When I was a wee lass, I tried never to miss the Sunday Morning Movie, a local TV institution for many years which generally featured old monster movies. It was the venue in which I first saw the Godzilla movies, It Came from Outer Space, and many others, including this one, which was among my favorites as a child. Looking back on it now, I think what drew me to it most was Ross Martin’s sympathetic and touching portrayal of the brilliant humanitarian who becomes a monster; I’ve always thought Martin was very underrated as an actor, and while looking at his IMDb page recently (while we were watching The Wild, Wild West), I saw this flick listed and realized that he was the actor whose performance had so appealed to me in childhood. So I added it to my Amazon wishlist, and a reader sent it to me last week; I’m keen to watch it again not for the rather melodramatic Frankenstein-derived plot, but to watch Martin’s performance again through adult eyes. And, truth be told, because I’m really very sentimental and it’ll be fun to revisit a slice of those long-gone days.
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As I wrote last year on this day, the time has come for me to stop writing new essays for this and the other days on which I have in the past published polemics, because “The wheel turns inexorably, and all there is to say about it has already been said countless times; there is, I think, little point in saying it again“… Last year, I observed each of those occasions with links to all the previous examples, so that the interested reader can more easily explore them. Though some may contain details to events which are no longer current, I think you’ll still find most of them worth your while if you’ve never read them, or even if you have.
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This is how you guys get killed. – Florida cop (identity hidden by the State)
We’ve been rewatching the Looney Tunes lately, as you may have guessed from my musical selection of three weeks back. This is another one referenced in a number of ’40s cartoons, especially by Bugs Bunny (“My mama done told me/A buzzard is two-faced…”) and Daffy Duck. It later became a blues standard (the gender is easily reversed), but here’s Cab Calloway’s version. The links above it were provided by Radley Balko, Jesse Walker, Rose Alliance, Cop Crisis, Mistress Matisse, and Cop Crisis again, in that order.
- I hear dead people.
- Has any “futurist” ever been right?
- An academic study of virtue-signaling.
- They really can’t hear themselves at all.
- Another cop demostrates exactly what he is.
- Cops beat, abduct man for not being someone else.
From the Archives
- Most porn performers have to supplement film income with outside work.
- To the state, false face scanning positives aren’t a bug; they’re a feature.
- Yet another rescue industry “hero” is revealed as an opportunistic fraud.
- Removing excuses cops use to persecute people is always a good thing.
- Cops arbitrarily group unrelated arrests & call it a “sex trafficking sting”.
- Is there any non-troglodyte who still denies police violence is epidemic?
- FOSTA just keeps splashing egg all over the feds’ stupid, violent faces.
- “They told me to say negative things so there would be more funding.“
- Why are most people surprised to find out that cops are habitual liars?
- If only there were a concise word for smuggling humans to sell them.
- How many mass graves before people stop believing religion is good?
- Some conservatives are starting to see the danger of police violence.
- They’ve discovered their moral compasses at least 20 years too late.
- The ACLU has finally noticed financial discrimination vs sex workers.
- It only took the courts five years to recognize the obvious this time.
- Even if this wasn’t a commercial transaction, it’s certainly adjacent.
- Another study proves what sex workers have been saying all along.
- The US government is now claiming sex workers are actually spies.
- The “missing” children were actually abducted by the government.
- “Don’t write off horrors just because The Other Side started them.“
- They won’t stop until privacy of any kind is absolutely impossible.
- Even the government itself recognizes what a disaster FOSTA is.
- Cops, politicians, wasps, Oreos, mystery sodas and much more.
- These charges followed the accusations by almost three years.
- A resurgence of the 20th-century “whore as criminal” myth.
- Anything can be “trafficking” if you use your imagination.
- A few statistics to further dispel the myth of heroic cops.
- Cops, heat, appliances, John McAfee, and much more.
- How copyright has been warped into a fascist scam.
- The ugliest part of a peak moral panic: lynch mobs.
- In a good headspace despite far too much sunlight.
- A politician claims that spying isn’t actually spying.
