Wear your boots, kids. – Mary K. Brown
The great Tom Lehrer had so many hilarious songs, I decided to pick one that, in his case at least, turned out to be wrong. The links above it were provided by Phoenix Calida, Wendy Lyon, Mike Siegel, Walter Olson, C.J. Ciaramella, Radley Balko, and J.D. Tuccille, in that order.
- As one does.
- R.I.P. Tom Lehrer.
- Good news of the week.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- A little bit of light in dark times.
- The advent of artificial assholiness.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
From the Archives
- They make these cases sound like the rapist was doing his victims a favor.
- Everyone abused by cops using this error-prone surveillance needs to sue.
- I was fated to be threatened with state violence regardless of career path.
- The problem isn’t religion; it’s teaching kids to blindly submit to authority.
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- On the dopey claim computers can detect “trafficking” in plain escort ads.
- These evil schemes need to be completely shut down as unconstitutional.
- The government thinks you shouldn’t be allowed any privacy whatsoever.
- “Hard cases” are less rare than forced-birth pushers want you to believe.
- The bipartisan war on the internet moves us inexorably toward idiocracy.
- Texas stops judges overruling library censorship by eliminating libraries.
- What’s the connection between this guy & disgraced Chief James Burke?
- Politicians no longer care about whether their diktats are Constitutional.
- “Lewd and lascivious conduct” sounds nicer than “raping a 10-year-old”.
- Any information you give to the State can and will be used against you.
- Nobody admits the danger of giving macho guys power over teen girls.
- Cops; Cat, I farted; Sinead O’Connor; SunRay Kelley; and much more.
- Blaming bad behavior on imaginary “addiction” ≠ taking responsibility.
- Give aggressive thugs power over kids; what could possibly go wrong?
- The State tortures thousands of people for crossing an imaginary line.
- Watching Tim Ballard’s reputation go down in flames is so very sweet.
- Pigs, Super Friends, Bernard Cribbins, Nichelle Nichols, & much more.
- The usual avalanche of horror stories resulting from acts of tyranny.
- Low-population states cling desperately to “sex trafficking” myths.
- Cops won’t drop this fantasy until “news” media stop parroting it.
- If you didn’t see this coming, you haven’t been paying attention.
- Retrospectives of my blogging from July 2012, 2013, and 2014.
- The claims of crypto-moralists are growing increasingly absurd.
- Calling “child protection” is merely a quieter form of “swatting”.
- “Rescue” resulting in “at least two” suicide attempts every day.
- This attempt to blame others is odious even by cop standards.
- Cops, The Onion, the Antichrist, John Mayall, and much more.
- It’s rare these days for a US court to uphold the Constitution.
- Of course they’re prosecuting his wife for trying to stop him.
- What really happens when a wannabe “pimp” abducts a girl.
- I’ve loved The Muppet Show since it first premiered in 1976.
- Some cops don’t limit themselves to one type of creepiness.
- He wasn’t a “former pastor” when he murdered a little girl.
- “Sexual offenses” sounds so much milder than “rape”.
- I’m very pleased with how this little porch came out.
- Fascism in action, profiting from human misery.
- Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever.
- Trying to eliminate small but persistent leaks.
- Judge rules that a spade is actually a spade.
- Even being related to a cop may be enough.
- I suppose it could have been much worse.
- Cops want their hysteria to trump reality.
- My three previous columns for Lammas.
- What did this guy think he was, a cop?
- One of the images of my childhood.
- Your “leaders” call this “correction”.
- At least this one confessed quickly.
- The onset of arthritis in my hands.
- Just another Throwback Thursday.
- The Bride of Fridaystein.
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