What, Me Worry? - Alfred E. Neuman
This was an odd week; it was apparently so dominated by several big stories that the smaller ones were swamped out. Nobody contributed more than one link this time, so they all appear between the two videos. The first was provided by Jesse Walker, and definitely isn’t what Hank Williams, Sr would have considered a typical country song; for the second, I decided to remind y’all just how weird (and even creepy) Sesame Street‘s short videos could be. The links between are from Radley Balko, Mancrack, Brooke Magnanti, Gideon, Clarissa, Jasper Gregory, Popehat and Carol Fenton (in that order).
- R.I.P. Al Feldstein.
- Headline of the week.
- Welcome to our world, British children.
- We call them “enhanced interrogation techniques”.
- Court steals woman’s home for $6.30 in tax interest.
- When UK prosecutors demanded a statement from a police dog.
- Censors call cops on teen for giving books away at a book giveaway.
- Cops beat & cage girl because someone else was dancing in a train car.
From the Archives
- Congresscritters challenge the ruling striking down the “anti-prostitution pledge”, while others toothlessly attempt to censor Backpage.
- Selfies, songs, science, scary stuff, silly string, pets, trafficking, art, cops, Google, teachers, Muppets, porn, feminism & the nanny state.
- “Glad Rag Doll”, “Ten Cents a Dance”, “Magdalene Landry”, “State Street Blues” and “Greenbacks”.
- Why even angry perverts shouldn’t be censored by “hate speech” laws.
- A moral panic is nearing collapse when it becomes a default bogeyman.
- Reading Pennsylvania sex work articles is like looking into a dirty toilet.
- If drought whorifies women, what disaster turns them into politicians?
- Previous columns for May Day, May Eve (Walpurgisnacht) & Floralia.
- The sleazy deal to impose the Swedish Model on Western Australia.
- Opposition to harlotry, hijab and homosexuality share a motivation.
- Adult woman leaves home town; parents insist it’s “sex trafficking”.
- The irreparable harm of placing children on sex offender registries.
- I decide that the outing of anti-whore politicians is commendable.
- Lawheads love classifying various activities as “legal” or “illegal”.
- I’m SHOCKED to hear that the TIP is nothing but a political tool.
- Another fourth-rate playwright capitalizes on “sex trafficking”.
- After reading this, you’ll feel the need to wash your eyeballs.
- The only way prohibition will end in the US is by court order.
- Cops in riot gear and masks save Houston from evil harlots.
- This is sleazy even by Ashley Madison’s abysmal standards.
- An early draft of one of my favorite books is auctioned off.
- Another serial killer targeting whores, this time in Detroit.
- A biography of Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the “D.C. Madam”.
- Three gay teens are murdered to “turn them into men”.
- Octomom says a masturbation video isn’t “really” porn.
- And all it took was triple jeopardy and lying to the jury.
- Allies debunk amazingly stupid anti-whore arguments.
- Local news station “discovers” a 15-year-old practice.
- Remember, prostitution is supposedly legal in France.
- A fairly respectful article on Edinburgh’s saunas.
- Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever.
- Western Australia’s war on whores continues.
- Indian sex workers demand representation.
- Arthur Huntington, AKA Agent Cheapskate.
- Douglas Fox on the flexibility of sex work.
- Genesis, Pretty Baby and Looney Tunes.
- Gypsy whores, Kentucky Derby edition.
- Caty Simon interviews Carol Leigh.
- Politician. Whores. Yawn.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- Sex education in Berlin.