Once the days get back to a bearable length and the evenings start to grow cool, my brain starts returning to its normal, non-agitated state pretty quickly. This isn’t to say that I am completely free of anxiety; given my nature and the fact that we live in an imperfect world full of troubles and problems, I doubt I’ll ever be completely free of that at any time before I cross the river. But I’m no longer in the agitated state of apparently-causeless anxiety which is my lot from at least the beginning of May until the end of August. I’ve slept better for the past week than I have since spring, and the cooler weather makes it much easier to relax once the sun goes down at something at least resembling a sensible hour. It’s still going to be a few more weeks before I’m fully centered again, but even movement in that direction is a blessed relief. And given that the rainy season is now only about a month off, I’m really looking forward to being able to stay dry when going to the shop or cottages, no matter how heavily it comes down.
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Last week I was involved in an online discussion about writing ability, and whether it is actually less common among people who majored in STEM fields vs those who majored in the humanities; I explained that, in my experience as a writer, editor, and former teacher and librarian, it isn’t common in either group, but is slightly less uncommon in the humanities. I used to edit technical papers as a side gig, and they were often so unintelligible I had to get on the phone to the author to ask what in God’s name he was trying to say.
Of course, the problem is a bit more complex than a simple “which group is better”; certain subgroups of humanities majors, most notably those in the “Ideological Studies” ghetto, are taught to write such convoluted, cumbersome gibberish that after graduation most of them can’t stop doing it even when explicitly told not to. I was once in a working group trying to draft a press release; despite everyone being told we wanted to keep the language concise, simple, and straightforward for the general public, the draft modifications one group came up with were absolutely larded with academic and identity-politics jargon. We had to ignore nearly all their contributions in the final draft because the additions, prevarications, disclaimers, lists, and semantically-empty garbage they wanted to insert would’ve tripled the length while crippling the meaning. It’s important to recognize that this was not truly their fault; for their entire academic careers these participants were repeatedly rewarded for crafting ugly, clunky, unreadable rubbish interchangeable with every other statement of its type, the literary equivalent of an East German institutional building. Writing ability develops with practice; unfortunately, many students of the past several decades have been taught practices that make their writing worse instead of better. So, I guess the best summary of the situation is: Most students start as bad writers. STEM students tend not to improve. Humanities majors in traditional fields usually improve at least some. And “ideological studies” majors improve at writing committee-approved ideological garbage. People learn what they’re taught. If they’re taught to write properly, they’ll learn that. If they’re taught to write improperly, they’ll learn that instead. And if they aren’t taught to write at all, they will learn whatever they are taught.
Posted in Miscellaneous, Words | Tagged language, psychology, STEM, teachers | 4 Comments »
Bud, it’s okay, you’re not in trouble. – murderer to his victim
The big news this week was of course the passing of Queen Elizabeth II; this selection seems the appropriate one for such an occasion. The links above it were contributed by Cop Crisis (x2), Amy Alkon, Tim Cushing, Clarissa, Radley Balko, and Elizabeth N. Brown, in that order.
- Stop faking!
- No, your reason isn’t an exception.
- Not one thing about this is accurate.
- Fairies wear boots and you gotta believe me.
- What “safety first” actually looks like in practice.
- In the US, arrest warrants are becoming execution warrants.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
From the Archives
- The rescue industry provides opportunities for the wealthy to play cowboy.
- Once a government takes more power, it never really relinquishes it again.
- This time Rolling Stone wasn’t alone in gulping down a load of codswallop.
- Opportunists will continue to harass businesses until FOSTA is overturned.
- Prohibition turns bodies into “crime scenes” which cops can violate at will.
- Crypto-moralists always claim the lust to ban is about “health” or “safety”.
- The reek from the dying rescue industry is now wafting over from Europe.
- “Courts let prosecutors punish teens for things others have done to them.“
- When hiding migration control behind “trafficking” is especially apparent.
- By this standard, Johnny Cash is lucky he was never accused of murder.
- Is it just me, or does this sound like an attempt at reverse psychology?
- Vultures will continue to harass businesses until FOSTA is overturned.
- Swedish model regimes would’ve targeted the victim for surveillance.
- The State has changed the excuse from “morality” to “animal abuse”.
