A classicist recently pointed out on social media that the ancient Greek notion of heroism is so different from the modern idea that mythological heroes like Odysseus must either be adapted for modern audiences, or else they end up looking at least somewhat villainous. It’s especially apparent when moderns try to adapt Hercules into what we would call a hero, and end up with a character who only barely resembles the one in the myths, because the ancient Greek word which is generally translated as “hero” has nothing to do with morality, self-sacrifice, etc. As a kid who loved both mythology and comic books, it was always a little jarring to see how differently mythic characters like Hercules were portrayed in the one vs the other. The most accurate depiction of Hercules on the big screen that I can recall was in Jason and the Argonauts, where he is clearly shown to be a bully, braggart, and delinquent who gets his friends killed and nearly wrecks the entire mission. Of course, the same movie elides Jason’s awfulness, and ends abruptly to avoid having to deal with the whole ugly business of Jason and Medea, which only goes to demonstrate our initial premise once again.
Archive for the ‘Music’ Category
Heroes of Song and Story
Posted in Current Events, Music, Philosophy, Words, tagged comics, Greece, Hollywood, imaginative fiction, language, video on August 10, 2026| 1 Comment »
Links #840
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged cops, Guatemala, Never Call the Cops, New York, politicians, scams, STEM, Tennessee, Texas, United Kingdom, video on August 9, 2026| Leave a Comment »
I’ve always believed that music, like space, is about exploration. – William Shatner
Though this Irving Berlin song (provided by Rick Horowitz) is about Hitler, it has taken on a new meaning in our day. The links above it were provided by Anarres Ansible, Jesse Walker, Ryan Marino, Kevin Wilson, Mike Stabile, Nun Ya, and Savannah Sly, in that order.
- The final frontier?
- R.I.P. Mary de Rachewiltz.
- Eighth Circle, Tenth Bolgia.
- Still think this can be “reformed”?
- Some schadenfreude is painfully intense.
- An ancient scientist receives credit at last.
- What part of “never” is so hard to understand?
From the Archives
- I am always in awe of how quickly animals can build enormous structures.
- Kids abducted by the state are usually harmed more than those left alone.
- Establishment media are finally beginning to admit cops are habitual liars.
- When will the mainstream media admit that pigs in schools are a menace?
- I was fated to be threatened with state violence regardless of career path.
- Do airlines really want liability for employees racially profiling passengers?
- Book banning is never well-regarded in retrospect, but they keep doing it.
- 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.
- Courts are still more dependable at deleting bad laws than politicians are.
- Using the Cult of the Child to promote justice instead of tyranny for once.
- Promoters of dystopia vomit “security” & “accountability” at useful idiots.
- A whole gang of sexual predators specifically targeting traumatized girls.
- US officials already know prisons exacerbate crime; they just don’t care.
- Courts declare that the worse a cop’s crimes, the less the accountability.
- The costs of America’s sick infatuation with incarceration are staggering.
- Cops can’t be bothered to look into disappearance of black sex workers.
- This totalitarian nonsense is a danger to the entire internet, worldwide.
- This isn’t called “trafficking”; the same people selling sex to survive is.
- Sociopathic clowns use Comic-Con as an excuse to ruin people’s lives.
- This unhinged lunacy will spread like rot until struck down by a court.
- Forced-birth politicians want to encourage lawsuits, but not this kind.
- Garbage uses violence vs women as an excuse to spew propaganda.
- Another bunch of vigilante bigots playing games with people’s lives.
- MAGAists are creepy freaks obsessed with other people’s genitalia.
- The court rejected the charges, but not “fetal personhood” dogma.
- Americans’ sick lust for torture turns prison into a death sentence.
- Constant surveillance damages adolescents’ healthy development.
- Every victim of facial recognition abuse needs to sue the violator.
- Seems like a significant fraction of child porn is spread by cops.
- “Pastor and sex offender” is a large and ever-expanding group.
- Guy obsessed with child-abduction fantasies following his bliss.
- It’s too bad they don’t inflict all of their violence on each other.
- The people the government empowers to police your sexuality.
- Florida’s psychopath-general wants to criminalize vaudeville.
- Do I really need to say, “Don’t let one live with you, either”?
- Cops, irony, Paul Reubens, Sharon Farrell, and much more.
- This kind of behavior should be grounds for impeachment.
- Another rapist cop finds a victim via a grooming program.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Loni Anderson, and much more.