- My two previous columns for Independence Day.
- A retrospective of my blogging from June 2011.
- Queer bigots are the most revolting bigots.
- The construction of my first guest cottage.
- Still another abomination from Alabama.
- I’m pretty tired of climbing on rooves.
- A tiny visitor to the construction site.
- Cops, jazz, and much more.
- Another bunch of tweets.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- The arrival of Cicero.
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Respecting private property means government has to pay for the property it destroys. – Scott Bullock
There are many ways for governments to steal things that don’t belong to them:
…a federal jury ruled that Vicki Baker is entitled to $59,656.59 in damages after a SWAT team [wantonly] destroyed her McKinney, Texas, home while pursuing a fleeing fugitive in July 2020…the Institute for Justice…file[d] a lawsuit [on her behalf] in March 2021, after the city refused to pay for the damage that had been caused…U.S. District Court Judge Amos Mazzant III ruled that the destruction of Vicki’s home was a “taking” that required the city to pay just compensation. On April 29, Judge Mazzant rejected the city of McKinney’s argument that police…should be categorically exempt from [any consequences] for [their actions, no matter how callous and idiotic]…Because “the destruction to Baker’s home was intentional and foreseeable,” compensation was required, he ruled…
Civil rights advocates often joke that the Third Amendment is the only one that hasn’t been undermined, but I fail to see any important difference between the government forcibly taking people’s homes to quarter troops and forcibly taking them to enable cops and robbers games.
Authoritarians just love their wanking fantasies of mind-reading machines:
A Chinese research team claims to have created a “mind-reading device” that detects “porn watching,” which could be used by police to enforce the country’s strict laws against sexual expression…[Naturally the inventors used buzzwords such as] “AI”…an[d puritanisms such as]…”indecent image”…to [hawk their bogus] “porn police helmet that can read people’s minds to detect pornography”…
No woman is safe from predatory cops:
A [sleazy] cop is out of a job after he admitted to using [a sleazy cop surveillance database] to look up personal information about a woman he [found on] OnlyFans…Kevin Bohn, a member of the Cinnaminson police department, used a restricted law enforcement database to find information about the woman and her family…[the]n tried to hide his actions by creating incident numbers for his inquiries and then closing out the cases…
Prohibitionists’ real goal is to completely ban online sex work:
The federal government of Nigeria, the largest economy in Africa, has ordered all open-access online platforms to “remove, disable or block access” to all “pornographic” content…Gay content is already illegal in Nigeria, as is any form of private gay sexuality. According to reports, the country ranks second worldwide on searches for “gay porn”. The order was made public [on June 14th], with all platforms available in the nation of 216 million given only 24 hours to comply. It is unclear what the reach and success of the measure has been in practice, especially considering the easy availability of VPN programs to change an individual IP address location…
So many rapist cops, so many underage victims:
A [typical and representative Florida cop] has been sentenced to [a mere] six years in state prison for [repeatedly molesting] a [teenager]…William Arnold Jr…pleaded no contest to…sexual battery…[in exchange for more serious] charges [being] dropped as part of a plea deal…he will [also] face 9 years of probation with electronic monitoring and a lifetime of registering as a sex offender upon his release. The victim…was 14 [when Arnold started molesting her]…
No public library is safe from censorship, because they’re controlled by politicians:
…Trustees of the Smithtown Library Board on Long Island voted to remove signs for Pride and any LGBTQ+-related books from children’s sections [last week]…Books related to sexual orientation and gender identity will indefinitely be removed from children’s areas—regardless of the literature’s targeted audience—and put elsewhere…board trustee Marie Gergenti proposed the [censorship] to [give a heckler’s veto to unnamed parties she claimed to have]…receiv[ed] complaints [from, but]…New Yorkers both inside and outside the Smithtown-area[, especially politicians who saw an opportunity for vote-getting virtue-signaling,] rushed to social media to blast the board’s decision…The New York Library Association reaffirmed its “commitment to intellectual freedom,” and condemned the move…
The clamor immediately caused the board to reverse its ill-considered move.
