People don’t even dare to go on holiday any more as they fear that the ants will move into their home in their absence. – Manfred Verhaagh
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I’ve been re-watching The Avengers lately, and perusing a venerable fan site; in the process I discovered a mention of this song I believe I vaguely remember from the MTV era. One interesting footnote: The Allies were a Seattle band, and I know this video was filmed there because I’ve been in that elevator many times! The links above it were provided by Radley Balko; Mike Siegel; IncarcerNation (x2); Jesse Walker & Mike Masnick; and IncarcerNation (x2 again), in that order.
- Paging Dr. Hellstrom.
- I hate when this happens.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- What part of “never” is so difficult?
- R.I.P. Gailard Sartain and Bill Moyers.
- Cops claim a 70-year-old woman “lunged with a knife”. Seriously.
- Cops “assist” man planning suicide by cop, murder bystander for fun.
From the Archives
- Pregnant women & new mothers are uniquely vulnerable to state coercion.
- Clearview specifically markets to those who claim a monopoly on violence.
- “Claiming age verification preserves online anonymity doesn’t make it so“.
- Supporters of restrictions on “offensive” speech helped create this lunacy.
- SCOTUS isn’t quite ready to allow full-on government censorship just yet.
- Cop violence is never limited to members of the public, nor to male cops.
- First it was supposedly about “terrorists”, then “sex trafficking”, and now…
- Maine defines women as moral imbeciles, and men as our moral betters.
- It’s too bad most authoritarian diktats don’t blow up in politicians’ faces.
- “Rescue” profiteers demand government conjure “victims” from thin air.
- Contradictory laws are an inevitable result of rampant authoritarianism.
- Pretexts for this would not remain limited to “child porn” & “terrorism”.
- Microsoft makes censorship easier, when it should be making it harder.
- Cops will ignore the Constitution until doing so is actually criminalized.
- Schools could best help the US by actually teaching basic math again.
- Cue “freeze peach” morons vomiting nonsense about fires & theaters.
- Cops, pizza, Julian Sands, Sue Johanson,Alan Arkin, and much more.
- shitty laws were used against an actual violent criminal for a change.
- Societies’ tendency to self-lobotomize will probably never be solved.
- “Search” is the most common government euphemism for “molest”.
- He wasn’t a “former” cop when he repeatedly raped a teenage girl.
- The war against drugs other than nicotine continues to wind down.
- Note that cases of actual coercion don’t look much like the myths.
- A short EN Brown piece on the legacy of the Assange persecution.
- Scientists who create weapons of oppression are moral imbeciles.
- Cops still use laws overturned in 2003 to harass gay men today.
- The sexual behavior of “pastors” closely resembles that of cops.
- Unfortunately, a new Chromebook means more enshittification.
- One reason I added on to my house was to host guests at will.
- Your “leaders” work hard to ensure this happens more often.
- It usually starts with sex workers, but it never stops with us.
- Another “youth pastor”, another string of underage victims.
- Crypto-moralists believe anything people enjoy is “unsafe”.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Kinky Friedman, and much more.
- I’m happy to have been proven wrong about her chances.
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- Cops are not known for intelligence and good judgment.
- In surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- 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.
- Good grief, don’t volunteer to be around them either.
- It’s rare that a rapist cop stops at only a few victims.
- The headline writer omitted the word “temporarily”.
- Oh look, another “youth pastor”, what a surprise.
- My two previous columns for Independence Day.
- Anyone “shocked” by this must live in a cave.
- Cops, James Caan, Sweet, and much more.
- Such pro-life, very protecting children.
- Nearing the end of my annex project.
- A road trip with Mr. Spock.
- The Colossus of New York.
- The Return of Fridaystein.
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