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 ‘witchcraft’
Little Christmas 2026
Posted in Holidays, tagged carnival, holidays, Italy, witchcraft on January 6, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Tweet Wave
Posted in History, Miscellaneous, Tyranny, Words, tagged activism, advertising, animals, artificial stupidity, blogging, Bluesky, censorship, comics, cops, crypto-moralism, disease, fascism, holidays, imaginative fiction, internet, language, left-right myth, New Orleans, politicians, porn, propaganda, psychology, Russia, scams, STEM, surveillance, The Puritan Recrudescence, Turkey, Twitter, witchcraft, yellow journalism on December 19, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Who first used the German word "blitz" ("lightning") to describe sudden, intense bursts of violence? I forget.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-14T19:43:33.619Z
I just can't get beyond the resemblance.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-16T19:29:02.571Z
When cops use profanity at us, think of what they're telling us. Would you ever curse at your boss? No, but he can curse at you because he has power over you. What would happen if you cursed out a cop? But they curse at us routinely. That tells you how they perceive their relationship with us.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-17T08:31:30.244Z
The universe does things on a subatomic level that would get you arrested for bank fraud if you tried the financial equivalent.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-19T04:59:00.841Z
People suffering from advanced dementia often fall back on old "scripts". It's why your senile great-grandmother calls you by your mother's (or even grandmother's) name, and it's why Trump seems to think he's still on a TV show he did two decades ago.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-19T18:14:28.117Z
Magnificent. Words that deserve to be included in future editions of Bartlett's.If you're not following Ken, why are you even on here?
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-20T18:37:49.142Z
Reporters need to ditch the word "taken" when writing about actions of government thugs.The property wasn't "taken" by goons; it was STOLEN.The person wasn't "taken to the ground"; he was TACKLED.The person wasn't "taken into custody" as if on a date; he was ABDUCTED.Stop soft-peddling evil.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-21T18:12:37.117Z
Reading what people say about Twitter makes me realize that the vast majority online expend absolutely no effort on account hygiene. If they treated their bodies like they treat their social media accounts, they'd never bathe, brush their teeth, or change their clothes, and would eat only junk.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-23T18:27:53.081Z
I will never cease to be amused by the notoriety Fate chose to bestow upon a minor Sumerian merchant of the 18th century BCE.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-24T18:42:59.559Z
Crypto-moralists believe anything unpleasant must be “good for you”.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-25T08:41:09.810Z
In the late 19th century, the Ottoman Empire was called "the sick man of Europe". Now the American empire has become the sick man of the entire planet.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-26T19:46:57.721Z
I found my own solution to Thanksgiving guest tensions many years ago: I host. Nobody dares start shit in MY house.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-27T17:53:29.116Z
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-29T03:35:45.932Z
I have lived my life in such a way that I can't picture either of these women accurately enough to compare them in my mind. And I'm very pleased about that.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-11-29T18:42:27.556Z
I block every single MAGA account and every associated lunatic on Twitter the first time I see it. As a result, I now see far more Trumpery on Bluesky than on Twitter, because people keep screenshotting and calling attention to accounts I blocked long ago.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-03T18:04:51.442Z
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-04T09:14:45.895Z
What's the Greek word for rule by mathematical imbeciles?
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-05T18:10:12.603Z
I'm so exhausted by journalists, who should know the meaning of the words they use, referring to people who are not cautious of change but rather mindlessly destroy every Chesterton's fence they can find, as "conservative".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-05T20:21:41.880Z
"We are not the party of participation trophies…"I hate to break this to you, but…
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-07T03:39:24.651Z
Maybe this misuse of the word "democracy" is a problem of Millennials and Zoomers, who are too young to remember that about half the communist dictatorships of the late 20th century had the word "Democratic" in their names, eg "Deutsche Demokratische Republik" (German Democratic Republic).
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-07T18:47:29.470Z
Mad emperor babbles like a baby: "A pwus pwus pwus pwus pwus!!" {claps tiny pudgy hands and gurgles}
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-09T20:02:40.319Z
Ahem.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-10T09:23:43.373Z
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-12T19:50:01.065Z
OK, y'all, we all get it: politicians and partisans are all huge hypocrites who theatrically perform anger when the "other team" does the same thing they do when in power.Find another goddamned tweet boilerplate. Holy shit.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-13T18:34:07.084Z
The problem is that the tech industry is intentionally conflating two different things under the fantasy label "AI". Machine learning is a real, useful tool; chatbots are a toy and a technological blind alley. Conflating the two is like pretending color TV is the same technology as a hula-hoop.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-14T18:46:37.811Z
I'm sick of the idiocy of the term "kinetic strike".As opposed to what, a static strike?
