An unintentional body movement can lead to death. – Scott Harlan Since I often share my earworms with you, I’m unsure how this one – presenting a view of death not at all unlike mine – has managed to avoid being featured before. The links above the video were provided by Jesse Wa … | Continue reading
They destroyed my life…and now they want to keep quiet. – Daegun Chun Traffic Jam (#694) The first exoneration of a victim of “sex trafficking” hysteria has come, 14 years earlier than I expected. Of course, it happened in Canada, where the hysteria was never as virulent as in th … | Continue reading
This is the heart of “Progressive” thought: force people (via social engineering, prohibition and criminalization) to only eat, wear, watch, read, hear, say, do and think what “experts” have decided is “good” for them, and the Millennium will arrive on the very next high-speed tr … | Continue reading
Self-appointed guardians of the public morals are always looking for new ways to ensure that absolutely no one can escape their snooping or whatever scarlet letters they’ve been branded with. – “The Puritan Recrudescence” Apparent humans with the attention span of a goldfish and … | Continue reading
The privacy threats posed by facial recognition technology are, in many ways, unprecedented. – Michal Kosinski To Molest and Rape Cops are a menace to women of all ages: A…Utah [cop named] Bronson Willas Wood [forcibly groped a young] woman “against her consent”…on March 18, 2023 … | Continue reading
Last year, I definitely took the shutters down too early because I unwisely let a warm week convince me it was time. So this year, I decided I would do it no earlier than Easter and no later than May Eve, essentially sometime in April; that seems right because I put them back on … | Continue reading
Friendly suggestion to folks who feel inspired to spout out "hot takes" about how awful the modern world is because capitalism, patriarchy, wokeness, or whatever your favorite folk devil may be: Study some history. Even just a LITTLE will make your opinions far less stupid. — Mag … | Continue reading
It’s the victim’s fault cops murdered him. – Dan Thompson (paraphrase) Of all the Allman Brothers songs on which he played, this is probably the best showcase of the late Dickey Betts’ talents. The links above the video were all provided by IncarcerNation, except for “RIP” (Dan S … | Continue reading
To prohibit vice is not ordinarily considered within the police power of the state. – Justice Jackson Temple, 1887 The Camel’s Nose (#584) There is nothing as hard to kill as a bad law: Twelve years ago, internet users spoke up with one voice to reject a law that would build cens … | Continue reading
When I tell people, “never call the cops for any reason whatsoever”, many of them fail to realize that calling 911 = calling the cops. You cannot call 911 and tell them you want an EMT or ambulance or whatever and not cops; regardless of what you say, they will send cops first. S … | Continue reading
One of the most terrifying [tools of state control works] by redefining behaviors once considered “vices”, “crimes” or “moral turpitude” into “public health issues”, allowing religious fanatics to don the white coats of doctors and disguise their Puritanism as something akin to e … | Continue reading
The procurement of health insurance is not a mandatory religious ritual. – Judge Leanna K. Weissmann The Punitive Mindset (#838) We need a class-action suit for booksellers affected by these evil policies: A Georgia jail is refusing all books shipped to inmates, except those that … | Continue reading
On Sunday, I opened up the nursery so the pullets could come out, and plugged their heat lamp into the timer so it only comes on at night. As usual, one of the adult hens barged in there pretty quickly to eat their food (as though they had none of their own), but while the […] | Continue reading
To Molest and Rape The sleazy “confidential informant” system enables corruption and abuse: A [Texas woman has filed a] federal lawsuit…against a [typical and representative cop named] Terry Fountain [describes how he used outstanding]…warrants and charges [against her to demand … | Continue reading
As an AI language model, I cannot give legal advice on the afterlife. – ChatGPT There is only one song to honor the passing of another New Orleans great, and this is it. The links above the video were provided by The Onion, Mike Masnick, Emma Camp, Jesse Walker, IncarcerNation, P … | Continue reading
