If you’re a new reader and don’t understand why I specifically honor St. Nicholas on his day, I suggest you reread my 2014 column for this day, and don’t skip the links. And if you wish to honor the jolly saint yourself, I suggest you reread my column from November 28th and proceed accordingly; I’ve provided ways you can help several of the saint’s favorites at the same time. And if you already know what this is about, what are you waiting for? I know you don’t want to end up on his naughty list.
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I’ve been feeling as though I should get another dog, since Trip prefers to be outside most of the time. So Jae’s been watching the Humane Society website, and we decided to bring this fella home on Saturday. His name is Axel; he’s nine years old and has been with them for two years, so he’s pretty neurotic. He shook a lot for the first 48 hours, and is so nervous they sent him home with tranquilizers that I’m supposed to wean him off of as he improves. I think he will be a lot better within the next few months; his main triggers seem to be noise and rapid movement, which is why he’s had several failed adoptions (little kids in the home). But Sunset is quiet, and there are not too many fast-moving things here; he likes Trip and doesn’t seem to care about Speck, and he was already calmer and quieter by the day after we brought him home. By yesterday he was behaving mostly normally when I’m the only one around, though he’s still very excitable if anything out of the ordinary happens. So I think that once he realizes he’s not going to have to go back to doggy prison, he’ll adjust to life here just as Louie and Hercules did, and will make a fine addition to the Sunset family.
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I don’t need to dig up those skeletons to be sure that they’re still there.
– “Quarter Century”
Natty uniforms and ugly racist rhetoric are window-dressing for fascism, not its defining characteristics.
– “Soft Fascism”
Americans are only concerned about how others have sex; they don’t really want to know where their overpriced coffee comes from. – “Where are the Protests? (#1394)”
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[Computer-generated music] will have a corrosive effect on the whole industry. – Jason Palamara
A California judge ordered the end of a[n illegal and unconstitutional] law enforcement program that surveilled the electrical smart meter data of thousands of Sacramento residents…without suspicion to find [“]evidence[“] of cannabis growing…turn[ing] all 650,000 SMUD customers into suspects…Granular electrical usage data can reveal intimate details inside the home—including when you go to sleep, when you take a shower, when you are away, and other personal habits and demographics…
On the Simultaneous Having and Eating of Cake (#1506)
Given that dancers win every one of these suits, the old strip club business model is a dead duck:
A Denver District Court [has] ruled…that strip club entertainers are employees and have protections under the City’s wage and employment laws…Denver Labor, a division of the Auditor’s Office, investigated PT’s Showclub Centerfold, PT’s Showclub, and Diamond Cabaret in 2023 and Rick’s Cabaret in 2024 for minimum wage and other labor law-related violations…
To say this was “Trump-inspired” is like saying diarrhea is “cramp-inspired”:
One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett…ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes or characters. Hargett [incorrectly claimed] libraries that made such books available to children were violating federal and state law. Some libraries have closed for days so staff could focus on weeding out [bann]ed volumes…the Tennessee Regional Library System…covers most of the state except larger cities like Nashville and Memphis…Hargett…[bloviated about one of the mad emperor’s diktats, but so-called “]executive orders[“] are not federal law and…do not apply to state or local governments…
Much more of this, please, worldwide:
Australia’s [totalitarian] social media ban for [legal minors] is being challenged in the nation’s highest court, with two teenagers [correctly pointing out that] the law is unconstitutional as it robs them of their right to free communication…The law…was justified by [wannabe censors vomiting the word “]children[” in the faces of rational people]…15-year-olds Noah Jones and Macy Neyland – backed by a rights group – will argue the ban completely disregards the rights of [legal minors]…After news of the case broke, Communications Minister Anika Wells told parliament…”[Fuck them kids]”…
A program cannot create art, nor can a cartoon character be an artist:
…[hip-hop artist Christopher “Topher” Townsend has created a cartoon character he named] Solomon Ray [to promote] gospel music [generated by a computer program]…spark[ing controversy] in the gospel community and beyond…[with many correctly observing that the sound compositions have] “no spirit”…[and some going so far as to imply that the program is a Satanic scheme to] “draw…people away from real Christian singers…in these last days”…
Cops will invariably use warrantless surveillance to harass people:
