Kentucky’s War on VD: The God That Failed
Just a damn fine book. It had been on my insanely long to-read list for a while now. The plot works at breakneck speed and Chesterton wields alliteration like a weapon. You see how it was an inspiration for so many later works. I wish I had read this earlier.
It is in the public domain and available on Gutenberg.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1695/1695-h/1695-h.htm
So, in the long, long ago, before the ravages of the internet, I had no idea that my high school girlfriend was a squirter. I had only slept with a couple of girls before we started dating,* both frustrating and fleeting encounters, so I didn’t realize this was abnormal. It wasn’t the large spray of piss that features in porn, it was just a little thick white liquid that came out only when I was giving her a proper deep-dicking; not much, maybe a 1/4 teaspoon.
*I often contend that I lost my virginity in three distinct phases. The first girl, at YMCA Leadership Camp was a spitfire little redhead, curly and freckled. We had been dating for pretty much the entire two weeks of camp, holding hands, making out. But on the last night of camp, we snuck away from the Kumbaya sing-a-long and locked ourselves in her dorm room. First live girl I ever saw completely naked, small breasts, pink, pink nipples and that red bush. I was so erect, I thought my dick-skin would split. I went down on her, she went down on me, and then the big event. I got about a 1/4 of the way in before she stopped because it hurt so much. She tried to give me a blowjob, but wasn’t very good at it, so she let me jack-off in her mouth. We parted happy, promised to write, never did, and I realized after I got home that she stole my watch.
The other phase was this girl this girl I met working in the high school theater production of Oklahoma. (I was forced to participate, I ran the light board.) Cute enough, nice body under very baggy clothes, terrible 80s hair. We made out at a school lock-in after I broke up with my horrible first proper girlfriend, a frigid white-blond vampire-pale bitch. The next night, we went to the drive-in and made out some more, and she got nice and naked. We fooled around until she told me to fuck her. Said “Fuck me!” on the sticky bench seat in the steamroom of the car. So I did. As soon as I entered her, she went dead. Didn’t move, frozen, like a corpse. I pumped for a while; felt like frottaging a meaty credenza. I couldn’t finish. 16-years-old and I couldn’t finish. She was fine after I pulled out, normal, chatty. We went out the next weekend and the same thing happened. We never talked about it and quietly drifted away from each other.
It wasn’t until the squirter that I got to actually ejaculate in a girl. She was a sweetheart. She was the valedictorian and I barely managed to graduate. We dated for 20 months, and she then tore my heart out.
Ghost of Gamergate
A new video game sparked fury and accusations of wokeness in entertainment. But we’ve played this game before—and it’s boring.
Transgender video game industry that injects woke themes complaining that straight men, the vast majority of AAA gamers, reject it, and denies it was filled with woke themes and thinks nagging gamers will result in men buying the game. I swear, these people put the lude in deluded. Brings up GamerGate, the completely valid idea that you need to gatekeep to keep this shit out of games.
And let’s roll that beautiful sausage footage…
OK, so a great song, but I post it to talk about the idea that is it a neurolinguistic hack to get rid of a song running in your head. (I had a Backstreet Boys song yesterday, guh. (And, also, doesn’t Backstreet Boys make it sound like they peddle their assholes in an alley somewhere, which is probably more truthful than most want to admit.))
Anyway, the idea is that you can wipe a song out of your head with another song (which does occasionally work) but that the opening line of “All Good People” is so long, it not only wipes out the other song, but also cannot be used as a maddening jingle in your mind afterwards. It might all be bullshit and placebo, but it works for me about 75% of the time.
Putting songs in each other’s head is a bit of a bloodsport where I work. I once sidled up to my tiny, beautiful, terrifying boss and calmly said, not singing, “You say that we’ve got nothing in common, no common ground to start from, and we’re falling apart.” She called me a bastard and punched me really hard in the arm.
Wow… wonder if I caught the site mid post… looks like mobile from the column, and I have like 3 copies of the site links at the top… funky! SF confused WordPress with his writing, I guess… off to read it!
Yup… back to normal. Dontcha love computers and their predictability? Heh…
Earworms, ghaa!!!
