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Somehow the body became secreted.  –  boss hog Kevin Catalina

I’ve been re-watching The Avengers lately, and while perusing a venerable fan site for the show I came across a reference to this video, which I’d never seen before.  The show went to color in its fifth season, and this “mini-episode” was made as a color test; it was broadcast in abridged form on US TV as an ad for the new season, and provides a nice little taste of the show’s style.  The links above it were provided by Missy Mariposa, Mike Masnick, Scott Hechinger, Jesse Walker, T. Greg Doucette, and IncarcerNation (x2), in that order.

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The only defense against [totalitarianism] is absolute rejection of its underlying premise:  that it is acceptable and even moral for “authorities” to abrogate the rights of individuals for a “greater purpose” or the “common good”.  –  “Pyrrhic Victory

Dysphemisms…[are] one of the moralists’ chief weapons in transforming a fact of life into a “menace”, a statement into a “shocking revelation”, a thing they dislike into something “seedy”, or discussion of a taboo subject into a “conspiracy”.  –  “Dysphemisms Galore

The noose which fits the necks of “conservatives” will suit equally well to hang “liberals” (and vice-versa).  –  “Property of the State

The best thing about paid sex is, I get the reward I want regardless of whether my wiring decides to respond in a way that will feed my partner’s ego.
–  “The Tyranny of Orgasm

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In their quest for absolute power over the lives of their subjects, politicians can’t let little things like justice, decency or the law stop them.  –  “Counterfeit Comfort (#16)

I will never cease to be amazed at the inability of statists to recognize that the expansion of government will never stop until it is somehow forced to.  –
The Auctioneer Effect

If your wife said, “if you wouldn’t look at food on TV you wouldn’t need to eat,” you’d recognize this as a patent absurdity, yet our culture tries to convince people this is true of sex.
–  “The Craving

There are lots of reasons a person might desire something in the abstract, yet never partake of it in reality.  –  “In the Abstract

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The only rule without exception is that which states “all rules have exceptions”.  –  “Pendulum

True charity does not come at the point of a gun, good causes need not be shored up with lies, and worthy idols do not have feet of clay.  –  “Feet of Clay

Though moral panics may differ in their particulars, they all share two important characteristics: the menace is claimed to be both enormous and all-pervasive, and to represent an existential threat to Our Treasured Way of Life.  –  “Under Every Bed

Unless I suddenly evolve into an incorporeal being who can live on air and sunlight, I will always have physical and economic needs which must be addressed pragmatically.  –  “Of Course I Would

To paraphrase Baudelaire, the loveliest trick of religion is to convince people that the Devil exists.  –  “Could It Be…Satan?

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A woman’s right to own and control her own body includes not only the right to decisions about the possible consequences of sex, but also the right to decide how, why and with whom she has sex in the first place.  –  “Double Deal

The belief that rape is a “fate worse than death”…portrays the penis as some sort of semi-divine instrument capable of destroying a helpless woman’s entire life at the whim of the man to whom it is attached.  –  “A Fate Worse Than Death

I literally cannot even imagine a situation in which I would conceivably pay a man for sex.  –
The Law of Attraction

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The act of agreeing to serve as a policeman in any regime is at best an amoral one, because in doing so the individual agrees to enforce (by violence if necessary) all of the laws passed by his government, whether he agrees with them or not; he abdicates his personal morality to those in authority and allows his actions to be dictated by others, even if he knows those actions to be wrong.  –  “Godwin’s Law

The most dangerous prohibitionists…are those who oppose no particular behavior or thing, but rather the very freedom of choice itself.  –  “Thou Shalt Not

Despite what the anti-sex crowd likes to pretend, sexuality is not a mere “choice”, something dropped on top of a person’s personality at the last minute like pickles on a cheeseburger; it is a deep and intrinsic part of the human psyche, rooted in the hindbrain and woven throughout the psychic fabric.  –  “The Twig is Bent

If intelligence is rare, advanced spacefaring civilizations might consider all of it valuable, and could conceivably think of any intelligent species confined to a single habitat as “endangered”.  –  “Endangered Species

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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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If ignorance about sex is grounds for a court order forbidding it…religious fundamentalists need to start worrying.  –  “Welcome To Our World (February Updates)

Do you really want to live in a world where a complete police dossier on every friend, every neighbor, every co-worker, is only a few mouse-clicks away…and yours is equally accessible to everyone else?  –  “The Devil’s Toys

Orgasm isn’t only about “doing it right”, sexual satisfaction isn’t only about orgasm, and nobody has the right to define the parameters of “good sex” for you, or to tell you why you “should” or “shouldn’t” have sex.  –  “Mind Over Matter

The “euphemism treadmill” [means] any euphemism eventually becomes the semantic equivalent of the Forbidden Word in the brains of listeners, so that it, too becomes contaminated and must be replaced with a new euphemism.  –  “Unspeakable

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There’s nothing…prohibitionists hate more than whores who refuse to allow themselves to be pimped to the prohibitionist cause.  –  “Real People

Though prohibitionists will vociferously deny it, all prohibitionism is the same.  –  “Change a Few Words

The demons [prohibitionists] imagine…in cartoons, games and television shows [are] nothing more than the ones which…drive…[them] to anti-social behavior.  –  “Physician, Heal Thyself

The tragedy of relationships is that women want men to change, and they don’t, while men don’t want women to change, and they do.  –  “Fossil

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It’s always weird to me to watch amateur women freak out whenever some famous man is caught using his power, wealth, or influence to obtain the kind of sex he craves, despite the fact that men in such positions always, virtually without exception, use their power, wealth, or influence that way.  Yet somehow, amateurs seem committed to the irrational and dubious belief that some individual man they find attractive or admirable will be an exception to the rule.  The problem is that women who have never done sex work really never stop being naive about male sexuality.  Sex work teaches you that male politicians, teachers, doctors, scientists, engineers, clergymen, writers, artists, sportsmen, musicians, accountants, etc, etc, are all rather uncivilized where sex is concerned.  But there’s little point in our trying to explain it to them, because most amateur women absolutely refuse to admit that whoring might actually grant some desirable skills that it’s difficult or impossible to gain otherwise.  Suggest that other female-dominated professions such as nursing or teaching might grant unique perspective, and they’re good with that view.  But say it about dirty-bad-icky harlotry, and they won’t have it, because it would interfere with their ability to look down on us regardless of their own education or situation.  And so they’ll keep failing to be on guard around men with power, and keep being surprised when they abuse that power in the way powerful men always do.

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