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-16T17:48:03.150Z
My home town, ladies & gents.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2025-12-18T08:51:51.030Z
Diary #802
Posted in Diary, tagged Grace, holidays, imaginative fiction, Presents, witchcraft on November 10, 2025| Leave a Comment »
As I predicted, my feelings around my birthday were much more complicated this year because Grace was not here to share it with me; I suspect Thanksgiving and Christmas will be harder still, given that I have not spent Christmas without Grace since 1997. But my friends were here with me for my birthday, as they will be at the other holidays, and my generous readers sent me presents: a new sheet set to replace an old one which had torn, several movies, and DVD sets for The Fugitive, Partners in Crime and one of the Jon Pertwee seasons of Doctor Who. Two of my friends have a gift for finding things they know I’ll like that I didn’t know even existed; Yellowbird got me a statuette of a cobra, and Jae found me a cashmere sweater and a charming little kid’s book which I viewed as a sort of extra-long Halloween card. So even though nothing can truly fill the Grace-shaped hole in my life, it’s good to be surrounded by people who care, and are willing to go out of their way to tell me.
Links #765
Posted in Biography, Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged Alabama, cops, illegal aliens, New Mexico, Texas, video, witchcraft on March 2, 2025| Leave a Comment »
There is absolutely no scenario in which it is acceptable for a prosecutor to accuse a defendant of witchcraft in a twenty-first-century court.
This was the obvious choice to honor the passing of Roberta Flack. The link above the video were provided by Jesse Walker (x2); Lucy Steigerwald; Dan Savage and Jesse Walker again; Popehat; and Nun Ya, in that order.
- Elvis is everywhere.
- One down, 18,000 to go.
- What America has become.
- R.I.P. Roberta Flack and Jerry Butler.
- I keep telling y’all we’re entering a new dark age.
- The BBC Radiophonic Workshop is now open to you.
From the Archives
- Useful idiots think these tyrannies are OK when used vs those they dislike.
- There’s no legitimate reason for a vending machine to have this capability.
- The state feigns shock when men abuse power it gives them over women.
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- Outsourcing one’s judgment to politicians & bureaucrats is a terrible idea.
- The hysteria is imploding so hard, it’s falling all the way back to its roots.
- Laws enabling nuisance lawsuits will multiply until ruled unconstitutional.
- Authoritarians don’t care if your kind of sex work is (temporarily) “legal”.
- Hey, female cops; how’s that collaboration with the police state working?
- No rape charges; her remains were too far gone for evidence to survive.
- When timid hacks support sex worker rights, we’re past the watershed.
- Shotspotter is a boondoggle designed to create false evidence for cops.
- Even rapist cops sometimes get their desserts when the victim is a kid.
- Picture what you’d think of as “sex trafficking”, then compare it to this.
- Alabama has at long last got the “fetal personhood” it claimed to want.
- The headline is a bit misleading; he was found guilty of manslaughter.
- A good article about why the madonna/whore duality is pure bullshit.
- Retrospectives of my blogging for February 2012, 2013, and 2014.
- Persecution of sex workers invariably affects other women as well.
- Maybe this will teach fools what a danger biometric ID actually is.
- Oklahoma is another state which seems to simply hate women.
- The article is pretty vague, but it seems to be about child porn.
- The war on trans people has expanded to include drag queens.
- It’s rare to see these schemes called what they are: extortion.
- Cops, birds, Sally Kellerman, Sandy Nelson, and much more.
- Where “disgraced” is used to mean “accurately represented”.
- Crumbs thrown to the peasants from their masters’ tables.
- Criticism of these medieval laws is, fortunately, increasing.
- Nevada model proselytizing can always be safely ignored.
- Nebraska’s float in the “monkey see, monkey do” parade.
- Useful idiots think the leopards will never eat their faces.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Roger Corman, and much more.
- By now, the title “youth pastor” should be a big red flag.
- The most Orwellian case of censorship so far this year.
- Presentation is not exactly my strong point as a cook.