…By the early 1970s, nearly 20 states prohibited publishing or advertising information about abortion…The U.S. Supreme Court would go on to declare such bans unconstitutional, in the 1975 case Virginia vs. Bigelow. But…[with] Roe v. Wade…overturned, it’s all but assured that battles over…abortion information will begin again…senators have exerted pressure on Google to limit certain sorts of results…How long until we see [thm] pressured to block ads for abortion pills or information on methods to self-induce abortions? We’re also likely to see abortion added to the list of things used to justify broader crackdowns on free speech, in the way that things like sex work, disinformation, and domestic extremism [are] used today. The ability to communicate privately about…abortions could be used as another argument against encrypted communication. And it shouldn’t be long until we hear about how Section 230…should be reformed since it protects Big Tech from being held liable for user posts about how to obtain an abortion…risk-averse companies may be quick to censor a wide range of content related to abortion, even if that content would ultimately prove protected…
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I didn’t hate the top of the wellhouse as much as I hated that nasty old awning, but my tolerance for it waned with time. Still, I was stuck with it until we got a roof over the whole atrium, because the breaker panel, wifi repeater, and other things in there need protection from rain. Well, now we have a roof over the atrium, so I got rid of the nasty thing as soon as I could! In fact, on the day I was tearing it off, it rained cats and dogs all afternoon, yet I stayed nice and dry as I worked. It was very, very satisfying, let me tell you, and more than a little validating. As you can see, I replaced the peaked outdoor roof with a flat plywood surface; at present it’s good as a work table, and later we’ll put an attractive top on it and use it for a bar.
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The same psychological mechanism which causes us to find pictures in Rorschach’s inkblots also causes us to fit memories into the complex web of schemata by which we interpret the world. – “Imagination Pinned Down”
- How Jezebel and other social constructionists give feminism a bad name.
- Zimbabwe’s quest to cut off its collective nose to spite its collective face.
- Another man convicted of “child porn” for pics of his legal-age girlfriend.
- Journalists don’t learn truth about sex work because they don’t want to.
- Japanese cops are adopting American-style prudishness and repression.
- Young sex workers vs. system which treats them as infantilized victims.
- Forced feminization of little boys isn’t enough for Swedish neofeminists.
- William Shatner gets it, even if the former mayor of Ilfracombe doesn’t.
- An African country whose anti-whore rhetoric resembles that of the US.
- Attempt to fast-track Swedish Model legislation in Scotland is defeated.
- How do I help an Asian working girl whom I suspect may be trafficked?
- Thai sex workers ask prime minister to stop licking Uncle Sam’s boots.
- “If you dare to disagree with me again, I’m going to stop reading you.”
- Swedish housewife sets up a BDSM dungeon in an abandoned bunker.
- Irish police raid homes looking mostly for people who don’t live there.
- This won’t stop until we stop giving cops so much power over people.
- Even some male scientists believe in the “sex loosens vaginas” myth.
- Sex rays can flow through computers or become embedded in paper.
- An old prohibitionist trick in a new guise: activism via sock puppetry.
- You’ll recognize the rhetoric in this 1985 Satanic Panic documentary.
- Transgender hookers charged as clients for “end demand” purposes.
- Swedish Model proponents try to hijack the term “decriminalization”.
- UK organization fights for the sexual rights of the mentally disabled.
- Prohibitionists try to stop sex worker rights advocates with violence.
- Dutch police and politicians keep beating the “sex trafficking” drum.
- Debunking the myths of the “gypsy whore” and “Asian slave-whore”.
- Article sympathizes with serial killer, ignores his sex-worker victims.
- Another advantage to decriminalization: access to the legal system.
- How does one handle group sex with several men and one woman?
- How the FBI manufactures “pimps” to fit the “trafficking” narrative.
- Two trials of men who raped whores, with two different outcomes.
- Irish Police are forced to admit that prohibitionists are full of crap.
- A helpful guide to not getting your comments posted on this blog.
- Yet another maniac chooses his victims from among sex workers.
