The Honest Courtesan

Sometimes I feel as though Grace is watching over me.

I’m an autumnal sort of gal; I like the days short & chilly, the leaves a riot of color, and the nights filled with warm beverages & savory scents. – “Diary #326” We don’t want to be “legalized & regulated”; we just want to be left alone.

I had a few. – “Officer” Dustin Christina This video, called to my attention by Mike Siegel, speaks for itself.

Forcing women to give birth knowing they won’t be bringing a baby home is pure cruelty. – Nancy Northup The Leading Players in the Field, Not (#574) While Western “feminists” burbled hagiographies of Gloria Steinem, Indian feminists had this to say: …Glor…

Most of my own recipes were developed in the ’90s and Oughts, when I was typically cooking for 2-3 people, which means now that I live alone they are usually good for two meals, one fresh and one as leftovers.

The apparent path of the sun crosses the celestial equator southbound at 00:05 UTC today, making this the first day of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere and the first of spring in the Southern.

We kill people based on metadata. – General Michael Hayden Vulture Watching (#1527) The only way to stop this evil is to bury politicians in lawsuits: The family of a woman who died after she could not get an abortion in Texas is suing doctors and [politi…

If you compare this video to the one I took several weeks ago, you can see just how much happier and healthier the turkey is now that he can roam around outside of the coop, safe from literal henpecking.

They’re letting police do just about anything. – Randall Kallinen When Dolly Parton died a few weeks ago, I seemed to be the only one who remembered this 1976 guest appearance on Captain Kangaroo; the video was clearly taken from the edited reruns of old…

The suggestion to “be mindful”…[is] going to prevent absolutely no one from recording others. – Chris Hoffman Policing for Profit Cops usually make up some pretext, however flimsy, for their robbery schemes: A [Las Vegas cop named]…Antonio Chavez…and his…

Ugh, this sounds like something he mutters to himself during masturbation. — Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-08-15T03:01:51.899Z I always have mixed feelings about "investigations" or "studies" that "find" things which were always complet…

Surveillance makes all of us less safe. – Evan Greer The More the Better Anything that helps demystify sex work is a good thing: It shouldn’t be surprising that sex workers around the country are boning up on firearms education.

Since last year was a poor one for tomatoes, I ran out of homemade salsa early this year, and had to make do with store-bought salsa this summer.

In my south Louisiana childhood, dragonflies were so common they sometimes looked almost like a fog overhead, especially in the late afternoon; if you sat still for a few minutes they’d start landing on you.

That was fun. – Polymarket bettor A few months ago I got a deluge of links all at once, but I have found only using seven a week usually makes these columns more manageable; that’s why you’re seeing slightly less-current links lately, but I think we’ll be…

Parents should be worried about the long-term cognitive and social effects for both parent and child of constantly talking to and relying on…chatbots. – Frank Landymore Elephant in the Parlor (#1074) Politicians hiring male sex workers isn’t much less com…

I’ve never followed the maudlin practice of turning September 11th into an observance, but because today marks 25 years since the event, I decided it would not be inappropriate to do the “Where were you when…?”

I don’t like reading anymore. – child subjected to “Amira” To Molest and Rape They usually try to make this sound like the rapist was doing his victims a favor: …In the early morning hours of September 20, 2024, a…[typical and representative] Giddings, Te…

This is the time of year when the pigs, guided by their amazingly acute sense of smell, start spending a lot of time under the apple trees, feasting on drops.

If you use social media, you’ve undoubtedly seen games like this.

You’re not the future anymore!

The…State has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. – Stanley v.

I haven’t forgotten that I estimated Lost Angels would be released around June, but long-time readers know that I’ve never been especially good at estimating when my books would come out; The Essential Maggie McNeill came out six years after I first annou…

For those who find [drag shows] offensive, the solution is relatively simple…just don’t go. – Judge David Hittner To Molest and Rape When will amateur women learn cops are dangerous sex predators?