We never know what’s percolating in the mind of children, okay? And when they demonstrate behaviors that raise red flags, we must do our duty. - Charles Maranzano
Many of you have probably seen the first video, of dogs reacting to a magic trick; in the second one, a magician performs tricks for cats instead. This isn’t the first dog/cat video dichotomy I’ve featured; look back to Links #160 for more juxtapositional fun. The three links above the first video were provided by Radley Balko, and those between the videos by Amy Alkon, Clarissa, Rick Horowitz, Kevin Wilson, and Eddie J Cunningham, in that order.
- There are 10 times as many mentally ill people in prisons as in hospitals.
- Cops murder man for trying to flee another, non-cop murderer.
- Shot in New York? Better go to a hospital outside the city.
- Never piss off the cook.
- The distant ancestor of Matter Eater Lad.
- Libertarianism happens to 8-year-olds, too.
- Somehow, I doubt she thought this through.
- Cop accuses 9-month-old boy of trying to murder him.
- Kid subjected to 5-hour psychiatric evaluation for twirling a pencil.
- US government now holds people responsible for their parents’ debts.
- New York wants criticizing people classed as “aggravated harassment”.
From the Archives
- Margaret Thatcher, Calvin and Hobbes, police state, politicians, tits, zombies, beavers, cats, nuclear power, Anonymous & Southerners.
- Secret to success at heterosexual male prostitution: don’t charge anything or expect much business.
- American states with “abstinence-only” sex education have the highest teen pregnancy rates.
- There can never be too many occasions on which to speak up for sex worker rights.
- The incredible hypocrisy and yellow journalism of the New York Times.
- Femen demonstrates its deep concern for women by attacking them.
- The Gender War was foisted on us by fanatics with lunatic agendas.
- Naomi Wolf’s analysis of the TSA’s true motivation is much like mine.
- Another article supporting disabled men’s right to see sex workers.
- Fetishists attack study because it contradicts “trafficking” dogma.
- It isn’t “trafficking” when a politically-connected company does it.
- More on Michael Weinstein’s campaign against an anti-HIV drug.
- Observation: missing drunk woman. Conclusion: Russian mafia.
- Why don’t journalists actually read what they’re writing about?
- Too bad Jezebel doesn’t stand up for sex workers more often.
- Neofeminist propaganda used to undermine abortion rights.
- In which Alice explains “burden of proof” to a large mouse.
- Another prohibitionist screed is debunked by Feminist Ire.
- Those who define sex work as criminality just don’t get it.
- Judgy Bitch’s excellent take on the “teen girl pimp” case.
- A look at actresses who have played whores in movies.
- Two girls drown while trying to escape their “rescuers”.
- What a sane, agenda-free sex work study looks like.
- Laura Lee on why the Swedish model is a bad idea.
- Women flee exploitative maid work for prostitution.
- Jennifer Love Hewitt on her show The Client List.
- I rolled my eyes so hard, I think I saw my brain.
- The truth about European porn ban proposals.
- Rapist-by-deceit charged with “sex trafficking”.
- The Swedish rot reaches South America.
- Joyce Arthur shows allies how to do it.
- Reminiscing about my favorite cousin.
- Young woman jailed for being raped.
- Dr. Laura Agustín on Gloria Steinem.
- Clay Nikiforuk appears to “get it”.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- An orangutan hooker?
- Are all women crazy?