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- Forced-birth fanatics want state ownership of women.
- Would you please consider becoming a subscriber?
- Federal thugs behave just like state & local thugs.
- That whole internet thing was nice while it lasted.
- This reeks of Satanic Panic “ritual abuse” fantasy.
- Oh look, another “youth pastor”, what a surprise.
- Cops, New Orleans, Bill & Ted, and much more.
- Cop violence is never limited to the public.
- Don’t let your machines call them, either.
- This sickness just keeps getting worse.
- Not a cure, but the next best thing.
- Your “leaders” call this “correction”.
- Throwback Thursday of the Beast.
- Yet another Throwback Thursday.
- From the incall to the atrium.
- The first pullet eggs of 2025.
- Throwback Thursday’s Dog.
- A weird year for fruit.
- R.I.P. Jim Larkin.
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Bye Bye Birdie
Posted in Miscellaneous, Music, tagged blogging, Bluesky, internet, Twitter, video on August 7, 2026| 1 Comment »
Early last week I reached 8200 followers on Bluesky. I set that number as a goal because it’s half of what my follower number on Twitter has eroded down to after years of shadowbanning, follower capping, and other sleazy tactics intended to surreptitiously reduce the reach of dissidents. And even at half, Bluesky is so much less throttled by algorithms and outright blocks that making exactly the same post on both sites will routinely garner triple-digit engagement on Bluesky and single-digit engagement on Twitter. So as of today, I’m no longer going to make new posts on Twitter. I’ll still check it twice every day to reply to any messages, and I’ll occasionally retweet old posts; I’m going to mute everyone I follow there who is also on Bluesky, so I’ll also be retweeting items of interest from the few people I consider worth following on Twitter who obstinately refuse to make the switch to Bluesky. One day, I hope to drop it altogether, but it’s not that time just yet. So if you’re one of the single-digit number of people who will read this after arriving from Twitter, please consider moving; it’s only a matter of time before there’s no reason for me to be there at all.
Links #839
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged Alaska, animals, artificial stupidity, cops, I’m Sure You Feel Safer Now, libraries, Nebraska, propaganda, video on August 3, 2026| Leave a Comment »
It’s ridiculous to spend more than $100,000 so they can chase after cats. – Matt Leif
Though I’ve always loved The Pink Panther theme, I’ve never featured it, so here’s the title sequence from the movie in memorial to the saxophonist who provided its slinky magic. The links above it were provided by T. Greg Doucette (x2), Jesse Walker, Mike Stabile, Nun Ya, Ryan Marino, and IncarcerNation, in that order.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- Cops are a menace to society.
- R.I.P. Plas Johnson and Freddy Cannon.
- Things sure have changed since my time.
- An example of what America really means.
- Another great moment in artificial stupidity.
- “Crime”: Broken taillight. Penalty: summary execution.
From the Archives
- Everyone abused by cops using this error-prone surveillance needs to sue.
- They make these cases sound like the rapist was doing his victims a favor.
- I was fated to be threatened with state violence regardless of career path.
- The problem isn’t religion; it’s teaching kids to blindly submit to authority.
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- These evil schemes need to be completely shut down as unconstitutional.
- The government thinks you shouldn’t be allowed any privacy whatsoever.
- Erosion of civil liberties starts with “undesirables”, but never stops there.
- The bipartisan war on the internet moves us inexorably toward idiocracy.
- To flush civil rights, just apply a label like “prostitute” or “gang member”.
- Texas stops judges overruling library censorship by eliminating libraries.
- What’s the connection between this guy & disgraced Chief James Burke?
- Politicians no longer care about whether their diktats are Constitutional.
- “Lewd and lascivious conduct” sounds nicer than “raping a 10-year-old”.
- Cops; Cat, I farted; Sinead O’Connor; SunRay Kelley; and much more.
- Blaming bad behavior on imaginary “addiction” ≠ taking responsibility.
- Give aggressive thugs power over kids; what could possibly go wrong?
- The State tortures thousands of people for crossing an imaginary line.
- Watching Tim Ballard’s reputation go down in flames is so very sweet.
- A little (fictionalized) taste of Grace’s personality and our chemistry.
- Why are people shocked when men paid to behave violently, do so?
- Low-population states cling desperately to “sex trafficking” myths.
- This will continue until the evil US immigration policy is reformed.
- Cops won’t drop this fantasy until “news” media stop parroting it.