A police chief in suburban Atlanta has been arrested…[for using] the city’s automated license plate…cameras to stalk and harass multiple people. Michael Steffman…had been the police chief…[of] Braselton [since April, but was a typical and representative pig there]…since 2005. He announced his resignation…just before his arrest…became public. The GBI…[refused to] say…how many people were harassed…
Hidden is the TikTok version of OnlyFans…[which creator Stella] Barey built…around discoverability…“It creates an ecosystem where we’re all bringing fans that are circulating to everybody,” which helps girls who don’t have large followings…Hidden is all about giving creators more control, and many of its features reflect that mission by creating avenues for “passive income and promotion”…Hidden takes an 18 percent cut (compared to 20 percent on OnlyFans)…[and] has charge-back protections up to $2,500…Every creator also has a liaison who is familiar with their account and will respond within 24 hours to any questions. All of these features exist in one form or another on other adult sites. Hidden just happens to bring them together for the first time…
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As you can see, Hercules has adapted to life at Sunset; he has calmed down dramatically and learned the routine. When I go out to feed the chickens and collect the eggs a little after noon, he lines up at the fence with Cicero and Louie to get his treat, then joins them in eating a scoop of corn I throw over the fence. I still need to keep him apart from Jonathan for dinner, but the rest of the time they’re best buddies and when I look out first thing in the morning they’re usually grazing or browsing together in the paddock. That’s all the Sunset animal news for today, but be sure to visit this coming Friday to meet our newest resident!
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Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one’s government is not necessarily to secure freedom. – Friedrich Hayek
Once again, for those who insist on being willfully obtuse: “authoritarianism” is not the opposite of “democracy”. The former refers to a governing philosophy; the latter to a method of choosing those who will implement the governing philosophy. Democratic elections can, and regularly do, produce authoritarian governments; if a “democratic majority” uses violence to impose its will on a peaceful minority, then the government produced by such a “democracy” is an authoritarian one. The US has been an authoritarian republic (with largely, though not wholly, democratic mechanics) since the founding; though many white Americans refuse to recognize this, Black Americans and American Indians usually understand. Furthermore, the US has become more authoritarian over time, such as when the elected majoritarian government decided it had the right to inflict violence on people for merely possessing certain substances, or for thinking certain thoughts while agreeing to have sex, or for crossing imaginary lines on a map. A boot is a boot, regardless of who chose the style. Or as I wrote once before:
When faced with a mob who wants to trample me, I don’t much care whether the leader of that mob was chosen by popularity contest or drawing lots, advanced bureaucratically, inherited the position from his dad or mom, or claims to have been appointed by the gods. I don’t care whether the members of that mob stomp first with their left boots or their right, or whether they employ ushers to ensure I’m trampled “equally”. I don’t care whether the majority of mob members are male, female, androgynous or sexless, nor do I give a damn about the relative darkness of their skins, what language they speak, or whose body parts they prefer to fondle or have jammed into their faces. Neither do I care about their supposed “reasons” for trampling me, nor whether they claim my trampling was “proper” or “fair” or “according to procedure”, nor whether some person they define as being like me in some way (important to them but not to me) was part of the mob. I just want the fucking mob to leave me the fuck alone.
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Now, even those with nothing useful to say can tell the whole world exactly, or more often vaguely, what they think. – Lane Brown
As I mentioned last month, I was never much of a KISS fan. However, the band did have a part in one special moment of my growing up: this song was the very first one I ever slow-danced to with a boy (at our 8th grade graduation party). The links above it were provided by Angela Keaton (x3); Phoenix Calida and Dan Savage; C.J. Ciaramella; Ryan Cooper; and Mike Masnick, in that order.
- Pronoun error.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- Improved magic underwear.
- R.I.P. Udo Kier and Gramma.
- Dramatically more of this, please.
- Why are so many people so stupid nowadays?
- What a pathological need for attention looks like.
From the Archives
- “Sex trafficking” isn’t the magic brain-pause spell it was for over a decade.
- Cops will never stop doing this while the state keeps giving them pretexts.
- Governments won’t stop until privacy of any kind is absolutely impossible.
- Mark Draughn on the aftermath of the Backpage persecution & show trial.
