Continuously doing what doesn’t work… - Nick Andre, “Stupid”
This was such a disappointing year for Halloween items, I’m glad I recycled a bunch of old ones for tomorrow’s column. Since I wasn’t about to let the occasion pass without a couple of spooky videos, I spent over 90 minutes yesterday screening candidates and found exactly three I thought worthwhile: the first one isn’t scary but it’s fun and spooky; the second is very subtle and mysterious and rewards close attention; the third I’ll share next week. Everything down to the first video was contributed by Jesse Walker, including the first of only three seasonal links; the other two appear directly after the first video and were provided by Aspasia and Nun Ya (who also gave us “headline of the week”). Grace supplied “knife”, “never call” and “meth”, Jason Kuznicki “WTF?”, Lenore Skenazy ”student”, Jillian Keenan ”names”, Amy Alkon ”note”, Cop Block ”tase” and Radley Balko ”toy”.
- They Stole JFK’s Brain.
- Shades of Terry Gilliam!
- Q, W and X will soon be legal in Turkey.
- A history of my favorite type of amusement park ride.
- Sasquatch descendant attacks hunter; “rescue” cops get lost in woods.
- For the well-dressed Icelandic necromancer.
- An army of huge rats? Definitely seasonal.
- He “walked into the knife”. Repeatedly.
- From the “WTF?” department.
- Headline of the week.
- Student suspended for doing assigned schoolwork.
- This week in “Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever”.
- Animated map of most popular boys’ names in the US, 1960-2012.
- Neighbor leaves introductory note on woman’s car, so she calls cops.
- Cops can’t tell fantasy from reality, nor candy from methamphetamine.
- Some cops tase boys in the balls for being black; others murder them for toy guns.
From the Archives
- Weeds, cops, dogs, sedition, super-ducks, Pseudodoxia, ERB, hamsters, condom ads, dead birds, the end of Newsweek and All Hallows Read.
- Lady Marmalade, Cross-Eyed Mary, Hey, Big Spender, The Son of Hickory Holler’s Tramp and Sweet Cream Ladies.
- Do women prefer circumcised men because the average uncircumcised man doesn’t care for it properly?
- The Magdalene Laundries, Sweet Georgia Brown, Minnie the Moocher and Maggie May.
- Woman remembers being “trafficked” and also being raised by monkeys.
- Nature is a bitch goddess who doesn’t give a damn what anyone wants.
- Melissa Gira Grant on how “trafficking” hysteria hurts exploited workers.
- New York court rules dancing can’t be sexy; dissenting judges disagree.
- Reviews of Paying for It, Sex at the Margins, The Sex Myth & You Will Die.
- Even Rwanda understands sex worker rights better than the US does.
- The extension of “sex trafficking” hysteria to stripping continues.
- How the US “saved” 10% of all “trafficking” victims in the world.
- In Ireland, even some consensual adult amateur sex is a crime.
- Can a woman really fall in love with a man by seeing his penis?
- Would-be pimps harass escorts by calling the cops on them.
- If you had children, would you want them to do sex work?
- Three UN agencies officially call for total decriminalization.
- Profiteers try to rescue “sex addiction” by redefining it.
- Head G-man absurdly claims g-men never hire whores.
- The journalistic ethics of outing Alexis Wright’s clients.
- Man tries to rape a hooker by pretending to be a cop.
- My husband’s experience at a Japanese “soapland”.
- Somaly Mam has been caught in another huge lie.
- Women With A Vision moves into a new office.
- Prostitution is an elephant in America’s parlor.
- Dr. Marty Klein on Australia’s weird porn laws.
- What’s the truth about female sex tourists?
- Chester Brown sends me four of his books.
- Alexander the Great’s favorite courtesan.
- How do you stop spam comments?
- “A minor character in his own life”.
- A short anti-Swedish model play.
- My favorite Halloween stuff.
- Why are most pimps black?
- The ethics of egg-selling.
