Links #709

Contrary to popular belief, [civil rights] also protect undocumented immigrants.  –  Phillip Arroyo

There’s only one real choice to mark the passing of Shangri-Las lead singer Mary Weiss, so here it is in the form of a rather silly TV performance from 1964.  The links above the video were provided by Mike Siegel; Phoenix Calida; David Ley; Jesse Walker and Mike Siegel again; IncarcerNation; Nun Ya; and Walter Olson, in that order.

• Prohibition in action.
• This cannot be reformed.
• I’m sure you feel safer now.
• R.I.P. Mary Weiss and Carl Weathers.
• Armed robbery would be far more typical.
• {Insert Ben Franklin quote about safety and liberty}
• Goverment is just a word for the things we choose to do together.

From the Archives

• Better cops escape consequences than this ugly trope be reinforced again.
• This piece is so restrained it doesn’t even use the term “super gonorrhea”.
• Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
• This histrionic has-been has made a rotting moral panic her whole career.
• Laws enabling nuisance lawsuits will multiply until ruled unconstitutional.
• The way local media parrots clearly-foolish copaganda is utterly pathetic.
• I wonder how many more fakeumentaries we’ll see before the implosion?
• Woman paid to cause non-consensual harm thinks sex work is shameful.
• A man has been convicted of “crimes” against people who do not exist.
• Trans people have become another canary in the civil rights coal mine.
• “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time“.
• The Dutch scheme to Disnify De Wallen is no longer merely a scheme.
• Oh noes, they contaminated public places with their eeeevul sex rays!
• This’d be a real improvement if the release conditions were objective.
• Dr. David Ley schools his fellow therapists on the reality of sex work.
• Another cop scam to shore up the dying “sex trafficking” mythology.
• Just as we said would happen before this terrible law was imposed.
• Virginia screws sexually assault women like this on a regular basis.
• Give aggressive thugs power over teen girls; what could go wrong?
• Even I’m impressed with the speed this is happening in New York.
• Pathetic public promotions of misogynistic masturbatory material.
• CGI women are replacing “sex robots” in prohibitionist fantasies.
• Take a guess why this woman hates sex workers. Go on, guess.
• We haven’t seen a case of white van hysteria in almost a year.
• Cops, satire, Cloris Leachman, Cicely Tyson, and much more.
• Judge denies prosecutors’ wish to keep nonconsensual porn.
• Retrospectives of my blogging from January 2012 and 2013.
• Notice how often predatory cops’ victims are underage?
• Cops, Gina Lollobrigida, David Crosby, and much more.
• One of the greatest legal abominations ever conceived.
• Another obituary of Margo St. James from 48 Hills.
• Are most cops even capable of telling the truth?
• Cops, headlines, Don Wilson, and much more.
• There is nothing as contagious as a bad idea.
• The US has regularly done this for decades.
• Until SCOTUS acts, this will only get worse.
• Caring for our elderly cat in her last days.
• There is nothing contradictory about this.
• Part 2 of my six-part review of Blake’s 7.
• It looks like Florida is aping Texas again.
• This is why we can’t have nice things.
• My two previous columns for Imbolc.
• The arrival of our standby generator.
• The second leaf of my atrium roof.
• Job opportunities with Prostasia.
• Beginning the annex decor.
• Rapist cops of the week.
• The right kind of snow.
• The Omega Factor.

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Links #708

Our [product] can be used for a variety of tasks, such [task 1], [task 2], and [task 3].

It wasn’t easy to decide which of Peter Schickele’s many “PDQ Bach” compositions to use for his memorial, but I eventually decided this one best demonstrated their flavor in a way one needn’t be a music nerd to grasp.  The links above it were provided by Mike Siegel; Scott Greenfield; Popehat and Mike Siegel again (x2); Phoenix Calida (x2); and C.J. Ciaramella, in that order.

• Metaphor alert.
• “Repent, Harlequin!” said the Ticktockmen.
• R.I.P. Peter Schickele and Norman Jewison.
• Robot cars are a menace, and should be banned.
• Pseudoscience is already a lie, so she just compounded it.
• Some want these systems operating vehicles at highway speed.
• Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.