- The latest in the case of the lunatic-infested Millersville cop shop.
- “Collective Shout” believes no women should have lucrative jobs.
- If you didn’t see this coming, you haven’t been paying attention.
- Forced-birth fanatics are now actively empowering abusive men.
- Retrospectives of my blogging from July 2013, 2014, and 2015.
- It’s too bad they don’t inflict all of their violence on each other.
- Calling “child protection” is merely a quieter form of “swatting”.
- Cops, The Onion, the Antichrist, John Mayall, and much more.
- It’s rare these days for a US court to uphold the Constitution.
- What really happens when a wannabe “pimp” abducts a girl.
- I’ve loved The Muppet Show since it first premiered in 1976.
- Some cops don’t limit themselves to one type of creepiness.
- He wasn’t a “former pastor” when he murdered a little girl.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Tom Lehrer, and much more.
- “Sexual offenses” sounds so much milder than “rape”.
- This situation is not going to get better on its own.
- This will continue until it is federally criminalized.
- Privacy as we once knew it is a thing of the past.
- Fascism in action, profiting from human misery.
- Oh look, sensible people were correct as usual.
- Trying to eliminate small but persistent leaks.
- Judge rules that a spade is actually a spade.
- My three previous columns for Lammas.
- One of the images of my childhood.
- At least this one confessed quickly.
- Just another Throwback Thursday.
- Another example of McNeill’s Law.
- Throwback Thursday and Son.
- The Bride of Fridaystein.
- Your “leaders” at work.
Links #838
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged acting, Argentina, cops, disease, genitalia, Idaho, Indiana, Never Call the Cops, New Jersey, politicians, STEM, teachers, vaccines, video on July 26, 2026| Leave a Comment »
You know what you have to do, carry on. – Leandro Andrés Bertazzo
This seemed to me the appropriate song for the passing of Orbison’s longtime songwriting partner. The links above it were provided by Desiree Alliance; Kevin Wilson; Jesse Walker; Dan Savage and Jesse again; IncarcerNation; Angela Keaton; and Ryan Marino, in that order.
- As one does.
- Quite an exit.
- Paging Dr. Frankenstein.
- R.I.P. Sam Neill and Joe Melson.
- What part of “never” is so hard to understand?
- It couldn’t have happened to a more deserving guy.
- Anti-vaxxers’ disregard for children’s lives is rarely so direct.
From the Archives
- I’m sure they occasionally yelled “Stop faking!” at him as he wasted away.
- On Beijing’s aggressive campaign to silence Chinese people outside China.
- Western countries have criminalized politically-unpopular fiction for years.
- Holding up little signs saying, “The house is on fire!” instead of fighting it.
- I’m sure other federal laws could be used vs other state prostitution laws.
- Fanatics claim their propaganda is unprovable ’cause they disseminate it.
- It does not help victims of State brutality to infantilize them as “children”.
- This will continue as long as fools teach children obedience to “authority”.
- As predicted, Amazon’s retreat from fascist collaboration was short-lived.
- The “TIP” crowbar has been largely disused since the first Trump regime.
- The return of a silly fantasy we haven’t seen much in the past few years.
- Keep plunging that ice pick in; the bad thoughts will go away eventually.
- “This bill is not about kids’ safety, because it will put their safety at risk”.
- QAnon cranks have made “sex trafficking” rhetoric unpalatable to most.
- The practice of banning mail & books from prisons needs to be banned.
- That anyone thinks this is OK shows censoriousness is a mental illness.
- Prohibition can never succeed, regardless of the substance prohibited.
- Several states choose to punish sex workers in this deranged fashion.
- New Jersey residents are compelled by law to surrender DNA to cops.
- Ballard’s increasingly-bizarre antics upset his partners in profiteering.
- “Sex trafficking” hysteria paved the way for anti-migrant pogroms.
- It’s heartening to see so many rescue industry profiteers exposed.
- Pornhub has repeatedly refused to spy on its users for the State.
- Everyone victimized by “child protection” agencies needs to sue.
- Another dodge to pretend a typical and representative cop isn’t.
- The first interesting development in this whole affair since ever.
- If only there were a concise term for “coerced women into sex”.
- Another troubled woman fakes an “abduction” to get attention.
- If you think this will go away when Trump does, you are a fool.
- I’m sure they yelled “Stop faking!” at her several times a day.
- Will this be another victory for US evangelical prohibitionists?