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- Calling 911 = calling cops. Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever.
- Seems Mexican cops care more about sex workers’ lives than US cops do.
- Trying to ban laws that were known to be unconstitutional when enacted.
- Blaming behavior on an imaginary “addiction” is not taking responsibility.
- Another judge doing what judges should do often: nullify tyrannical laws.
- The government thinks you shouldn’t be allowed any privacy whatsoever.
- Apparently, the government isn’t yet done torturing Spear into madness.
- They try to make it sound like the scumbag was doing his victim a favor.
- People pretend “politician hires whores” is something more than a yawn.
- Give aggressive thugs power over teens; what could possibly go wrong?
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Chuck Woolery, Earl Holliman, and much more.
- Cops are now being dispatched to intimidate people for “bad” thoughts.
- Local politicians’ virtue-signaling is powerless vs the fascist panopticon.
- Uniforms & racism are window-dressing for fascism, not defining traits.
- “Officials” demonstrate their contempt for those they have power over.
- Idaho apparently wants to chase away as many physicians as possible.
- “Operation Choke Point” was indirect; this goes straight for the throat.
- Americans don’t really care where their overpriced coffee comes from.
- Watching Tim Ballard’s reputation go down in flames is so very sweet.
- Women of childbearing age should avoid Alabama entirely if possible.
- “Sex predators” usually hold positions of authority over their targets.
- Asking us to feel sorry for a man who was hoist with his own petard.
- It’s rare that government departments stop their own depredations.
- It’s too bad they don’t spend all of their time preying on each other.
- The prosecutor in this case rode it to become AG of Massachusetts.
- What my new bathroom looked like two days before Thanksgiving.
- Why I avoid “Black Friday” and collect toys for needy kids instead.
- Amazon’s fascist collaboration with cops just keeps getting worse.
- Reporter tries to bury the lede; headline writer won’t participate.
- “Safety” as pretext for petty torture and fascist profitmongering.
- Blogging retrospectives from November 2012, 2013, and 2014.
- Could this evil industry be shut down in the name of “security”?
- Cops, animals, heavy metal, Marty Krofft, and much more.
- Perhaps we’re nearing the end of this nasty, twisted saga.
- Cops, vampires, Bruce Lee, Irene Cara, and much more.
- My atrium is no longer a construction site, but a room.
- “Presumption of innocence” doesn’t apply to whores.
- It takes a lot to make me delay my tree-trimming.
- Your “leaders” refer to raping kids as “correction”.
- My two previous columns for Thanksgiving.
- At least they weren’t trying to make porn.
- It’s not like it’s their money, after all.
- A textbook example of McNeill’s Law.
- Your “leaders” call this “correction”.
- Throwback Thursday vs. Baragon.
- A Yuletide message from Annie.
- Well, that didn’t take long.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- When it rains, it pours.
- Oh, what a surprise.
- Throwback Tuesday.
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We do not need to be the board of censorship of Alabama. – Ron Snider
Feminists and Other Puritans (#1177)
Once again: this alliance is neither new nor “bizarre”:
…[Prohibitionists] who…identify as “radical feminists”…have long-utilised anti-trafficking legislation to push for restrictions on sex work. Fighting “sex trafficking” is also a popular crusade for [fundamentalist] Christian groups, who view sex work as depraved moral behaviour…At times, these two groups have joined forces in a…[not at all] “unlikely alliance” to pursue these ends…We at GAATW have noticed that many organisations from both camps have recently expanded their use of anti-trafficking frameworks to also advocate for the abolition of surrogacy and [persecution of trans people]…GAATW has broadened its own fight by forming new alliances with social justice movements beyond trafficking, sex work and migration…to counter the increasingly organised and well-funded attack on the rights of sex workers and people who act as gestational surrogates…
A few sane judges are the only obstacles to the mad emperor’s reign of terror:
…the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island [has] struck down the Trump [regime]’s [unconstitutional] attempts to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The decision was issued in response to a lawsuit filed by the Attorneys General of 21 states…[the mad emperor wanted] to take away…shared access to books in rural and remote areas…and…countless [other] library services…to…terminat[e]…the agency’s grants…halt…data collection and research, and…[sack] nearly all of the agency’s staff….the…court ruling [correctly recognized] that those actions were arbitrary…capricious and [illegal]…and permanently prohibits the [mad emperor] from t[rying again] in the future…
