For decades I have been trying to come up with an ideal way to slice a banana. - SW3K
This was a very unbalanced week; while I had so many sex-work-related items that I was able to write three other columns from them in addition to yesterday’s TW3, as you can see the links pickings were pretty sparse. The first video is another of the unusual covers I like to feature, of a song we’ve seen here before; the second is a new video version of something we’ve previously seen as a slide series (and which, IMHO, is important enough to repeat). Everything down to the first video is from Radley Balko, and the links between the videos from Franklin Harris (“RIP” and ”bananas”), Aspasia (“table”), Korhomme (“Anglophile”), Rick Horowitz (“part one”), Mike Siegel (“part two”), Eddie J. Cunningham (“Javert”), Jason Kuznicki (“rumor”), and Jack Shafer (“Watterson”).
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
- Cop shoots old man for trying to pick up his cane.
- Thomas Szasz meets Franz Kafka.
- R.I.P. Harold Ramis.
- The periodic table of storytelling.
- Another reason I’m an Anglophile.
- But for video, part one and part two.
- “Kids love slicing their own bananas.”
- This week’s Inspector Javert award nominee.
- When someone spreads a fact-free rumor, follow the money.
- Bill Watterson’s first public cartoon since the end of Calvin and Hobbes.
From the Archives
- Cats, combustion, crayons, Christians, Kipling, Lovecraft, Sherlock Holmes, adventure, Sweden, endometriosis and the police state.
- How to make hard-to-get legal pseudoephedrine from readily-available illegal methamphetamine.
- Another article bemoaning the fact that women use sex to make a living.
- Interestingly, the phrase “sex trafficking” appears nowhere in this story.
- Indian sex workers saved a 14-year-old girl from being sold to a brothel.
- Detroit police too busy chasing whores to worry about home invasions.
- Redefine prostitution as “sex trafficking”; get a grant for street stings.
- Russians use “sex trafficking” hysteria as Anti-American propaganda.
- “Trafficked children” are a bogus reason to oppose decriminalization.
- Sweden tries men for running brothel “authorities” say doesn’t exist.
- Should I stop seeing escorts & focus on rekindling marital intimacy?
- Paypal has entered a “biggest busybody” competition with Google.
- Nuns and SOAP fanatics harass hoteliers in the American Midwest.
- Drone-enabled universal surveillance is about to become a reality.
- Indian sex workers triumph over attempt at covert criminalization.
- Louisiana’s lesser interest in “Super Bowl sex trafficking” hysteria.
- Indian NGO “rescues” girls from prostitution by prostituting them.
- Washington state puritans’ bizarre persecution of coffee stands.
- Olympe de Gouges: courtesan, writer and ethical revolutionary.
- Hawaii expands asset forfeiture to include petty misdemeanors.
- Indian feminists serve “vinegar pie” to Harvard do-gooders.
- A collection of vile, psychopathic, literally genocidal hatred.
- Another reason why amateurs have more STIs than pros.
- When theft becomes the primary function of government.
- “You don’t change the world with a Hitachi Magic Wand“.
- The fantasy of porn prohibition via internet censorship.
- Uptight Italian women get in huff over sexy bartender.
- The logical end result of “human trafficking” rhetoric.
- Why do women tend to be more talkative than men?
- The view on the Swedish model from inside Norway.
- R.I.P. Miss Edna, last madam of the Chicken Ranch.
- Another creepy gadget for spying on spouses.
- I won’t do another column like this until 2016.
- The secret indictment against Julian Assange.
- Getting around the constitution in Florida.
- Turkey’s slow-motion war on sex work.
- Why Anne Hathaway should go-away.
- Another butt-injection killer is caught.
- America’s scorched-earth war on sex.
- My previous columns for Mardi Gras.
- In which I attend a law symposium.
- When prostitution wasn’t a crime.
- Why is sex such a taboo?
- Strip clubs cause gangs.
- Leah outs David Vitter.
- My favorite games.