- Your “leaders” say this trash is fit to “correct” others.
- The 5th installment of my 6-part review of Blake’s 7.
- My two previous posts for Sex Worker Rights Day.
- This idiotic culture war has an actual body count.
- Another cop demonstrating exactly what he is.
- Another box of baby dinosaurs in my lavatory.
- The fourth leap year since I started this blog.
- Just another typical and representative cop.
- Texas has officially lost its collective mind.
- Inspector Pony looks into a piglet-tipping.
- Worth reading, but only cum grano salis.
- Cops, British rap, and much more.
- Rapist cops of the week, 2022.
- This just keeps getting better.
- Fallback Friday.
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 #759
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, Words, tagged Arizona, artificial stupidity, condoms, cops, Florida, imaginative fiction, language, LGBT rights, Never Call the Cops, porn, video, witchcraft on January 19, 2025| Leave a Comment »
A dragon lives forever, but not so little boys. – Peter Yarrow
I really couldn’t have chosen a better song for this memorial. The links above it were provided by Mike Stabile; Tim Cushing; IncarcerNation; Franklin Harris and Carol Fenton; Jesse Walker; and IncarcerNation again, in that order.
- Paging Inigo Montoya.
- This week in artificial stupidity.
- Was this “protecting” or “serving”?
- R.I.P. Peter Yarrow and Anita Bryant.
- I’ve seen politicians make sillier claims.
- Try not to be nearby when someone else calls them.
From the Archives
- If there’s one thing the US needs, it’s more sadistic rapists in the military.
- This disgusting trash is loaded with copsucking & emotional manipulation.
- Government should have too little power for the rulers’ identity to matter.
- It’s never called “trafficking” when government or corporate cronies do it.
- Ballard’s partners are trying to salvage as much of the scam as possible.
- Keep plunging that ice pick in; the bad thoughts will go away eventually.
- The bipartisan war on the internet moves another step toward idiocracy.
- Nothing infuriates violent, self-important busybodies more than privacy.
- Why bother with license plate readers when fools will pay to be tracked?
- Even journalists reporting on this insist on referring to it as “correction”.
- Are most people really surprised to find out that cops are habitual liars?
- Politicians are terrified of losing ways to destroy peaceful citizens’ lives.
- Cops really don’t care how many false positives these systems shit out.
- “Progressives” want everyone forced to work for bosses and managers.
- SCOTUS says it’s OK for prohibitionist laws to specifically target Blacks.
- He pronounced the wrong magic words in the magic Spell of Forfeiture.
- Some believe they can live forever by eliminating all pleasure from life.
- The machine of authoritarianism is vast, complex, and has many parts.
- How many women died due to inaction by this murderer’s cop buddies?
- Beijing ramps up its campaign to silence Chinese people outside China.
- The UK’s long internet censorship campaign turns mindlessly carceral.
- SCOTUS says it’s OK for prohibitionists to intentionally let women die.
- The real humanitarians fight against racist “anti-trafficking” schemes.
- This will continue while fools teach children obedience to “authority”.
- Trust is not something that can merely be given; it must be earned.
- Why are people shocked when men paid to behave violently, do so?
- If these fanatics focused on cops & preachers, they’d actually help.
- Cops, Jeff Beck, Walter Cunningham, Fay Weldon, and much more.
- Your irregular reminder that this blog depends on reader support.
- PayPal needs to be buried in similar lawsuits before this will stop.
- Universal criminality provides many avenues for State violence.
- The war on trans people has expanded to include drag queens.
- A sadly typical outcome when a high-ranking cop is the rapist.
- Mississippi demonstrates exactly what it thinks of its subjects.
- Maybe politicians shouldn’t put words in bureaucrats’ mouths.
- In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- Cops, magnets, short videos, Cindy Morgan, and much more.
- Texas cops raid migrant-owned businesses; what a surprise.
- “Children’s minister” blames porn and Satan for his crimes.
- I’m surprised Florida took so long to join the nitwit parade.
- Cops think they can just make up their own pharmacology.
- Cops, nerds, puritanism, Ronnie Spector, and much more.
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- It would be difficult to bury this lede any further down.
- “Criminality” is a status defined entirely by the State.
- Behold the fruit of the “human trafficking” narrative.
- Perhaps Alabama’s state bird should be the ostrich.
