Every year on her feast day, I honor St. Mary Magdalene; even though the Church does not officially recognize her as the patron of whores, she certainly is in the public imagination. And if beliefs have power, that recognition of sacred whoredom in the minds of millions has far more metaphysical and philosophical weight than any official Church designation.
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Magdalene’s Day 2023
Posted in Holidays, tagged Catholicism, holidays on July 22, 2023| Leave a Comment »
In the News (#1309)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged agency denial, Catholicism, consensual crime, cops, Costa Rica, Dirty Amateurs, disease, Droit du Seigneur, drugs, escort services, fantasy, Florida, hysteria, Illinois, Kansas, LGBT rights, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Peeping Toms, politicians, prisons, South Carolina, surveillance, teachers, The Immunity Syndrome, The Last Shall Be First, To Molest and Rape, transgender, United Kingdom, Unsafe for Human Consumption, Virginia, West Virginia on February 1, 2023| 1 Comment »
First let’s distinguish between a sin and a crime. – Pope Francis
The tone of this article is remarkably restrained; it doesn’t even use the phrase “super gonorrhea”:
Public health [bureaucrat]s says they have found two cases of gonorrhea that appear to have reduced susceptibility to every kind of antibiotic available…It’s the first time strains of gonorrhea this resistant to antibiotics have been identified in the United States…Dr. Jeffrey Klausner…[of USC said] “It’s a reminder that gonorrhea is becoming…increasingly hard to treat…We haven’t had new antibiotics to treat gonorrhea for years and we really need a different treatment strategy”…
Providing a proper sex education to teenagers, the primary vectors for STI transmission in the US, might be a good start.
There is nothing contradictory about this:
Pope Francis criticized laws that criminalize homosexuality as “unjust,” saying God loves all his children just as they are and called on Catholic bishops who support the laws to welcome LGBTQ people into the church. “Being homosexual isn’t a crime,” Francis said…and he himself referred to the issue in terms of “sin”. But…these…comments …are the first uttered by a pope about such laws…are…consistent with his…belief that the Catholic Church should welcome everyone…Francis’ remarks come ahead of a trip to Africa, where such laws are common, as they are in the Middle East. Many date from British colonial times or are inspired by Islamic law…
Better cops escape consequences than this ugly narrative be reinforced yet again:
A Virginia jury rejected claims by a Costa Rican woman who accused a police chief and three o[ther pig]s of conspiring to protect a sex-trafficking ring…[the] jury in[stead]…found that the woman was not a victim of trafficking but a [mundane] sex worker….Police Chief Edwin Roessler…[and his underlings] James Baumstark…Michael Barbazette and Jason Mardocco….protected the [escort service, but the claims of] human trafficking…were [bogus and largely followed the typical script, including]…claim[s]…of…17 [clients] a day and that Sanchez kept…her passport…Defense lawyers pointed out that the woman [repeatedly] traveled [home] to Costa Rica between 2010 and 2015 and returned to Sanchez each time….”She’s willing to say whatever it takes to get what she wants in that moment,” [said defense lawyer] Kim Baucom…
The jury reached the same conclusion I did the first time I heard the story, and I wrote about people credulously accepting this woman’s claims in “Taking the Bait“. While I certainly sympathize with wanting to see cops suffer consequences for their behavior, the “sex trafficking” paradigm will never die as long as opportunists are rewarded every time they invoke it.
Give aggressive thugs power over teen girls; what could possibly go wrong?
[A London cop named] Hussain Chehab…pleaded guilty to [repeatedly molesting teenage girls the government had paid him to harass at school, and also]…making [sexual] photographs of [his victims]…Chehab’s offending came to light in July 2021 when the family of a 16-year-old girl raised concerns…that…he…was [molesting their daughter]…The…offences [we]re…all the more [predictable because]…Chehab was [paid by the government to lurk] in…schools [to spy on, harass, and terrorize the students]…
It’s sad that the UK has adopted the school-to-prison pipeline from the US.