- A good argument for refusing to roll over and let yourself be robbed.
- Maltese prohibitionists are strikingly loony, even for prohibitionists.
- The 1st amendment isn’t subject to veto by slacktivist busybodies.
- Expect the equation of human sexuality with pollution to increase.
- The dawn of a nightmarishly-dystopian surveil-and-snitch state.
- People like this are the norm in policing sex, and always will be.
- Cops, goats, the Moon, time mismanagement, and much more.
- Cops, whales, words, waffles, Terrance Dicks, and much more.
- I’ve never seen such an absurdly specific nutritionist claim.
- Preparing the house roof to support the bathhouse roof.
- Unsurprising for entities in the disinformation business.
- It’s nearly always cooler at Sunset than it is in Seattle.
- A typical and representative “law enforcement hero”.
- Gee, I wonder why this happens so often in Ireland?
- Cops, headlines, psychopathy, and much more.
- The last special edition Ladies of the Night.
- The FOSTA challenge is proceeding again.
- Is professional BDSM legal in New York?
- Another cop demonstrating what he is.
- Amber DiPietra on the DASANetwork.
- I only hope this turns out to be true.
- “Youth pastors” are as bad as cops.
- A trial run of my semi-retirement.
- My new books in my own store.
- My first batch of jam in years.
- Skirting around the cottages.
- Sex workers need your help.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- Undermining consent.
- A week full of parties.
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny | Tagged California, cops, Ireland, lawheads, Nevada, Never Call the Cops, politicians, pregnancy, Stop faking!, Things We Choose To Do Together, United Kingdom, video, Virginia, West Virginia | Leave a Comment »
It doesn’t sound as though the case was going very well for the government so far. – Judge William Fletcher
It’s getting harder to tell the preachers from the cops:
A former [pastor and] teacher at a [Pennsylvania] evangelical school was convicted [on August 31st] of sexually assaulting a first grader there in 2007. Randy Lee Boston…denied the allegations, [claim]ing…that he had barely any interaction with the alleged victim while he was enrolled at the school. But in an interview with police, a recording of which was played in court, Boston admitted to having sexual desires “connected to young boys” and being attracted to their bodies…
Wells Fargo has repeatedly shown itself to be among the worst perpetrators of this abuse:
Sex workers…are reporting that the bank Wells Fargo has sent them notices terminating their accounts effective immediately, in what they see as an extension of the crackdown measures banks and other large institutions have been implementing over the past few years. In the letters, which are dated August 25…Wells Fargo offers zero explanation for the decision…Alana Evans, the president of the Adult Performance Artists’ Guild (APAG), says that she has been a client with Wells Fargo in good standing for nearly 30 years…Spike Irons and Sofie Marie, who run…a porn production company…primarily use[d] the[ir now-closed] account to pay out independent contractors…They have since applied to two other banks and been rejected…Former adult performer Raylene has been out of the industry for a decade, and says she’s had her Wells Fargo account for 22 years. She, too, received the same notice…despite the only adult industry-related payment on her account being residuals from a lifetime contract with Streammate…In 2014, JP Morgan Chase closed down many adult performers’ accounts without providing any explanation…
Legalese for “get out of my courtroom, you opportunist”:
A federal judge…dismissed a lawsuit filed by a man who, as a baby, had graced the cover of Nirvana’s seminal album, Nevermind, and argued 30 years later that the iconic photo of him drifting naked in a pool had been a form of sexual exploitation…Spencer Elden…[even] accused Nirvana…of engaging in child pornography…The judge, Fernando M. Olguin, wrote in his eight-page ruling that because Mr. Elden had learned about the album cover more than 10 years ago, he had waited too long to file his lawsuit, making his claims untimely…
The government’s evil clown show continues in a new ring:
Oral arguments in the Lacey/Larkin appeal took place Sept. 2 before a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit, where the defense presented a forceful case that the government didn’t deserve a retrial…[one] issue was the testimony of California cop Brian Fichtner during last year’s…mistrial due to prosecutorial misconduct…the government…repeatedly mentioned or elicited testimony related to sex trafficking or child sex trafficking, though Lacey, Larkin, et al. are not charged with such…[prosecution witness] Fichtner, who investigated Backpage previously for then-Cali AG Kamala Harris’ failed 2016 prosecution of Lacey and Larkin, was…eviscerated on cross-examination by the defense and forced to admit that the content of the ads on Backpage was legal and on its own did not give law enforcement probable cause to arrest anyone for prostitution…this point…is important because the appellate court must find that the government had a reason to sabotage its own case for the U.S. Constitution’s prohibition on double jeopardy to kick in…the prosecution faced certain defeat, and so chose to throw the case, and retool its strategy for a retrial…
A Woman’s Point of View (#1201)
Another Vermont city achieves de facto decriminalization:
Montpelier has become the second city in Vermont to repeal its antiquated prostitution ordinance in the past year…most municipalities in Vermont do not have ordinances banning prostitution [so]…repealing the language…bring[s] Montpelier in line with the rest of the state. Though bills proposing to decriminalize prostitution were introduced during the past two legislative sessions, they did not advance and prostitution remains criminalized at the state level…
How long will America ignore the costs of its sick worship of state-sanctioned violence?
