Don’t worry about the price tag! - Erin McDonald
I suspect this will be the last Links column this year in which Christmas things are not a large proportion of items (whether that’s a good thing or a bad one in your view). Our top contributors were the guys from Popehat, with both videos and the two items before the first video. That one requires a bit of information to appreciate: it seems our increasingly-totalitarian government held a contest for the best propaganda song touting one of its massive government programs, and though the winner isn’t actually entitled “Don’t Think, Just Obey“, it might as well be. Well, Patrick Non-White created this video parody by dubbing the winning song over a clip from a cult movie which had an intriguing premise, but IMHO would have been dramatically better had it been exactly six minutes and twenty seconds shorter. The links between the videos were provided by Radley Balko (“headline” and “truth”), Jesse Walker (“mesmerism”), Jason Kuznicki (“welcome”), Violet Blue (“website” & “Microsoft”), Mike Siegel (“superheroes”), Grace (“singing”), Laura Lee (“naughty”), Furry Girl (“1%”), Molly Crabapple (“solitary”), Mike Riggs (“warrant”), Cop Block (“isolated”), Jack Shafer (“FBI”), PWW (“assault”), and Mistress Matisse (“Xmas”).
- Headline of the week.
- Slow murder by mesmerism.
- Welcome to our world, little girl.
- This is a motherfucking website.
- Text messages from superheroes.
- Cops murder man for chewing gum.
- Cop threatens to arrest children for singing.
- Have you been naughty or nice online this year?
- Most of you reading this are probably in the top 1%.
- Maybe she should’ve just called them “Jughead” instead.
- To the state, “truth” is whatever any state actor claims it is.
- 73-year-old woman put in solitary confinement for letter writing.
- “If we have to get a warrant…we’re gonna shoot and kill your dogs.”
- Isolated incident: cop convicted for shooting unarmed boy in the back.
- The FBI can spy on you through your webcam, even if you think it’s off.
- Unarmed man charged with assault ’cause cops shot at him, hit others.
- Microsoft classifies US government as dangerous organized crime gang.
- Politician asks voters give him money intended for their kids’ Xmas gifts.
From the Archives
- Cops, prisons, castration, The Onion, religious nuts, neofeminism, shit, censorship, astronomy, frogs, Yoko Ono, monsters & dumb ways to die.
- Satanic Panic victims are still in prison for “crimes” that never happened.
- Credulity and sloppy scholarship aren’t Sudhir Venkatesh’s only flaws.
- Under Swedish law, animals can consent to sex while women can’t.
- One can never have too many scathing critiques of Melissa Farley.
- Nobody cares when criminals use Craigslist for non-sexual crimes.
- The difference between sad, rude, immoral, illegal and criminal.
- How “sex trafficking victims” can magically regain their agency.
- Maharashtra consults sex workers on affairs concerning them.
- Pearl-clutching Brits just can’t let this two-year-old study go.
- Why you shouldn’t give money to Salvation Army Santas.
- Advice to a young man who wants to “rescue” a hooker.
- The “Sponsor a Scholar” scammer/rapist is unmasked.
- When horrible people misuse Santa’s image for evil.
- Another example of what real sex slavery looks like.
- Buried lust doesn’t go away; it just rots in the dark.
- A whore with a certificate and title is still a whore.
- Israeli prostitution op-ed inverts myths and facts.
- On the simultaneous having and eating of cake.
- Federal drug prosecutor arrested for child porn.
- Flexibeast presents a clever sex/food satire.
- Jessie Nicole reviews American Courtesans.
- Dr. Brooke Magnanti vs. MSP Rhoda Grant.
- There is no such thing as “sex addiction”.
- Weird adults obsessing about kids’ toys.
- The news about DSM-V is mostly bad.
- Fiji moves toward decriminalization.
- My favorite bands and albums.
- Ignorance really is bliss.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- Melissa Petro is broke.