The Last Shall Be First (#1299)
It looks like Florida is aping Texas again:
…Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is asking state universities for the number and ages of their students who sought or received gender dysphoria treatment, including sex reassignment surgery and hormone prescriptions…Why he’s conducting the survey wasn’t completely clear[, but Texas did something similar last summer]…
The Last Shall Be First (#1304)
Trans people have become another canary in the civil rights coal mine:
…Legislation in Oklahoma and South Carolina would make it a felony to provide hormonal or surgical transition treatment to transgender people younger than 26…Other bills in both states, and in Kansas and Mississippi, would ban such care up to age 21. And bills in more than a dozen states would ban it for minors, which Arkansas was the first to do in 2021…A bill in Mississippi…would define sex as immutably set at birth, denying transgender identities under state law. A measure in West Virginia would define “any transvestite and/or transgender exposure, performances or display” as obscene, potentially outlawing transgender people’s presence around children…
Unsafe for Human Consumption (#1306) 
The Illinois State Police…has tested…substance[s that triggered panic attacks in a gang of screws, and]…the test came back negative for narcotics or hazardous materials…[despite] the [clowns wasting] Narcan…[and whining all the way to the] hospital…Everyone [who had a panic attack]…has been discharged [and the substance they thought was magical insta-fentanyl]…was [in fact] baby powder…the…department [of locking humans in cages] has [tried to save face by bloviating nonsense about]…further investigation [being] needed to explain the…symptoms [of panic attack]…
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Links #653
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged Africa, Believe Them, Brazil, Catholicism, cops, drugs, fascism, I’m Sure You Feel Safer Now, Kansas, language, Libertarianism Happens, Nigeria, Senegal, sporting events, Tennessee, video, Virginia on January 9, 2023| Leave a Comment »
I wanted him to have a positive view of police…we ended up going to [the] emergency room. – Shelia Jackson
I hadn’t realized that classical Greece had an early form of pipe organ, the hydraulis; thanks to Genya for drawing my attention to this recording of a reconstructed example of the instrument. The links above the video were provided by Mike Siegel, Amy Alkon, Cop Crisis (x3), Dan Savage, and Lenore Skenazy, in that order.
- R.I.P. Pelé.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- Protecting nobody and serving up idiocy.
- Cops keep demonstrating what they are.
- When will people learn not to trust cops?
- R.I.P. Barbara Walters and Pope Benedict XVI.
- The writing of people Europeans considered illiterate.
From the Archives
- Blaming behavior on an “addiction” is the opposite of taking responsibility.
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- In case you thought screws restricted their petty sadism to the prisoners.
- Prosecutor begs judge to let him keep illegal porn video for personal use.
- Prohibitionists can always find bogus “studies” to support their fantasies.
- Sounds like somebody who followed my repeated advice to older virgins.
- Cops will never stop doing this as long as the state gives them pretexts.
- Hey, female cops; how’s collaboration with the police state working out?
- Florida prosecutors desperately trying to wipe the egg off of their faces.
- Funny how often people “die suddenly” while cops are brutalizing them.
- Yet another trans woman murdered, this time by a self-proclaimed ally.
- Are the Japanese the only people left who can tell fantasy from reality?
- Oh look, Western nations are starting to notice a genocide in progress.
- Nobody questions the stigma that let this scum destroy women’s lives.
- Yet TERFs want you to believe trans women are the dangerous ones.
- Texas won’t be satisfied until every functionary is spying on women.
- Innocent people accused of “sex trafficking” are starting to hit back.
- Yellow journalists try to avoid responsibility for their irresponsibility.
- Courts are losing patience with arbitrary authoritarian “lockdowns”.
- Worst of all, Western governments are looking at this as a model.
- How to totally destroy your relationship with your teen offspring.
- This will continue until reporters stop parroting cop PR releases.
- The hotel industry is going to regret collaborating with fanatics.
- My two previous columns for Epiphany (AKA Little Christmas).
- Does anyone really believe this wasn’t a foregone conclusion?
- At last, the world is starting to pay attention to sex workers.
- The unhinged Guinasso and his pet fantasist are at it again.
- Cops, amateurs, Betty White, April Ashley, and much more.
- The word “healthy” is no longer a semantically neutral one.
- Cops, lycanthropy, Luna, Barbara Shelley, and much more.
- The only thing “growing” about “sex trafficking” is the lies.
- Abolishing these evil, tyrannical laws is an uphill climb.