My Dachshunds name is Wednesday
Wednesday,
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_20251008_175037.jpg
Adorable… but I do have a soft spot for the breed…
Sweetie-pie!
So… you’re saying you gave her a good time.
And I’m continually amazed that anyone got anything in high school… suffice it to say that my social life was nowhere near entertaining any such possibilities. I’d say “lucky stiff” — but you covered that before the whole watch thing.
*narrows gaze*
I probably could have had a lot of sex, but I was really stupid about girls and also hung up on one in particular.
What a mistake. Oh well.
I had my father as an inspiration. I really didn’t understand until I was an adult that he was doing everything he could to get his bookish kid to have a successful social life in high school: nice clothes, cool car, money on the sly. (We were not rich folk.)
I couldn’t imagine having a car as a teen, let alone a nice one.
I can see how that would help.
I had a car, kinda cool one even.
It helps.
I had an 84 Oldsmobile station wagon. This was a boat.
I probably had a chance to get some in high school, but I was too stupid to pick up on it. It wasn’t until many years later when I rode past the girl’s house that it occurred to me that when she asked me to drive her to her house during school hours, it wasn’t really because she forgot something.
It is 50-50 for me. I got laid, with a girl even, but looking back I sure missed a lot of clues.
You and me both Jaime. Years after I graduated, I learned about 2 or 3 girls that had a crush on me. They had been completely out of my league, or so I thought. I was so busy chasing girls that had no interest in me, that I completely ignored the ones right in front of my face.
If I could give younger TOK dating advice, it would be that there has to be a non-zero number of girls interested in you. Make it your job to find them.
I missed so many signals. So many. Even into college. Even past college.
A girl once remarked, “you’re good boyfriend material since you’re too dumb to realize when women are hitting on you”.
Thanks? Low self-esteem for the win, I guess.
I’m (slightly) better now.
Reminds me of a good joke.
Man is using his hand on a woman, and he’s really getting after it and she says “Baby baby your ring is hurting. Can you take your ring off?”
And the man says “That’s not my ring woman, that’s my watch!”
Given your writing, I can only assume you mean this literally and that you replaced it with the eternally cold black void at the heart of a dead star.
Follow the God that Failed.
I like the bass in that song.
Way to tie the themes together – Chesterson’s The Man Who Was Thursday was extensively referenced in the greatest video game of all time, Deus Ex.
It also had a huge influence on Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly and elements of Grant Morrison’s Invisibles.
Sounds familiar. To be fair, at that age I wasn’t smart enough to pick a good woman if my life depended on it.
Yup this. Very familiar.
Turns out she was screwing her exes and making out with frat bros the whole time we were dating. She also picked up her dad’s bad habit of getting physical when drunk.
Going downtown first time out? Bravo.
Also:
*clears throat*
Ooh-wee-ooh, I look just like Buddy Holly….
(you’re welcome)
:whispers quietly: baby shark doo doo doo doo doo doo baby shark….
I don’t have kids so, while I’m aware of that, it doesn’t have the same impact on me.
My sister-in-law would start twitching.
Clean as a whistle.
Once you were done with it, I assume.
One of Dane Cook’s best lines: “Her vagina smelled like it had been washed with a dirtier vagina.”
Da lawz iz da lawz
“The activities that are being undertaken here are contrary to the laws,” San Francisco U.S. District Court Judge Susan Yvonne Illston told lawyers for the administration on Wednesday at a hearing where she issued the temporary restraining order.
“You can’t do this in a nation of laws,” Illston said, according to NBC News. “And we have laws here, and the things that are being articulated here are not within the law.”
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Two unions representing tens of thousands of federal workers had asked Illston to block the RIFs.
I wonder if she ever gat around to citing any of those laws.
Oh, Lawzy!
I’m just curious, from where to the bureaucrats derive their power?
Your money.
Earworm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sjGBXckGB4
Forbidden fruit.
The judge also said that she believed the unions would be able to prove that the Trump administration’s actions were illegal and “arbitrary and capricious.”
Vindictive. Don’t forget vindictive.
Also, “cruel” and “heartless”.
We dated for 20 months, and she then tore my heart out.
