Whiter Shade of Pale was a great song but you’ve gone too far in Nigeria. – Wise King Aido
This week, our videos are a couple of commercials. The first (via Zenon Evans) is a Danish PSA intended to encourage young people to vote; it was pulled after only 24 hours, not for its mockery of nanny-state micromanagement but rather for “sexism”. The second (via EconJeff, who also contributed “Tom Lehrer”) is a sweet ad for a new airport in a remote part of Turkey; you don’t need to speak the language to appreciate it. Everything down to the first video was provided by Radley Balko, and those between the videos by Jesse Walker (“headline”), Furry Girl (“Pygmalion”), Wikileaks (“Sweden”), Dave Barry (“crocodile”), Rick Horowitz (“electrocute” and “contempt”), Cop Block (“together”), Ally Fogg (“conspiracy”), and Grace (“libertarianism”).
- As long as they’re allowed to do this, they’ll keep doing it.
- This was inevitable, really.
- Another isolated incident.
- This week in good news.
- Headline of the week.
- The Pygmalion Fallacy.
- Just another day in a police state.
- Sweden, the Progressive Paradise.
- Crocodile injured by falling accountant.
- Cops electrocute random victim to death.
- The amazing and enigmatic musical genius, Tom Lehrer.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
- For a human victim, this would be called “conspiracy to commit murder”.
- Crime: contempt of cop. Penalty: being thrown through a glass window.
- Libertarianism even happens to cop wannabes, sometimes permanently.
From the Archives
- Proto-internet, cops, teachers, bureaucracy, phenomena, Calvin & Hobbes, fallacies, Lovecraft, Nutella and exploding sex toys.
- While Western Australia moves toward criminalization, South Australia does exactly the opposite.
- An article by an “investigative journalist” provides a lesson in moral complexity and ambiguity.
- Senators “discover” that G-men hire whores, feign surprise and outrage.
- “Abstinence only” sex education is even worse than previously believed.
- Tracy Quan on a documentary about whores in three different countries.
- “Sex trafficking” hysteria is really the old “Satanic Panic” in a new guise.
- Zimbabwe’s repeated “crackdowns” on whores keep netting amateurs.
- Namibians prove they understand human rights better than Americans.
- Articles are more revealing when examined critically by informed minds.
- Prostitution is not an evil to be tolerated, but a good to be celebrated.
- Another man convicted of “child pornography” for owning comic books.
- Busting myths about migration, extramarital sex and mythology itself.
- Is there really a legal difference between prostitution and escorting?
- Another example of how neofeminists play fast and loose with facts.
- This includes far too much “whore as victim” rhetoric, but it’s a step.
- Los Angeles begins to realize that its condom law is unenforceable.
- How yesterday’s forbidden activity becomes compulsory tomorrow.
- What advice do you have if I want to start working immediately?
- What a “sex trafficking” trial reveals about the “Swedish Model”.
- Hey, kids, be the first in your neighborhood to be “trafficked”!
- Another call for decriminalization of sex work in South Africa.
- That whole “higher education” thing was nice while it lasted.
- A Japanese service provides sex workers with cover stories.
- Can relationships with different sexual histories really last?
- Another good interview with the amazing Rachel Wotton.
- HPV vaccine decreases genital warts in Australia by 59%.
- Phoenix jumps into “trafficking” hysteria with both feet.
- Damned amateurs are always screwing everything up.
- Indian sex workers get counterfeit-spotting lessons.
- Hamilton, New Zealand’s biggest brothel keepers.
- Another case of structural sex ray contamination.
- NIMH will no longer fund research based on DSM.
- SWOP warns streetwalkers about Project ROSE.
- A judge pretends that words can be felonious.
- The arrival of armed drones on American soil.
- I think the Topless Tunisian’s mother is right.
- Another of Nick Kristof’s exercises in fatuity.
- The true cause of “sex trafficking” is PORN!
- “Super gonorrhea” does not actually exist.
- What I really mean by the word “myth”.
- Washington, DC’s favorite madam.
- A rescue industry report vs reality.
- 69-year-old identical twin whores.
- The menace of rock and roll.
- Fake internet girlfriend.
