Arthur D. Hlavaty

A Non-Disparagement Agreement

Fri, 14 Mar 2025 13:31:56 GMT

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

Wed, 12 Mar 2025 09:43:51 GMT

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

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Factions

Fri, 07 Mar 2025 21:43:17 GMT

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

Thanx to Nuclear Diner

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Rump the Statist Pig

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 17:06:00 GMT

Radley Balko on the current regime

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For the fun of it

Mon, 24 Feb 2025 12:02:24 GMT

Let’s hear it for the hobbyists

Thanx to Arts & Letters Daily

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Insufficient selectivity

Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:30:32 GMT

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

Sat, 15 Feb 2025 12:13:35 GMT

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?

Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:03:24 GMT

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

Sat, 08 Feb 2025 10:25:42 GMT

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

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Jonah

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 23:03:27 GMT

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

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 12:51:22 GMT

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

Sun, 02 Feb 2025 10:53:42 GMT

Felix crumbly annals, James Joyce

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Straightwashing

Fri, 31 Jan 2025 11:47:54 GMT

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”

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 23:32:20 GMT

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

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rump

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 13:37:45 GMT

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…

Sat, 25 Jan 2025 20:53:57 GMT

The painful story of a supporting player in a family vlog

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Turds of a feather

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 15:18:51 GMT

Failed gambling kingpin pardons successful drug kingpin

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So It Goes

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 14:31:06 GMT

Jules Feiffer died

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Satirists cannot survive

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 19:18:31 GMT

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

Sat, 11 Jan 2025 15:53:58 GMT

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

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 19:53:59 GMT

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

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 22:15:38 GMT

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

Fri, 03 Jan 2025 16:01:22 GMT

Facebook has recruited some artificial intelligences.

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My New Year’s Resolution

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 21:51:01 GMT

I will not call anything iconic.

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Thu, 26 Dec 2024 21:17:09 GMT

Health insurance is stochastic murder.

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