- In which the Wall Street Journal licks Xi Jinping’s arse.
- Half of Australia will be contaminated by sex rays!
- Another example of why cops are not reformable.
- There are four separate meanings of “libertarian”.
- Congress won’t stop until it controls the internet.
- Are you beginning to see the whole picture now?
- Another example of barking up the wrong tree.
- Your government refers to this as “correction”.
- The US is following in the footsteps of China.
- In which I build a new kitchen shelving unit.
- The Dutch Disnification scheme continues.
- As the young people say, “So much nope”.
- Your “leaders” refer to this as “correction”.
- Meanwhile, next door to New Hampshire…
- Cops, dumplings, Rush, and much more.
- When it’s too cold to work on the annex.
- The Sunset bookcase project continues.
- Surprising absolutely no trans people.
- An argument I’ve often made myself.
- The Swedish model protects women!
- Prohibitionism is a mental illness.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- Twelfth Night at Sunset.
I find paywalls distasteful, and so many people find this blog valuable as a resource I just can’t bring myself to install one. Furthermore, I find ad delivery services (whose content I have no say over) even more distasteful. But as I’m now semi-retired from sex work, I can’t self-sponsor this blog by myself any longer. So if you value my writing enough that you would pay to see it if it were paywalled, please consider subscribing; there are four different levels to fit all budgets. Or if that doesn’t work for you, please consider showing your generosity with a one-time donation; you can Paypal to maggiemcneill@earthlink.net or else email me at the same address to make other arrangements. Thanks so much!
Yuletweets
Posted in Miscellaneous, Philosophy, tagged bad customers, BDSM, blogging, Canada, Catholicism, censorship, drugs, ethics, games, language, left-right myth, Mars, New York, politicians, psychology, robots, Twitter on December 23, 2022| Leave a Comment »
TFW the name of a dude you blackballed from your escort service suddenly seems very popular on Twitter.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) November 23, 2022
Because obviously what the world REALLY needs is an artificial liar which is better at political deception and "strategic lying" than humans. https://t.co/yTOlaCVAlv
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) November 23, 2022
Not entirely wrong. https://t.co/YOWPVJHWdz
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) November 25, 2022
Humans have such silly ideas. https://t.co/kCAzzPyWx1
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) November 28, 2022
Sometimes history reflects itself rather than repeating or rhyming. https://t.co/ebgtxoFRed
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) November 29, 2022
It really irritates me when I see a tweet that makes a great point, but then tacks on some inane culture war shibboleth at the end, making it un-retweetable by any intellectually honest person.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) November 30, 2022
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 1, 2022
As so often in these exonerative voice constructions, the sentence is structured to place the blame on the gun. It's especially loathsome this time by including the unusually-specific detail that it was an AR-15, a note calculated to ignite readers' hysteria vs that model.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 2, 2022
Never trust someone who tries to convince you that something isn't a problem by contrasting it with a more serious problem.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 4, 2022
One of the most important differences between physics and political "science" is that in physics, nobody pretends "entropy increases" is controversial or unduly pessimistic.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 4, 2022
Do you think you'd escape consequences for grand theft if you pinky-swore to the judge that you'd pay it back? https://t.co/Bpqakk5YjA
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 5, 2022
And yet they all want to impose their "solutions" upon, and extract the things they want from, YOU. By force and by threat of violence. https://t.co/q6tMZEvnXt
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 6, 2022
Sex workers have been telling y'all this for years. https://t.co/XzKAzGRtyG
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 9, 2022
I don't even OWN any yellow clothes because they make me look ill due to skin undertones.
Brides like this need to be shut down from the get-go; her fiance should also deeply consider whether he should get legally entangled with such a narcissistic control freak. https://t.co/tDlu4ILlTE
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 9, 2022
That's called the exonerative voice.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 10, 2022
The greatest source of evil in the world is a pair of linked cravings: the desire for power over others, and the desire to be controlled by "leaders". Each is reinforced and supported by the other.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 11, 2022
Corollary: "Follow your dreams" is text for a Hallmark card or a poster on a '70s teenager's wall, not serious life advice for adults with a realistic view of the world.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 12, 2022
Gotta say, I did not expect to read something as stupid as "Ugh ugh, me hate books" today.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 13, 2022
If someone tells you that you're so stupid you can only subscribe to beliefs in big packages approved by one of the Culture War Clubs, so that if you are skeptical of "X" you *must* believe "Y", that person is not your friend and cannot be trusted. Shun them.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 15, 2022
Doctors are always fascinated by idiots; they provide natural experiments it would be unethical to subject normal people to.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 16, 2022
"And what do *you* want to do when you grow up, little girl?"
