Davidson foisted himself upon the trolley after the staff member became so scared that she ran from the train. - STV News
Finding good videos for this column is a more uneven process than finding good links; sometimes there are so many they get backed up for weeks, and sometimes so few I have to go looking for them. Today’s first video is a revolting bit of TSA propaganda designed to condition children to submit to the police state; it was called to my attention by Mark Bennett when it first appeared in December, but due to the holidays it got pushed back until now. I’m glad it did, however, because the second video, a parody of the first, was only posted on Thursday (thanks to Kevin Wilson for spotting it). Everything above the first video was contributed by Radley Balko, and the links between the videos by Lucy Steigerwald, Brooke Magnanti, Dave Barry, Mistress Matisse, Mike Riggs, Jason Kuznicki, Popehat, Grace, Aspasia, and Mike Siegel (in that order). Finally, I present this very special link by request from Popehat.
- Cops handcuff drunk man, dump him in parking lot to be fatally run over.
- Court says it’s OK for cops to charge people a fee for being arrested.
- This week in “Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever.”
- Following the good example set by our wise leaders.
- It’s OK; all the drugs involved were legal.
- Creepypasta.
- Headline of the week.
- I hate it when this happens.
- What could possibly go wrong?
- This week in overcriminalization.
- Politician fights for the right to bear imaginary arms.
- Quite possibly the most humiliating way to die imaginable.
- Cops conspire to abduct toddler because he said “dirty” words.
- Woman sues lawyers for not telling her divorce would end her marriage.
- “Lots of people think everybody else’s stuff should be [theirs]…most of [them]…think Cookie Monster and Dora the Explorer are real people.”
From the Archives
- Nanotechnology, tyranny, Lovecraft, surveillance, libertarianism, cops, bogosity, censorship, Spirograph, dualism & Washington DC.
- “Child sex slaves” supposedly “rescued from traffickers” by Australian con artists are shown to be ordinary Thai schoolchildren.
- Neofeminists aren’t concerned with “stereotyped gender roles” when it comes to “rescuing” sex workers.
- Time glorifies the controlling behavior of a pathologically-entitled prude.
- This reaction to a terrible freak accident is, apparently, not a parody
- Texas wants all sex work as dangerous as criminalized street work.
- Societies, like people, sometimes develop autoimmune disorders.
- The more “ordinary” women get involved in sex work, the better.
- Antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea has become five times as common.
- Judge blocks law intended to ban inexpensive escort advertising.
- Foreign officials: pay your hookers! Hookers: collect in advance!
- Apparently, the average age of Xactware board members is 12.
- My two previous columns for Epiphany (AKA Little Christmas).
- Václav Havel’s famous essay “The Power of the Powerless”.
- The media are convinced that dogs don’t actually bite men.
- Politician accused of rape is beaten by a crowd of women.
- The problem with modern interpretations of Irene Adler.
- “For the children!” hysteria actually endangers children.
- A Swiss newspaper challenges “trafficking” hysteria.
- Intra-family spying gets ever more intrusive.
- Language classes for Brazilian sex workers.
- Why whores aren’t out of place in church.
- The UK’s first brothel for disabled clients.
- The truth about “The Truth About…”
- The outing of Suzy Favor Hamilton.
- When I first started Twitter.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- Bullshit! and Sex Power.
- Paypal is at it again.
- 2012 in review.