- Apparently, magic insta-fentanyl only affects cops.
- Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?
- Probably not the outcome prosecutors expected.
- The word “ghoulish” leaps immediately to mind.
- Tim Ballard’s downfall is increasingly satisfying.
- The War on Whores, now showing on YouTube.
- Even roses need a little time off to recharge.
- Sleeping with cops isn’t safe for men, either.
- Prohibitionism is a dangerous mental illness.
- Anti-sexworker bigotry harms all women.
- A new tag specifically for rapist screws.
- Throwback Thursday Created Woman.
- Burble burble RED AND BLUE drool.
- The ceiling of my new bathroom.
- It was just a big “whoopsie”.
- What an exhausting week!
- This was a water filter.
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!
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 #745
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged acting, cops, Peru, prisons, Texas, Things We Choose To Do Together, Under Duress, Utah, video, witchcraft on October 13, 2024| Leave a Comment »
What you’re seeing now is a real Jezebel. – Lance Wallnau
It’s rare that I actually find seasonal videos any more, so please enjoy this number from the early ’60s featuring Carol Burnett, Chita Rivera, Caterina Valente, and Boris Karloff. The links above it were provided by Dan Savage, Jacob Sullum, Ronald Bailey, Lenore Skenazy, Radley Balko, IncarcerNation, and Emma Camp, in that order.
- R.I.P. John Amos.
- Much more of this, please.
- What could possibly go wrong?
- More previously-undiscovered Nazca lines!
- I keep telling y’all we’re entering a dark age.
- Crime: public smoking. Penalty: summary execution of bystander.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
From the Archives
- This elaborate concern kabuki is the result of “sex trafficking” propaganda.
- Modern people are in deep denial about the ubiquity of historical sex work.
- Nobody is going to give expensive cannabis edibles to your spawn for free.
- Cops’ typical Halloween nonsense, now with fentanyl instead of marijuana.
- How long will airlines accept liability for government-brand racial profiling?
- Sexworkers ask the Canadian Supreme Court to uphold its own judgment.
- European politicians consider discussing a baby step in the right direction.
- If you didn’t see where this was going, you haven’t been paying attention.
- So much for SF’s pious BS about not sending cops to assault sex workers.
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- Nobody is safe until this odious practice is recognized as unconstitutional.
- As practical limits on surveillance vanish, legal limits are more important.
- Over 90% of all whores work illegally rather than submit to “registration”.
- Ordinary business arrangements get spun into “exploitation” and “crime”.
- Cops believe “a woman wanted to be raped by a random cop” is credible.
- A whole gang of sexual predators specifically target traumatized women.
- Courts finally curtail the worst of Louisiana’s nasty “sex offender” game.
- Cops, Sergio Aragonés, Loretta Lynn, Angela Lansbury, and much more.
- I find it sweet that so many people are so enchanted by our pig, Cicero.
- Why can’t politicians to do more than “urge” cops not to violate people?
- When it comes to surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- Authoritarians are working toward worldwide criminalization of speech.
- Something advertised as spyware is spyware, and people are shocked?
- Another ex-whore thinks it’s her job to cheat her sisters out of money.
- Profiteers will continue to harass businesses thus while FOSTA stands.
- Censors are now pretending ideas they don’t like constitute a “crime”.
- Many overseas pharmacies don’t care about politicians’ permission.
- Funny how many cops who are willing to pay prefer underage girls.
- These abuses are finally getting the attention they’ve long needed.
- A reminder that I depend on your support to keep this blog going.
- Every Friday the 13th, I ask non-sexworkers to stand up for us.
- The people the government empowers to police your sexuality.
- Respite from UK porn censorship lasted less than three years.
- About a twelfth of the time his long string of crimes deserves.
- I can’t feel sorry for cops hoist with their own twisted petard.
- Cops, Russell Batiste, Jr, gay furry hackers, and much more.
- Conditioning kids to accept constant, intrusive surveillance.
- In case you’ve ever wondered where the good cops are.
- We might be about to see the end of the open internet.
- Because this kind of prohibition will surely be different!
- A rare rollback of state control of pregnant women.
- The anti-sex mob are those most obsessed by sex.
- PayPal is becoming a major threat to civil liberties.
- I’ve been wanting one of these for quite a while.
- Dr. David Ley on the consequences of hysteria.
- Consider the massive waste on display here.
