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You’re not the future anymore!  –  Mark Zuckerberg, sort of

Though Tim Curry died only the day after Dolly Parton, I wasn’t going to cheat him of a proper sendoff.  The links above the video were provided by Ryan Marino; Radley Balko; Scott Greenfield and Dan Savage; The Onion; Ryan Marino again; Amy Alkon; and Nun Ya, 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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Before today, I cannot think of a single time when a Bing search result was more valuable than the Google equivalent.  –  Russell Brandom

When I saw this essay from C.J. Ciaramella two months ago, I was immediately reminded of a different Australian nun who was also an early ’70s pop star, because this one got very heavy play on New Orleans Top 40 stations in 1974; it also made its way into the guitar masses which were popular at the time.  The links above the video were provided by Mike Siegel, Ryan Marino, Walter Olson, Violet Blue, and IncarcerNation (x2), 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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Surveillance video is the great equalizer.  – Andrew Celli Jr. & Wylie Stecklow

I was never much of a KISS fan, but a little research points to this as the proper sendoff for Ace Frehley.  The links above it were provided by Dan Savage, Mike Siegel, IncarcerNation, Violet Blue, The Onion, Nun Ya, and Jesse Walker, 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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Do they want more "moderate" in the artificial playground "left-right" sense, or do they just mean more NORMAL, ie being able to go through their lives without having to be concerned that deranged politicians will set it on fire or send armed thugs to murder them for stuff that was legal yesterday?

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-02-13T18:10:38.994Z

As will all the politicians who stood by making speeches while it happened.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-02-16T03:16:41.915Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTP2…

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-02-17T18:19:44.079Z

It's amazingly sad that even with things going as they are, a huge number of fools STILL think it's a GOOD thing to have political extremists running a country unchecked by other views.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-02-18T18:12:52.796Z

THIS THIS THIS!

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-02-19T18:39:26.767Z

THIS THIS THIS.Protest their homes, their workplaces, any public places they appear in. Never give them one minute's peace.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-02-20T18:38:39.433Z

"The finest legal minds of the Trump DOJ" is akin to "the loftiest mountains in Louisiana".

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-02-22T03:37:32.541Z

{sings}No need to remember when'Cause everything old is new again!

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-02-22T17:48:06.420Z

This is like testing your brakes by heading at 120 mph toward a cliff on loose sand.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-02-23T17:43:09.252Z

Yes, this is a grown man (who is a billionaire and soi-disant "genius") responding to criticism with, "No I'm not, you are."How long before he progresses to, "I'm rubber, you're glue, whatever you say…"

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-02-24T18:38:25.391Z

Remember when a large number of argumentative morons needed to agree before we were saddled with economy-damaging tariffs, instead of ONE moron being able to inflict them on a whim?

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-02-25T17:44:09.460Z

Which is why boots should be Constitutionally prohibited from touching anyone above the knee.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-02-26T18:05:07.827Z

Presumably, politicians and cops will be granted standing immunity to this law.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-02-28T18:11:27.161Z

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” – H.L. Mencken

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-03-03T18:12:31.925Z

In the entire history of "futurism", has anyone calling themselves a "futurist" ever been right about ANYthing that wasn't already a foregone conclusion?

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-03-04T08:55:30.615Z

Actually, trusting tech "geniuses" is a lot like trusting the algorithms they dishonestly & inaccurately call "AI".Both have their uses for organizing and delivering information, but it's a disaster to pretend either has the capacity for normal human judgment.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-03-05T18:00:42.050Z

"Drifting"? More like "hurtling".

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-03-06T18:22:05.707Z

Future historians will tag "American exceptionalism" as a big factor in the country's downfall; most Americans are so wedded to the concept that the US is an exception to any and every sociopolitical process, that they're unable to recognize what they'd see immediately if it were another country.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-03-09T19:24:46.058Z

"I'm willing to let my own kids die rather than admit I'm an ignoramus who believes the claims of idiots," said Slackjaw H. Yokel.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-03-11T17:15:43.471Z

Please, journalists, follow this man's example in calling a spade a spade. Trump is a madman; he is utterly deranged and completely delusional, and y'all need to start saying so. Continuing to pretend a raving lunatic is a "stable genius" will only multiply the damage he's doing.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-03-12T18:01:05.833Z

I really, really wish Americans could develop a moral sense more complex than "if x is the bad guy, anti-x must be a good guy".In real life (as opposed to TV), evil people's PRIMARY opponents are other evil people of a different faction.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-03-14T17:29:55.060Z

It would be such a beautiful thing if history were to repeat itself today, March 15.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-03-15T07:37:47.212Z

Qui cum canibus concumbunt cum pulicibus surgent.

— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-03-16T17:49:03.670Z

 

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Lunch on me, guys.  –  “Officer” Andy Urrutia

This was the only proper choice to honor the departure of Glynis Johns; she was the first to perform this song and Sondheim said hers was always his favorite.  The links above the video were provided by Tim Cushing, Matt Welch, Clarissa, Scott Hechinger, Phoenix Calida, IncarcerNation, and Dan Savage, 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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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.

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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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Please don’t kill my husband.  –  Shameka Smith

Grace suggested this video to commemorate the passing of guitar legend Jeff Beck; I was unfamiliar with it, but less than 60 seconds in I knew it was the right choice.  The inks above the video were provided by Dan Savage, Mama Tush, Clarissa (x2), Mike Siegel, and Cop Crisis (x2), 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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Is anybody out there?  –  “Metaverse gala” attendee

Not an especially seasonal selection, but it seemed the appropriate one for the death of its composer.  The links above the video were provided by Ed Krayewski; Amy Alkon; Radley Balko; Cop Crisis (x2); Jesse Walker, Mike Siegel, and Ally Fogg; and Clarissa, 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 didn’t know anything about building careers. Somehow I still have a career.  –  Sally Kellerman

If you don’t know the name, enjoy this video of the first percussion-driven #1 hit in Billboard history.  The links above it were provided by Jason Kuznicki; Yasmin Nair; Clarissa; Mike Siegel & Jesse Walker; and Cop Crisis (x2), in that order.

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Pretending that ordinary incidents are dangerous and ordinary objects are toxic recalibrates reality.  –  Lenore Skenazy

I’m really pleased to see that others are beginning to mock the kindergarten pretense that there is some meaningful difference between authoritarians who call themselves “left” and those who take the label “right”.  We’ve seen these guys before, but this example was provided by Franklin Harris; the links above it are from Lenore Skenazy, Emma Evans, Cop Crisis, Walter Olson, Amy Alkon, and Emma again, in that order.

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