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There’s a bear under my house, and there’s nothing I can do about it!  –  Ken Johnson

I think my old friend Terry would’ve loved this video, provided by Mike Masnick; he also provided the first link above it, and those after that were provided by Jason Kuznicki, Nun Ya, Jesse Walker, The Onion, and Popehat, in that order.

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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.

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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!

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It’s probably difficult for people under 40 to imagine the frustration of being unable to complete a multi-part story due to the conclusion being unavailable.
–  “Missing Parts

A corpse is no less dead if the hail of bullets in his back were fired “on duty”, and a woman or child no less traumatized if told that their rape was actually a “search” or “investigation”.
–  “Off-Duty

I suspect that the reason the “forced sex trafficking abortions” myth didn’t become more popular is that, despite the considerable overlap between anti-whore and anti-abortion activism, abortion rights constitute a sacred cow among the “progressives” who did much of the heavy lifting promoting the moral panic.
–  “Life Imitates Artifice (#1366)

The concept of “consent” seems foreign to the company whose slogan was once “Don’t be evil”.  –  “Enshittification

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Meménto, homo, quia pulvis es, et in púlverem revertéris.

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-01-17T18:28:25.457Z

Looks like the main reason I virtually never see targeted ads is that I've never installed any Facebook product on my phone or had an account with any of them.Hope this information proves useful to you.

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-01-18T18:45:41.677Z

Collectivism is a serious mental illness and the most dangerous of evils.

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-01-19T18:04:50.766Z

"And you, poor creatures, who conjured *you* out of the clay? Is God in show business too?"

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-01-20T18:53:29.644Z

You know, it's possible to criticize Trump without sounding like a collectivist copsucker. Please do try.

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-01-21T16:26:34.431Z

Same energy as, "the impact of Daleks on young people's mental health", "the impact of witchcraft on young people's mental health", or "the impact of Teletubbies on young people's mental health".

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-01-22T18:25:19.920Z

Belief in the magical protective powers of "restraining orders" gets people killed, and by SCOTUS precedent no cop will ever be held liable for failing to "protect" someone.

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-01-23T18:12:27.098Z

Mel Gibson sharing his sexual fantasies is way far into TMI territory.

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-01-25T04:11:45.760Z

Google should adopt the motto, "Don't be stupid".

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-01-28T06:20:22.877Z

It is only wrong to lie to individual human beings. Lying to collectives (including governments) and their functionaries (including cops) is often moral, especially when those collectives are engaged in evil.

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-01-29T05:11:21.026Z

That there is no justice (as human conceive it) in the world is evidenced by the fact that I'm here grieving the death of a 66-year-old woman who never hurt anyone while Xi Jinping (71), Vladimir Putin (72), and Donald Trump (78) are still alive and aggressively destroying others' lives.

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-01-29T18:11:50.883Z

More like watching a slug try to stand upright.

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-01-30T18:11:31.142Z

When retailers need to raise prices due to Trump's tariff's, they need to clearly display the math on their label, eg:"OUR PRICE: $10 FEDERAL TARIFF: $2.50YOU PAY: $12.50" Like a lot of grocery stores did with municipal "soda taxes" a few years ago. Let people know EXACTLY whose fault it is.

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-01-31T19:10:28.969Z

Pay attention to who uses the phrase "Gulf of America". Anyone who would pander to such absurdity is a dangerous opportunist, regardless of who sits on the imperial throne.

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-02-01T19:13:04.863Z

Half of all people are stupid.More than half of the remaining half are fools.More than half of the remainder of THAT division are ignoramuses.More than half of what's left after that are self-deluded.And a healthy fraction of the last 5% are moral imbeciles.

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-02-02T18:47:15.777Z

People talk about "representation", IOW that people like seeing others who are somehow like them in prominent positions. Well, lots of Americans are stupid, bigoted ignoramuses.

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-02-03T19:02:18.083Z

Disconnecting it with sledgehammers would be MUCH quicker and far more effective.

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-02-04T19:08:33.634Z

THIS RIGHT HERE. I'm all for reducing bloated government and eliminating the fat. But liposuction is a careful, sanitary medical procedure, not attacking an obese person in the street with a chainsaw.

