Arthur D. Hlavaty

A Non-Disparagement Agreement

2025-03-14T13:31:56Z

Sarah Wynn-Williams is forbidden to publicize Careless People, her tell-all memoir of working at Meta/Facebook. You and I are not.

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American

2025-03-12T09:43:51Z

Once again Lone Skum and his Junior Birdmen have not kept me from getting my Social Security payment

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Factions

2025-03-07T21:43:17Z

Let us remind these groups that they should not trust one another.

Thanx to Nuclear Diner

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Rump the Statist Pig

2025-02-27T17:06:00Z

Radley Balko on the current regime

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For the fun of it

2025-02-24T12:02:24Z

Let’s hear it for the hobbyists

Thanx to Arts & Letters Daily

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Insufficient selectivity

2025-02-17T19:30:32Z

Matt Schlapp, an important Republican, has been accused of sexual assault. Normally this would not bother the party of Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth, but Schlapp made it all icky and dirty by sexually assaulting men. Will the party be able to go back to saying, “Nothing queer about *our* rapists”?

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Majority

2025-02-15T12:13:35Z

One thing from my libertarian days that still makes sense is that in a democracy one vote can theoretically change what everyone has to do. A system that can make almost half the people miserable is deficient and should be used only as a last resort.

Rump didn’t get a mandate; whether he got a majority is debatable. The problem is that the US is split down the middle (like a tuchus, as an old family friend would say) and we don’t know how to deal with that.

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Where is Ramtha when we need him?

2025-02-12T11:03:24Z

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) said she wants Congress to question key investigators of John F. Kennedy’s assassination – including physicians who examined him and members of the Warren Commission.

They are all dead.

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Imitating Art

2025-02-08T10:25:42Z

I am alarmed by how much Lone Skum resembles the hero of an Astounding story

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Jonah

2025-02-04T23:03:27Z

Donald Trump, who killed an entire football league by being Donald Trump,* is going to the Super Bowl. Will history repeat?

*Pearlman, Jeff (2018), Football for a Buck: The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL

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Sewermouth

2025-02-04T12:51:22Z

Here are some Dirty Words that must be taken out of scientific papers lest they hurt the sensitive feelings of the government:

Gender, transgender, pregnant person, pregnant people, LGBT, transsexual, non-binary, nonbinary, assigned male at birth, assigned female at birth, biologically male, biologically female

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away along the

2025-02-02T10:53:42Z

Felix crumbly annals, James Joyce

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Straightwashing

2025-01-31T11:47:54Z

The figure-skating world suffered two losses yesterday: the Potomac air crash and the death of Dick Button, a great skater and then a great skating commentator.

Back in the Seventies there was a part of Central Park that was famous as a place for gays to meet for quick anonymous sex. One night a group of alleged human beings decided it would be peachy keen fun to go there with baseball bats and do some literal gay bashing.

One of the victims was Dick Button. He was a network TV star and America was even less sane about sex than it is now, so when the perps were tried, they said that they had somehow wound up hitting random bystanders and poor Mr. Button somehow got in the way.

Fortunately he recovered and continued on his career until his death yesterday. The Times published the official story of the beating in the obit but also noted that one of his survivors was his [male] “longtime companion,”

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“Honor”

2025-01-30T23:32:20Z

An Asian man killed his 14-year-old American born daughter for “immodest” Tik-Tok posts.

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rump

2025-01-27T13:37:45Z

Bernadette used to review horror & crime books for my zine under the title of “Morbidity & Mortality Report.” I am sad to see that rump has suppressed the original as part of his program of keeping as many of us as possible sick and ignorant.

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And costarring as herself, kinda…

2025-01-25T20:53:57Z

The painful story of a supporting player in a family vlog

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Turds of a feather

2025-01-23T15:18:51Z

Failed gambling kingpin pardons successful drug kingpin

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So It Goes

2025-01-21T14:31:06Z

Jules Feiffer died

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Satirists cannot survive

2025-01-16T19:18:31Z

The US is going to have a strategic reserve of bitcoin. Maybe we can give some of it as foreign aid to countries we don’t really like.

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Art

2025-01-11T15:53:58Z

One of the dubious ideas I got from Stranger in a Strange Land is that visual art must tell a story. As I evolved to a more YKIOK view of all the arts, I took out the part about “must” but conceded that my kink resembled Jubal Harshaw’s. So I like Rockwell and Hopper. But the stories don’t have to be straightforward, so I also like Dali and Magritte.

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New genre

2025-01-07T19:53:59Z

Clickfic: Those touching online stories which, if you’re lucky, lead to an ad for something else rather than something that will mess with your computer.

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Weaklings

2025-01-06T22:15:38Z

rump’s election was certified, and we didn’t kill or even scare anybody or rub shit on the walls or anything. What kind of Americans are we?

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Imaginary Friends

2025-01-03T16:01:22Z

Facebook has recruited some artificial intelligences.

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My New Year’s Resolution

2025-01-01T21:51:01Z

I will not call anything iconic.

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supergee @ 2024-12-26T16:16:00

2024-12-26T21:17:09Z

Health insurance is stochastic murder.

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