If you’re wondering who La Befana is and what she has to do with Christmas, I suggest you consult my column from this day in 2015, which also (not by coincidence) contains links to the columns for the previous four years. That should give you all the information you need to understand why I’m wishing some of my readers a Merry Christmas, some a Good Epiphany and others a Happy King Day, and welcoming all of you to the Carnival season!
Posts Tagged ‘Italy’
Little Christmas 2026
Posted in Holidays, tagged carnival, holidays, Italy, witchcraft on January 6, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Links #805
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged artificial stupidity, comics, cops, Italy, Montana, Never Call the Cops, Ohio, politicians, psychology, racism, restaurants, Texas, United Kingdom, video on December 8, 2025| Leave a Comment »
I feel the tallow’s bovine powers eliminating the vaccines from my blood! – Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (sort of)
Since I’m not really a reggae fan, I wasn’t familiar with Jimmy Cliff, but I really dig this song. The links above it were provided by Anarres Ansible, Nun Ya, The Onion, T. Greg Doucette, Jesse Walker, and IncarcerNation (x2), in that order.
- Merry Cthulhumas!
- The power of superheroes.
- The Onion scores another bullseye.
- No, your reason is not an exception.
- R.I.P. Jimmy Cliff and Tom Stoppard.
- Being anywhere near cops can be deadly.
- What part of “never” is so hard to understand?
From the Archives
- Parents don’t feel guilty enough for an ugly violation of a daughter’s trust.
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- “Bathroom bills” are a political fad undeterred by courts or public protest.
- I wish news outlets would stop publishing their rulers’ wanking fantasies.
- Cops, Charles Dumont, Marshall Brickman, Hal Lindsey, and much more.
- “Deprivation of rights” is the feds’ catchall charge vs embarrassing cops.
- If prohibitionists want to “rescue” whores, why keep us from other jobs?
- Progressives keep backing police violence in the name of “public health”.
- A bureaucratic disaster viewed through the lens of a dying moral panic.
- It’s unsurprising that cops treat family members like they treat others.
- More folly from the UK’s decade-long campaign to censor the internet.
- Another fine example of McNeill’s Law, courtesy of “Moms for Liberty”.
- Let’s hope every one of Ballard’s profiteer partners go down with him.
- This obfuscatory language is more intentionally-confusing than usual.
- Texas doesn’t care how many women die because of its terrible laws.
- I think we have enough evidence to start calling this “McNeill’s Law”.
- Cops, nightmares, Shane MacGowan, Elliott Erwitt, and much more.
- Texas’ ruling psychopaths blame doctors for being afraid of prison.
- “Law enforcement worker” is a new low in cop-crime obfuscation.
- Politicians tried to slip one of their rapist cronies back into power.
- Cop shops don’t actually give a damn about sexual “misconduct”.
- It’s only one step from “all commercial vehicles” to “all vehicles”.
- Totally credible, especially considering he was a cop at the time.
- It usually starts with “vice criminals”, but it never stops with us.
- Never forget that this started with censorship of internet porn.
- Politicians’ obsession with citizens’ genitalia has gone federal.
- A detailed account of one Uyghur man’s escape from China.
- Cops, curses, Christine McVie, Robert Clary, and Greg Bear.
- Charity is especially important when prices keep going up.
- A society can be judged by the way it treats its prisoners.
- Anything can be “trafficking” if you use your imagination.
- It isn’t often cops reap the consequences of their crimes.
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- FBI thugs are just federal cops, and behave accordingly.
- It’s getting harder to tell the preachers from the cops.
- A new nadir for photographs in the US news media.
- Cop + preacher = sexual menace to legal minors.
- The old strip club business model is a dead duck.
- Throwback Thursday Meets the Space Monster.
- St. Nicholas loves whores. Yes, that St. Nick.
- Your “leaders” refer to this as “correction”.
- Tracy Quan remembers Carol Leigh.
- Christmas trees and Toys for Tots.
- Improvements to my bathroom.
- On the magic of morning snow.
- Good riddance to bad rubbish.
- This just keeps getting better.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- Throwback Wednesday.