Her name wouldn’t be Mary Ellen Moffitt, would it?
(H/T OMWC)
🙂
Polly Perkins
https://youtu.be/Dows1BmmA7g?si=78kACbBQyoP7lh5G
One of my favorite films.
Transgender video game industry that injects woke themes complaining that straight men, the vast majority of AAA gamers
Wokeness in AAA? shudder
I am beyond fed up with all the politics.
Games are supposed to be fun, assholes.
The struggle is real.
You know who else had a struggle?
And, also, doesn’t Backstreet Boys make it sound like they peddle their assholes in an alley somewhere, which is probably more truthful than most want to admit.))
The Back Door Boys.
The Broke Backdoor Boys
Brokeback Doorboys? Gay erotica set among the staff of a hotel in 1960’s Cheyenne, Wyoming?
Exactly
The men don’t know, but the little girls understand?
Nicely done.
Maybe if they turned that game into a shooter, and you hunted quiltbags for money and prizes.
I able able to completely fluster must girlfriend by saying just two words.
Muppet Songs: Mahna Mahna (Muppet Show – 1976)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbZ_hTEOKZc
She gets back at me by singing “Raindrops keep falling on my head” when I have to pee urgently.
She wants you to pee on her.
Drip drip drip
That looks like one of those old timey carnival sideshow “half man, half woman” freaks.
After she rips your heart out
Underwater and Sinking Deeper: The Average Amount Owed on Upside-Down Auto Loans Climbed to an All-Time High of $6,905, According to Edmunds
No way…
I wonder how much the creative financing has masked (or even enabled) the complete unaffordability of the car market. When you’re paying off your car in 7 years, the monthly payment stays the same even if the car costs twice as much. You’ll own nothing and be happy, I guess.
If (when) interest rates start to climb, there’s going to be a lot of shit hitting a lot of fans.
Math is hard!
Didn’t the Big Beautiful Bill make interest on car loans tax deductible? Surely that will make cars more affordable and encourage responsible borrowing.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/retail/big-beautiful-bill-includes-car-loan-interest-tax-deduction-do-you-qualify
The Man Who Would Be Thursday is fantastic. I read it probably 30-35 years ago when I was a used book store rat, and only knew about it due to an entry in Horror 100 which a chronological set of reviews by modern horror novels about which book influenced them. Definitely worth checking out, but don’t bother with anything else in the series, as they are all one person sets of reviews.
https://www.abebooks.com/Horror-100-Best-Books-Jones-Stephen/32321077172/bd
Mas who was…
Jesus zwak, get it together.
I’m at 49/100
Although, I have read other books than those listed by another dozen or so.
HS sex. Ugh. I heard a lot of wild stories from the other guys and just knew I was missing out. Later I learned about girls and did my best to catch up. Then pass those guys up and not by a little bit. I got married, then divorced. I dated A LOT.
At one point for a few years I was seeing between 2 and 8 women at the same time. Sex multiple times a day with multiple women….sounds like fun huh? It is not. It is exhausting. After some time I learned my brother was envious of me and complained. He had been married to the same woman for 15 years and had two sons. I told him the God’s truth – “You think what I have done is glamorous. It’s not. There is no way for me to explain this to you or for you to grasp the gravity of it but YOU ARE NOT THE ONE THAT MISSED OUT.”
Then, 34 years ago I got married again. I haven’t looked left of right since. It has been the best 34 years of my life and I wouldn’t trade a minute of it for anything. If I find myself single again I will not go back to the dating game.
Way to bury this tidbit NYP
Breakthrough in Long Island cold case as cops arrest alleged killer of 16-year-old girl after 40 years
“Mistakes were made”.
So, I’m guessing they used the same tricks they used to get the “Golden State Killer” aka Original Night Stalker. Though the article doesn’t provide such details.
This will show up, thinly disguised, on some future episode of “Law and Order” with some judge going along with the defense attorney’s demand that the cup evidence be tossed out because “chain of evidence” was not properly established.
They should throw the whole thing out as it is a second dip at the well.
“Your honor, the defense would like to know how many other people have been tried and found guilty, only to be let free when the full set of facts come out, for this crime? And when this person is found innocent, who will be next?”