California…[cops murder]ed nearly 1,000 people in six years…[despite] recent legislative attempts to curtail police violence by toughening the rules of engagement for officers, requiring deescalation training and bringing in outside investigators when unarmed civilians are killed [but not actually holding the murderers responsible as ifthey were non-cops]…For the sixth straight year, Los Angeles County was the setting for the largest number (172) and highest rate (27.4 incidents per 100,000 residents) of [police violence too serious to ignore] in the state last year…
Modern fascism has spun a terrifyingly-extensive surveillance net:
[Cop shop]s from suburban Southern California to rural North Carolina have been using an obscure cellphone tracking tool, [usually] without search warrants, that gives them the power to follow people’s movements months back in time…[cops] have used “Fog Reveal” to search hundreds of billions of records from 250 million mobile devices, and harnessed the data to create location analyses known among [pigs] as “patterns of life”…The tool is rarely, if ever, mentioned in court records, something that defense attorneys say makes it harder for them to properly defend their clients in cases in which the technology was used. The company was developed by two former high-ranking Department of Homeland Security officials under former President George W. Bush. It relies on advertising identification numbers…culled from popular cellphone apps such as Waze, Starbucks and hundreds of others that target ads based on a person’s movements and interests…that information is then sold to companies like Fog…
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, Music, News, Tyranny | Tagged A Woman's Point of View, Backpage, California, cell phones, censorship, Choke Point, cops, Dangerous Speech, fascism, I Spy, If Men Were Angels, law, Pennsylvania, rape, See No Evil, sex rays, surveillance, The Cop Myth, Vermont | Leave a Comment »
Of all construction tasks, I hate painting the most. It’s messy, it’s expensive, I’m not good at it, and it takes a lot more patience that I have to do it properly. I even hate it more than I hate working on rooves, which is saying something because, as you know if you’ve been following this saga, I really hate working on rooves. So you can probably imagine that painting rooves is just about the peak of odious tasks for me. But the steel rafters and purlins had to be protected from rust, and nobody thought of painting the damned things before they were used for construction, so that meant painting them in place. After thinking about it for a while I decided to use spray paint for most of the job; though it’s more expensive in the long run, it was easier to do from the tops of ladders, especially for the steel over the hot tub where there’s no easy way to place a ladder. The spray paint was also quicker and allowed me to get some hard-to-reach parts from a short distance away; since most of the area will be decorated with hanging fabric, the paint job didn’t need to be more than a primary coat to protect the steel and reduce the color contrast. The only exception is the bathroom area (to the right of the picture), so I had to use regular paint in that part (and it’ll require another coat later); there are also a few parts that will be painted a copper color because they’ll remain visible (such as the post and crossbar at the center of this shot). It took 12 cans of spray paint to do the area shown here plus most of the apex beam; another 6 cans took care of most of the east end. There’s still a little to do, about 3 more cans I think, but I’m putting it off until next week or so, because did I tell you I hate painting? Even with a protective mask I manage to inhale the stuff, and I got so much overspray around my eyes Grace said I looked like a photographic negative of a panda. I had to scrub my skin red to get it all off, and I was still finding little spots in strange places, including some I know were covered by clothes, for over a week.