"I want to align with industry demands as a cog in tomorrow's global workforce."— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 17, 2022
85. I've discovered 10 mph over is usually the best setting to make good time without attracting predatory cops or having to come out of cruise too often due to obstruction by slower-moving traffic. https://t.co/ogdm8cThEC
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 18, 2022
Everything not forbidden is compulsory. https://t.co/K8DRkNi5Dp
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 20, 2022
Never trust a man who uses "pleasure" as a verb.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 21, 2022
Who the hell decided "factory" was a good word to include in the names of chain restaurants? I can't think of a lot of less-appetizing words they could've used without being actually off-putting.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) December 22, 2022
Magdalene’s Day 2022
Posted in Holidays, tagged Catholicism, holidays on July 22, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Every year on her feast day, I honor St. Mary Magdalene; even though the Church does not officially recognize her as the patron of whores, she certainly is in the public imagination. And if beliefs have power, that recognition of sacred whoredom in the minds of millions has far more metaphysical and philosophical weight than any official Church designation.
In the News (#1244)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged A Broker in Pillage, agency denial, asset seizure, Catholicism, censorship, cops, disease, drugs, homosexuality, If Men Were Angels, law, libraries, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, politicians, porn, rape, Social Distancing, Spain, sporting events, Swedish model, The Course of a Disease, The Last Shall Be First, The Mob Rules, Thought Control, To Molest and Rape, Wisconsin on June 11, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Reliance on [police] to enforce Covid-19 restrictions has created…human rights violations. – Amnesty International
A father and son pair of former church pastors were charged…with multiple counts of sexual assault of a child. Scott Huse, 64…and…Travis Huse, 42…[were] involved with the Apostolic Worship Center and former Evergreen Christian Academy in Elton [Wisconsin]…
Michigan is among the greediest, most unscrupulous states in this regard:
Michigan…[politicians have] open[ed] a dangerous loophole by authorizing [cops to rob]…travelers at Michigan airports [by pointing at them and oinking out the magic word “drugs”]…That change represents a substantial reversal of reforms that Michigan enacted in response to complaints…[bill sponsor Graham] Filler [paused from fellating cops to belch out a host of idiocies such as]…”ill-gotten gains”…”secure”…and…”reform”…
The Course of a Disease (#1093)
The Spanish case of the Swedish rot is especially virulent:
Spanish…politicians [are]…aiming to outlaw all forms of…sex work…including…audiovisual productions, magazines or internet content deemed “pornographic”…politicians within [socialist ruling party] PSOE, which took power in 2019…have taken up the abolition of sex work as their personal cause…the party’s General Vice-Secretary Adriana Lastra…last month took to the press to promote a change in the Spanish penal code to mandate up to three years of jail time for anyone paying for sex…
The Last Shall Be First (#1115)
Another perverse genital inspection law:
…the “Save Women’s Sports Act,” bans schools and colleges in Ohio from permitting “individuals of the male sex” from participating in women’s sports…The bill does not explain what the “male sex” or “female sex” is. It does not say “trans” or “transgender” anywhere in the bill. It doesn’t talk about birth or biological sex. What it does instead is give people the power to dispute the sex of an individual athlete. Then it falls upon that athlete to prove their sex by going to a physician and getting a signed statement confirming the athlete’s sex based on only…”The participant’s internal and external reproductive anatomy…normal endogenously produced levels of testosterone…[or] analysis of the participant’s genetic makeup.” The bill…[also] authorize[s] individuals or schools…to sue the school, school district, or conference who allowed the trans woman to play and be awarded damages…The bill’s wording is similar to one passed in Idaho in 2020 that is currently being challenged in federal court…
In the authoritarian mind, for students to voluntarily allow other people to examine their genitalia for the purpose of pleasure is a “crime”, but for the same students to be forced by law to allow strangers to examine their genitalia for the purpose of bigotry is “protection”.
