Heavens to Murgatroyd, the sounds, like trumpets calling the demons back to Hell…the stench, like 1000 rotten corpses vomited. - C. Torok
Another good week for links, and as all too often happens far too many of them are various excesses of the police state; one wonders how far this will have to go before the jellyfish who make up the majority of Americans and Europeans will wake up and put a halt to it. Much, much farther, I’d imagine, well into roving death-squad territory. This week’s top contributor was Radley Balko (now ensconced at the Washington Post) with everything down to the first video, which was suggested by my cat. The second video is something quite unusual, an unreleased 1984 movie by Tom Schiller (of Saturday Night Live fame) starring a number of big Hollywood names (including SNL alumni Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd). It comes to us courtesy of Jesse Walker, who describes it as “a dreamlike tale set in a world where the Port Authority has seized dictatorial powers in Manhattan, a benevolent conspiracy of tramps guides people’s destinies from a hidden base beneath New York, and the U.S. government first went to the moon in 1953…it seems to take place in the entire 20th century at once.” Jesse also contributed “comics” and “nose”, and the rest of the links were provided by Kevin Wilson (“bears” and “license”), Mistress Matisse (“proles”), Jack Shafer (“gothic”), RMV (“castration”), Jason Kuznicki (“NSA” and “hysteria”), Nun Ya (“jaywalking”), Scott Greenfield (“Amazon”), Cop Block (“cigarette”), Walter Olson (“subscriber”), and Grace (“murders”).
- Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever, army surplus edition.
- Too old to be headline of the week; too good not to share.
- Heroic Charleston cops crack down on unlicensed talking.
- This thing would be pretty impressive as a golem.
- Beware of the bears.
- Laws are for the proles.
- Truth is stranger than gothic fiction.
- Cutting off one’s nose to spite one’s face.
- Cop castrates boy for walking while black.
- And people say comic books are unrealistic.
- Everything we know the NSA can do (so far).
- Cops beat up 84-year-old man for jaywalking.
- Homeless Swedish man ordered to pay TV license fee.
- More casualties of “your children are in danger!” hysteria.
- Amazon wants to ship your purchases before you buy them.
- Man drops cigarette; cops reply by repeatedly tasing his son’s genitals.
- “Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance.”
- Cops murder dog, try to murder random pedestrian and threaten to murder witness.
From the Archives
- Cops, cats, cards, Craigslist, confessions, Cohen, carnivores, Cthulhu, cosmos, cannabis, robot restaurants, fungal sex and the vertical pole.
- I’m so deeply frustrated that I’m having twisted fantasies and have grown to hate women; could an escort help me get my head straight?
- Judge says tricking women into sex is OK because James Bond does it.
- Queensland cops use loophole in law to harass and victimize whores.
- Jacob Sullum slams Kristof as a proponent of laws that harm women.
- An English nun helps streetwalkers without trying to “rescue” them.
- Looks like the Philippines is moving toward British-type legalization.
- Washington, D.C. AG admits a prohibitionist law is unconstitutional.
- Susie Bright on how prosecutorial incentives spawn abominations.
- Clara Ward, who went from debutante to princess to courtesan.
- Every religion has a creed; the “trafficking” cult is no exception.
- The transformation of “illegal aliens” into “sex trafficking rings”.
- Public choice theory explains the behavior of all large groups.
- Is it wrong to offer a homeless young woman money for sex?
- Competition pole dancers claim they’re better than strippers.
- Canadian men arrested for the “crime” of talking about sex.
- Prohibitionists claim repressive laws “protect” sex workers.
- Another feel-good law which will help virtually nobody.
- A rather peculiar article about sex workers in Malawi.
- What can a woman do about painful intercourse?
- A catalog of essays and studies about sex work.
- Tall tales about technology and “sex trafficking”.
- Anti-gay lawyer “sex traffics” her own daughter.
- Cheryl Overs: ”A Good Year for Red Umbrellas”.
- Melissa Gira Grant: ”The War on Sex Workers”.
- Dr. Brooke Magnanti debunks “porn addiction”.
- New hope for men with Peyronie’s syndrome.
- Serial rapist of prostitutes caught in Florida.
- A holier-than-thou rock music radio station.
- Lawyer disbarred for billing a client for sex.
- The Great New England Bestiality Panic.
- How is a moral panic like a rhinoceros?
- The gentrification of Nevada brothels.
- Ed Bagley accepted a plea bargain.
- In which I am inundated by spam.
- Wisconsin cops infiltrate P411.
- Welcome to our world again.
- The legacy of Roe vs. Wade.
- Sex, Lies and Audiotapes.
- Rapist cop of the week.