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In the News (#1515)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged A Moral Cancer, Apple, Canada, cell phones, censorship, consensual crime, cops, Don't Call It Trafficking, drugs, fascism, Georgia, Google, hysteria, I Spy, illegal aliens, Israel, Italy, law, libraries, Massachusetts, nanny state, North Dakota, Panama, politicians, prisons, Stalkers in Blue, surveillance, Thought Control, TikTok, Unsafe for Human Consumption, You Were Warned on February 22, 2025| Leave a Comment »
To automate the surveillance of lots of innocent people…is really corrosive. – Nathan Freed Wessler
Don’t Call It Trafficking (#1346)
Remember, this isn’t “human trafficking”, but consensual sex is:
The U.S. is deporting [non-white] migrants from nations in Africa and Asia to [a concentration camp in] Panama, a major diplomatic [atrocity] for the Trump administration…The…[victims] included adults and families with children…Another U.S. military flight to Panama…deport[ed] more Asian migrants, in addition to some African deportees…from Cameroon…Panama’s foreign ministry confirmed it received…the [prisoners] under a…[shady deal] with the Trump [regime] that allows the U.S. to deport non-Panamanians to the Central American country. The [victims]…included 119 deportees from Afghanistan, China, India, Iran, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Uzbekistan and Vietnam. The costs of the deportations under the agreement will be covered by the U.S…
Cops are nothing more than state-sponsored terrorists:
…cameras hidden in unmarked boxes have appeared on utility poles outside the Atlanta homes of some people connected to the movement against the police training center known as “Cop City”…after several years of ongoing state surveillance [and harassment] of [activists]…including [cops] following people…and blasting sirens outside bedroom windows at 3am…Three of the cameras are pointed at homes that Atlanta police, the FBI and the…ATF, jointly raided in February of last year, [using the excuse of] arsons of police motorcycles. One camera is pointed at a cultural and social center. Georgia Power, the utility company that owns the poles, [said] the boxes are not their property. The FBI and the ATF denied any knowledge of them…
Unsafe for Human Consumption (#1471)
Cop “magic fentanyl” hysteria has escaped the US:
Two Ottawa [cops] were hospitalized after [having panic attacks over] fentanyl and crystal meth…In the early hours of February 5, 2025, a…[hysterical cop] was taken to the hospital after [having a panic attacks due to seeing] fentanyl during a traffic stop…Fortunately…[for the big crybaby, fentanyl has no effect from casual exposure]…Only three days later, an[other hysterical cop stole]…crystal meth from a [man] he a[ttack]ed and started feeling nauseous and lightheaded [even though methamphetamine also has no effect from casual exposure]…These incidents highlight the li[berty]-threatening risk [copaganda about] fentanyl and other drugs pose to [the citizens of Western nations]…
A dangerous new front in the Drug War has claimed another victim:
…the owner of a Ma[ssachusetts] vape shop has pleaded guilty to three counts of attempted tax evasion arising from the sale of e-cigarettes brought in from across state borders. He was sentenced to [be locked in a filthy cage like an animal for] six months…and [spend] five years [on] probation. In 2020, Massachusetts became the first state to implement a comprehensive ban on all flavored tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes and flavored e-cigarettes. Violation…is only a misdemeanor, but since flavored tobacco products are sold on the illicit market, sellers simultaneously violate state tax law…a felony punishable by up to five years in prison. Criminal justice reformers have warned for years that flavor bans would encourage illicit markets, creating felony crimes in the process…
A blatantly-unconstitutional law is sort of suspended by an unconstitutional order:
Apple and Google [have] restored TikTok to their app stores in the United States…[mere] weeks after they removed the short-form video platform in compliance with a new law that banned it in the country. [Emperor] Trump tried to pause enforcement of the TikTok ban with a…[royal edict], but the companies were reluctant to bring TikTok back [because Trump doesn’t actually have the power to suspend duly-enacted]…law…
Cops everywhere are moral imbeciles, and those who facilitate their evil are enemies of humanity:
Italian spyware maker SIO, known to sell its products to government customers, is behind a series of malicious Android apps that masquerade as WhatsApp and other popular apps but steal private data from a target’s device…Italy has been embroiled in an ongoing scandal involving the…use of a sophisticated spying tool made by Israeli spyware maker Paragon…[to spy on] a journalist and two founders of an NGO that helps and rescues immigrants in the Mediterranean…the [SIO] spyware…used a more pedestrian hacking technique: developing and distributing malicious Android apps that pretend to be popular apps like WhatsApp, and customer support tools provided by cellphone providers…the…spyware…is called Spyrtacus…[and] can steal text messages, as well as chats from Facebook Messenger, Signal, and WhatsApp; exfiltrate contacts information; record phone calls and ambient audio via the device’s microphone, and imagery via the device’s cameras; among other functions that serve surveillance purposes…
Surely you didn’t think they’d be satisfied with only threatening librarians and teachers:
…the priggish, puritanical prudes who insist that a cabal of librarians and teachers are trying to turn our children gay with books…would have us believe that they’re just out to protect kids…[but] the legislation they’ve proposed isn’t just about kids, and it’s not just about public libraries and schools…Senate Bill 2307…would amend…North Dakota’s criminal code to [criminalize]…”displays at newsstands or any other business establishment…any…book…or [other media politicians decide to point at while barfing]…’sex, lust, or perversion'”…your local bookstore…would…[either have to ban] minors…[or else any book that could be considered remotely “adult” would] have to be sealed or hidden lest a [17-year-old university freshman] take [one] off the shelf and [be instantly “sexualized”]…the…bill sponsors….[previously] introduced a bill with the [same] language…during the 2023 legislative session…and [it] was only prevented from becoming law by a veto from former Gov. Doug Burgum…
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Little Christmas 2025
Posted in Holidays, tagged carnival, holidays, Italy, witchcraft on January 6, 2025| Leave a Comment »
If you don’t understand why this witch is carrying a sackful of toys, I suggest you consult my column from this day in 2015, which also (not by coincidence) contains links to the columns for the previous four years. That should give you all the information you need to understand why I’m wishing some of my readers a Merry Christmas, some a Good Epiphany and others a Happy King Day, and welcoming all of you to the Carnival season!
Links #734
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged artificial stupidity, consensual crime, cops, drugs, Italy, Korea, Never Call the Cops, paganism, Texas, video on July 28, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Given the…lack of viewer response, we weren’t sure the signal was even getting out of the building. – Bob Newhart
Since I liked the last video of a TV superhero performing “Orange Colored Sky” that he sent me, the same gentleman sent me this one. The links above it were provided by Mike Siegel, IncarcerNation, Radley Balko, Anarres Ansible, and Nun Ya, in that order.
- R.I.P. Bob Newhart.
- “Never” really does mean never.
- The Drug War has descended into self-parody.
- “Smart” devices aren’t, part umpteen thousand.
- These “officials” don’t seem to know what Bacchus stood for.
From the Archives
- It’s probably a bad idea to accept the offer of a job you aren’t qualified for.
- “Sex trafficking magnet” tall tales been reduced mostly to pathetic reruns.
- When the victim is a small child, rapist cops sometimes get comeuppance.
- I’m sure they occasionally yelled “Stop faking!” at him as he wasted away.
- On Beijing’s aggressive campaign to silence Chinese people outside China.
- Do airlines really want liability for employees racially profiling passengers?
- It does not help victims of State brutality to infantilize them as “children”.
- The bipartisan war on the internet is past even trying to look reasonable.
- Laws enabling nuisance lawsuits will multiply until ruled unconstitutional.
- The return of a silly fantasy we haven’t seen much in the past few years.
- “This bill is not about kids’ safety, because it will put their safety at risk”.
- My 1st profession is now as much a target for authoritarians as my 2nd.
- Cops will never stop doing this as long as the state gives them pretexts.
- When will amateurs learn that the War on Whores affects them as well?
- Parents should keep kids far away from both cops and “youth pastors”.
- Prohibition can never succeed, regardless of the substance prohibited.
- This is sick even by the abysmal standards of US “sex offender” laws.
- Ballard’s increasingly-bizarre antics upset his partners in profiteering.
- Cops don’t like non-cops falsely accusing people of imaginary crimes.