Where a government deploys its soldiers will always be politics by other means. – Brandon del Pozo Fallen Idol (#1305) A strange, anticlimactic ending to this saga: The judge overseeing the Ron Jeremy criminal case has granted the defense’s motion to dismiss the case after expert … | Continue reading
Last Friday I grumbled a bit about so many large bills arriving at once, and asked if any of y’all could help; by the time I woke up one generous gent had already sent a sizable donation, and before the day was out another asked how much my propane bill was, and immediately sent … | Continue reading
The line between flirting with a woman and ejaculating on her is such a subtle one, it’s just too much to leave it to individual judgment. – “Out of Control (#628)” If you think it’s “sad” sex is subject to economics, I have only four words to say to you: Grow the fuck up. – […] | Continue reading
We can, indeed, convince ourselves that boogeymen are real. – Claire Zagorski & Ryan Marino Legal Is as Legal Does Who but a politician could conceive of fighting some crime by criminalizing legal business? [Due to] the discovery of a U.S. citizen with two girls, aged 12 and 13…i … | Continue reading
Regular readers know that I like seasonal weather to be seasonal. In other words, I like dark, gloomy, rainy weather in the winter, but when it’s time for spring I want to see spring weather; one drawback of living on the Olympic Peninsula is that winter weather often holds on he … | Continue reading
It’s been quite a while since I wrote my reviews of series 12 of Doctor Who; I saw series 13 with Lorelei Rivers only a few months after its initial broadcast, but I really wanted to see it again with Grace on DVD before reviewing it, and I only accomplished that a few weeks ago. … | Continue reading
I can’t breathe. – Tangi Johnson I recently heard this song for the first time in many years, and it reminded me that I rather liked Springsteen in the days when I jokingly referred to him as “Bruce Mumblesing”. The links above it were provided by Nun Ya, Radley Balko, Jesse Walk … | Continue reading
It was like a fun game to them. – “Jeny” The Prudish Giant (#1011) Why does anyone still trust Facebook? In 2016, Facebook launched a secret project designed to intercept and decrypt the network traffic between people using Snapchat’s app and its servers. The goal was to understa … | Continue reading
Now that I’m (basically) done with getting my house the way I want it, living within my means has become easier most of the year, except in April, which many rulers apparently think is the best time for extracting tribute via collectivist rhetoric backed by threats of organized v … | Continue reading
We live in a world in which the highest points are all occupied by professional full-time fools, and it seems pointless for a sane person to even attempt to compete with them. – “The Rule of Fools” Where do [prohibitionist] morons…get this shit? Do they literally look in the toil … | Continue reading
[San Jose’s] approach…is to treat unhoused people as blight consistent with trash or graffiti. – Tristia Bauman Negative Secondary Effects I held off on sharing the news about Washington’s passing a “strippers’ bill of rights” until the governor signed it last week; I still haven … | Continue reading
Y’all are probably pretty sick of pictures of chickens, so now for something completely different: pictures of eggs! OK, so y’all are probably pretty sick of those as well, but look how nice these came out! Our youngest layers are the white leghorns, so for the past two weeks I s … | Continue reading
We’re not in Afghanistan or Gaza. – Bevis Schock Even though I don’t do April Fools hoaxes any more, I still like a good parody, and I recently came across this one by Amy Winfrey, mocking her own hilarious Making Fiends series (if you’ve never seen it, you should remedy that tod … | Continue reading
No one should fear a knock at the door from police simply because of what the YouTube algorithm serves up. – Albert Fox-Cahn Not So Different Politicians can’t resist using popular web services to expand surveillance: A bill recently introduced in Colorado aims to make dating app … | Continue reading
Laws which violate whores’ rights invariably violate everyone’s. – “Lack of Evidence (#311)” Indian sex workers saved a 14-year-old girl from being sold to a brothel. Can you imagine U.S. cops contradicting a prohibitionist politician’s lies? Prosecutor lies about a service’s fee … | Continue reading
