Monday Links

Although we recognize that patriotism is often the handmaiden of dehumanization, we haven’t yet given up the notion of Manichean struggle between evil and good.  -  Zach Weiner

Surprised to see this on Monday?  Next week it’ll be on Tuesday, and so forth until it arrives back in its normal Sunday slot on March 17^th.  The reason for this is that I wanted to do something a little different while the TW3 columns are borrowing the Links columns’ numbers, and beside it’s nice for a change.  We’ve only got one video this week, but that’s OK because I really wanted to share this large graphic of Venn diagrams which Radley Balko discovered on Reddit; the graphic puts Balko just barely ahead of Grace this week because each of them contributed three links (Balko the three above the graphic, and Grace “old people”, “crumpled paper” and “spiders”).  The video (a parody of early ’70s anti-drug films) and the link just above it were provided by my cat, and the links between the graphic and the video by Amy Alkon (“Hello Kitty”), Popehat
(“printers”), Eugene Volokh (“Uncanny Valley”), Michael Whiteacre (“Shirley Temple”), Mike Siegel (“drug war” and “Leviathan”), Nun Ya (“flaming cheese”),  Jesse Walker (“lone villain”), and Brooke Magnanti (“bakemono”).

• Kindergartener arrested for wearing the wrong color shoes.
• Another great moment in correlation vs. causation.
• Headline of the week.

• Women who write crap like this on Jezebel are the same ones who think that hookers are “exploited” and that clients have “power” over us.
• Japanese official says old people should hurry up and die to save the government money.
• Kindergartener suspended as “terrorist” for talking about her pink “Hello Kitty” bubble gun.
• Schoolgirl called “murderer”, threatened with arrest for crumpled paper.
• There are 86,000 unprotected printers you can access via the internet.
• Masahiro Mori’s seminal robotics article, “The Uncanny Valley”.
• Shirley Temple joins Twitter, asks who Honey Boo Boo is.
• Obviously, the drug war isn’t quite bad enough yet.
• Flaming cheese shuts down Norwegian highway.
• “The lone villain with an army of automata.”
• A rare victory against Leviathan.
• Bakemono fashion.
• More of this, please.
• Wendy McElroy on zombies.
• A little learning is a dangerous thing.
• The most beautiful spiders you’ll ever see.
• Gareth Morgan, feline genocide proponent.

From the Archives

• A two-part debunking of a “sex trafficking study” which relies on the respected scientific methodology known as “wild guessing”.
• When the Long Island killer first appeared, the newspapers blamed Craigslist and the DA blamed the victims.
• The only realistic estimate ever done of the number of American whores.
• British cops seduce women under false pretenses in order to bust them.
• Queensland cops use loophole in law to harass and victimize whores.
• Jacob Sullum slams Kristof as a proponent of laws that harm women.
• Busybodies mind other people’s business most when sex is involved.
• An English nun helps streetwalkers without trying to “rescue” them.
• Washington, D.C. AG admits a prohibitionist law is unconstitutional.
• Meet Wanda, a call girl who specializes in very exceptional clients.
• Three politicians vow to do all they can to increase the rape rate.
• Clara Ward, who went from debutante to princess to courtesan.
• An “app” designed to automate callouts misses one vital point.
• CNN’s contribution to the grand tradition of yellow journalism.
• Is it wrong to offer a homeless young woman money for sex?
• Competition pole dancers claim they’re better than strippers.
• High-ranking Swedish official busted for running brothels.
• American prisons punish prisoners for masturbating.
• Marriott announces it’s discontinuing in-room porn.
• What can a woman do about painful intercourse?
• German porn star dies during her sixth boob job.
• A catalog of essays and studies about sex work.
• New hope for men with Peyronie’s syndrome.
• Serial rapist of prostitutes caught in Florida.
• The Great New England Bestiality Panic.
• How is a moral panic like a rhinoceros?
• The gentrification of Nevada brothels.
• Walking stereotype sues whore.