- “The increase in…risk is [too] small…to be relevant for the individual“.
- Amazon only likes fascist surveillance schemes it owns and controls.
- Any information you give to cops can and will be used against you.
- “Progressives” want everyone forced into “regulated” collectives.
- If only there were a concise term for “coerced women into sex”.
- Another troubled woman fakes an “abduction” to get attention.
- The people the government empowers to police your sexuality.
- Representation matters, especially for anti-authoritarian kids.
- Will this be another victory for US evangelical prohibitionists?
- Partisans deny this when it’s their side making “suggestions”.
- Cops, commies, Jackie Mason, Dusty Hill, and much more.
- Why “policies” not backed up by law reform are worthless.
- Gee, I wonder why violent men often target sex workers?
- Retrospectives of my blogging from July 2012 and 2013.
- An analysis of what China absurdly claims are “schools”.
- When will people learn that “artificial intelligence” isn’t?
- This is absurd even by the low standards of bluenoses.
- It seems July is nearly always a busy month for me.
- Cops, Mars, TMI, David Warner, and much more.
- Cops love awkward, overcomplicated language.
- Gee, I wonder why she “stopped cooperating”?
- Cops, satire, animated sci-fi, and much more.
- The two main roof supports are now in place.
- Rapist cops of the week, 2021 and 2022.
- A good view of my atrium as of July ’22.
- “You know who doesn’t screen? Cops.“
- Rapist cops don’t only target women.
- Another curated selection of tweets.
- A prosecutor is just a kind of cop.
- “Pastors” are as bad as cops.
- Professor Balthazar.
- Freedom Fest 2021.
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!
Links #726
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged animals, artificial stupidity, California, cops, drugs, Google, hysteria, I’m Sure You Feel Safer Now, illegal aliens, internet, Italy, Japan, Never Call the Cops, pizza!, propaganda, psychology, recipes, Things We Choose To Do Together, United Kingdom, video on June 3, 2024| Leave a Comment »
In…40 years…I have never seen that level of deliberate cruelty by the police. – Jerry Steering
I have never understood why many of the same critics who love the Sherman Brothers’ work for Disney dislike their comparable work in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, which is why I feature a video from the latter every chance I get. The links above it were provided by Dan Savage, Jesse Walker, Popehat (x2), Mike Masnick, Kevin Wilson, and Mistress Matisse, in that order.
- R.I.P. Richard Sherman.
- Much obituary. Very sadness.
- Artificial stupidity in the kitchen.
- I’m sure you feel much safer now.
- The funniest thing I’ve read this year.
- The US only thinks it has immigration issues.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
From the Archives
- Prohibition turns bodies into “crime scenes” which cops can violate at will.
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- Laws like this have already been ruled unconstitutional by the 4th Circuit.
- Cops will never stop doing this until the state stops giving them pretexts.
- Politicians don’t even try to make their new laws Constitutional anymore.
- The hotel industry is really going to regret its collaboration with fanatics.
- It’s good to see a government hoist with its own “sex trafficking” petard.
- I was fated to be threatened with state violence regardless of my career.
- Psychopathy is typical in politicians, but these laws are wholly deranged.
- I’m sure they helpfully yelled “Stop faking!” at this little girl as she died.
- Denying meds to caged people is silently yelling “Stop faking!” at them.
- They make this sound like the bureaucrat was doing his victims a favor.
- The Dutch scheme to Disnify De Wallen is no longer merely a scheme.
- Laws enabling nuisance lawsuits will grow until ruled unconstitutional.
- When will the federal government finally read the writing on the wall?
- One would think that the title “youth pastor” would be a big red flag.
- The best way to accomplish prohibitionist goals is to buy politicians.
- Cops will continue to do this until there are criminal penalties for it.
- The 5th Circuit sucked Louisiana politicians’ dicks on this in 2018.
- June 2nd is a day for sexual outlaws, not well-behaved “workers”.
- “Sex predators” are mostly men with authority over their targets.
- Cops, antimatter, Tina Turner, George Maharis, and much more.
- The censors are growing bold enough to admit their real goals.
- Occasionally, cops’ lies are too outrageous even for politicians.