From the Archives

• Snitching apps first sold as anti-whore technology are widening their nets.
• I was fated to be threatened with state violence regardless of career path.
• Does any sane person still believe this is about anything other than profit?
• How nice of him to “volunteer” for a position that gave access to children.
• Everything about modern corporate work makes me happier I’m a whore.
• Is there anything narrower and meaner than the mind of a prison official?
• Laws enabling nuisance lawsuits will multiply until ruled unconstitutional.
• Prohibitionist profiteers will harass businesses until FOSTA is overturned.
• Hey, female cops; how’s that collaboration with the police state working?
• Politicians want to punish people for failing to do the literally impossible.
• Why do building supply stores carry products unsuited to the local area?
• Useful idiots keep giving government excuses for Orwellian surveillance.
• Cops will keep this up until people stop pretending adults dislike sweets.
• If prohibitionists want to “rescue” whores, why keep us from other jobs?
• We may be seeing the beginning of the end of these medieval practices.
• Nothing infuriates violent, self-important busybodies more than privacy.
• Authoritarians want people to forget the true nature of this psychopath.
• How often must I say, “Don’t let non-doctors inject filth into your body“?
• I guess they figure calling rape “sex trafficking” will net a larger payout.
• Sex work is a major part of the Thai economy, but don’t tell politicians.
• Alabama labels all escort ads “sex trafficking” & arrests all the women.
• Believing what politicians say is like trying to build a castle on a cloud.
• Even the use of the distancing “former” is the same as for rapist cops.
• Half a year old, but since the events were over a century ago anyhow…
• Do cops realize how stupid their narrative-mixing makes them sound?
• Hysterics claim typing words into an algorithm constitutes “violence”.
• Another good little article on interacting with sex workers on Twitter.
• Rashida Jones’ sleazy prohibitionism ties into a much bigger picture.
• Cops, Lisa Marie Presley, Adam Rich, Carole Cook, and much more.
• TSA goons can freely molest citizens, but this was a bit too blatant.
• The bipartisan war on the internet continues without even a pause.
• “Conversion therapy” has never been banned anywhere in the US.
• Cops, drugs, candles, Mira Furlan, Hank Aaron, and much more.
• Call prohibitionists what they are, not what they pretend to be.
• Calling politicians on their hypocrisy is an interesting strategy.
• Politicians are always happy to indulge cops’ violent fantasies.
• Cops, Lovecraft, Yvette Mimieux, Meat Loaf, and much more.
• Retrospectives of my blogging from January 2011 and 2012.
• Preventing a cascade of predatory “sex trafficking” lawsuits.
• Don’t worry, the Swedish model “decriminalizes the seller”!
• SCOTUS refuses to slay this monster of its own creation.
• My new propane water heater is connected and running.
• A microcosm of the whole “sex trafficking” moral panic.
• This guy needs to be put away before he murders her.
• This will continue for as long as the voters allow it to.
• 578,759 people total at a density of about 2 per km².
• The first installment of a six-part review of Blake’s 7.
• Prohibitionism is an inherently violent belief system.
• The New York Times subtly speaks ill of the dead.
• Another step toward total financial surveillance.
• Another cop demonstrating exactly what he is.
• The US finally decides to call a spade a spade.
• Prohibitionism is a dangerous mental illness.
• They’ll use any excuse to protect their own.
• Sealing a roof gap against the rain.
• Rapist-cop enablers of the decade.
• More curated selections of tweets.
• The results of a tolerance break.
• Much more of this, please.
• Rapist cop of the week.
• Micro-events.

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Links #707

All I know about magnets is this, give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that’s the end of the magnets.  –  Donald Trump

When I first mentioned this cartoon in “My Favorite Short Films” almost 12 years ago, it was only available on the National Film Board of Canada website.  But since that has changed, here it is.  The links above it were provided by Greg Lukianoff, Franklin Harris, C.J. Ciaramella (x2), Mike Masnick, Lucy Steigerwald, and Jesse Walker, in that order.

• As one does.
• R.I.P. Cindy Morgan.
• I’m sure you feel safer now.
• The state considers this a plus.
• Fucking magnets, how do they work?
• Why is “never” so difficult to understand?
• Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.

