U better live now/Before the grim reaper come knocking on your door. – Prince, “Let’s Go Crazy”
The big news this week, of course, was the sudden and unexpected death of the iconic rock star Prince; as of this writing the cause of that death is still unknown, but I’m not going to let the occasion pass without a tribute. Unfortunately, there aren’t many Prince videos on YouTube because a few years ago he had them all removed, and policed it pretty closely thereafter. Since I really hate embedding a video and later finding it gone, here’s one I hope will stick: a live performance of “Purple Rain” on The Arsenio Hall Show in 1991. Of course, I already featured the best Prince performance on YouTube in Links #195 two years ago, and you really ought to watch that one, too. The links above the video are from Matt Welch (“garden”), Radley Balko (“compulsory” and “monkeys”), Nun Ya (“cops”), and Skye (“together”).
- The Garden of Earthly Delights.
- Everything not forbidden is compulsory.
- Libertarianism even happens to former cops.
- Just in case you ever wondered who came up with Sea Monkeys.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
From the Archives
- Self-important weasel realizes “anti-prostitution advocate” doesn’t quite have the cachet he craves.
- Is it too much to ask for amateurs to at least be grateful to whores for thinking of these things?
- Prohibition, cops, spontaneous order, thoughtcrime, police state, Spider-Man and silly walks.
- Articles questioning “sex trafficking” are now becoming more common in mainstream media.
- White House blatantly expands fascism by courting an “elite group” of young billionaires.
- “Sex trafficking” trainer asks workers to sexually fantasize about their kids.
- We need more men to write like this rather than licking neofeminist boots.
- Bad laws never die, even if they appear to have been staked & beheaded.
- Truly bad article on Montana “sex trafficking” reaches new level of idiocy.
- Rapist subdues his victim with pepper spray. Conclusion: sex trafficking!
- I’m not sure what the word “jilted” is supposed to mean in this context.
- Did you think the government had given up on censoring the internet?
- This is extra-stupid and dishonest even by prohibitionist standards.
- Cops, law, computers, irony, reading, Doctor Who and much more.
- Another software package designed to sell whores out to the cops.
- Anne Elizabeth Moore on “sex trafficking” & the garment industry.
- Funny how a certain word vanishes when there’s no sex involved.
- What Ruhama’s “assistance” to sex workers actually consists of.
- A police operation to spy on Parisian courtesans, 1747 to 1771.
- Another study shows most violence vs. sex workers is by cops.
- Noah Berlatsky on sex workers conducting our own research.
- NGO assists Nigerian cops in raping & robbing sex workers.
- The start of a nationwide fight to decriminalize sex work.
- Are providers deliberately vague about their services?
- China is cracking down on exotic dancers at funerals.
- Greece abolishes its horrible HIV shaming law again.
- On the horrifying “Operation Underground Railroad”.
- Is it possible to become addicted to prostitutes?
- Historian Thaddeus Russell on “white slavery”.
- On the supposed morality of overpriced clogs.
- Another adjustment to my blogging schedule.
- A warrant for “suspected sexting”. Seriously.
- Another good profile of my friend Laura Lee.
- Somehow, I doubt she thought this through.
- The official launch of Ladies of the Night.
- The Swedish model is GOOD for women!
- The Swiss sex work contract dilemma.
- A diary entry thumb-typed on a ferry.
- The facts in the case of Monica Jones.
- An uneven student article quotes me.
- Stupid cop outs his sex worker wife.
- The Mussolini prostitution scandal.
- Chiropractor, client and exorcist.
- Rapist military man of the week.
- Whore stigma in the academy.
- Another awful celebrity client.
- A sex worker’s rapist is jailed.
- This ain’t gonna work, y’all.
- Movie review: My Normal.
- A King of the Hill twofer!
- RIP Michael Glawogger.
- Yet another P411 sting.
- With friends like these…
- Credibility inversion.