- Prohibitionists’ real goal is to completely ban online sex work.
- If this doesn’t horrify you, you haven’t been paying attention.
- Over half of Americans now live in states with legal cannabis.
- Letting government dictate what constitutes “disinformation”.
- The 2nd installment of a multi-part review of the Buffyverse.
- The problem isn’t religion; it’s blind submission to authority.
- Looks like the judge didn’t buy his “porn addiction” excuse.
- Just another of those nonexistent false rape accusations.
- Retrospectives of my blogging from May 2012 and 2013.
- French law provides some defense vs religious activism.
- Indian sex workers have awaited this ruling for years.
- A collection of essays for International Whores’ Day.
- Whores’ Day is not an occasion for sanitized words.
- Cops, dentists, mutant hamsters, and much more.
- Cops, kinks, robots, Eric Carle, and much more.
- Fake client texts from an unscrupulous ad site.
- Opening up my new paddock extension.
- I wonder when Hollywood will catch up?
- Instagram and TikTok users, take note.
- Fixing the wiring problems at Sunset.
- Nearly finished with the atrium roof.
- Sows hoist with their own petard.
- Rapist/murderer cop of the week.
- And it can find you just as easily.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- Building a new stable.
- Stop faking!
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Little Christmas 2024
Posted in Holidays, tagged carnival, holidays, Italy, witchcraft on January 6, 2024| Leave a Comment »
If you are wondering why there’s a picture of a witch in my blog today, I suggest you consult my column from this day in 2015, which also (not by coincidence) contains links to the columns for the previous four years. That should give you all the information you need to understand why I’m wishing some of my readers a Merry Christmas, some a Good Epiphany and others a Happy King Day, and welcoming all of you to the Carnival season!
In the News (#1358)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Perception, The Dark Side, Tyranny, tagged abortion, Alabama, Canada, China, consensual crime, cops, drugs, fantasy, Italy, Little Tin Gods, Louisiana, Madonna/whore, Mississippi, No Escape, politicians, porn, prisons, rape, robots, scams, Surplus Women, surveillance, The Pygmalion Fallacy, The Vultures Descend, The Widening Gyre, To Molest and Rape, Torture Chamber, violence vs. sex workers, Virtual Imperialism on July 26, 2023| 3 Comments »
The judges…justif[ied] their leniency…in florid language strikingly similar to that found in subreddits for incels. – Gustavo Turner
The return of a ridiculous fantasy we haven’t seen much in the past few years:
Former Google executive Mo Gawdat has made a st[upid, hackneyed] prediction: hyper-realistic AI sex robots are coming that could make intimate human relationships obsolete…Gawdat— [like many other clueless techheads before him]—claimed…virtual reality and augmented reality will soon allow people to have simulated sexual experiences that are indistinguishable from real life…If you can use tech to feel what your partner makes you feel, Gawdat [inanely bloviated], “Why would you need another being in the first place?”…
Beijing’s campaign to silence Chinese people outside China is becoming more aggressive:
…a couple of weeks before the [election, incumbent Canadian MP] Kenny Chiu…[realized] something had flipped among the ethnic Chinese voters in his British Columbia district…Longtime supporters…were not returning his calls. Volunteers reported icy greetings at formerly friendly homes. Chinese-language news outlets stopped covering him. And he was facing an onslaught of attacks — from untraceable sources — on the local community’s most popular social networking app, the Chinese-owned WeChat…Chiu and several other elected officials critical of Beijing were targets of a Chinese state that has increasingly exerted its influence over Chinese diaspora communities worldwide as part of an aggressive campaign to expand its global reach…a Chinese diplomat…[tried] to intimidate…Michael Chong…after he successfully led efforts in Parliament to label China’s [genocide] of…Uyghur[s]…a genocide…
Another troubled woman fakes an “abduction” to get attention:
Police in Alabama cast doubt…on the story of a woman who set off a frantic search when she disappeared for two days after calling 911 to report a[n imaginary] toddler wandering on the highway. Carlee Russell [pretended] she was abducted and forced into a car…but…detectives were…unable to verify…[her claim that] she was taken by a man who came out of the trees when she stopped to check on the child, put [her] in [both] a car and an 18-wheel truck, [then] blindfolded [her] and held [her] at a home where a woman fed her cheese crackers…she [claimed she later]…managed to escape and run through the woods to her neighborhood. In the days before her disappearance, she searched for information on her cellphone about Amber Alerts, [the “sex trafficking” propaganda] movie [Taken,] and [buying] a one-way bus ticket from Birmingham, Alabama, to Nashville, Tennessee, departing the day she disappeared. Her phone also showed she traveled about 600 yards while telling a 911 operator she was following a 3- or 4-year-old child in a diaper on the side of the highway…
If only there were a concise term for “coerced women into sex”:
In 2012, three months after Eddie Scott became sheriff of Clay County, Miss…a woman he had [repeatedly rap]ed…after she was arrested…[filed suit against him, and even] showed suggestive letters [he had written her]…Judge Jim Kitchens ruled against the woman. Sheriff Scott’s predecessor, Laddie Huffman…did not report [him] to state or federal [cop shops]. There [wa]s no…internal investigation…The…only public record of the allegations [was intentionally hidden] at the Clay County Courthouse…among hundreds of cases, until reporters [finally] pressed for it…while [finally] investigating other [rapes committed by] Scott…[who claims she wanted it, just like all the other] women..[he has harassed,] coerce[d, raped,] and retaliate[d] against…wh[en they reported the attacks]…In rural communities like Clay County…sheriffs rule like kings. They can arrest anyone they choose, smear reputations and hand out reprieves and other favors. They…hold people in jail as long as they please and they answer to no one…Noxubee County Sheriff Terry Grassaree rose in the ranks of his Mississippi department and kept his elected office for years despite [repeated rapes and beatings of caged people]. He was voted out in 2019 and now faces federal charges of bribery…But in Clay County, Sheriff Scott remains in power…
Prohibition can never succeed, regardless of which substance is prohibited:
…A new procedure adopted in mid-June by one of the largest abortion pill suppliers, Europe-based Aid Access, now allows U.S. medical professionals in…states that have passed abortion “shield” laws to prescribe and mail pills directly to patients in antiabortion states. Previously, Aid Access allowed only Europe-based doctors to prescribe abortion pills to women in states where abortion is restricted and then shipped those pills internationally, leaving patients to wait weeks. The telemedicine shield laws, enacted over the past year in New York, Massachusetts, Washington, Vermont and Colorado, explicitly protect abortion providers who mail pills to restricted states from inside their borders. The result is a new pipeline of legally prescribed abortion pills flowing into states with abortion bans…
Gee, I wonder why violent men often target sex workers?
In a controversial statement justifying their sentence of 30 years rather than life in prison for the man convicted of murdering [adult] performer and OnlyFans creator Charlotte Angie, the Italian judges in the case referred to the victim as an “uninhibited” woman who made her killer feel “used”…
It does not help young victims of governmental brutality to infantilize them as “children”:
[Young people] incarcerated on the former death row unit of Louisiana’s Angola prison were locked in their cells without air conditioning for several days this month amid scorching summer temperatures…the[y]…were only let out of their cells for an eight-minute shower, which they had to take while handcuffed with their ankles shackled…With heat indexes in the surrounding area reaching as high as 133 degrees this month, a medical expert…warned the court that the conditions could be fatal…[describing the practice as] “foolhardy and perilous”…the…young people [were moved to Angola in retaliation for] escap[ing] from a…juvenile…facility…
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!
Links #679
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Obituary, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged acting, comics, cops, Florida, Italy, Rome, STEM, The Cop Myth, video on July 9, 2023| Leave a Comment »
If thou have a great black bowl in thy hand and it be full of good ale and thou leave anything therein, thou puttest thy soul into greater pain. – The Heege Manuscript
I recently saw a Twitter thread asking for people’s favorite David Bowie songs, and I honestly have to say this is mine; I’ve liked it ever since it was in heavy rotation when the film came out. The links above it were provided by Jesse Walker; Lenore Skenazy; Kevin Wilson; Jesse Walker again; Radley Balko; Elizabeth N. Brown; and Conner Habib, Dan Savage & Franklin Harris, in that order.