You just go right ahead believing that the US military-industrial complex is so very concerned with commercial sex that it’s willing to spend considerable funds just to stop people from having it. – “Guinea Pigs” To [sex prohibitionists] trapped in this horrifying belief-system, … | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence is not that intelligent. – Ella Dawson Dirty Amateurs Why are amateurs so damned averse to using condoms? …Calmara claims to use AI to screen photos uploaded by users for STIs. They want you to open their website, take a picture of your partner’s genitals … | Continue reading
On Sunday, I moved the pullets into their “playpen” in the henhouse, then cleaned up all their mess in the bathroom. Of course I then had to check on them a number of times to make sure they knew where their food and water were, and that their pen was secure from intrusion by the … | Continue reading
No Escape Sure, give sexually-aggressive adult men total power over teenage girls; what could possibly go wrong? A [screw] at a [Washington] juvenile [jail raped] a 15-year-old [prisoner] inside a [pigmobile]…Antwon Jones…[h]as [been] charged [with]…rape and fir[ed]. Jones was ta … | Continue reading
I don’t know what the solution is. – man who built tennis court on sand It isn’t often that YouTube’s algorithms show me anything I want to see, but this was an exception: my favorite living animator’s first student film, from 1999. The links above it were provided by Mike Masnic … | Continue reading
Parents have the right to exercise their religious beliefs…but…not…in a manner that causes…harm to [their] child. – Indiana Court of Appeals Monsters (#591) If you have to ask the State to compel your 16-year-old to submit to your control, you have already lost them regardless of … | Continue reading
ONE politician photographed in a clean suit with a shovel in his hand looks like a moron. Now get a load of THIS moronathon. https://t.co/APeYGKUdrv — Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 23, 2024 Oh look, the Scooby gang has pulled the hood off of the Sex Trafficking Phanto … | Continue reading
It’s bad enough when adult reporters try to get me to do their work for them, but it reaches a higher level of impudence when the person who thinks he can outwit me isn’t even as old as the last bottle of wine I drank. – “Not Last Night” In real life, people don’t generally […] | Continue reading
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” Why can’t women grasp why men can’t be h … | Continue reading
Most of y’all probably now by now about Bluesky, Jack Dorsey’s still-fairly-new Twitter clone, which is supposed to have been designed to make it more difficult for one delusional billionaire to buy up and intentionally wreck. I’ve been there for a few months now, and I like it; … | Continue reading
The apparent path of the sun reached its southernmost point at 3:27 UTC today, making this the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and the longest day of the year in the Southern. This is a time for remembrance, renewal and rebirth; I wish for all my readers the … | Continue reading
It is the nature of human folly that most of our species prefer comfortable lies to uncomfortable truths. – “Crumbling House” HIV forces Arab rulers to admit they can’t abolish sex work by banning it. The “sex advice” in Men’s Health is almost as moronic as that in Cosmo. Cops, … | Continue reading
He got so excited that I was bisexual, like, maybe he needed to change his underwear. – “Alison” Without Let or Hindrance Some still believe these sociopaths are motivated by “child protection”: …an…anonymous caller, whom L.B. believes to be a former acquaintance with a grudge, … | Continue reading
This is called pomace; it’s the stuff left over after finely-chopped apples are crushed for juice. And I usually have a lot of it at this time of year. I collect a bucket of apples, tossing aside the ones bugs have bored into or that are too small to work with. Then I peel and … | Continue reading
Face the fuck away from me! – “Officer” Jeramie Nevarez I chose this song for Roger Whittaker’s memorial simply because it is my favorite of his oeuvre. The links above it were provided by Reason, Franklin Harris, Amy Alkon, and Radley Balko (x2), Jesse Walker, and Robby Soave … | Continue reading
They never actually say, “Go do this or else you’re going to have this consequence.” But everybody just knows. – Judge Jennifer Elrod To Molest and Rape If only there were a concise term for “commission of a nonconsensual sexual act”: …a [typical and representative] Savanna [O … | Continue reading
There’s globes everywhere. Every movie, every TV show, news media…it doesn’t make sense. – Kandiss Taylor It’s easy to commemorate a singer’s death when she only has one major it. The links above the video were provided by Ricardo Cortés, Dan Savage, Stephen Lemons, Cop Cris … | Continue reading