From the Archives

• Working people all over are done with arbitrary authoritarian “lockdowns”.
• 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.
• 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?
• Are most people really surprised to find out that cops are habitual liars?
• Remember this when people claim prohibitionists are “well-intentioned”.
• Whores are even less popular with the Establishment than MAGA types.
• Even journalists reporting on this insist on referring to it as “correction”.
• He pronounced the wrong magic words in the magic Spell of Forfeiture.
• Some believe they can live forever by eliminating all pleasure from life.
• Though this is becoming a safe position, we still have a long way to go.
• The machine of authoritarianism is vast, complex, and has many parts.
• Cops really don’t care how many false positives these systems shit out.
• Beijing ramps up its campaign to silence Chinese people outside China.
• Another example of how “lockdowns” cause far more harm than good.
• Politicians & the media feign shock over a disaster they helped create.
• Discussing extreme fetishes in writing with any amateur is a bad idea.
• The UK’s long internet censorship campaign turns mindlessly carceral.
• The real humanitarians fight against racist “anti-trafficking” schemes.
• France becomes the first European country to start this conversation.
• Reporters must learn that “people work to make money” is not news.
• 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?
• Cops, Jeff Beck, Walter Cunningham, Fay Weldon, and much more.
• 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.
• Cops, pigeons, Florida, Siegfried Fischbacher, and much more.
• In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
• Texas cops raid migrant-owned businesses; what a surprise.
• “Tolerance policies” are not equivalent to decriminalization.
• Cops think they can just make up their own pharmacology.
• Cops, nerds, puritanism, Ronnie Spector, and much more.
• Another firsthand account of China’s torture of Uighurs.
• All that’s left of the once-popular “gypsy whores” myth.
• A sad regurgitation of all the usual anti-porn nonsense.
• It would be difficult to bury this lede any further down.
• “Criminality” is a status defined entirely by the State.
• The recrudescence of the “repressed memory” myth.
• 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 War on Whores, now showing on YouTube.
• Alabama is trying to make up for its late start.
• Brooke Magnanti’s new project, Body of Work.
• Cathy Reisenwitz on the awfulness of Polaris.
• Prohibitionism is a dangerous mental illness.
• Sleeping with cops isn’t safe for men, either.
• Even roses need a little time off to recharge.
• Anti-sexworker bigotry harms all women.
• A new tag specifically for rapist screws.
• The ceiling of my new bathroom.
• Dealing with a constipated pig.
• What an exhausting week!

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Links #706

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.

• Ignorance is bliss.
• I’m sure you feel safer now.
• Veni. Vidi. Conveni. Consedi.
• These people want to manage your money.
• Another cop demonstrates exactly what he is.
• Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever.
• R.I.P. Shecky Greene, Glynis Johns, and David Soul.

From the Archives

• Stop denying the agency of women you don’t know just to “pwn the cops”.
• The bipartisan war on the internet takes us another step toward idiocracy.
• Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
• “The pimps who sell sex” may be one of the most clueless headlines ever.
• The press ignores a censorship law’s dangerous enforcement mechanism.
• The toll will continue to rise until policing as we know it now is abolished.
• Useful idiots destroy any possibility that this djinni can ever be rebottled.
• Hey, female cops; how’s that collaboration with the police state working?
• I predicted this when politicians started belching about “contact tracing”.
• The only thing this “documents” is Sarah Jones’ creepy sexual fantasies.
• Some psychopaths use moral panics to get attention at others’ expense.
• Telling cops to “think about what they did wrong” is criminal negligence.
• Cop treats disagreement as he normally does, and the press is shocked.
• Cops arbitrarily group unrelated arrests & call it a “sex trafficking sting”.
• Another attempt to extend legal minority to 25 based in pseudoscience.
• I hope these opportunists get the same treatment as the Nirvana baby.
• Innocent people accused of “sex trafficking” by attention-hungry loons.
• An important step toward ending this front in the ruinous culture war.
• “Child protection” abuses are finally getting the attention they need.
• I have never enjoyed a conference as much as I enjoyed Hereticon.
• Cops will continue to do this until there are criminal penalties for it.
• When a headline asks a question, the answer is nearly always “no”.
• A deep dive on the history of the current US pro-censorship cabal.
• Straight-up anti-sex propaganda repeated by a delusional parrot.
• It’s kinda nauseating to read this monster’s prattle about Jesus.
• I guess 5 years is longer than most Americans’ attention spans.
• A very brave woman working to expose a colossal abomination.
• Cops, witches, Anita Pointer, Adolfo Kaminsky, and much more.
• In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
• In which the UN throws away what little credibility it had left.
• If you didn’t foresee this, you haven’t been paying attention.
• It usually starts with sex workers, but it never stops with us.
• This “good intentions” shit is nothing but an excuse for evil.
• Everything cops and other “justice” officials tell you is a lie.
• It won’t be long until this spreads into the greater internet.
• More weak-minded panic over ordinary social interactions.
• You’ll have to forgive me for finding this terribly amusing.
• Cops, mass surveillance, Sidney Poitier, and much more.
• Despite appearances, I’m really quite the homebody.
• It’s best not to upset useful idiots at a time like this.
• Most rapist New Orleans cops don’t do it by proxy.
• Your “leaders” refer to this atrocity as “correction”.
• Cops, irony, hysteria, Beowulf, and much more.
• De-Yuling the house is always just a little sad.
• How can a new client get his first references?
• A conversation with Matisse and Carol Leigh.
• Copmala’s psychotic hatred of sex workers.
• If it’s too wet for pigs, ponies and llamas…
• Cops want their hysteria to trump reality.
• “Smart” devices are not, part umpteen.
• The “swimming pool of iniquity”.
• In Miami Beach for Hereticon.
• More of my Twitter musings.
• I’m sure you feel safer now.
• Friday, January 13th, 2023.
• Rapist cops of the week.
• R.I.P. Margo St. James.

