Maggiemcneill

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2979 )

• Value for Value

  

  On Monday evening I sent out this tweet, quoting an article someone else had tweeted (CAUTION: loud obnoxious autoplay video): People who follow me are... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2017 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Points of Contact

  

  Though I no longer use different stage names (in fact, virtually nobody except the government uses my legal name any more), I still have different email... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2017 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• In the News (#753)

  

  Anti-prostitution crusaders behave as if we were at war over a symbol rather than discussing possible and partial solutions. – Laura AgustínCheck Your Premises... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2017 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Divided We Stand

  

  After the United States dies, the evil of prohibition will (albeit gradually) follow it into Hell. – “Successor”Four years ago I wrote “The Mills of the Gods”,... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2017 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Diary #366

  

  I stayed rather busy last week, from walking with SWOP in the Seattle Pride parade on Sunday (because somebody has to speak up for sex workers, since Gay, Inc... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2017 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Links #365

  

  [If] a black [cop is]…shot and treated as an ordinary black guy on the street…[it’s] a real problem. – Rufus TateSometimes the world gives us moments of pure an... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2017 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• In the News (#752)

  

  Doesn’t anyone on our Super Bowl committee have access to Google? – Cory ZurowskiPyrrhic VictoryIt was only a matter of time before the TSA’s role in mass... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2017 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Back Issue: June 2014

  

  When one argues with a “true believer”…one might as well be arguing with a dumpster. – “Stuffed With Rubbish”With the introduction of the Diary feature, the... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2017 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Realistic Expectations

  

  I’m over 70 and no longer able to get an erection even with the meds available. I’m in good shape, not bad looking and can afford it, but am reluctant to... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2017 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• In the News (#751)

  

  I have so little respect for Cindy [McCain] and her objectives…that even under the best of circumstances I do not think [her] organization merits existence. Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2017 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Diary #365

  

  Last week was such a busy one!  On Wednesday I flew to Chicago, on Friday I had a reception at which I spoke and sold some of my books, and on Saturday I... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2017 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Nothing To Be Proud Of

  

  Yesterday was Seattle’s observance of Pride, the annual celebration of the Stonewall riots of June 28th, 1969, in which queer people said “no more” to police... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2017 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Links #364

  

  People die in these circumstances. – Darci TierneyI saw this video pop up a few days ago; someone decided to compile all of the silly window cameo jokes from th... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2017 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• In the News (#750)

  

  “Sexual exploitation” sounds like you’ve got a woman in a cage in the basement. – John TymczyszynA Broker in PillageDear useful idiots: I did tell you so:Four... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2017 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Total Eclipse of the Brain

  

  It’s time again for another vivisection of a “sex trafficking” article so breathtakingly stupid, so absolutely and unequivocally unmoored to reality, so... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2017 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Organically Grown

  

  I’m an aspiring writer who started up a blog under a pen name, but I’d like to have people actually read what I write and ideally get published and paid later... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2017 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Summer Solstice 2017

  

  The apparent path of the sun reached its northernmost point at 04:24 UTC today, marking the longest day of the year and the beginning of summer in the Northern... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2017 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• In the News (#749)

  

  “Cashless society” is a euphemism for the “ask-your-banks-for-permission-to-pay society”. – Brett ScottHooker HumorAs I’ve often said, most jokes about sex... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2017 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Diary #364

  

  Some of you know that I’ve got practical reasons for distrusting the government as well as philosophical ones. I hear phrases like “I’ve never seen this... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2017 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Links #363

  

  Rarely on this side of the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea are we blessed with propaganda so divorced from the surly bonds of reality that it sails... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2017 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY