characters’ world, so much so that I already have the fragments of two prequels and a sequel in my head, and that’s good because spending so much time in that fictional world of the past makes the pain of my real-world present much easier to bear. The irony is almost too perfect: after spending most of my life living in a future which never came to pass, I now find comfort living in a past that never was.
Diary #792
Posted in Diary, tagged recipes, Sunset on September 2, 2025| Leave a Comment »
While I keep very close track of the traditional holidays, I tend to ignore the civil holidays, so when someone says something about “the holiday” or “the long weekend” around Labor Day or Memorial Day or whatever, I often have to ask “What holiday?” because I honestly don’t remember. So when Chekhov texted me late last week proposing he and Yellowbird come by on Sunday to spend the afternoon and grill some burgers, it did not at first occur to me that there was a holiday adjacent to that. Not that it really mattered one way or the other; one nice thing about everyone in our little circle being retired is that we needn’t wait for permission to have a cookout. I had two pie crusts left from making a batch of crust last week, so it was simplicity itself to walk outside, pick a bowl of plums, wash them, pit them, combine 5 cups of them them with 3/4 cup of brown sugar, 1/4 cup flour, 1/2 tsp allspice and 1/4 cup of apple cider, mix all that up and put it in the crust, and bake it at 375o for 50 minutes. And boom, plum pie; there’s something extra-satisfying about a pie when the fruit was still on the tree 15 minutes before it went into the oven. As I’ve said before, presentation isn’t my strong point; I probably put just a little too much fruit in, and the crust broke where it boiled out. But what it lacked in looks, it made up for in taste.
Diary #791
Posted in Diary, tagged Sunset on August 26, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Unfortunately, the lighting strips we used in the atrium were not very durable, so the process of arranging and rearranging them eventually wore their internal connections down, resulting in entire sections going dark and other sections becoming very limited in their color selections. That meant we used them less often and were less happy with them when we did. After a while, this annoyed Jae sufficiently that she bought some more of them, and has been bugging me to put them up since spring. Well, I finally decided to do so on Friday, using a simpler pattern than last time and being careful not to damage the strips. So here’s what they look like now, which I fully admit is much better than they’ve looked in quite a while; I just wish it weren’t so difficult to get myself motivated to do this sort of task nowadays.
Links #790
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged acting, California, cops, Gullible's Travels, hysteria, language, Louisiana, Maryland, Never Call the Cops, Passive Voice, Pennsylvania, psychology, Things We Choose To Do Together, TikTok, Twitter, video on August 24, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Everything that becomes big attracts the attention of lots of people, some of whom see Satan and demons everywhere. – Joseph Uscinski
Another influential Louisiana musician is gone, and here’s his biggest hit as a sendoff. The links above the video were provided by Jesse Walker & Dan Savage; IncarcerNation (x3); Mike Stabile; and Reason, in that order.
- R.I.P. Tommy McLain and Terence Stamp.
- Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever.
- It’s rare for them to blame the cop, not the car.
- Was this “protecting” or “serving”? It’s hard to tell.
- Mass hysteria is a form of contagious mental illness.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
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”?
- The hysteria is imploding so hard, it’s falling all the way back to its roots.
- 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.
- Reddit covering its butt against more FOSTA-enabled predatory lawsuits.
- Only a prohibitionist could imagine that 10 subjects constitute a “study”.
- 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.
- I’m sure the people of Maui didn’t want her dirty whore money anyhow.
- All I see about modern corporate work makes me happier I’m a whore.
- Can you imagine any non-cop getting such a love tap for forcible rape?
- 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.
- What kind of mind thinks it’s OK to protest by threatening hospitals?
- 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.
- Absolutely nothing is “safe” if government actors know where it is.
- 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.
- If you didn’t see this coming, you haven’t been paying attention.
- Texas just won’t stop plunging that ice pick into its frontal lobes.
- What was once the wellhouse has now become the utility room.
- Damage from last year’s “Operation Cross Country” pogroms.
- You can always count on my native state to out-Herod Herod.
- Over half of Americans now live in states with legal cannabis.
- “Cop” is no longer a job, but rather a privileged ruling caste.
- Cops, signs, Johnny Hardwick, Bob Barker, and much more.
- The latest iteration of “sex traffickers are EVERYWHERE!!!”
- Cops, cults, Gena Rowlands, Wally Amos, and much more.
- Anyone who thinks this is “justice” is part of the problem.
- Another baby step toward recognizing sex work as work.
- There are many ways for governments to rob people.
- A curated selection of tweets from August 2023.
- Cops covered up these crimes for six years.
- This is an extremely dangerous precedent.
- Yet another curated selection of tweets.
- On the pervasive rot of enshittification.
- Cops, Judith Durham, and much more.
- The atrium bathroom is finally done!
- An Australian visitor at Sunset.
- Notice what nobody calls this?
- A bad year for fruit at Sunset.