- How can a sex worker be “out” without compromising her future?
- Parents angry that sex education teacher answers sex questions.
- How to increase “trafficking” by inventing imaginary “traffickers”.
- How does one tell professionalism from actual romantic interest?
- From Australia, examples of why legalization isn’t good enough.
- Sex businesses counterattack prohibitionists with civil litigation.
- Another gang leader sentenced on “human trafficking” charges.
- Octomom backs out of a lucrative contract due to hurt feelings.
- The more laws a society has, the less moral its people become.
- Why sugar baby relationships are both sensible and rewarding.
- Two Detroit men accused of being serial killers of sex workers.
- British cops are allowed to rape women while spying on them.
- Prudes object to their own lascivious thoughts about a statue.
- Dania Suarez announces plans to start a sex worker charity.
- Driskill Mountain, the loftiest prominence in my home state.
- Louisiana just won’t give up trying to destroy people’s lives.
- Another year, another bogus “Trafficking in Persons” report.
- The continuing death-spiral of Nicholas Kristof’s reputation.
- The inevitable result of criminalizing consensual behaviors.
- I think you’re probably better off just learning on the job.
- Norway may yet fight the Swedish cancer into remission.
- The most complained-about advert in the UK since 1995.
- How “sex trafficking survivors” are like UFO abductees.
- Irish prohibitionist claims “prostitution isn’t about sex”.
- Malawian sex workers fight oppression via civil courts.
- Male escort says essentially all of his clients are male.
- The Salvation Army says homosexuals deserve death.
- Sex worker rights, big tents and lockstep conformity.
- Sweden finally realizes that drawings are not people.
- The bizarre cult which dominates Swedish feminism.
- I really wish politicians would stop proving me right.
- The only whore ever to become a Disney princess.
- How reframing a picture can completely change it.
- It’s good to see prohibitionists attack one another.
- The 44 most ridiculous Cosmo sex tips of all time.
- Why criminalization is dangerous to public health.
- Yet another actress pretending she isn’t a whore.
- The continuing adventures of Aella the Amazon.
- The American pariah caste begins to fight back.
- Spain lifts a ban on advertising by sex workers.
- My lifelong love of astronomy and space travel.
- What if The Shining were a romantic comedy?
- Franklin Harris on Hollywood’s sex-negativity.
- “Study” finds porn-hating women hate porn.
- Libertarianism in science fiction and fantasy.
- Judge rules that a website is not a building.
- A sensible article about student strippers.
- So much for “negative secondary effects”.
- The fourth member of my Hall of Shame.
- Two mainstream articles by sex workers.
- The recrudescence of yellow journalism.
- Happy 50th birthday, silicone implant!
- My favorite TV dramas and comedies.
- We’re up to 50 clients a night now.
- $250,000 bail for a misdemeanor.
- Ambivalence on “sex trafficking”.
- First they came for the hookers…
- A few words about my father.
- Doublethink as a way of life.
- R.I.P. Ray Bradbury.
- Penguin perversion.