The inevitable result of giving sexually-aggressive thugs total power over women:
…women [locked] in a San Francisco jail were…forced to undress in front of [screws] while [the leering thugs]…filmed them with their body-worn cameras…17 women [have] filed a claim with the city…[while cops tried to excuse the violation as a “]search[“]…
Elon Musk is a better role model than Jesus, better at conquering Europe than Hitler, the greatest blowjob giver of all time, should have been selected before Peyton Manning in the 1998 NFL draft…[can] “drink piss better than any human in history,” and is a better porn star than Riley Reid, according to [MechaHitler, Twitter]’s sycophantic…chatbot that has seemingly been reprogrammed to…choose Musk as being superior to the entire rest of humanity at any given task…It is…pretty funny…but…also an example of how big tech companies…regularly put…their thumbs on the scales of their…chatbots to distort reality and to obtain their desired outcome. “Elon’s intelligence ranks among the top 10 minds in history, rivaling polymaths like da Vinci or Newton,” one…answer reads…
Alabama censors are still trying to force obedience by illegally choking off library funds:
A two-year [censorship] battle…at the Fairhope Public Library is…flar[ing up] again…as the…[highly-politicized] Alabama Public Library Services board [is once again trying to illegally withhold] tens of thousands of dollars in state funding…John Wahl, chairman of the…board…[bloviated] “I…should control the content that children are exposed to…[regardless of what] parents…want”…Read Freely Alabama…has criticized the [rogue boards’s actions, saying]…“It’s a slap in the face to the taxpayers of Fairhope…The money was appropriated for our library by the legislature”…
It took seven years for people to start fighting wannabe censors:
In a stunning rebuke of the [pro-censorship cult], Moms for Liberty…candidates failed to win a single contested race across the United States in the November 4, 2025, elections…all 31 M4L-endorsed candidates…in [races where anybody at all ran against them] were defeated, marking the first total shutout for the organization since…2021…the…elections confirmed…[that] voters across party lines are increasingly rejecting the [bizarre police-state] tactics that defined Moms for Liberty’s national strategy…and…are tired of outrage politics in schools…
This will continue until screws face criminal charges for each and every assault on prisoners:
Even in a system known for its brutality, [the gang murders of] Robert L. Brooks and Messiah Nantwi stood out. Both men were handcuffed…[and literally] torture[d to death]…resulting in criminal charges against 20 of the [murderers] and sending officials scrambling to try to portray the episodes as unacceptable aberrations. But…New York…state prison guards [routinely]…restrain…[victims before] assaulting them…thousands of…times…in the past decade…guards [routinely]…punch…kick…[and] stomp…on prisoners, smash…their fingers in cell doors…[hit their testicles] with batons, and even waterboard…them…[and] the rate…has been climbing steadily for the past decade…[especial]ly in…the past three years…
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Every year on this day, the traditional beginning of the Yuletide season in the US, I remind my readers that the real spirit of the season involves giving to others rather than literally fighting to get more for yourself. Children and whores are St. Nick’s two favorite groups of people; you can help the latter by donating to a sex worker charity such as SWOP Behind Bars, or you can help both by booking a session with a sex worker you know has kids. And if you don’t know any, you can help by participating in my annual toy drive! Regular readers know how it works: from today until Tuesday, December 16th, I’m collecting donations with which to buy toys, which I then donate to Toys for Tots. Send your donation via PayPal to maggiemcneill@earthlink.net, and please put “Toys for Tots” in the subject line so I’ll know it’s not a regular blog donation; I can also accept donations via Zelle if you prefer not to use PayPal. If you’re not hurting economically yourself, please consider donating (either to my drive or to one near you). Mad Emperor Scrooge’s destructive tariffs are going to make toys much more expensive this year, and his pogroms & mass firings, plus the inflation resulting from his idiotic policies, will result in a lot of people having a lot less money for presents. Please help me provide some joy to at least a few little ones, who are even less able to understand economics than politicians. And you’ll also be helping me to enjoy some Christmas cheer in a year when my heart is likely to be heavy.
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