Oh look, it’s what I was saying TWO FUCKING YEARS AGO:
“Widespread reliance on punitive approaches to enforcing public health” harms marginalized groups, says Amnesty International. A new report…suggests quarantine rules and other COVID-19 restrictions were especially damaging for groups already more likely to face discrimination, police harassment, and unjust criminalization. Amnesty International calls on governments to reject using criminal sanctions to implement public health goals and “refrain from implementing repressive policies” in the name of protecting pubic health…”Contrary to the often-voiced claim by governments that ‘we were all in this together’, the truth is that their responses to Covid-19 have been experienced unequally…[especially by] people who are homeless, engage in sex work, or use drugs, as well as people “targeted because of their sexual orientation or gender identity and expression”…
Rapist cops don’t only target women:
A [typical and representative] Philadelphia [cop who raped and]…sexually assault[ed men]…over the course of more than a decade was found guilty…of multiple crimes, including rape…Philip Nordo…often targeted [men] who were already handcuffed or shackled…
There is nothing as contagious as a bad idea:
CatholicVote, which calls itself “America’s top Catholic advocacy organization,” has launched a “parent-led movement” called Hide the Pride to “empty libraries of LGBTQ content aimed at kids.” It encourages members of the public to first collect signatures protesting library Pride displays containing children’s books, then to check out all of the books on display…After the titles are checked out, they then advise to “place the Pride books on a shelf out of reach of children” and email or mail the signatures to the library…a…school board candidate in Maryland did the same thing, though she didn’t stop at kids’ books. Heather Fletcher checked out all the LGBTQ books on the library Pride display in the Brunswick Public Library…she [bloviat]ed, “This has…to do with the preservation of innocence”…
In the News (#1241)
Posted in Biography, Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged Amsterdam, California, Catholicism, censorship, drugs, Dutch Threat, Facebook, France, Guinea Pigs, India, internet, law, Netherlands, Opting Out, porn, Pyrrhic Victory, red-light districts, Rhode Island, The Mob Rules, The Notorious Badge, The Prudish Giant, video, weaponry, Whatever They Need To Say, Winding Down on June 1, 2022| Leave a Comment »
The nuisance comes from drinking and drunkenness, but no one is saying close the bars. – Brenda, Dutch sex worker
I wonder when Hollywood will catch up?
The brothels look brighter, the alleyways are cleaner, and a stirring soundtrack accompanies the protagonists, but a new Bollywood film set in Mumbai’s red-light district has struck a chord with India’s roughly one million sex workers. Gangubai Kathiawadi is a biopic telling the story of a sex worker of the same name who went from being a [coerced underage sexworker] to fight[ing] for the rights of women working in the trade in the 1950s, a battle still being fought today…Many sex workers in Kamathipura…and across India say the film starring celebrated actress Alia Bhatt shows rare understanding of their everyday struggles…“There have been so many films on women like us, but none that raised these issues,” said Kiran Deshmukh, president of National Network of Sex Workers. “People believe what they see in Bollywood films. And this film has shown that sex work is work…that…helps us live our lives and feed and raise our children”…
And it can find you just as easily:
Cher Scarlett, a software engineer…uploaded some images of her[self]…to PimEyes, a facial-recognition website meant to be used to find pictures of yourself from around the web — ostensibly to help stamp out issues such as revenge porn and identity theft…the results [included]…porn…[she was coerced into making as a 19-year-old] addict…in New York in 2005…She has since tried and failed to get all of the explicit photos removed from PimEyes’ search results, despite the site saying it would scrub images of Scarlett from results…Giorgi Gobronidze…the current owner and director of PimEyes…[deflected blame by saying] “The problem isn’t that there is a search engine that can find these photos; the problem is…people who actually uploaded [the photos] on purpose”…Scarlett’s saga starkly shows how easily facial-recognition technology, which is now available to anyone with internet access, can lead to unexpected harms that may be impossible to undo…
Instagram and TikTok users, take note:
Digital studies and sexuality researcher Dr. Carolina Are is asking sex workers, adult performers and others who have experienced discrimination to participate in a study investigating Instagram and TikTok’s approach to malicious flagging or reporting of “gray area” content, including nudity. Are is seeking participants over 18 years of age who have received negative comments and simultaneously had their accounts and/or content removed…Are plans to circulate an anonymous survey and then interview specific case studies. Those wishing to share their experience with social media discrimination can fill out the survey here…
The Dutch scheme to Disnify De Wallen is no longer merely a scheme:
In November 2020, Mayor Femke Halsema announced plans to [forcibly] relocate sex workers to a purpose built “Erotic Center” on the city’s outskirts in hopes of luring bands of drunk men and general carnality away from residents to make space for new cafés, art galleries, and designer boutiques…according to the mayor’s office…“We want less dominance of cheap nightlife”…if built, it will be the most extreme measure taken to “clean up” De Wallen, which has, in recent years, already been subject to a raft of new regulations and s[urveillance]…Amsterdam’s sex workers are ambivalent about the city’s plans to relocate them. Brenda, a sex worker…[who] met me at the Prostitution Information Center…said sex workers were soft targets in the city’s gentrification push…Iris, a coordinator at the center, said the “so-called nuisance and antisocial behavior” was just another excuse to get rid of sex workers and free up lucrative real estate in the sought-after inner city…
Over half of Americans now live in states with legal cannabis:
Rhode Island…became the 19th state to legalize marijuana for recreational use…[the] bill…immediately allows adults 21 or older to possess up to an ounce of cannabis in public and grow up to three plants at home. State-licensed recreational sales are supposed to start on December 1, beginning with the state’s three existing medical marijuana dispensaries. The law also requires automatic expungement of marijuana possession convictions…public consumption…will be legal in any place where cigarette smoking is allowed…The law caps the number of retailers at 33, which amounts to about one store per 32,000 people…Rhode Islanders may find it easier to buy pot from black-market dealers or from stores in Massachusetts or Connecticut, both of which have legalized recreational use. Like California, Rhode Island will allow local governments to ban pot shops, but only through referendums and not in the three cities (Providence, Warwick, and Portsmouth) where medical marijuana is already being sold…
French law provides some defense vs religious activism:
A Paris court of appeals rejected…the attempt by local War on Porn groups, led by an extremist Catholic organization, to use France’s media authority and the courts to block the most popular adult tube sites in the country…following months of…threats pressuring tube sites to implement vaguely defined age verification schemes, French media regulator ARCOM went to court…to demand that French ISPs block Pornhub…and [a number of similar sites, but]…the Council of State…issued a ruling rendering null all the activities taken up by…ARCOM in connection with the…block…the Council…specifically pointed out the role played by extremist Catholic organization Civitas in orchestrating the campaign…
Civitas is associated with the Society of Saint Pius X, the reactionary organization founded by Archbishop Lefebvre to fight modernization efforts such as performing the Mass in the vernacular rather than Latin.
Shortly after the nation’s latest mass shooting…at an elementary school in Texas, the California Senate passed a bill…to allow private citizens to file suit for at least $10,000 — a bounty-hunter provision modeled on a Texas abortion law — against makers or sellers of [3-D printed firearms] or [rifles banned under California law]…
Off the Green
Posted in Biography, tagged Catholicism, holidays, Ireland, psychology on March 17, 2022| 4 Comments »
Long-time readers may have noticed that although I do a lot of holiday columns, and used to do even more, I’ve never done one for St. Patrick’s Day. The reason is simple: I dislike it almost as much as I dislike Valentine’s Day. But while my reasons for disliking the latter are mostly rational, my reasons for disliking the former are almost entirely irrational, and go back to childhood. I don’t think it will come as a surprise to anyone reading this that I was a willful, rebellious child who hated being told “you must” with the same intensity I hated being told “you can’t”. Now, that doesn’t mean I was purely contrarian; however, even then I reserved the right to decide for myself whether I would comply with some adult diktat, starting with demanding to know why I was supposed to do something or refrain from doing something. Being told, “because x authority says so,” or handed some tautological non-justification, would generally provoke either immediate non-compliance or a pretense of compliance as long as the