There is a reason you don’t charge multiple people for the same crime.
Out of the blue
A 15-year-old boy was slammed to the ground by federal agents using force to disperse protesters Tuesday and then “disappeared” to a garage for five hours, according to attorneys hired by his family.
The incident happened in the city’s East Side neighborhood as crowds swelled around the scene of a car crash caused by federal agents, witnesses said. The agents had used a collision maneuver barred by local police to cause a car it was chasing near 105th Street and Avenue N to spin out, leading its occupants to tumble out of the still-moving vehicle and flee on foot.
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In the commotion the 15-year-old boy, a Black and Hispanic U.S. citizen, was slammed to the ground, kneed in the back and zip-tied by Border Patrol agents, attorneys from the Romanucci and Blandin law firm said in a statement.
The boy was taken to a federal facility and handcuffed inside a car in a garage for five hours, according to the attorneys. He was never booked, read his rights or allowed to contact his mother, who had “no idea where her son was or whether he [was] safe,” according to the attorneys.
“This is not law enforcement; this is the playbook of authoritarian regimes,” attorney Antonio M. Romanucci said in a statement. “The behavior by people who have sworn to serve our communities and country is a painful parallel to the days of the Ku Klux Klan patrolling the streets with their faces covered, terrorizing people of color. The horrific behavior has to stop.”
Those people were all just minding their own business when Trump’s goons went nuts.
In some cases that may be true.
Yes, some of them are going to be goons. Remove them. Instead Dems point to them as a reason to excuse all illegals from having to obey any immigration law.
We only know binary.
No enforcement.
Over enforcement.
It’s fucking ridiculous.
He didn’ do nuthn’!
https://ij.org/case/alabama-construction-site-raids/
How?
I get that this guy maybe has an individual case but calling it “class action” can only mean that they are against deporting illegals, period. Glad I never gave them money, I guess. Because asking illegals to pretty-please turn yourselves in isn’t working.
Any US citizen accused as such would be the class.
A class doesn’t have to be hundreds. Saves them lots of time and effort to fight this.
It’s what the law was supposed to do before it was quickly abused.
What a fucking surprise.
In some cases that may be true.
I don’t doubt that for a second. In this case, according to the story, a mob formed after a car chase and began threatening the ICE goons.
The Homeland Security spokesperson said the teen hit an agent in the face with an egg.
“The individual was arrested for the assault and taken to the FBI Field Office in Chicago where he freely admitted without questioning to throwing eggs at agents. His attorney met with him at the field office, and he was released without charges,” the unnamed spokesperson said. “Secretary [Kristi] Noem’s message to the rioters is clear: you will not stop us or slow us down.”
It would sting like crazy if a kid with a decent harm nailed you in the face with an egg.
Would it sting if an agent threw him over his knee and gave him a good spanking?
“Then she tore my heart out.”
That is a right of passage isn’t it? In the rearview it seems ridiculous and in my wisdom now I realize she did me a HUGE favor but at the time it felt like dying. Nothing can hurt this bad, can it?
When she dies is as bad as that
You are correct. I meant from a 16 yo’s perspective. At the time it seems that way…in hindsight now it never should have made me blink. Yes, there are far worse things.
Mistakes were made, a few girls in high school dropped out and got married.
It was a different time. I got married at 24, I was 5 years too young.
Beat you by 5 years.
I was 17, she was 19. The first girl to rip my heart out and use it like a sombrero in a Mexican hat dance.
We don’t like your kind
Conservative influencer Candace Owens has been denied entry into Australia after the country’s High Court on Wednesday sided with the government and ruled she could “incite discord” among communities.
While the Australian Constitution does not explicitly protect free speech, High Court Justices Stephen Gageler, Michelle Gordon and Robert Beech-Jones jointly ruled that implied freedom of political communication “is not a ‘personal right,’ is not unlimited and is not absolute.”
Uppity race traitors verboten.
At this point it is extremely unlikely that I will ever leave the US again.
Please stay, theres still plenty to see and enjoy
LOL there certainly is. I haven’t visited about 40 states….
Guam? PR? USVI?
I’d be afraid of tipping over Guam.