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People applauding this policy should also specify what prison term they favor for people who sell full-strength cigarettes. – Jacob Grier
No, your reason is not an exception:
A new investigation by The [Washington] Post reveals at least 178 cases from 2019 to 2021 in which calls for help resulted in [cops murdering]…the very people they were [foolishly] called on to assist. We used The Post’s nationwide database of fatal police shootings along with public reporting to identify cases in which the callers were concerned primarily for the individuals’ well-being and no imminent harm to others was reported. Many of the calls [referr]ed…to people in mental health crises, [ignorantly] requested wellness checks or reported suicide threats. The calls came from the distressed individuals themselves or were made by worried [but foolish] family members, friends or neighbors…
The police state’s insulting idea of compensation for a mass public gang rape:
In July 2020, when I had been out of prison for about 18 months, IDOC offered us money and asked us to sign an agreement absolving them of any wrongdoing. I asked my attorney what would happen if I didn’t sign the papers, and he told me that the judge might throw the lawsuit out…I was still not going to sign. But my attorney…convinced me. “You know there are women inside that need that money,” he said. I knew…it was a manipulative statement. But…I [also] knew…that this money could mean the difference between deprivation and a pair of shoes, a pack of T-shirts or the chance to shop for food…The shame of those days stayed with me for years. But…there is not enough space in one piece to detail the atrocities. For the Halloween strip search, IDOC mailed me a check for $325. Although the agency continues to assert that their staff did nothing wrong, this check that I may never cash is proof that they are guilty…in the eyes of IDOC, my pain — and that of my sisters — is only worth $325…
SCOTUS expands one of the greatest legal abominations ever conceived:
…anyone who has their rights violated by federal government agents…ha[s] no recourse against those rogue actors. A federal badge will now serve as an impenetrable shield against civil liability…The justices announced…that they would decline to consider two major petitions. In the first, St. Paul [sow] Heather Weyker, who was serving on a federal task force, conjured a fake sex-trafficking ring and [cag]ed a teenage girl for two years on trumped-up charges. In the second, [spook]…Ray Lamb a[ttempted]…to [murder] a man…though [the voctim was spared when his gun] jammed…[neither] Weyker [nor] Lamb…are…protected by qualified immunity…but because they were working for the federal government, they are protected by absolute immunity…and their victims—Hamdi Mohamud and Kevin Byrd, respectively—[are shit out of luck]…
Contrast the speed with which legislatures manage to pass laws increasing cops’ powers:
California [politician]s are finally sending to Gov. Gavin Newsom a hot potato of a bill that would bar police from…arrest[ing women for standing in a public place after a cop points at them and belches out the magic word “]prostitution[“, a delay of] nine months after the measure passed the Legislature…[copsuckers] see it as a further erosion of criminal penalties that tie the hands of police on [consensual] issues…Greg Burt, a spokesman for the California Family Council, and other opponents fear it’s part of an eventual effort to decriminalize [thoughtcrime. In support of his authoritarian agenda, he vomited out the words]…”sex trafficking”…[all over open-mouthed reporters]…
Conditioning kids to accept constant, intrusive surveillance:
Spyware apps were foisted on students at the height of the Covid-19 lockdowns…long after most students have returned to in-person learning, those apps are still proliferating, and enabling an ever-expanding range of human rights abuses…Americans face an unprecedented, record-breaking wave of legislation targeting transgender youth…and…[the overturn of] Roe v. Wade…That means that students who use their devices to research trans healthcare or abortion related material could find those devices weaponized against them, potentially resulting in criminal charges…
22 vultures coming in for the kill:
[Jacob Sullum of Reason has published] a state-by-state rundown of what we can expect now that the Supreme Court has decided the Constitution does not guarantee a right to abortion after all. Red indicates the 22 states that are certain or likely to soon impose or start enforcing new restrictions on abortion, ranging from moderate to severe. Green indicates the 23 states where abortion will remain broadly legal. Blue indicates the five states where new restrictions are unlikely in the short term but are possible in the longer term, depending on electoral outcomes or judicial decisions…
Because obviously prohibition doesn’t ruin enough lives yet:
…the…FDA…[has arbitrarily banned] Juul’s…tobacco- and menthol-flavored vaping products…[despite the fact that Juul’s] application…was…detailed and data-heavy, showing just how effective it was at transitioning smokers away from cigarettes, toward a safer alternative …The company…became a victim of an intensely ideological war on nicotine…[when prohibitionists decided to blame] Juul…for the rise of youth vaping…[using the venerable puritan lie] that flavors like mango and cucumber [only]…appeal…to the younger demographic…The claim that Juul’s flavors were the underlying cause for the rise in youth vaping is highly dubious, considering there were thousands of different flavors for other e-cigarettes on the market years before Juul took off…