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Links #705

I will never make egg fried rice again.  –  Wang Gang

Though Essra Mohawk had a career which spanned decades starting in the ’60, this is probably the performance most of y’all will remember best.  The links above it were provided by Dan Savage, Jesse Walker, Joe Lancaster, Clarissa, Mike Masnick, Popehat, and IncarcerNation, in that order.

• As one does.
• R.I.P. Essra Mohawk.
• I’m sure you feel safer now.
• Laws are more important than people.
• Egg fried rice is now subversive in China.
• What the beginning of a dark age looks like.
• Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever.

From the Archives

• Blaming behavior on an “addiction” is the opposite of taking responsibility.
• Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
• Cops, writing, Pelé, Barbara Walters, Pope Benedict XVI, and much more.
• Prosecutor begs judge to let him keep illegal porn video for personal use.
• Previous columns for New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day, & Little Christmas.
• Prohibitionists can always find bogus “studies” to support their fantasies.
• In the US, the government would’ve “helped” by prosecuting the victims.
• Hey, female cops; how’s collaboration with the police state working out?
• Funny how often people “die suddenly” while cops are brutalizing them.
• Are the Japanese the only people left who can tell fantasy from reality?
• When will the federal government finally read the writing on the wall?
• Cops are sexual predators who specifically target traumatized women.
• Without your unflagging support, my blog would’ve folded years ago.
• Texas won’t be satisfied until every functionary is spying on women.
• Innocent people accused of “sex trafficking” are starting to hit back.
• Courts are losing patience with arbitrary authoritarian “lockdowns”.
• As a cop and screw, he treated strangers in exactly this same way.
• Worst of all, Western governments are looking at this as a model.
• An earlier report identified only 245, until somebody dug deeper.
• How to totally destroy your relationship with your teen offspring.
• This will continue until reporters stop parroting cop PR releases.
• Does anyone really believe this wasn’t a foregone conclusion?
• At last, the world is starting to pay attention to sex workers.
• The unhinged Guinasso and his pet fantasist are at it again.
• Cops, amateurs, Betty White, April Ashley, and much more.
• The word “healthy” is no longer a semantically neutral one.
• Cops, lycanthropy, Luna, Barbara Shelley, and much more.
• It’s deeply satisfying to see cops preying upon each other.
• In which the Wall Street Journal licks Xi Jinping’s arse.
• Another example of why cops are not reformable.
• Congress won’t stop until it controls the internet.
• Are you beginning to see the whole picture now?
• Another example of barking up the wrong tree.
• In which I build a new kitchen shelving unit.
• Where “alleged” is used to mean “endemic”.
• “Youth pastors” of a feather flock together.
• Your “leaders” refer to this as “correction”.
• When it’s too cold to work on the annex.
• An argument I’ve often made myself.
• Literal baby-raping cop of the week.
• As I’ve been telling you since 2012.
• Being lazy (by Maggie standards).
• This is only the beginning.
• Rapist cops of the week.
• Twelfth Night at Sunset.