Otherwise… sure, if the 1st applies.
As part of the High Court’s ruling, Owens has been ordered to pay the government’s court costs.
What a shithole.
“You have denied me the privilege of being within your jurisdiction so..you know…go fuck yourself.”
This is the kind of thing that illustrates just how much people here in the US take our country for granted. They really dont understand what Clemens meant when he said “America is the worst country, except for all the others. “
TRY HARDER
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/trump-administration-shutdown-donald-trump/2025/10/14/id/1230347/
Seriously. Only 1,995,892 to go!
… I found a cli version of the LLM I’ve been playing with, which lets me interface over SSH rather than local console (X11 crashes for the program when done remotely, haven’t sorted that out).
Buuuuut… the output text is tiny compared to the console version, and it cuts off mid-sentence so you know it was compositing a longer piece and hit some arbitrary limit.
Im just getting caught up. From the dedthread:
UnCivilServant on October 15, 2025 at 1:48 pm
No. There will be Tres-certified landwhales.
My only response is “Ahoy!”
My only response is “Ahoy!”
Harpoon ready.
That got me blubbering…
“Nice blowhole!”
I’ve linked this before.
I think this is EXACTLY right, but the right has a couple of problems:
1. As a collective, conservatives aren’t terribly creative or, should I say, inclined toward making art.
2. Of the conservative art that exists, it’s generally (note I used the G-word) mediocre and just as preachy as the left’s.
3. Even if art that a conservative makes is excellent, the path to the mainstream is harder to plow than for the left. The right is more obliged to hide their politics and lessons than the left is.
That doesn’t mean I think it’s not possible, but I do think it’s going to take a collective of VERY talented artists and programmers to make any kind of dent in the market whatsoever, with the intent of beating back Woke.
That’s more than a couple.
It’s two different world-views.
For the left, everything is politics. The right is generally too busy living in the real world for that shit. And that is why they have been losing the “culture war” for decades.
I think the best one can hope for is to just remove politics from everywhere it doesn’t belong.
Yes, exactly. Conservatively minded people just want to live their lives and get shit done. They generally aren’t fanciful or whimsical, and it takes compelling fancy and whimsy for anyone to get out their pens, guitars, and paintbrushes.
Conservatives have a lot of musicians, but that activity is almost obligatory, a rite of passage, and has as its bedrock the church.
The main thing is to just don’t buy the game or see the movie or watch the TV show. The wallet is all the companies that employ these woke assholes understand.
The woke assholes who sit in conference rooms at some of these companies seem more than happy to lose plenty of company money in service of enlightening the filthy masses. Or so they think. From my view in the cheap seats, the filthy masses really aren’t enlightened. Rather, small choirs are preached to, and the conference room-sitters get a tingly feeling at great expense.
Boycotts don’t work unless it’s en masse, sustained, and loud. There is no world in which one random 4Channer says, “Nope, no more” and all 13 of his buddies do too, and it gets back to the ears of the beancounters—
You know. The baby MBAs who sacrifice longevity and health and growth for Q3 profits by any means mecessary, and all the “stakeholders” (I hate that word), board members, and PE people are nodding along like bobbleheads like being penny wise and piund foolish is good long-term strategy.
To speak to B.P.’s point, agree totally. The people who are there are there EXPRESSLY to push their agenda and feel good. They already have money. They’re like the people taking private jets to climate crisis conferences.
From my neck of the woods. Argument in shopping center parking lot results in two people shot. Shooter sentenced to 90 days in jail…
https://www.9news.com/article/news/crime/denver-suspect-sentenced-shooting-federal-boulevard/73-751273c1-c17a-43c4-a6db-eec76567a9a2?tbref=hp
I know the devil is in the details when it comes to criminal cases, but this seems a little lenient.
Hey Trashy I just saw in the morning thread that your instrument cluster has intermittent issues. Dodge perhaps? I had some issues in my 06 Ram so I took the cluster out. There’s a circuit board with a big IC or two in it. I got a soldering iron on it it just enough to rewet the solder. Fixed everything and that was eight years ago. Still fixed. It’s not too hard but you will need to remove almost the entire dash. Youtube has some videos.