- Pompeiian pizza.
- Goofus and Gallant at 75.
- What scares you the most?
- 15th-century stand-up comedy.
- 23 years late and mostly shit, but a start.
- Cops shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near kids.
- R.I.P. Julian Sands, Sue Johanson, and Alan Arkin.
From the Archives
- Clearview specifically markets to those who claim a monopoly on violence.
- If Koch was really “surprised” by this, she isn’t much of an anthropologist.
- Supporters of restrictions on “offensive” speech helped create this lunacy.
- Some Westerners still claim China isn’t trying to exterminate the Uighurs.
- Latin American state violence vs trans women is starting to get attention.
- First it was supposedly about “terrorists”, then “sex trafficking”, and now:
- Real humanitarians are fighting against racist “anti-trafficking” schemes.
- Hey female cops, how’s that collaboration with the police state working?
- When a politician does the right thing, it’s usually for the wrong reason.
- So many “enlightened” countries still believe disease is caused by “sin”.
- Your periodic reminder of what “going after the pimps” actually means.
- Prohis say I’m a godlike being, existing in many places simultaneously.
- This could’ve been a decent article, but it’s not worth wasting time on.
- Cue “freeze peach” morons vomiting nonsense about fires & theaters.
- I wonder how long it’ll be before she conveniently “commits suicide”?
- Prohibitionists’ next target isn’t just Pornhub; it’s all online sex work.
- “Sex trafficking” fetishists think all films must promote their fantasy.
- In some places, male teachers who do sex work can keep their jobs.
- Every few years, Utrecht thinks of a new way to harass sex workers.
- On the erosion of the legalization/decriminalization line in Australia.
- Women with young children should avoid Alabama if at all possible.
- Every amateur “sex scandal” makes me happier I’m a professional.
- The war against drugs other than nicotine continues to wind down.
- “Gender-critical feminists” are also virtually always prohibitionists.
- Any internet-connected device can and will be used to spy on you.
- Victoria will become the world’s 4th jurisdiction to achieve decrim.
- Scientists who create weapons of oppression are moral imbeciles.
- Facebook didn’t think the face-eating leopards would eat its face.
- Apparently, Florida prosecutors don’t know when to stop digging.
- The sexual behavior of “pastors” closely resembles that of cops.
- Cops, monsters, Doctor Who, Richard Donner, and much more.
- US courts are happy to allow US censorship of non-Americans.
- Compare with Germany’s disdain for sex workers’ livelihoods.
- It usually starts with sex workers, but it never stops with us.
- SCOTUS makes its disinterest in potty-obsession quite clear.
- The NY Times is still pretending “Pizzagate” is about cranks.
- A “No shit, Sherlock” headline from the ever-confused Vice.
- Another “youth pastor”, another string of underage victims.
- The crusade to reduce Americans to serfdom continues.
- Some tyrannies are too loathsome even for some cops.
- It’s amazing how much faster work goes at floor level.
- If this shocks you, you haven’t been paying attention.
- This vulture feeding frenzy is going to get a lot uglier.
- Cops, Carl Reiner, Ennio Morricone, and much more.
- At long last, my chickens have started laying again!
- My two previous columns for Independence Day.
- Imagine how many others like him are still free.
- Finishing the construction of Chekhov’s cottage.
- My eleventh and twelfth anniversary columns.
- Cops, James Caan, Sweet, and much more.
- A record-breaking heat wave hits the PNW.
- Such pro-life, very protecting children.
- The first roof supports are in place.
- A “Celebration of Margo’s Life”.
- A road trip with Mr. Spock.
- The Colossus of New York.
- Population 77,434.