- Partisans deny this when it’s their side making “suggestions”.
- A sex-worker hating psychopath desperately craving power.
- Wave bye-bye to the last remaining shreds of your privacy.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Ozzy Osbourne, and much more.
- This isn’t a “shelter”, “housing”, or “school”; it is a prison.
- Gee, I wonder why violent men often target sex workers?
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- Ever year I honor St. Mary Magdalene on her feast day.
- Another bizarrely-anachronistic “sex trafficking” article.
- Cops are nothing more than state-sponsored terrorists.
- The last time we saw this lawsuit, the number was 95.
- It seems July is nearly always a busy month for me.
- CGI slop is another cause of the coming dark age.
- The urge to censor is a dangerous mental illness.
- Cops love awkward, overcomplicated language.
- Cops, Muppets, Bob Newhart, and much more.
- Cops, satire, animated sci-fi, and much more.
- “You know who doesn’t screen? Cops.“
- Blood for Throwback Thursday.
- Bikini Throwback Thursday.
- A Study in Emerald.
- A growing turkey.
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Links #836
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged acting, cops, disease, Mexico, Michigan, New Orleans, politicians, video, Washington DC on July 12, 2026| Leave a Comment »
She is not only vastly stupid, but also vastly lazy. – W.A. Mozart
There was no way I was going to feature anything by the Village People over one of my favorite songs (which I’ve somehow never featured), sung by Bonnie Tyler but written by the legendary Jim Steinman. The links above it were provided by T. Greg Doucette; Kevin Wilson; Mike Siegel; Jesse Walker; Dan Savage ; Radley Balko; and Mike Masnick, in that order.
- Metaphor alert.
- The new “Adolf”.
- Cops really hate being outdone.
- Seven lost Mozart compositions.
- R.I.P. Victor Willis and Bonnie Tyler.
- Cops are consistently a menace to society.
- There is still occasional good news, at least in STEM.
From the Archives
- There are a few judges willing to block “monkey see, monkey do” parades.
- Was this the person who sent me the proof of Ashley Madison’s con game?
- Crypto-moralists want people to fear even moderate alcohol consumption.
- I’m sure they helpfully yelled “Stop faking!” at him whenever he coughed.
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- Another of the people the government empowers to police your sexuality.
- While sex work is marginalized, sex workers will be targeted for violence.
- Politicians are avid devotees of cutting off their noses to spite their faces.
- If prohibitionists want to “rescue” whores, why shut us out of other jobs?
- It’s only been 4 years since the UK lost in court the last time it tried this.
- What so-called “AI” is actually best at is parting fools from their money.
- Mexican cops are more concerned about sex workers than US cops are.
- Erosion of civil liberties starts with “undesirables”; it never stops there.
- New tyrannies are often tested first on whores, but never stop with us.
- One of the people the government empowers to police your sexuality.
- What loser would pay to talk to computer programs posing as people?
- It’s not like 2011 is ancient history, or Florida far away from Georgia.
- Cops will continue to do this until there are criminal penalties for it.
- Politicians recognize bank blacklisting when it affects their cronies.
- Kansas courts aren’t allowing politicians to circumvent the voters.
- This surveillance is only “mandatory” for adults ignorant of VPNs.
- Cops, religion, Spencer Milligan, Shelley Duvall, and much more.
- An attempt to push back the swelling tide of adult infantilization.
- There is no part of this reeking pile of shit that fails to be stupid.
- Another attempt to use antique laws to ban abortion is foiled.
- My thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth anniversary columns.
- Naturally, because it’s cops’ job to cause harm, not reduce it.
- Cops, satire, Jim Shooter, Michael Madsen, and much more.
- There’s a reason I’ve repeatedly called this cult “dangerous”.
- Even the distancing “former” is the same as for rapist cops.
- Wave bye-bye to the last remaining shreds of your privacy.
- A society can be judged by the way it treats its prisoners.
- The first installment of my Throwback Thursday feature.
- Cops, crypto-moralism, Balkanization, and much more.
- Using crypto-moralism as an excuse to rob businesses.
- I was in this Hulu documentary about Ashley Madison.
- The only thing LLMs can actually process is language.
- Unfortunately, this is all we could expect right now.
- “YES, this really is a djinni who can grant wishes!”
- Another sign that the moral panic is largely over.
- Nosy authoritarians hoist with their own petard.
- There will never be another day like this again.