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Links #704

Shut the fuck up before I shoot you.  –  David Delgado

When I used to watch a lot of public TV in the late ’70s and early ’80s, our local PBS station played a lot of shorts between shows, many from the National Film Board of Canada; this one was played so often I got rather tired of it, but it’s been over 40 years since I’ve seen it and it’s certainly seasonal, so voilà.  The links above it were provided by Mike Masnick; Popehat; Dan Savage and Marc Randazza; Lucy Steigerwald; and IncarcerNation (x3), in that order.

• Headline of the week.
• An act of truly epic stupidity.
• R.I.P. Tommy Smothers and Reed Lee.
• Cops arrest man for wrecking his bar into their truck.
• Don’t call their wives if you find their lost phones, either.
• Sheriffs with delusions of grandeur aren’t restricted to the South.
• Small-dicked cop attacks toy store clerk for selling his wife a dildo.

From the Archives

• Prohibition turns bodies into “crime scenes” which cops can violate at will.
• Hey, female cops; how’s that collaboration with the police state working?
• Previous columns for Yule, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day & Boxing Day.
• Moral courage in a politician is like a platypus performing Shakespeare.
• I recently gave an interview for the 30th anniversary of Pretty Woman.
• Why does a vacuum cleaner need either a camera or a wifi connection?
• A study trashes the justifications for ruinous authoritarian “lockdowns”.
• Politicians love redefining words to mean something more convenient.
• Nobody will be safe until this odious practice is ruled unconstitutional.
• It’s good to see this lurid narrative turned against cops for a change.
• The State finally “finds” what thousands have told them for decades.
• Even the yellow press can no longer ignore this megalomaniac’s lies.
• Even I am impressed with the speed this is happening in New York.
• What about authors who aren’t violent, genocidal  megalomaniacs?
• “Give me your huddled masses, so I can torture and deport them”.
• Americans will believe basically any scaremongering about teens.
• Cops, games, Bach, Pierre Cardin, Dawn Wells, and much more.
• A retrospective of my blogging from December 2011 and 2012.
• A new level of public support for sex workers from a politician.
• Never forget that this started with censorship of internet porn.
• A long-overdue move by Mexico to throw off US domination.
• It usually starts with us, but it never, ever stops with us.
• Cops, Monty Python, Herbert Deutsch, and much more.
• The rising costs of promoting “sex trafficking” hysteria.
• Horrifyingly-abusive nuns are not restricted to Ireland.
• An important victory in the fight for sex worker rights.
• Just in case you thought this was restricted to the US.
• Fascist corporations are eager to assist in a genocide.
• Useful idiots claim you don’t need anonymity online.
• Cops regularly demonstrate exactly what they are.
• Cops, roadkill, Sally Ann Howes, and much more.
• Congress won’t stop until it controls the internet.
• This week’s entry in the “No shit” department.
• There is nothing as contagious as a bad idea.
• We’ve got a certain routine on holidays.
• You can’t always get what you want.
• The loveliest Christmas in years.
• The future is rooted in the past.
• What a lovely Christmas I had!
• All prohibitionism is the same.
• “Pastors” are as bad as cops.
• My official semi-retirement.

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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Links #703

There’s bigger issues to be concerned about than a 10-year-old urinating.  –  Patricia Mitchell

My favorite version of A Christmas Carol is the 1999 Patrick Stewart production; my second favorite is this animated version from 1971.  It’s the only adaptation of the story ever to win an Oscar; the power of the imagery may surprise you.  The links above it were supplied by IncarcerNation, Popehat, Brooke Magnanti, Mike Masnick, IncarcerNation again, and Jesse Walker, in that order.

• Gotta catch ’em all.
• I’m sure you feel safer now.
• I hate it when this happens.
• Can you label all of the states?
• Another cop repeatedly demonstrating exactly what he is.
• “There is always this urge to use [new technology] to contact the dead“.