parent/teacher/cop was looking, followed by refusal as soon as they left the room. To this day, the surest way to lose my cooperation is to accompany the demand with a phrase like “you must”, “you are required to”, “it’s the law”, etc, though obviously I am a lot better at avoiding negative consequences for my hardheadedness than I was as a schoolgirl. So, as some of you may have guessed, my aversion to St. Patrick’s Day started with the annual declaration that I must wear green on the occasion; I was told to do it, not asked or encouraged. The reasons I was provided, when they existed at all, were pure blarney (I was skeptical about that snake story even before I stopped believing in Santa Claus), and given that my school uniform contained no green, the obligatory color display generally took the form of a stupid little felt shamrock pinned to my blouse. On top of all that, I had an odd aversion to green clothing in the first place; Maman thought it was because my other grandmother had made several rompers for me out of an old green sofa cover, so after a while I was thoroughly sick of the color. Or perhaps it was due to association with the vegetables whose mere smell nauseated me. In any case, I eventually outgrew my aversion to the color, but not to the holiday; as I grew into young adulthood I even rationalized my dislike by tying it to my disdain for binge-drinking and my reflexive rejection of any attempt to include me in some group membership against my will (back when people were declaring “We’re all New Yorkers now”, my response was usually “I’m not.”) So anyhow, now you know. I no longer have issues with wearing green, but I still find beer (of any color) revolting and am wont to roll my eyes at fake brogues and dopey leprechaun cartoons. And while I was perfectly willing to kiss the Blarney stone, I can’t say the same for drunken Irishmen. 
Links #596
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Tyranny, tagged animals, Catholicism, cops, Florida, France, libraries, Maryland, masturbation, Minnesota, TikTok, TSA, video, Washington DC on December 5, 2021| Leave a Comment »
It’s as if Disney were entering Notre-Dame. – Maurice Culot
Every once in a while social media produces something really exceptional; this was called to my attention by Mike Siegel, who also contributed “improved” and “baby”. The other links above the video were provided by Dan Savage, Scott Greenfield, Kevin Wilson, and Radley Balko, in that order.
- As one does.
- Florida librarian.
- New and improved!
- Lovecraftian prohibitionism.
- He’ll still get qualified immunity when the victim sues.
- I’d rather sit next to her than to one with a screaming baby.
From the Archives
- The state believes it’s OK for its operatives to dox you, but not vice-versa.
- Women’s fashion & beauty magazines owe their very existence to whores.
- 41% of cops admit to beating their wives. Some don’t stop with beating.
- While sex work is at all criminalized, cops have power over sex workers.
- Florida prohibitionists quadrupling down on their awful anti-whore laws.
- Prohibitionists are terrified support for decrim has caught on so quickly.
- This isn’t important because it’s just “white women getting a manicure”.
- So many “enlightened” countries still believe disease is caused by “sin”.
- Is there anything narrower & meaner than the mind of a prison official?
- Do I really have to add, “Not because a man was delivering packages”?
- Only real cops are allowed to rape women; rent-a-cops can only assist.
- Australia’s Northern Territory 3rd in world to achieve decriminalization.
- Still think toothless facial recognition laws will keep cops from using it?
- Another example of how “lockdowns” cause far more harm than good.
- Remember swimwear & lingerie companies whining about censorship?
- They’ve never found more than a very few UK “sex trafficking” cases.
- I think we have enough evidence to start calling this “McNeill’s Law”.
- The government needs to be buried in lawsuits before this will stop.
- Edited to replace the word The Graun went to great length to avoid.
- On Morality in Media and its dangerous activities since rebranding.
- “Give me your huddled masses…so I can torture and deport them”.
- I’m astonishingly ignorant of pop culture of the past four decades.
- Prohibitionists supported the fantasist cop who enabled this hoax.
- What is the alternative to cops for victims of actual violent crime?
- Habeas corpus? New York don’t understand that fancy Latin jazz.
- Cops, Florida, Gahan Wilson, the Twilight Zone, and much more.
- The “sex trafficking hub” pissing contest, now with debunking.
- LAPD “bans” technology it’s already illegal to use in California.
- Of course they hired him; he’ll fit right in with his co-workers.
- In honor of St. Nicholas, who has a soft spot for sex workers.
- People’s lives are just stakes in a game to these sociopaths.