- Sleeping with cops isn’t safe for men, either.
- Words fail me in the face of such barbarity.
- When Jimmy Swaggart departed for Hell.
- A cop posing as a masseur is still a cop.
- How Cicero and Louie keep their cool.
- A shortcut to LLM-induced psychosis.
- This is a cop’s idea of “friendship”.
- Installing the atrium chimney.
- Throwback Thursday Girl.
- Far too little, far too late.
- The Curse of Fridaystein.
- My recipe for crumpets.
- Fascism in action.
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Links #835
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged acting, Aphrodite, archeofeminism, artificial stupidity, cops, Florida, Mississippi, psychology, robots, Texas, video, Washington (state) on July 6, 2026| Leave a Comment »
You owe me lunch. – “Officer” Caleb Pomazon
Today’s video was called to my attention by Jessica Crabbit on Whores’ Day, but this is the first time I’ve had space for it. The links above it were provided by Dan Savage, The Onion, Jesse Walker, Kevin Wilson, Phoenix Calida, Nun Ya, and IncarcerNation, in that order.
- R.I.P. Ann Blyth and Penelope Keith.
- Sometimes The Onion isn’t really satire.
- Zappa had the courage of his convictions.
- Another great moment in artificial stupidity.
- Why is this reporter fixated on the smoking?
- Just another cop demonstrating exactly what he is.
- Crime: shoplifting diapers. Penalty: summary execution of baby.
From the Archives
- Pregnant women & new mothers are uniquely vulnerable to state coercion.
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- How long will Western society allow cops to terrorize traumatized women?
- “Claiming age verification preserves online anonymity doesn’t make it so“.
- SCOTUS isn’t quite ready to allow full-on government censorship just yet.
- I’m fine with this as long as it’s only tech companies harming each other.
- Cop violence is never limited to members of the public, nor to male cops.
- Maine defines women as moral imbeciles, and men as our moral betters.
- It’s too bad most authoritarian diktats don’t blow up in politicians’ faces.
- Cop deals with problems as he was trained to, and everyone is shocked.
- “Rescue” profiteers demand government conjure “victims” from thin air.
- SCOTUS rules that the First Amendment does not apply on the internet.
- Contradictory laws are an inevitable result of rampant authoritarianism.
- The first prosocial application of facial recognition technology I’ve seen.
- Pretexts for this would not remain limited to “child porn” & “terrorism”.
- Microsoft makes censorship easier, when it should be making it harder.
- This is what Pride should be: a gigantic “fuck you” to authoritarianism.
- Cops will ignore the Constitution until doing so is actually criminalized.
- Schools could best help the US by actually teaching basic math again.
- The New Orleans city council rewards the NOPD for criminal behavior.
- One of those fools who thinks anything involving gadgets is laudable.
- Cops, pizza, Julian Sands, Sue Johanson,Alan Arkin, and much more.
- shitty laws were used against an actual violent criminal for a change.
- Societies’ tendency to self-lobotomize will probably never be solved.
- “Search” is the most common government euphemism for “molest”.
- He wasn’t a “former” cop when he repeatedly raped a teenage girl.
- There is no “intelligence” in an automated high-resolution scanner.
- Note that cases of actual coercion don’t look much like the myths.
- A short EN Brown piece on the legacy of the Assange persecution.
- This will continue until the evil US immigration policy is reformed.
- Retrospectives of my blogging from June 2013, 2014, and 2015.
- Cops still use laws overturned in 2003 to harass gay men today.
- Unfortunately, a new Chromebook means more enshittification.
- One reason I added on to my house was to host guests at will.
- Your “leaders” work hard to ensure this happens more often.
- Cops, insects, Gailard Sartain, Bill Moyers, and much more.
- Your “leaders” call this “correction”, but you don’t have to.
- Crypto-moralists believe anything people enjoy is “unsafe”.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Kinky Friedman, and much more.
- I’m happy to have been proven wrong about her chances.
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- Cops are not known for intelligence and good judgment.
- In surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- Another of the many reasons not to play with chatbots.
- Good grief, don’t volunteer to be around them either.
- It’s rare that a rapist cop stops at only a few victims.
- The headline writer omitted the word “temporarily”.
- My three previous columns for Independence Day.
- Oh look, another “youth pastor”, what a surprise.
- Anyone “shocked” by this must live in a cave.
- Nearing the end of my annex project.
- The Wedding of Throwback Thursday.