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Millennials who are very cavalier about not having children are in for a shock when they enter their 40s & realize life is only half over. What do you do at that point? Keep trying to be sexy & have fun? I expect to see a lot of sadness & confusion about what to do at that point.
— Shane Morris (@GShaneMorris) August 23, 2022
Why are people who chose 20th-century-style US nuclear families (which aren’t the same as traditional extended families by a long shot) so very certain that other lifestyles lose meaning after 40? I am in my late 50s and still have so many things to do I will never get to them all before I cross the river. Lest some of you claim I’m an anomaly: most of my friends are age-peers or thereabouts, many are childless by choice, and I don’t see any meaningful difference in life-satisfaction levels between those who have kids and those who don’t. Honestly, these people remind me of the dudes who believe that 30 is a “wall” after which women instantly lose all sexual attractiveness. And frankly, both types seem like they’re trying to convince themselves that their preferences are the only “correct” ones. Furthermore, even if you’re a person who hates living alone, it’s possible to form partner bonds with people you’re not boinking, and if you really feel the need to care for some else who needs the help, you could choose to commit to caring for a dependent parent or other relative, or a friend who isn’t biologically related. There’s nothing wrong with choosing to have kids, if you feel you want to. But if you have them as a kind of insurance policy against boredom in later adulthood, you’re having them for the wrong (and very selfish) reasons.
Posted in Perception, Philosophy | Tagged ethics, psychology | 3 Comments »
Senator Klobuchar…is deliberately seeking to destroy [the internet]. – Mike Masnick
No woman is safe from predatory cops:
A Prairie Village [Kansas cop] was allowed to stay on the job for 19 months after department officials were alerted that he had [pressur]ed a woman for sex after arresting her…Attorney Brandan Davies said he reported to Prairie Village police in March 2020 that…Rolando Swaby had arrested his client in a DUI case and later sent text messages asking her to meet him at a hotel for drinks and sex ahead of a court hearing in her case…Davies…thought the [cop] would be fired…[but he] was allowed to remain on the force for more than a year and a half until he was investigated in an unrelated domestic violence case in October 2021. He later resigned and lost his Kansas police license…
…a law…[pushed by] Senator Amy Klobuchar and Rep. David Cicilline…[is another] link tax bill, similar to the one written in Australia to appease (and enrich) Rupert Murdoch. It basically says that publishers can band together, with an antitrust exemption, to demand fees from bigger, more successful internet companies…Klobuchar…is [known for]…pushing bills that fundamentally break the internet…[and her] new version of the JCPA…[does so doubly by] only appl[ying] to smaller news orgs — those with under 1,500 employees …We’re at a time when hedge funds — most notably Alden Capital — have been buying up newspapers and laying off tons of people while trying to squeeze cash out of the remaining husks. And, this bill basically says “buy up large newspapers and cut them to under 1,500 employees”…here’s Amy Klobuchar saying…“you get free money just as long as you fire enough people first“…But, the much bigger problem is that the bill is trying to break the internet…[by] allow[ing] news orgs to…force internet companies…to pay the journalism organizations for…sending them traffic…This is ludicrous. News orgs beg these sites for traffic. They hire SEO people to try to get more traffic. Now they’re also getting to FORCE the internet companies to PAY them for that traffic too?…
A North Carolina [screw]…was fired and arrested for [rap]ing [female prisoners]…Khalim Jovan Battle…[raped at least] two [women powerless to defend themselves from him]. He…anally [raped]…one [and]…oral[ly raped both]…
…California’s AB 2273, the “Age Appropriate Design Code” bill that the California legislature seems eager to pass…seemed to be getting very little attention, but after a few [Techdirt] posts started to go viral, the backers of the bill ramped up their smear campaigns and lies…and…the “Age Verification Providers Association” decided to show up in the comments to defend themselves and insist that their members can do age verification in a privacy-protective manner. You just have to let them scan your face with facial recognition technology… they insist it’s not “facial recognition” software because it’s not matching you up to a database of your identity…it’s just using “AI” to
guessestimate your age. What could possibly go wrong? But, more to the point, they’re basically saying “don’t worry, you’ll just need to scan your face or ID for every website your visit.” Normalizing facial scans…seems pretty dystopian, frankly…
The [obscenity] trial in Virginia Beach, Virginia…of…two books has ended in dismissal. Neither Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe nor A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas meet the legal definition of obscenity…Two lawsuits…sought to get both books not only removed from schools and libraries, but removed from private sale through bookstores across the state…Th[is] outcome…will help in setting a standard…that books like these…do not meet the legal definition of obscenity [regardless of what pro-censorship fanatics may claim]…
Unsafe for Human Consumption (#1262)
Fentanyl is being inserted into every popular scare myth:
The…DEA…[is fantasizing about] an “alarming” trend of brightly-colored fentanyl made to look like candy that is being used to attract children…The agency [claims collaborator pigs, in other words the same people who fantasize that casual contact with fentanyl produces instant overdose that exactly mimics the symptoms of a panic attack,] began s[teal]ing brightly colored “rainbow fentanyl” [from its owners last] month…in 18 states so far…“Rainbow fentanyl — fentanyl pills and powder that come in a variety of bright colors, shapes, and sizes — is a deliberate effort by drug traffickers to drive addiction amongst [people who cannot pay for the product, because they’re EEEEEEEEEEVUL!]” DEA Administrator Anne Milgram [bloviated]…
This is, of course, the same old nonsense cops vomit out in the approach to Halloween every year, only with “fentanyl” inserted in place of “marijuana” or other drugs, Mad Libs style.
Given that we’ve also recently seen fentanyl being inserted in place of magic “sex trafficking” drugs in social media scary tales, I’d say it’s safe to declare that fentanyl is now the subject of its own moral panic.
“Having inappropriate contact with a minor” is such a nice way of saying “molesting a kid”:
An arrest warrant has been issued for a Denham Springs [cop who molested]…a minor…Joseph Reid Copeland…is believed [to have fled]…the…area…
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The weather this year was very weird. First the winter weather lasted five months, all the way through May, then spring went by all too quickly before we went into an unusually-hot, unusually-dry summer. Of course, since I live near a rain forest, “unusually dry” for us is still nothing like a drought. However, it played hob with our fruit; as of this writing the few apples I’m seeing on the trees are still quite green, and I haven’t seen any plums at all. The blackberries were the only exception; they fruited well, though most of the berries were too small to use. Still, I easily got a basketfull, and on Sunday I made a blackberry pie. The same day I also noticed that the vines in the lane bore much more heavily and with much larger, nicer fruit, so I picked a bunch more yesterday. I’m not sure I’ll have enough for jam, but if I don’t I can still make blackberry muffins or another pie, and have the leftovers for dessert with cream and sugar.
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Every member of a sexual minority with half a brain already knows that people tend to lie about their beliefs and opinions in order to go along with the crowd; it’s why so many politicians publicly persecute sexual behavior (including paying sex workers, having sex with other men, and watching porn) that they themselves indulge in. The behavior is so typical, in fact, that I’ve formulated what I call McNeill’s Law: “The more any man crusades against a particular sex act, the more likely he is to be a practitioner.” This is why polls and surveys of sexual behavior and attitudes, including the much-vaunted General Social Survey, are so notoriously unreliable:
…as I’ve written on multiple occasions, the GSS is conducted face to face and is a terrible source for any sexual data (such as “have you ever paid for sex?“) because people simply lie about sexual questions. These surveys don’t find anything about what people are actually doing sexually; what they measure is people’s relative comfort with the question, which is a horse of a different color…
So this recent article in Reason didn’t surprise me in the slightest:
…”Social pressure to have the ‘right’ opinion is pervasive in America today,” notes Populace, a social-research organization, in a report published this summer. “In recent years, polls have consistently found that most Americans, across all demographics, feel they cannot share their honest opinions in public for fear of offending others or incurring retribution…One important, but underappreciated, consequence of a culture of censorship is that it can lead individuals not only to self-silence, but also publicly misrepresent their own private views (what scholars call preference falsification)”…
A few examples from the article:
…Whereas 59 percent of Americans publicly agree that wearing a mask was an effective way to stop the spread of COVID-19, only 47 percent privately hold that view…
…74 percent…privately think parents should have more influence over public school curriculums, but only 48 percent are willing to say so publicly…while in public a majority (60 percent) say discussing gender identity in public schools is inappropriate for young children (K-3), in private this is not the majority view (only 40 percent privately agree)…
…44 percent of Democrats publicly insist corporate CEOs should take stands on controversial issues, but only 11 percent believe that in private…
…In public, 39 percent of Asian-Americans say the U.S. should completely phase out use of fossil fuels, but only 13 percent privately agree…
…A 64 percent majority of Republicans publicly favored overturning Roe v. Wade, but only 51 percent agree in private…
…A 61 percent majority of political independents publicly say that whether someone is a man or woman is determined by their sex at birth, but 45 percent really believe that…
…42 percent of those 18-29 years old privately believe racism is built into the economy, government, and educational system, although 65 percent say that in public…
In sometimes contradictory ways, Americans are misrepresenting what they actually believe to endorse views they don’t really hold…
I don’t really have a concluding statement on this, because it simply provides supporting evidence for something I’ve always assumed. Except maybe, “Most people are moral cowards; proceed accordingly.”