- It’s good to see that the media are beginning to grasp this.
- The Spanish case of the Swedish rot is especially virulent.
- This psychopath is still far too close to power for comfort.
- Cops, horror plots, supervillains, beans, and much more.
- A “certification” in racist, misogynistic propaganda.
- “Predictive policing” scams don’t spare minors.
- Another “invisible” improvement to my annex.
- Your government refers to this as “correction”.
- WHITE VANS CAUSE “SEX TRAFFICKING”!
- “Sex-Positive Can’t Be Whore-Negative.”
- A big Thanksgiving at Sunset.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- Homemade apple cider.
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It feels good to know that I played a small part in paralyzing a cho, LMAO. – Garrett Osbon
When the name Casino Royale was re-used for one of the James Bond franchise movies in 2006, those of us who remember the David Niven/Woody Allen parody from 1967 couldn’t help being amused, but apparently someone decided to juxtapose the two in a more direct way. The video was provided by Franklin Harris, and the links above it by Clarissa (x2), Jesse Walker, Billy Binion, and Cop Crisis (x2), in that order.
- Headline of the Week.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- The great Glasgow Vampire Hunt of 1954.
- Crime: expired license plate. Penalty: summary execution.
- Prosecutors charge nearby people for murders cops commit.
- “Crime”: made sex tape with girlfriend. Penalty: quadriplegia.
From the Archives
- It’s rare for a US court to uphold the Constitution against the government.
- Your “leaders” will use any excuse to further empower cops to rob people.
- A toiletful of myths, lies, fascist cheerleading & other assorted sociopathy.
- Prohibition turns bodies into “crime scenes” which cops can violate at will.
- Using “violence against women” cant to increase violence against women.
- 41% of cops admit to beating their wives. Some don’t stop with beating.
- Will they quietly muscle power away from him as PA is doing to Krasner?
- Cops had no interest in catching him until he started killing non-whores.
- Americans suffer from a peculiar and characteristic ignorance of history.
- Two hardline prohibitionists at the top do not bode well for sex workers.
- If Democrats cared about human rights, this would be in their platform.
- FBI intentionally destroyed exculpatory evidence in the Backpage case.
- Is Hollywood finally starting to back off from “sex trafficking” hysteria?
- Politicians won’t stop until they can censor the internet as they please.
- Prohibitionists don’t care who suffers to advance their twisted agenda.
- “Police explorer” programs are grooming schemes for predatory cops.
- Hungarian politicians are as potty-obsessed as their US counterparts.
- The press, partying like it’s 1999 & nobody’s heard of escort reviews.
- “Rescued” means “arrested” & “safe” means “caged for deportation”.
- “Xi urged the party to emulate aspects of America’s ‘war on terror’”.
- When a headline asks a question, the answer is nearly always “no”.
- Offering a whore only $40 is indeed attempted sexual exploitation.
- Amazon’s fascist collaboration with cops just keeps getting worse.
- Why can’t people choose a government as they choose a religion?
- Unlike Americans, Hong Kongers know tyranny when they see it.
- Useful idiots never see where “hate speech” laws inevitably lead.
- Both “teams” love ugly, racist, agency-negating whore stigma.
- On the dogma that sex without “enthusiastic consent” is rape.
- Wannabe cop murdered three women and tried for a fourth.
- Censors’ fixation on Pornhub spreads to Thailand and India.
- Everything cops and other “justice” officials tell you is a lie.
- More blaming of bad behavior on an imaginary “addiction”.
- Male sex workers’ clients are never predominantly female.
- Seattle cops have a positive fetish for illegal surveillance.
- A monster’s attempted power grab goes down the toilet.
- Cops, cats, straight people, Beethoven, and much more.
- Pimps are uncommon, but most who do exist are cops.
- FOSTA was a huge miscalculation by prohibitionists.
- No woman is safe from sexually-aggressive cops.
- Cops, Clue, exploding whales, and much more.
- More presents from a lovely birthday season.
- A review of an episode of Deep Space Nine.
- Remember “prostitution-free zones”?
- A ramp down into the paddock.
- Greta Thunberg, child saint.
- A short collection of tweets.
- The quiet week that wasn’t.
- Rapist cops of the week.
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