From the Archives

• All laws, even “progressive” ones, are more heavily enforced vs minorities.
• Why are people shocked when men encouraged to behave violently do so?
• Texas seems to be preparing to extend its deranged jihad to trans adults.
• Swedish model fanatics won’t stop trying to impose their filth on the UK.
• If prohibitionists want to “rescue” whores, why keep us from other jobs?
• While cops suffer no consequences, these laws are mere grandstanding.
• The one man most responsible for caging US women is now president.
• Cops won’t drop this fantasy until media stop obediently parroting it.
• Indian sex workers, like their US sisters, are going online to survive.
• This is what your god-emperor calls “going after the billionaires”.
• This is what prohibitionists call the “failure” of decriminalization.
• Prince George’s County, Maryland is well-known for rapist cops.
• All too often, evil arrives cloaked in the mantle of expediency.
• The worse the idea, the more eager politicians are to ape it.
• The civil rights violations cops commit reinforce each other.
• Cops, Arabic, paranoia, Star Trek, drugs, and much more.
• Authoritarians pretend this is more humane than prison.
• Because this kind of prohibition will surely be different!
• Prohibitionists care only about “messages”, not facts.
• Cops, Halloween, Chris Boucher, and much more.
• Congress won’t stop until it controls the internet.
• Cops, truth, Desmond Tutu, and much more.
• It’s good when they feed on each other.
• More curated selections of tweets.
• This seems like a wise decision.
• The last of my 2021 toy drive.
• I suffer a rare bout of illness.
• Christmas goodies!

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Links #702

I should be taking you to jail!  –  “Officer” Benjamin Jacquot

I came upon this odd, charming little alternate-world fantasy a few weeks ago; I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.  The links above it were provided by Dan Savage, Mark Bennett, Emma Camp, Clarissa, and IncarcerNation (x2), in that order.

• R.I.P. Norman Lear.
• More female cops will certainly fix this.
• Mad-dog cop randomly attacks little boy.
• The earliest known image of Keith Richards.
• Clearly the kids shouldn’t have chosen to be in the car.
• Crime: plugging in to an outlet.  Penalty: summary execution.

From the Archives

• Hundreds of hours & thousands of dollars wasted on political showboating.
• Indonesian fanatics have been trying to impose this evil scheme for years.
• Biden tries to take the “sex trafficking” narrative back from the Trumpists.
• Far too many believe all society can be neatly divided into sheep & goats.
• Prohibition never eradicates the banned thing; it just helps shady actors.
• Until there are criminal penalties for this, cops have no incentive to stop.
• Gang committing widespread mayhem is described as merely “troubled”.
• New Zealand cops apparently lack sufficient reasons to brutalize people.
• More cops using non-consenting people as props in a propaganda show.
• The key to breaking these evil laws is recognizing them as punishment.
• Remember, this is not slavery, but lucrative, flexible, voluntary work is.
• PREA is nonsense while screws have absolute power over their victims.
• Cops, muffins, Bob McGrath, Kirstie Alley, Angelo Badalamenti & more.
• Backpage case judge claims the Backpage case “isn’t about Backpage”.
• To an exceptionally-healthy person, rare illnesses are deeply annoying.
• Will South Africa become the 3rd country to achieve decriminalization?
• Even the use of the distancing “former” is the same as for rapist cops.
• The adventures of a fanatical, unhinged lawyer and his pet fantasist.
• Pretending to be a sex worker gets the attention without the stigma.
• Canada often rewards its rapist cops with years-long paid vacations.
• Why are men with so much to lose so goddamned stupid about sex?
• Why are people shocked when men paid to behave violently, do so?
• Cops think they can never have enough pretexts to harass people.
• Kiran Deshmukh of the National Network of Sex Workers in India.
• Cops, odors, Pooh, Charley Pride, John le Carré, and much more.
• We aren’t living in a simulation; at least, not the kind you mean.
• Cops hiding evidence are described as murderer’s “co-workers”.
• Some still believe these sociopaths desire to “protect children”.
• A district court judge has to do SCOTUS’ job because it won’t.
• Arizona screws think they can cure mental illness by torture.
• Why end-to-end encryption is only the beginning of security.
• He wasn’t a “former” warden when he raped three women.
• It’s rare that a rapist cop is stopped after only one victim.
• Still doubt that politicians are deranged megalomaniacs?
• FBI thugs are just federal cops, and behave accordingly.
• Providing some small help to needy kids in a lean year.
• “Lockdowns…mak[e] poor people an awful lot poorer“.
• Prohibitionists care only about “messages”, not facts.
• Bigotry is not a legal justification for sexual assault.
• Cops, snakes, Mars, Anne Rice, and much more.
• Prohibitionists are targeting all online sex work.
• Your government refers to this as “correction”.
• My two previous columns for December 17th.
• But please, tell me more about the “wings”.
• We finally have all of our roofing materials.
• A better toy drive than I initially expected.
• Your “leaders” refer to this as “correction”.
• A tag just for cops caught with child porn.
• Setting an example for his underlings.
• The last day of my 2022 toy drive.
• This subtitle is no exaggeration.
• My shower is almost complete.
• I’m sure you feel safer now.
• Rapist cops of the week.

