This feels dystopian. – Theo Browne
I wish there were some single video that I could feature to honor Dr. Demento, but it’s impossible; there are just too many, even on this blog alone. The good doctor introduced me to Tom Lehrer, Spike Jones, Allan Sherman, “Weird Al” Yankovic, and innumerable one-off novelty songs of the sort that have littered my Links columns for the past 13 years. So I’m featuring another of these rolling ball machines I enjoy looking at, courtesy of Rikki de la Vega. The links above it were provided by Franklin Harris, Jason Kuznicki, Phoenix Calida, Mike Masnick, Radley Balko, and Jesse Walker, in that order.
- Dr. Demento is retiring.
- This week in artificial stupidity.
- No, your reason isn’t an exception.
- I refuse to believe this, unless it was the Sixth.
- Was this “protecting” or “serving”? It’s hard to tell.
- New communication technologies and the paranormal.
From the Archives
- Everyone who spread “sex trafficking” hysteria contributed to this tragedy.
- No public library is safe from censorship by politicians who hold the purse.
- Vast sums of time, money & energy, flushed down the “culture war” toilet.
- Why do we need “permits” to exercise our speech rights in the first place?
- Both sides in the culture war have completely taken leave of their senses.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Donald Sutherland, Martin Mull, and much more.
- Australia expands Drug War, feigns surprise at predictable consequences.
- “Inappropriate sexual behavior with a young lady” = “molesting a 12 YO”.
- The government thinks you shouldn’t be allowed any privacy whatsoever.
- SCOTUS expands one of the greatest legal abominations ever conceived.
- Cops aren’t the only violent trade whose members feel sexually entitled.
- Contrast the speed with which states pass laws increasing cops’ powers.
- I doubt this is the kind of lawsuit Louisiana politicians wanted to attract.
- Cops simply ignore putative cop-control laws without criminal penalties.
- A government allowed to censor one thing can also censor other things.
- Canadian politicians ignore events in other parts of the Commonwealth.
- The State’s insulting idea of compensation for a mass public gang rape.
- One who ruins lives over arbitrary diktats trips up over a similar diktat.
- Authoritarians love their wanking fantasies of mind-reading machines.
- Cops, fantasies, Sheldon Harnick, John Goodenough, and much more.
- This silly tale is more pathetic now that the trope has largely died off.
- This barbarity began using the excuse of “fighting human trafficking”.
- This is too useful a tool of state control for the rulers to give it up.
- Corporations have become the favored tool of censors worldwide.
- It’ll take a lot more such rulings before this political fad is buried.
- Reporter tries to bury the lede; headline writer won’t participate.
- Uber already encourages its drivers to spy on riders for the pigs.
- Retrospectives of my blogging from June 2012, 2013, and 2014.
- The claims in these nuisance lawsuits are increasingly absurd.
- Prohibitionists’ real goal is to completely ban online sex work.
- Assange was freed as soon as it became politically expedient.
- When a woman dies by hanging, it’s nearly always a murder.
- Even cops are starting to admit Shotspotter is a boondoggle.
- Cops, futurism, dead people, Cab Calloway, and much more.
- Chinese rename other people’s villages against their wishes.
- Because obviously prohibition doesn’t ruin enough lives yet.
- Conditioning kids to accept constant, intrusive surveillance.
- Composing and performing a kind of music only I can hear.
- There are many ways for governments to steal things.
- The dystopian future of Minority Report has arrived.
- So many rapist cops, so many underage victims.
- Taking that nasty old roof off of the wellhouse.
- A curated selection of tweets from June 2024.
- Prohibitionism is a dangerous mental illness.
- Throwback Thursday’s Bloody Nightmare.
- Another barely-into-summer heat wave.
- The annex bathroom is almost finished.
- No woman is safe from predatory cops.
- The tiniest pullet egg I’ve ever seen.
- No, your reason is not an exception.
- Another curated selection of tweets.
- Working on Sunset’s outbuildings.
- 22 vultures coming in for the kill.
- Your “leaders” at work.
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