Posted in Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny | Tagged bogus studies, Buried Truth, censorship, McNeill's Law, psychology | 3 Comments »
I won’t help you until you help yourself. – jail “nurse”
Regular readers know how I feel about abuse of words, especially by government, so this video (called to my attention by Elizabeth N. Brown) really spoke to me. The links above it were provided by Mike Siegel, Kevin Wilson, Scott Greenfield, Jesse Walker, and Cop Crisis (x3), in that order.
- R.I.P. Mikhail Gorbachev.
- Punctuation isn’t optional.
- Just protecting and serving.
- The tragic backstory of Skippy peanut butter.
- Laws are only for the peasantry, not the rulers.
- “Crime”: getting drunk. Penalty: permanent paralysis.
- Nothing is too trivial to serve as an excuse for police violence.
From the Archives
- Easiest way to increase “sex trafficking” stats: invent imaginary “victims”.
- This isn’t nearly enough, unless it’s drawn from the screws’ pension fund.
- Trumpists & anti-Trumpists fight to control the “sex trafficking” narrative.
- Even more worthless than NPR’s usual bluenosed imitation of journalism.
- “Progressives” finally deign to notice discrimination vs some sexworkers.
- I have no sympathy for members of the dangerous “porn addiction” cult.
- Evangelicals get their just desserts for embracing “sex trafficking” myth.
- Once in a while, there are witnesses to the way cops act toward women.
- Cops, karma, dead artists, extra-stupid megalomania, and much more.
- Will this make it harder for cops to molest kids by calling it a “search”?
- Polaris forced to debunk some of the hysteria it has peddled for years.
- Cops don’t care how many lives they destroy with their sick fantasies.
- Fascism is rapidly making private communications a thing of the past.
- Moral panics never end until they start harming unintended targets.
- Celebrities cosplaying as sex workers apparently won’t fight stigma.
- “Search” is the most common government euphemism for “molest”.
- Cops, horror, stupidity, Douglas Adams, recursion, and much more.
- Reporters, please learn the difference between “size” and “length”.
- Cops, copyright, irony, Ed Asner, Charlie Watts, and much more.
- “The sex worker rights movement is getting too loud to ignore.“
- Lacey & Larkin remind you of what their trial is actually about.
- Dumb “anti-trafficking” stunts are now mostly ads for sports.
- What the world looks like when viewed with racing thoughts.
- Any internet-connected device can be used to spy on you.
- What “legal but heavily regulated” looks like in action.
- Why are so many “celebrities” such hypocritical trash?
- The annoyingly-slow progress on our bathhouse roof.
- Matthew 21:31 seems pretty straightforward to me.
- Moral panics really spin out of control as they age.
- A retrospective of my blogging from August 2011.
- “We’re not trying to argue morality, but reality.“
- Cops even get their equipment to lie for them.
- How do escorts decide how much to charge?
- “I love you and you are important to me.”
- The “inspiring work of Dan Satterberg”.
- My own favorites of my own stories.
- “Any drug can be used responsibly.“
- This is getting sweeter by the day.
- Straight from the horse’s mouth.
- Progress on projects at Sunset.
- Wiring my guest cottages.
- My second guest cottage.
- Remember this scandal?
- Rapist cop of the week.
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