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Links #701

That’s what happens when you don’t answer questions.  –  Jason Ball

Of their many moving songs, this one seems most appropriate to honor the passing of the Pogues’ frontman & songwriter Shane MacGowan.  The links above the video were provided by Mike Masnick; Mike Siegel (x2); Stephen Lemons and Jesse Walker; C.J. Ciaramella (x2); and IncarcerNation, in that order.

• Nightmare of the week.
• A really low bar for “terror”.
• Where’s “fraud prevention” in this?
• R.I.P. Shane MacGowan and Elliott Erwitt.
• More cops demonstrating exactly what they are.
• “The most transparent police force in the country“.
• Cop murders man for grieving over his mother’s death.

From the Archives

• Thought you could avoid the Gestapo by taking a bus rather than a plane?
• Australian cops envy the FBI, and want to run their own kiddie porn sites.
• I wish news outlets would stop publishing their rulers’ wanking fantasies.
• There’s nothing to stop tyrants from simply bringing “Choke Point” back.
• When victims have nothing to steal, cops profit by fucking up their lives.
• Burying government in lawsuits is the only way to slow its depredations.
• If prohibitionists want to “rescue” whores, why keep us from other jobs?
• This omits to say that the spy devices were designed and built in China.
• I’ll believe Facebook is actually going to do this when it actually does it.
• A bureaucratic disaster viewed through the lens of a dying moral panic.
• It’s unlikely this will pass the Senate, but it’s a sign of change anyhow.
• When government loses one excuse for violence, it will invent another.
• More folly from the UK’s decade-long campaign to censor the internet.
• Almost 30 years before he was caught, then another 6.5 before trial.
• Cops, robots, “alternative medicine”, Mike Nesmith, and much more.
• I think we have enough evidence to start calling this “McNeill’s Law”.
• “Drugs” are a popular pretext for petty vindictiveness in US prisons.
• The absurdity becomes more obvious when we substitute “toaster”.
• Cops, prohibition, sushi, Ben Bova, Chuck Yeager, and much more.
• No, Parler doesn’t have a “porn problem”; it has a spam problem.
• “Law enforcement worker” is a new low in cop-crime obfuscation.
• “One Hand” Kristof launches yet another pro-censorship crusade.
• It’s only one step from “all commercial vehicles” to “all vehicles”.
• It usually starts with “vice criminals”, but it never stops with us.
• A brief timeline of the steps I’ve taken to make Sunset a home.
• Why local laws banning facial recognition are feel-good bullshit.
• All internet “porn” censorship schemes have similar endgames.
• Cops, curses, Christine McVie, Robert Clary, and Greg Bear.
• Will the feds interfere with this as they did in Philadelphia?
• Supporters of mass incarceration worship Holy Hypocrisy.
• I hope the Institute for Justice has already contacted her.
• Anything can be “trafficking” if you use your imagination.
• A big step toward ending the disastrous War on Drugs.
• Your “leaders” know what’s best, so shut up and obey.
• It’s getting harder to tell the preachers from the cops.
• Professionals have been telling y’all this for decades.
• A break in the rain = more time to work on the roof.
• Another of those nonexistent false rape accusations.
• A new nadir for photographs in the US news media.
• Rapist cops of the week for 2020, 2021, and 2022.
• Congress won’t stop until it controls the internet.
• The old strip club business model is a dead duck.
• Three weeks from my official semi-retirement.
• My last run into Seattle before Christmas.
• Another sign we’re past the watershed.
• Cops just love them some kiddie porn.
• Tracy Quan remembers Carol Leigh.
• A nearly-perfect Christmas tree.
• Improvements to my bathroom.
• On the magic of morning snow.
• St. Nicholas loves whores.
• R.I.P. Phil Harvey.

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Links #700

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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