- Son of Throwback Thursday.
- Much more of this, please.
- The Throwback Theory.
- The Beat Generation.
- Meet the Flintstones.
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Diary #790
Posted in Diary, tagged animals, Sunset on August 19, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Early last week, Chekhov was available to help me expand the chicken coop and replace the roof of the henhouse. Given that I’ve been putting the latter chore off for several years now despite the fact that it probably should’ve been done the first year we were here, I accepted the help despite the fact that the three days it took were also the three hottest of the year. But now it’s done; despite fairly constant rain from Thursday to Saturday, the inside of the henhouse stayed nice and dry, and as you can see the flock is enjoying being able to hunt for bugs in the grass they can now get to. As you can also see, our turkey turned out to be a tom rather than a hen; turkey chicks aren’t routinely sexed, so we had no idea what we had until he developed those distinctive head features and started displaying his tail. I’m not sure what Yellowbird will want to do with him, but the experience has led me to wonder if there’s a butcher hereabouts who’d pay enough for small flocks of turkeys to make the investment in time, money, and effort worthwhile. But in any case, it won’t be long before those four white pullets are laying full-sized eggs, which is why I keep them in the first place!
Links #789
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged artificial stupidity, cops, disease, drugs, Florida, imaginative fiction, Indiana, Never Call the Cops, politicians, Portugal, scams, sex toys, Slovakia, STEM, United Kingdom, video on August 17, 2025| Leave a Comment »
I am a biohazard. – Meghan Reinertsen
I’m still working on “Until the End of Days“; it’s up to 12,000 words now, into the novelette range, and I’m really enjoying the process. This week’s video is the song I hear playing during the last scene, when our heroines have defeated the baddies and are unwinding in front of the big console radio at home. If you listen to it, I think you’ll get a taste of the tone I’m going for. The links above it were provided by Kevin Wilson, Ryan Marino, IncarcerNation (x2), Marc Randazza (x2), and Eleanor Janega, in that order.
- R.I.P. Jim Lovell.
- Oh look, I was right again.
- A “leader” setting an example.
- “Never” really does mean never.
- These people are easily “terrified”.
- Some people will do anything for attention.
- This week in “brick in the toilet” environmentalism.
From the Archives
- My 1st profession has become as much an authoritarian target as my 2nd.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- These mob rule laws will continue to metastasize unless SCOTUS acts.
- This creep was trying to demand sex in addition to rent, not in lieu of.
- The entire “troubled teen” industry needs to be sued out of existence.
- Texas tacitly admits it wants women with problem pregnancies to die.
- What other country publicly shames those who engage in sex work?
- “Search” is the most common government euphemism for “molest”.
- Why are people shocked when men paid to behave violently, do so?
- Funny how many cops who are willing to pay prefer underage girls.
- One of the most flagrant abusers of this unconstitutional practice.
- Every year, I forget just how much the Dog Days wear me down.
- Another credulous regurgitation of prohibitionist propaganda.
- A conflict between my whore ethics and my librarian ethics.
- To collectivist minds, group membership is a point of pride.
- Rapist politicians generally prefer to assault drunk women.
- This is such a sterile way to say, “repeatedly raped them”.
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- It’s getting harder to tell the preachers from the cops.
- Rapist cops of the week, now with more euphemisms.
- “Prostitution” is such a handy excuse for surveillance.
- Seems like there’s more to this than we’re being told.
- It’s always lovely to see them feeding on each other.
- Cops, bird-brains, Lamont Dozier, and much more.
- Texas wants to have its blood and drink it as well.
- A curated selection of tweets from summer 2024.
- Most rapist cops have multiple underage victims.
- Working to eliminate a few stubborn roof leaks.
- All types of prohibition are doomed to failure.
- Some Louisiana cops prefer to rape by proxy.
- Cops, satire, horror movies, and much more.
- This raid was not remotely “unprecedented”.
- Finishing up phase V of my annex project.
- Laws are for the peasantry, not the rulers.
- Your “leaders” refer to this as “correction”.
- What is wrong with doctors who do this?
- Better late tomatoes than no tomatoes.
- Another fine example of McNeill’s Law.
- Why does anyone still trust Facebook?
- 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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Diary #789
Posted in Diary, tagged Presents, psychology on August 12, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Since my budget is much tighter these days (due to the one-two punch of lower income and tariff-driven inflation), it’s very difficult for me to justify extras like expensive perfume. So it really brightened my day recently when one of my generous gentlemen sent me a bottle of my favorite perfume from my Amazon wishlist, saying that he hoped it would help lift my spirits. Grace always used to insist that I do things (such as getting my nails done or my hair colored) that make me feel more attractive, but since she’s been gone I don’t have that voice any more, and have started feeling guilty about such expenditures during lean times. So it’s really lovely when my readers step up to tell me that it really is OK to be a little bit frivolous, and obviating the problem by making the choice for me.
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