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-02-06T19:29:43.249Z

Ever wonder what happened to scripts that were rejected by "The X Files" for being too farfetched?

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-02-08T20:07:04.998Z

The so-called "right" has never actually been in favor of limited government; they have ALWAYS been in favor of more cops, more prisons, more criminalization, and more military, the most violent arms of government.

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-02-09T18:07:09.916Z

There is no bottom to Trumpist stupidity.

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-02-11T17:49:21.038Z

There's already an established term for this kind of "minder"; the term is "political officer" or "political commissar".

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-02-12T18:34:34.987Z

THIS. Trump is masculine in the same exact way that Divine was feminine.

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-02-13T18:29:11.263Z

I've been disobeying "authorities" since before puberty, and living as an actual outlaw for 25 years. It's not instantly fatal, I assure you.

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-02-14T18:37:03.051Z

The price we pay for the gift of having wonderful people in our lives is the pain we have to endure when they are no longer there.

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-02-15T20:07:31.933Z

When I see the word "illegal" used as the primary adjective in a description of why the speaker hates a person or thing, it's strong evidence that the opinion can safely be disregarded.

Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-02-16T18:40:05.692Z

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The most disgusting aspect of witch-hunts is the way that everyone from the village idiot to the pillar of the community jumps on the bandwagon; the most horrifying aspect is the way in which anyone who refuses to participate in the hunt is implicated as a target, and the saddest aspect is the way in which innocents whom the hunters pretend to defend are actually victimized by them.
–  “A Manufactured War

The trafficking paradigm is an ugly fantasy which flies in the face of both reality and human nature.  “Rhinoceros

If “authorities” don’t like a woman’s choices they simply deny her agency and brand her a “victim”, then go looking for a “victimizer”.  –  “Profession of Faith

I have come to the conclusion that statism rots the brain.  –  “Imagine the Sky

As usual, politicians and the mainstream media are pretending that a disaster they helped create, born from an evil they planted…and have lovingly tended and fed…has absolutely nothing to do with them.  –  “Reap the Whirlwind

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Aren’t you ashamed when you look in the mirror?  –  Maja R

This video is the only proper sendoff for Sam Moore.  The links above it were provided by Marc Randazza; Dan Savage and Scott Greenfield; Jesse Walker; IncarcerNation; Nun Ya; Phoenix Calida; and T. Greg Doucette, in that order.

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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!

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I don’t for a second believe that this woman is going into labor.
–  Caleb Stewart

The movie Amadeus continues to inspire modern musicians, as demonstrated by this takeoff on “Gangnam Style” called to my attention by Mike Siegel.  The links above it were provided by IncarcerNation, Tracy Quan, T. Greg Doucette, Tim Cushing, Ryan Marino, Stephen Lemons, and C.J. Ciaramella, in that order.

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This cat is not going back into the bag.  –  Heather Fazio

If Men Were Angels

This was directly caused by people teaching children unquestioning obedience to “authority”:

A [fundamentalist Mormon] religious leader who claimed more than 20 spiritual “wives ” including 10 underage girls faces decades in prison…for [repeatedly rap]ing girls as young as 9…Samuel Bateman, whose small group was an offshoot of the sect once led by Warren Jeffs, has pleaded guilty to a yearslong scheme to transport girls across state lines for his sex crimes, and later to kidnap some of them from protective custody.  His plea agreement called for 20 to 50 years in prison, though each conviction carries a possible life sentence…Bateman traveled extensively between Arizona, Utah, Colorado and Nebraska and regularly [rap]ed underage girls…

The Crumbling Dam (#1153)

The feds will try to destroy this just as they did in Philadelphia:

Providence is now home to the country’s first state-sanctioned facility for people to use illegal drugs under medical supervision…Last year, more than 400 people in Rhode Island died of an overdose…Staff will provide clients with access to clean supplies, like needles, and equipment to test drugs so people know exactly what they’re taking.  People using the site will also be able to connect with recovery services, and basic needs like food and clean clothes…The nation’s first government-sponsored supervised consumption sites opened in New York City in 2021…Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott announced his intent to open supervised consumption sites locally.  Burlington, Vermont, approved a pilot program…and expects to open a facility within a year.  City officials in Somerville, Massachusetts, are working towards opening similar sites there, too.  [But] Rhode Island remains the only state to have approved and written regulations for supervised-consumption sites…and…a federal prosecutor in New York [has] threatened to shutter the city’s two safe injection sites…