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In the News (#1349)
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All the alarm bells should be going off when [politicians] use their elected power to control…children’s ideas. – Val Benavidez
Sick men may respond violently when sex workers refuse to belong to them:
The neighbor and content partner of [adult] performer Charlotte Angie has been convicted in Italy for her 2022 murder. Davide Fontana was sentenced…to 30 years in prison for beating Angie to death…Angie…[had a short-lived] relationship…[with] Fontana…[in] 2021…and [apparently did not realize]…he was [obsessed with her because she] agreed to shoot a BDSM sex video [with him] in January 2022…after binding…he[r, Fontana] took a hammer and…hit…her all over her body and on her covered head…then cut her throat with a kitchen knife…From January to March, Fontana used Angie’s phone to impersonate her on her social media accounts, and also paid her rent and bills…[while he] traveled around…looking for places to dispose of the…body parts…[cops found them] on March 20, 2022, apparently the same day Fontana finally disposed of them by throwing them down a cliff in Valcamonica…
It’s getting harder to tell the preachers from the cops:
A 75-year-old deacon at a church in Walker County [Georgia] faces hundreds of sex abuse charges…Dennis Carl Laman…[repeatedly molested a] 30-year-old victim [with] cerebral palsy [who] is bound to a wheelchair and has a low mental capacity…she…told [a] doctor…and…her caregiver that Laman had fondled her inappropriately, and that the…abuse had been going on for about 6 years…Laman…confessed [to molesting]…the woman…about 199 times…
Another cop following his bliss:
A [typical and representative Irish cop] who was…questioned [due to] allegations of rape was released without charge…he was [previously] involved in…investigat[ing] multiple high profile sexual abuse cases…
The Last Shall Be First (#1266)
If you didn’t see this coming, you haven’t been paying attention:
…a…9-year-old daughter was verbally assaulted at a track and field event…[in] Kelowna…[British Columbia]…she was competing in a shot-put event when a grandfather of one of the other participants started yelling at her…[saying], “Hey, this is supposed to be a girls’ event, and why are you letting boys compete”…the man then carried on to demand certification to prove that [the girl] was born female…the man’s wife then started calling [the girl’s mot]her “a genital mutilator, a groomer, and a pedophile”…School District superintendent Kevin Kaardal [said]…steps are being taken to ban the man from all school-related events…
Some people still claim we don’t live in a police state:
Prosecutors in Monroe County [Indiana] charged Hannah’s husband with possession of child [porn, so]…the court ordered that he not have access to any electronic devices as a condition of his pretrial release from jail. To ensure he complied with those terms, the probation department installed Covenant Eyes on Hannah’s phone, as well as those of her two children and her mother-in-law. In near real time, probation officers are being fed screenshots of everything Hannah’s family views on their devices…Covenant Eyes doesn’t permit its software to be used…[for] monitoring people on probation…but…courts in at least five US states have [illegally done so anyway]…Less than a week after Covenant Eyes was installed…her husband’s probation officer [claimed] her husband had violated the terms of his bond…[because] Covenant Eyes [reported] that her phone had visited Pornhub…[in actuality,] her phone had made a network request to the website’s servers as part of a background app refresh…on her Chrome browser…This is a known issue with Covenant Eyes [but prosecutors don’t care]…
It seems I was destined to be threatened with state violence regardless of my career path:
…[Texas] Gov. Greg Abbott [criminalizing librarians who stock books politicians declare “]explicit[“, and]…prohibit schools from purchasing books that [politicians decl]are “sexually explicit, pervasively vulgar or educationally unsuitable”…Abbott [also declared that books politicians dislike are]…”trash”…Under the bill, [a political] Commission is tasked with [declaring which ideas will henceforth be legal in Texas, and task]…book vendors to [guess what politicians may arbitrarily want censored]…
Hanging a camera on an animal essentially turns it into a surveillance drone:
A case recently filed in a federal district court in Connecticut alleges that a state government agency violated the Fourth Amendment by attaching a camera to a bear they knew frequented the plaintiff property owners’ land…tagged as Number 119…The bear-mounted cam was allegedly supplied…by…the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP)…[which had accused] the plaintiffs…of “illegally” feeding bears on their property. So, this cambear appears to be part of DEEP’s efforts to prove the allegations against the couple (Mark and Carol Brault). This surveillance attempt failed when the couple noticed the bear and its digital appendage…no warrant was obtained before DEEP converted an apparent regular visitor to the Braults’ property into a confidential non-human source. The Braults say this is a Fourth Amendment violation, with the bear acting as a government agent, albeit one incapable of being directly controlled…
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