I can’t breathe. – John Hernandez
The big news this week is, of course, the death of Adam West, Batman in the campy 1966 TV show. I’ve featured a video of the theme song so you can play it while reading the obit. The links above the video were provided by Popehat (“faking” & “execution”), Radley Balko (“welcome” & “dummies”), Walter Olson (“PETA”), and Jesse Walker (“collide”).
- Stop faking!
- Welcome to our world.
- PETA are horrible human beings, part umpteen.
- Crime: public urination. Sentence: summary execution.
- When two evils who both claim to be doing good collide.
- “Low-income people are not the equivalent of tackling dummies.”
From the Archives
- If cops don’t want people spreading stupid rumors, they need to stop spreading such themselves.
- Prohibitionists cling so tenaciously to lies, Glenn Kessler’s had to debunk this one twice.
- What next, shooting ’em with tranquilizer darts & RF tagging ’em for study?
- Say what you like about Larry Flynt, but he’s a dedicated foe of censorship.
- Theologian Benjamin Corey: Christianity’s most outspoken sex worker ally.
- Popular porn site shames customers for enjoying one popular type of porn.
- Tax money is used to vomit anti-whore propaganda all over the landscape.
- Thaddeus Russell reviews a book on sex work during the Alaska gold rush.
- Control freaks can’t get that the Swedish model is unwelcome in Scotland.
- I hope “sex trafficking” doesn’t become an all-purpose excuse for women.
- Delusional men think they can “abolish prostitution” by ham-handedness.
- Another sleaze tricks young would-be sex workers in order to rape them.
- The pill pushers are determined to sell a non-cure for a non-dysfunction.
- Try not to get sick from propaganda vomited up all over these reporters.
- Ghosts, Seinfeld, video, cops, perverts, Christopher Lee and much more.
- I suspect these rapists are the ones discussed in the original of this title.
- Kari Lerum on the wrongheadedness of opposition to decriminalization.
- When “prostitution ring” means one girl, her boyfriend and his mother.
- The people accused of “trafficking” are almost never actually criminals.
- Cops discarding pretense that this is about anything other than pillage.
- Because anything can be “evidence of prostitution”, even if you’re 12.
- Deon Haywood of Women With a Vision on The Girlfriend Experience.
- Ninja pimps with mind-control powers are rarer in Canadian folklore.
- “The first step…is…getting the women to see themselves as victims.”
- Another article on the prohibitionist documentary Hot Girls Wanted.
- What coffee stands are to Everett, massage parlors are to Bellevue.
- “Gypsy whores” idiocy with a Swedish-Canadian police-state flavor.
- The “juju sex slaves” myth just keeps going like a battered zombie.
- The bullshit is so deep in this, you’ll need waders to get through it.
- Does this writer actually understand the meanings of these words?
- Feminist pornographer wins right to re-launch her fetish website.
- Another good interview with Chester Brown about his new book.
- Researcher Bo Jensen shares sex work statistics from Denmark.
- It’s so nice to see a few public intellectuals actually saying this.
- Glenn Kessler continues to hammer at “sex trafficking” myths.
- That whole “freedom of speech” thing was nice while it lasted.
- The Swiss government rejects criminalization of prostitution.
- Sex rays can penetrate walls, locked doors & privacy panels.
- Being an ignoramus is no impediment to a career in politics.
- Facebook demonstrates the dirty-mindedness of its censors.
- Snopes debunks the “teen job sex trafficking scam” rumor.
- Planning to fly to New Orleans for the Desiree Conference.
- Yet another “reality” show about prohibitionist vigilantes.
- This will continue for as long as our work is criminalized.
- “Sex trafficking” laws keep getting broader and scarier.
- Judge says stage stripping is art, but lap dancing isn’t.
- Molly Smith on the problems with the Swedish model.
- Cops, insanity, one-sided fistfights & much more.
- On Rolling Stone‘s descent into total irrelevance.
- Welcome to our world, New York housewives.
- Why is “pussy” slang for female genitalia?
- Not quite a rapist cop, but bad enough.
- In which I just can’t resist teasing y’all.
- “Authorities” secretly analyze tattoos.
- How I became one of the cool kids.
- An exceptionally stupid sex toy.
- Is P411 actually dangerous?
- Rapist cops of the week.
- R.I.P. Christopher Lee.
- Now he asks.