- Good riddance to bad rubbish.
- Expanding my chicken yard.
- The Return of Fridaystein.
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The World of Throwback Thursday
Posted in Biography, History, Miscellaneous, Music, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged activism, blogging, censorship, consensual crime, cops, fascism, games, holidays, law, lawheads, LGBT rights, politicians, psychology, universal criminality, weaponry on July 2, 2026| Leave a Comment »
I liked Pride so much better when it was one day celebrated by grass-roots organizations than a whole month ballyhooed by major corporations with rainbow-hued consumer goods, and with hypocritical expressions of solidarity from politicians and cops.
– “June is Tweeting Out All Over”
One…aspect of my neuroatypicality…[is] that…[I] spend [a lot of] time composing and performing a kind of music only I can hear.
– “The Music in the Numbers”
Unfortunately, societies’ tendency to self-lobotomize into stagnation and decay is something that will almost certainly never be solved.
– “The Eternal Frontier”
The only moral form of warfare is War of Assassins, in which the only combatants and the only legitimate targets are the rulers, their henchmen, and their agents. – “War of Assassins“
Links #834
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged acting, cops, disease, drugs, Georgia, lawyers, Michigan, Never Call the Cops, New York, prisons, The Punitive Mindset, video on June 28, 2026| Leave a Comment »
They were having a pancake and sushi luncheon.
I was not familiar with Ibrahim’s work, but I quite liked this piece Jesse Walker selected to accompany his obituary. The other links above the video were provided by IncarcerNation, Nun Ya, Mike Siegel, T. Greg Doucette, Radley Balko, Missy Mariposa, and IncarcerNation again, in that order.
- No, your reason is not an exception.
- Dr. Lilly never considered this possibility.
- R.I.P. Abdullah Ibrahim and Daveigh Chase.
- Cops are a menace to everyone in their vicinity.
- More cops demonstrating exactly what they are.
- Every once in a while, justice makes an appearance.
- Crime: suspected petty theft. Penalty: summary execution.
From the Archives
- Everyone who spread “sex trafficking” hysteria contributed to this tragedy.
- Vast sums of time, money & energy, flushed down the “culture war” toilet.
- Why do we need “permits” to exercise our speech rights in the first place?
- Both sides in the culture war have completely taken leave of their senses.
- Cops won’t drop this fantasy until “reporters” stop obediently parroting it.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Donald Sutherland, Martin Mull, and much more.
- “Inappropriate sexual behavior with a young lady” = “molesting a 12 YO”.
- Australia expands Drug War, feigns surprise at predictable consequences.
- The government thinks you shouldn’t be allowed any privacy whatsoever.
- How much will the ER cost when someone punches you for filming them?
- Keep plunging that ice pick in; the bad thoughts will go away eventually.
- These algorithms make those who use them as stupid as the algorithms.
- Cops aren’t the only violent trade whose members feel sexually entitled.
- To “admit” something is to confess to something true, not to a delusion.
- I doubt this is the kind of lawsuit Louisiana politicians wanted to attract.
- Cops simply ignore putative cop-control laws without criminal penalties.
- Canadian politicians ignore events in other parts of the Commonwealth.
- France’s lust to spy on citizens and censor the internet hits an obstacle.
- One who ruins lives over arbitrary diktats trips up over a similar diktat.
- Cops, fantasies, Sheldon Harnick, John Goodenough, and much more.
- This silly tale is more pathetic now that the trope has largely died off.
- This barbarity began using the excuse of “fighting human trafficking”.
- Kool-Aid drinking politicians refuse to believe their own experiences.
- Are there actually naifs who believe speed traps are about “safety”?
- This is too useful a tool of state control for the rulers to give it up.
- One of the most flagrant abusers of this unconstitutional practice.
- Corporations have become the favored tool of censors worldwide.
- It’ll take a lot more such rulings before this political fad is buried.
- Reporter tries to bury the lede; headline writer won’t participate.
- Uber already encourages its drivers to spy on riders for the pigs.
- Seems like a significant fraction of child porn is spread by cops.
- The claims in these nuisance lawsuits are increasingly absurd.
- Assange was freed as soon as it became politically expedient.
- When a woman dies by hanging, it’s nearly always a murder.
- Even cops are starting to admit Shotspotter is a boondoggle.
- Chinese rename other people’s villages against their wishes.
- Composing and performing a kind of music only I can hear.