Winding Down (#1289)

Politicians are terrified of losing ways to destroy peaceful citizens’ lives:

Houston-area businesses and advocacy groups are rebuking Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s call for an outright ban on all consumable THC products…The Texas Cannabis Collective [wrote]…”So you’re telling us, out of all the issues facing Texas, banning all THC products is of the highest priority for the Texas Senate?”…

The Scarlet Letter (#1394)

Every once in a while, a politician develops a particle of human decency:

…A “prostitute’s caution”, unlike other police cautions, does not require a person to admit to an offence or agree to accept it.  Police can issue them to any…[woman they point at while belching “prostitute”.  Most] cautions…are filtered out from someone’s record after six years and do not need to be disclosed to employers, but a prostitute’s caution will show up on a sex worker’s enhanced DBS check until they are 100 years old.  [A few politicians] have demanded that police forces are immediately stopped from issuing the[m]…In November, a London assembly motion was put forward asking mayor Sadiq Khan to stop the Metropolitan police issuing…them…

Thought Control (#1402)

It’s sad that the First Amendment has been so weakened it needs a state law to give it teeth:

Librarians and schools weary from escalating efforts to ban books have new protections under…[New Jersey] law…The “Freedom to Read Act” limits book bans in public schools and libraries and shields librarians from lawsuits and criminal charges filed by [wannabe thought-controllers]…The law also bars school and library boards from removing books because of the “origin, background, or views” of the material or those contributing to its creation, and allows only people with a “vested interest” to challenge a book in a school library…[pro-censorship] activists have fought the measure, [vomit]ing…[the buzzword “]obscene[” at]…librarians…

Unchristian Nation (#1407)

Government at every level crusades against Christian charity:

For close to a year now, [a colorfully-named] Bryan, Ohio, church and its pastor Chris Avell have been locked in a fierce legal battle with the city government and the local fire chief over a makeshift shelter it’s operated on the first floor of its rented church building.  Dad’s Place has argued that letting people rest and worship in its building 24 hours a day, seven days a week, is an integral, First Amendment–protected part of its ministry.  [But politicians] have [pointed at] the church [while belching bureaucratic buzzwords such as “]illegal[“]…residential use[“]…and…[“]fire code[” at it]…a local trial court [has] sided with Bryan Fire Chief Douglas Pool in a civil suit he’s brought against the church…[and ordered it] to [evict] the homeless [in 19o F weather while labeling]…Avell…a…criminal…Bryan Mayor Carrie Schlade…[belched] “the law” [at reporters]…

No Escape (#1432)

Government uses a shell game to avoid making actual reforms:

The federal Bureau of Prisons is permanently closing its “rape club” women’s prison in California and…deactivate minimum-security prison camps in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Colorado, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Florida.  S[crews] and [victims] are being moved to…[continue the abuse elsewhere; indeed, the bureau] said it is…committed to finding positions for every [rapist and abuser in its employ]…The…shutdown…is the clearest sign yet that the agency…is…unwilling to rehabilitate its most problematic institutions…

 

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Are you happy now?  –  Reid Hawley

There was really only one choice for a sendoff for Lou Donaldson, so here it is.  The links above it were provided by Jesse Walker (x2), C.J. Ciaramella, The Onion, IncarcerNation, T. Greg Doucette, and Lenore Skenazy, in that order.

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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!

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Laws do not determine the rightness or wrongness of an action; they merely determine a government’s official response to that action.  “O Tempora! O Mores!

The idea that migrants are somehow different from Americans who relocate for jobs, and that “debt bondage” is any different from student loans and a mortgage, is at its heart racist and xenophobic.  –  “Let Me Help

There is no clause in the Constitution that says equality under the law can be suspended when it’s politically inconvenient.
–  “Sheep and Goats

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