The Biden administration continues its misguided war on nicotine….[with] plans to require cigarette makers to severely cut the amount of nicotine in their products…nicotine itself isn’t what makes cigarettes so dangerous…it’s the other ingredients…and the byproducts of combustion, that make smoking cigarettes so bad for you. This is one reason why the war on vaping is so stupid, and also speaks to the half-baked premises of the Biden administration’s latest anti-smoking plan…people already addicted to nicotine will still be addicted—they’ll just have to smoke more cigarettes to get their nicotine fix…low-nicotine cigarettes could actually make smoking riskier by requiring smokers to smoke more and consume more of the other substances in cigarettes in order to get the same level of nicotine they’re used to…[also,] other countries will still be producing full-nicotine cigarettes. And this opens up a great opportunity for smuggling and black market sales of higher nicotine cigarettes…
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For the second year in a row, we suffered from a heat wave barely a week into summer. Of course, this one was both much shorter (3 days) and much less intense than last year’s. The temperature stayed at about 35o all day Sunday (that’s 95o for you Fahrenheit fans) and only started dropping about an hour before sunset; this is a picture of my desk lamp readout about 6 minutes after sunset, and you can see it’s still plenty hot indoors (though it isn’t nearly as bad downstairs, because heat rises). And that’s why those of y’all who live in truly hot parts of the country shouldn’t laugh too much; though such summer heat is not abnormal through most of the US South and West (and even low by the standards of, say, Phoenix), very few houses up here are air conditioned. I’ve lived in both Louisiana and Oklahoma, and while it’s easier to be outside in this heat here, it can get rather unpleasant indoors until it finally cools off, which can take until well after bedtime upstairs (where my bedroom is). Yesterday it was warm but not really hot, and starting today we’re supposed to be back to our cusp-of-July norm of high teens-low twenties Celsius (60s-70s Fahrenheit). The mild weather is one of the reasons I chose to move here; I’m more comfortable and Grace’s health problems make her unable to take the heat as she could when she was young. And even though I’m still going to complain about the occasional heat wave, it’s still worth enduring 16 hours of daylight at this time of year for a climate in which these temperatures are an abnormality.
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Maybe if we demolish both the NRA and the modern ACLU, we can cobble together one functional civil rights organization from the salvaged parts.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 27, 2022
Pardoning the long-dead is a venerable trick of governments to make themselves look more reasonable. https://t.co/oxkjq3ZZzz
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 28, 2022
The US is unusual in that, while trying to bribe petty officials is a crime, bribing powerful officials is not only expected, but fully institutionalized. https://t.co/8pGpz3ZdXu
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) May 31, 2022
I don't know why; after all, if they have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear from answering just a few questions. https://t.co/r3G7oDLKff
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) June 1, 2022
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.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) June 1, 2022
{William Marshall voice} Let the excuses…BEGIN!https://t.co/8kC9lJDZOc
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) June 5, 2022
My response to ANY headline which starts, "So-and-so wants you to…" is to immediately move on while saying, "Too bad for So-and-so".
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) June 5, 2022
Every week that passes makes me just a little more glad that I gave up on square "employment" in 1995. I can't even imagine having my income controlled by authoritarians with no sense of proportion. https://t.co/j8pNYZTkNm
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) June 7, 2022
If someone tells you they want to "reinvent" some basic human need such as food, sex, or housing, just smile at them and keep nodding while you back slowly away. Then when they turn to look at something else momentarily, run like hell.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) June 8, 2022
Somebody needs to lock all 50 state governors in a big cage together, then wait a week and throw in a handful of tableware.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) June 10, 2022
Oooh, much closer. Try "after attacking woman" or "after assaulting woman"; you can get closer to reality if you try. https://t.co/Oh6tZcy96e
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) June 12, 2022
I must admit to feeling childishly pleased whenever a notable historical, fictional, or mythological personage follows me on Twitter.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) June 13, 2022
I reckon it's time to remind all my new readers that I'm wholly uninterested in partisanism of any flavor. And I *especially* don't care WHY you think your particular object of worship is better or your particular bête noire is worse than every other sociopath in office.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) June 14, 2022
The notion that "experts" should run everyone's lives automatically assumes that they can reliably distinguish all manner of details about the complicated lives and personalities of millions of individuals they've never met and know virtually nothing about. https://t.co/z5lTtiF9Ts
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) June 15, 2022
You can't slay a monster "from the inside"; it will simply digest you and shit you out. https://t.co/En7kNmTnZE
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) June 17, 2022
Oh look, it's today's use of the word "everybody" to mean some set of people much smaller than the actual meaning of "everybody".