- Don’t think this will only be used to persecute the “other”.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Dr. Demento, and much more.
- The dystopian future of Minority Report has arrived.
- The only moral form of warfare is War of Assassins.
- Just another kind of cop, with typical cop behavior.
- A curated selection of tweets from June 2024.
- Prohibitionism is a dangerous mental illness.
- Throwback Thursday’s Bloody Nightmare.
- The annex bathroom is almost finished.
- No shit. Sensible people did tell y’all.
- It wasn’t the best year for tomatoes.
- The tiniest pullet egg I’ve ever seen.
- Throwback Thursday’s Great Love.
- Working on Sunset’s outbuildings.
- Your “leaders” at work.
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There were two clients who basically were paying for ChatGPT…to argue against itself. – Rob Freund
My friend Chester Brown, the well-known comic book artist, plays Merlin in this video from Sook-Yin Lee‘s new album. The links above the video were provided by Jesse Walker and Dan Savage; IncarcerNation; The Onion; Mike Masnick; Ryan Marino; and IncarcerNation again (x2).
- R.I.P. Joe Negri and Gene Shalit.
- “Never” really does mean “never”.
- The best satire cleaves close to the truth.
- Another great moment in artificial stupidity.
- In which “nudged” is used to mean “violently rammed”.
- “Crime”: contempt of cop. Penalty: summary execution.
- Another triumph for the police suicide-assistance service.
From the Archives
- I was fated to be threatened with state violence regardless of career path.
- Civil liberties violations only start with targets of politicians’ demonization.
- No parody of puritanism could be as absurd as the current Florida reality.
- Too few states have held this, because the spying is convenient for cops.
- Another textbook example of McNeill’s Law, courtesy “Moms for Liberty”.
- Non-busybodies block Indiana’s “monkey see, monkey do” parade float.
- It’s too bad cops don’t spend all their time role-playing with each other.
- “Died after an altercation” is a sterile way to say “murdered by screws”.
- Are prosecutors going to retroactively label all cults as “sex trafficking”?
- If there’s a camera, cops will conscript it for use as a surveillance tool.
- They’re still not implicating cops we know were Heuermann’s buddies.
- Another cop stalks victims through the official cop grooming program.
- One of the people the government empowers to police your sexuality.
- Cops, undead, Sly Stone, James Lowe, Brian Wilson, and much more.
- Backpage was only the test case for this ethically-bankrupt strategy.
- The resources flushed down the “culture war” toilet are incalculable.
- McCarthy, Romita, Jackson, Ellsberg, Williams, Vaziri & much more.
- Sick men may respond violently when they can’t own sex workers.
- This pernicious abuse of power has become more common of late.
- Hanging a camera on an animal turns it into a surveillance drone.
- Dare I hope fewer journalists are willing to cover up cops’ crimes?
- If you didn’t see this coming, you haven’t been paying attention.
- Cops, elephants, artificial stupidity, Willie Mays, and much more.
- Unbalanced minds use external tools to amplify existing beliefs.
- WaPo has discovered what I’ve been writing about for 14 years.
- Elon Musk’s “DOGE” didn’t “fail”; it worked exactly as intended.
- Politicians will never stop until the open internet is destroyed.
- Your “leaders” work hard to ensure this happens more often.
- Florida censors have descended completely into self-parody.
- Most Americans still believe France is a sex-positive society.
- Ruling thus on standing doesn’t actually mean a great deal.
- Your “leaders” call this “correction”, but you don’t have to.
- You’d think “youth pastor” would be a big red flag by now.
- Any use of this error-prone surveillance system is misuse.
- Gaining a new, adult appreciation of childhood favorites.
- Curated selections of tweets from June 2023 and 2025.
- It’s getting harder to tell the preachers from the cops.
- Some people still claim we don’t live in a police state.
- Honoring what would’ve been Grace’s 67th birthday.
- My three previous columns for the summer solstice.
- This ongoing travesty has a complicated backstory.
- Just another kind of cop, with typical cop behavior.
- Anyone who trusts Zuckerberg is out of his mind.
- Religion is often used an excuse for molestation.
- Scream, Throwback Thursday, Scream.
- Why does anyone still trust Facebook?
- An unusually chilly spring at Sunset.
- Redoing the atrium ceiling lights.
- Another cop following his bliss.
- I’m pretty sure it’s the daisies.
- Why zombies?.
- Fridaystein.
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