Whether it’s Barack Obama or some subsequent pathological megalomaniac, Republican or Democrat, the increasingly ceremonial and quasi-religious aspect of the presidency is unseemly. It is profane. It is unbecoming of us as a people, and it has transformed the presidency into an office that can be truly attractive only to men who are unfit to hold it. - Kevin D. Williamson
This wasn’t an unusually busy week for links, but it was a very good one for quality and variety. Everything down to the first video was provided by Radley Balko, and the video itself (a short sequence from an episode of Penn & Teller’s Bullshit!) by Mancrack. Coincidentally, a link on the same subject was supplied by Furry Girl, and the other links between the videos by Grace (“pigs”), Caty Simon (“Sappho”), Violet Blue (“year”), Clarissa (“headlines”), Jason Kuznicki (“best essay”), Police Misconduct (“seizure”), and Aspasia (“together”).
- Updated catalog of Snowden’s revelations about the NSA.
- Libertarianism even happens to children.
- I hate it when this happens.
- Headline of the week.
- As one does.
- Pigs vs. pigs.
- Suffering Sappho!
- The Year of the Whores.
- What could possibly go wrong?
- How do vaccines cause autism?
- Headline juxtaposition of the week.
- Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
- The best political essay I’ve read in a very long time.
- Cops tase and arrest man for the “crime” of having a seizure.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
From the Archives
- I’m falling in love with my sex worker and she has intimated she feels the same, but already has a boyfriend. Could she be leading me on?
- Cops, debutantes, politicians, robots, Twitter, bakemono, drugs, cats, spiders, zombies, flaming cheese and the school to prison pipeline.
- On the cruelty of denying commercial sex to men who can’t experience physical intimacy in any other way.
- When are professionals considered LEAST knowledgeable about their own job?
- “You’re probably safer with a professional than with a gifted amateur”.
- Forcing massage parlors to close at 10 PM is the latest anti-whore fad.
- Judge throws out most of the charges in the “zumba prostitute” case.
- Cops save citizens of Connecticut from menace of 71-year-old whore.
- Busybodies mind other people’s business most when sex is involved.
- End of government ability to control money can’t come soon enough.
- South African government distributes millions of defective condoms.
- A cute little promo video made at the Sex Worker Freedom Festival.
- Sex workers fight attempt to impose Swedish model on Indonesia.
- Another European government wants to tell women how to dress.
- “Sex trafficking” rhetoric derives directly from Protestant theology.
- Three politicians vow to do all they can to increase the rape rate.
- US sacrifices more children to evil beliefs than Carthage ever did.
- The vileness of arresting whores in the name of “rescuing” them.
- More “stripper licensing” idiocy, with “sex trafficking” nonsense.
- Sometimes prostitution law is like a good news/bad news joke.
- An “app” designed to automate callouts misses one vital point.
- What fraction of male sexual encounters are with prostitutes?
- “Objectification” debunked by Rene Magritte and Captain Kirk.
- Prohibitionist explains that all prohibitions are equally valid.
- It never takes control freaks very long to prove my points.
- High-ranking Swedish official busted for running brothels.
- Another article on the PEPFAR “anti-prostitution pledge”.
- St. James Infirmary provides healthcare for sex workers.
- The legendary scientific detachment of Dr. G. S. Brindley.
- Possibly the most disgusting pervert of the last decade.
- Irish judge refers to Nazis as a “Jewish support group”.
- Being attracted to hot chicks is “socially constructed”.
- American prisons punish prisoners for masturbating.
- The story of compulsive busybody Thomas Radecki.
- In which I change my mind on a few issues.
- How do whores deal with underage clients?
- Ashley Madison has sleazy advertising, too.
- The story of New York City’s “cabaret card”.
- A mobile “panic button” for streetwalkers.
- Slowly but surely, the press is waking up.
- All the hooker songs I’ve covered so far.
- Another advantage of breast implants.
- What testosterone does to women.
- More Nevada brothel gentrification.
- YOU are a computer criminal!
- King of the Hill: Oklahoma!
- My favorite movies.
