I’m on a mission I have to complete by year’s end. – Scott Allen Schultz
The Kroffts dominated Saturday morning TV for most of the ’70s; it seems appropriate to commemorate the passing of Marty Krofft with their first hit show. For those of y’all too young to remember this: yes, psychedelic counterculture leaked into mainstream culture in many ways back then. The links above it were provided by Desiree Alliance, Stephen Lemons, Franklin Harris, Phoenix Calida, Lucy Steigerwald, Radley Balko, and Popehat, in that order.
- As one does.
- R.I.P. Marty Krofft.
- Most confusing headline of the year.
- Looks like they understand heavy metal.
- Some animals are more equal than others.
- Another politician demonstrates exactly what she is.
- You can pick your friends or your nose, but not your friend’s nose.
From the Archives
- The state believes it’s OK for its operatives to dox you, but not vice-versa.
- Calling 911 = calling cops. Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever.
- A false rape claim supported by a lying cop; the victim is lucky to be free.
- Seems Mexican cops care more about sex workers’ lives than US cops do.
- Blaming behavior on an imaginary “addiction” is not taking responsibility.
- The US has given every tyrant in the world a powerful rhetorical weapon.
- They try to make it sound like the scumbag was doing his victim a favor.
- Blaming bad behavior on “addiction” works when you control the board.
- This isn’t important because it’s just “white women getting a manicure”.
- So many “enlightened” countries still believe disease is caused by “sin”.
- Uniforms & racism are window-dressing for fascism, not defining traits.
- Another example of how “lockdowns” cause far more harm than good.
- it’s easy for cops & prosecutors to circumvent supposed “guarantees”.
- They’ve never found more than a very few UK “sex trafficking” cases.
- Women of childbearing age should avoid Alabama entirely if possible.
- Asking us to feel sorry for a man who was hoist with his own petard.
- “Sex predators” usualy hold positions of authority over their targets.
- I think we have enough evidence to start calling this “McNeill’s Law”.
- The government needs to be buried in lawsuits before this will stop.
- North Carolina’s “solution” for rampant cop violence? Hide the data.
- The conscription of unconsenting drivers into copaganda continues.
- The prosecutor in this case rode it to become AG of Massachusetts.
- Getting my nails done is the visible sign of a covenant with myself.
- What my new bathroom looked like two days before Thanksgiving.
- “Give me your huddled masses…so I can torture and deport them”.
- I’m astonishingly ignorant of pop culture of the past four decades.
- Amazon’s fascist collaboration with cops just keeps getting worse.
- Habeas corpus? New York don’t understand that fancy Latin jazz.
- Reporter tries to bury the lede; headline writer won’t participate.
- “Safety” as pretext for petty torture and fascist profitmongering.
- LAPD “bans” technology it’s already illegal to use in California.
- All too often, evil arrives cloaked in the mantle of expediency.
- This was the endgame of “anti-trafficking” schemes all along.
- It’s good to see that the media are beginning to grasp this.
- Cops murder more people than any other group in the US.
- The Spanish case of the Swedish rot is especially virulent.
- Cops, horror plots, supervillains, beans, and much more.
- Cops, vampires, Bruce Lee, Irene Cara, and much more.
- Blogging retrospectives from November 2011 and 2012.
- I’m actually starting to get the hang of MIG welding.
- A “certification” in racist, misogynistic propaganda.
- This sordid saga finally wraps up after three years.
- It takes a lot to make me delay my tree-trimming.
- Your “leaders” refer to raping kids as “correction”.
- Are most cops even capable of telling the truth?
- Authoritarian regimes are much of a muchness.
- “Predictive policing” scams don’t spare minors.
- Another “invisible” improvement to my annex.
- Cops, Florida, singing cats, and much more.
- As I predicted three years ago.
- Belated birthday presents.
- Homemade apple cider.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- R.I.P. Wakefield Poole.
- Oh, what a surprise.
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