- Rapist cops of the week for 2021 and 2022.
- Throwback Thursday Meets the Wolf Man.
- Connecting my new bathroom plumbing.
- Curiosity offends the state, comrade.
- Cops, Tubular Bells, and much more.
- Using my hot tub for the first time.
- The first five rafters are in place.
- R.I.P. Shane Petzer.
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 #732
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged acting, Alabama, California, cops, imaginative fiction, Kenya, Never Call the Cops, New Hampshire, New York, Not for Any Reason Whatsoever, psychology, video, Virginia, witchcraft on July 14, 2024| Leave a Comment »
It’s not dangerous to be scared. – Blair Carlyle
I don’t generally give actors a video sendoff, but in this case I couldn’t resist. The links above it were provided by Jesse Walker (x2), Franklin Harris, and IncarcerNation (x3), in that order.
- This is a really scary story.
- A scheme as old as Abrahamic religion.
- R.I.P. Spencer Milligan and Shelley Duvall.
- Cop murders man for walking down the street.
- Cops murder teen boy for correctly fearing them.
- No, your reason for calling them isn’t an exception.
From the Archives
- Was this the person who sent me the proof of Ashley Madison’s con game?
- The state’s sympathy for “trafficking victims” includes only “perfect” ones.
- Prohibition turns bodies into “crime scenes” which cops can violate at will.
- These clowns claim to be qualified to interfere in doctor-patient relations.
- Politicians are avid devotees of cutting off their noses to spite their faces.
- A weird exception to the rule that the Japanese are sane about sex work.
- Will Oregon be the first US state to recognize sex workers’ human rights?
- If prohibitionists want to “rescue” whores, why shut us out of other jobs?
- It’s only been 4 years since the UK lost in court the last time it tried this.
- Passive voice & obfuscation are used to divert blame for sexual assaults.
- 41% of cops admit to beating their wives; some don’t stop with beating.
- My 1st profession is now as much a target for authoritarians as my 2nd.
- Will taking payment in gift cards protect a sex worker from prosecution?
- Japanese politicians infantilize all adults rather than just young women.
- Mexican cops are more concerned about sex workers than US cops are.
- A prison doesn’t become a “shelter” if those confined there are minors.
- Clueless wonders attempt to ape antics they see on copaganda shows.
- It’s not like 2011 is ancient history, or Florida far away from Georgia.
- Are we about to witness the beginning of the end of these evil laws?
- Cops will continue to do this until there are criminal penalties for it.
- Politicians recognize bank blacklisting when it affects their cronies.
- Politicians send violent thugs to disrupt your life because sadfeelz.
- This kind of surveillance has already been found unconstitutional.
- Looks like we’re going to have to rethink the safety of the mail.
- A perfect example of the principle of garbage in, garbage out.
- Indian sex workers battle a terrible new “anti-trafficking” bill.
- Naturally, because it’s cops’ job to cause harm, not reduce it.
- Cops, Sri Lanka, Doctor Who, Larry Storch, and much more.
- There’s a reason I’ve repeatedly called this cult “dangerous”.
- The feds will try to stop this just as they did in Philadelphia.
- The first installment of my Throwback Thursday feature.
- Cops, crypto-moralism, Balkanization, and much more.
- And how do you think such a “ban” would be enforced?
- The 5th Circuit just keeps on sucking politicians’ dicks.
- I was in this Hulu documentary about Ashley Madison.
- An important victory in the fight for sex worker rights.
- US sex laws are nothing but PR campaigns for cops.
- Unfortunately, this is all we could expect right now.
- Cops, lawheads, Doug Mataconis, and much more.
- Another sign that the moral panic is largely over.
- Your “leaders” want you to call this “correction”.
- Wrangling an 8-meter steel beam onto the roof.
- My twelfth and thirteenth anniversary columns.
- Last summer’s road trip went pretty smoothly.
- All prohibitionism is the same, part umpteen.
- A cop posing as a masseur is still a cop.
- Much more of this worldwide, please.
- Rapist/murderer cop of the week.
- An awning for the paddock ramp.
- Mr. Wizard Goes to the Country.
- Installing the atrium chimney.
- Far too little, far too late.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- A classic case of NHI.
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!
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!
Little Christmas 2023
Posted in Holidays, tagged carnival, holidays, Italy, witchcraft on January 6, 2023| 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!
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