I learned in childhood that virtually no public use of the word "everybody" ever truthfully includes me. https://t.co/4QsrlepQMk
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) June 18, 2022
How do the "weapon of war" parrots feel about propaganda? https://t.co/vbcwIvoG8x
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) June 21, 2022
Hi, new readers! Are you confused about which "wing" to sort me into based on my retweets and professed views?
Good.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) June 23, 2022
Are you one of the women who's been whining for YEARS about how it's not "fair" you need to take care of contraception, and that men "should" have vasectomies?
I ask you now: are you willing to trust your life & freedom on the word of some dude who's trying to get in your pants?
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) June 26, 2022
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Respect your space? I’m about to put handcuffs on you. – Bruce Dyker
Even though this video (called to my attention by Mike Siegel) is two years old, I found it far too funny not to share. The links above it were provided by Radley Balko, Jesse Walker, Thaddeus Russell, Cop Crisis, Franklin Harris, and Scott Greenfield, in that order.
- Police professionalism.
- Drawing lessons from Picasso.
- Bravely retreating into the last century.
- Cop attacks woman for walking her dog.
- It’s like RAY-AY-AIIIIIN on your wedding day…
- Florida doesn’t want you to know which cops are murderers.
From the Archives
- Drawing silly lines between different “types” of pragmatic sexual behavior.
- Cops, KFC, ghosts, protest, translation, Justin Raimondo, and much more.
- Cops, futurism, immortality, Steppenwolf, John Paragon, and much more.
- While sex work is marginalized, sex workers will be targeted for violence.
- It’s good to see a lockdown house getting some well-deserved pushback.
- Burying government in lawsuits is the only way to slow its depredations.
- Where “rescued” = “arrested” & “safety shelter” = “deportation prison”.
- “We have refrigerators at my law firm, so I must be running a brothel?“
- More queer sex workers are remembering Pride commemorates a riot.
- Cops aren’t only not protectors of women; they are an active menace.
- Domiciling a sex work site in a violent prohibitionist regime is foolish.
- Rulers of majority-black city target black people with police violence.
- Western media are still largely ignoring China’s atrocities in Xinjiang.
- Your regular reminder that rapist screws are not confined to the US.
- “The state may not use a butcher knife when a scalpel is required.“
- The Japanese are much more sensible about sex than Americans.
- Government bureaucracy at work, “correcting” people to death.
- The word for corporate/government “partnerships” is “fascism”.
- “Thai prostitutes…[refuse to pretend to be] victimized women…”
- Cops, tattoos, monkeys, Ian Holm, Vera Lynn, and much more.
- All sex workers victimized by cops should sue if at all possible.
- Violence against trans people is getting mainstream attention.
- Cops at Pride is Gay Inc’s “fuck you” to the rest of queerdom.
- Over half of Americans now live in states with legal cannabis.
- Government as domestic abuser is a very useful metaphor.
- A retrospective of my blogging from June 2016 and 2017.
- My answer to the titular question: “I certainly hope not”.
- A Reason interview with Reason alumnus Radley Balko.
- Computers are useful tools, but rotten “authorities”.
- Why “policies” not anchored in law are no solution.
- My two previous columns for the summer solstice.
- Louisiana eliminates an excuse for caging people.
- Beginning the roof structure of my bathhouse.
- My first Who night with Lorelei in over a year.
- The latest chapter in this nasty, twisted saga.
- Puritanism is throttling the entire world.
- Another sign we’re past the watershed.
- The foundation of Chekhov’s cottage.
- Jose Torres, AKA “Joey the Player”.
- Maggie on the Scot Goes Popcast.
- Up on a roof with my Hitachi.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- An air travel collapse.
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