Young people are taking Viagra because of terrorism. - Dr. Samiullah Khan
As y’all have probably noticed by now, I like unusual covers of well-known songs. Well, this week we’ve got one of the most unusual ones yet; not only is it a cover of a cover (specifically, Soft Cell’s version of the obscure ’60s B-side “Tainted Love”), but it’s played on a really unusual instrument. The video comes to us via Mike Siegel (who also provided “Voynich”), but if you prefer one with a vocal track you can thank Melissa Gira Grant for that. The second video is a terribly rude (but also very funny) commercial called to my attention by EconJeff (who also gave us “Obama“). Everything above the first video is from Radley Balko, and the links between the videos were contributed by Clarkhat, Mike Riggs, Mistress Matisse, Cop Block, Dan Savage, Franklin Harris, Popehat, Jolene Parton, Grace, and Kevin Wilson (in that order).
- The phrase “proportionate response” comes to mind.
- This week in “Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever.”
- Cop murders dog because his owner’s moving van was in the street.
- Cops beat a man to death because his wife argued with their daughter.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
- Dangerous Texas hooker threatens American Midwest.
- Cops carry tasers to intimidate anti-taser protesters.
- As close to 100% predictable as anything could be.
- The looming specter of a national clown shortage.
- Cop murders teen for playing Nintendo.
- Which witch are you?
- Life in a police state.
- Nightmare of the week.
- Barack Obama, sex machine.
- Will the Voynich Manuscript at last be decoded?
From the Archives
- Dogs, dildos, Mars, Monty Hall, ignorance, immigration, police state, bureaucracy, fossils, orgasms, Star Wars, LOLcats & the end of time.
- Control freaks won’t be satisfied until every conceivable behavior of “sex offenders” is criminalized.
- DA explains why it’s a good thing he persecutes teenagers for “sexting”.
- Preacher calls hooker with intent to preach at her, gets robbed instead.
- Michael Weinstein wants a new city department just to enforce his law.
- Religious justifications for bestiality laws give way to “abuse” rhetoric.
- And now for something completely different: a man with half a head.
- A reporter actually asks an escort for opinion on “sex trafficking” law.
- Ridiculous exaggerations and addiction rhetoric, but not against sex.
- Sex work is one of the caring professions like nursing or social work.
- Aussie doctor declares “dirty whore” panic “absolute total rubbish”.
- The word “trafficking” is a blunt instrument in governmental hands.
- Article about sex work with the disabled covers good ground, but…
- Rescue industry tries to defend abduction of sex workers’ children.
- An actress demonstrates how little our professions have diverged.
- Comic Relief fails to recognize a “pathological liar” comedy routine.
- Israeli politicians promote Swedish model despite 59% opposition.
- Manipulating statistics to serve an agenda is like a number puzzle.
- The damage to sex workers caused by “end demand” campaigns.
- Oklahoma officials’ creepy enchantment with “human trafficking”.
- Pardis Mahdavi on “trafficking” hysteria as a global moral panic.
- Dublin City Council rejects the Turn Off The Red-light campaign.
- Does a bisexual woman dating a man still really want women?
- Fun promotional video from the Sex Worker Freedom Festival.
- North Carolina law could imprison women for going topless.
- On the cruelty of denying commercial sex to disabled men.
- Another article about single mothers turning to sex work.
- Dr. Paul Maginn has published another appeal for sanity.
- Where is the apology from the Magdalene laundry nuns?
- What prostitutes, nurses and nannies have in common.
- A methodologically-sound study of 10,000 porn actors.
- Activists fight plan to banish sex workers from Atlanta.
- Four things you should know about women who strip.
- Kristof’s fun new way to play God makes its debut.
- How to make money from a moral panic.
- To be anti-choice is to be anti-life.
- The Great Firewall of Iceland.
- Kelly James vs. the TSA.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- The sky is falling!
- Sex at Dawn.
