Did you see the way its collar flew up into the air when I blew its head off? It was awesome! - Brice Woolly
Another rather quiet week, which is still good because I was even busier than I was last week! The epigram, the first video and the two links above it were all provided by Radley Balko; the second video by Michael Whiteacre; and the links between the two by Nun Ya (“megalomania” & “machete”), Clarissa (“obese”), Mancrack (“Mr. Rogers”), and Popehat (“together”).
- The crime: speeding. The sentence: slow death by denied medication.
- Jail keeps locking women in cells with men because ”officer safety”.
- A textbook example of megalomania.
- Picture of an obese woman, according to the British NHS.
- This week in “Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever”.
- Mr. Rogers wouldn’t let Lady Aberlin star in Night of the Living Dead.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
- Woman’s home is raided by SWAT team because she uses loose tea.
- Can you think of a better reason to go on a machete-wielding rampage?
From the Archives
- An inability to tell fantasy from reality would normally be considered evidence of psychosis, but in law enforcement it’s a job requirement.
- Once you win your rights it’s OK to join in with stigmatizing other groups who haven’t yet, just to show you’re part of the gang.
- All or Nothing, Freakonomics, Harmful To Minors, Tickle My Tush and A Vindication of the Rights of Whores.
- Cops, de-extinction, police state, hysteria, censorship, Scientology, fascism and propaganda videos.
- “Bring Your Greenbacks”, “Jezebel”, “Louise”, “Big City Girls” and “Baroque Bordello”.
- Were many hookers molested as children? Are many drug addicts? And are most lesbians?
- It’s only OK to grope people if one puts on a uniform and does it without their permission.
- How should I answer a therapist’s claim that ALL prostitutes are slaves?
- Can you imagine U.S. cops contradicting a prohibitionist politician’s lies?
- The Ontario Court of Appeal upheld two-thirds of the Himel decision.
- Helping legal workers to conduct legal business is a crime in France.
- Phone app for teen girls who are suddenly “trafficked” by surprise.
- Even when the Feds botch an extortion scheme, they win anyway.
- Indian government reverses its sneaky criminalization attempt.
- Canadian neofeminists sneak over to Israel to poison the well.
- Activism, backward Satanic messages and my target audience.
- The Dutch consider licensing, despite knowing it doesn’t work.
- Police reports are more useful when they contain information.
- A $100,00 grant to develop “the next generation of condom”.
- More on the escort who was arrested for reporting a stalker.
- Charlotte Shane on the weakness of “enthusiastic consent”.
- Officials pretend that licensing schemes “help” sex workers.
- The real attitude of Swedes toward the sex payment law.
- A really bad review of a “sex trafficking” propaganda film.
- Bolshoi ballet dancer calls the company a “giant brothel”.
- Natalia Fabia loves hookers…as a promotional gimmick.
- The topless Tunisian checks into a psychiatric hospital.
- Sex worker says calling her a sex worker is “slander”.
- Another criticism of Nick Kristof’s anti-whore crusade.
- Is this really the company you want the US to keep?
- Acknowledging the ape does no harm to the angel.
- La Belle Otero, the last of the Grandes Horizontales.
- The US Treasury’s first attempt to regulate Bitcoin.
- The chief con man of a group of scammers resigns.
- Contrasting stories on sex work with the disabled.
- Another day, another politician, another whore.
- “The healthiest sex industry ever documented.”
- The truth about the birth control “controversy”.
- Oregon ramps up the “sex trafficking” hysteria.
- Interviews with Rob Arthur and Laura Agustín.
- New Wikipedia article on “Migrant Sex Work”.
- Would an HIV-positive escort quit working?
- Amanda Brooks’ advice for clients.
- New Orleans, Cthulhu and Fear.
- How do Kegels exercises work?
- King of the Hill: North Carolina.
- When sex is your day job.
- My favorite short stories.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- Modern-day Lysistrata.
- Karayuki and japayuki.
- Timing is everything.
- Superfreakonomics.
