I…am a human, born in Oklahoma, and obtained and continue to fully meet the requirements to serve as U.S. Representative. - Timothy Ray Murray
A good collection of links this week, if one takes “good” to mean “painful”. Well, they’re not all painful, but one could wish for a lower proportion. The first video (via Jae) is a short film of amateurs being kind of cute, and the second (via Kevin Wilson) is a parody of it. Kevin also provided all the links above the first video, and those between the videos were contributed by Thaddeus Russell, Violet Blue, Nun Ya, Radley Balko, Popehat, Walter Olson, Rick Horowitz, Clarissa, Neil Gaiman and Carol Fenton (in that order).
- Only a government could create a shortage of salt water.
- Cops murder native Alaskan for stealing cupcakes.
- A reason for optimism.
- “Stop faking!”
- Headline of the week.
- I hate it when this happens.
- Just another day in a police state.
- I am the walrus, goo goo ga joob.
- I tried to pronounce them for years.
- Cops’ creative solution to prison overcrowding.
- Bureaucrat hatches scheme to cause chronic dehydration.
- A fine example of a truly horrible excuse for a human being.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
From the Archives
- Cops, cell phones, menstruation, poop, big government, super powers, Hello Kitty, censorship, socks and the police state.
- “Pleasures of the Harbor”, “Nobody’s Sweetheart”, “Down in the Alley”, “The Grisettes Song” and “Sempre Libera”.
- Japanese cops are adopting American-style prudishness and repression.
- Using “trafficking” myth to restrict migration isn’t usually so transparent.
- Another man convicted of “child porn” for pics of his legal-age girlfriend.
- Company which uses exploited labor moralizes about one that doesn’t.
- Sex workers don’t deserve to be stigmatised & don’t want to be pitied.
- William Shatner gets it, even if the former mayor of Ilfracombe doesn’t.
- How do I help an Asian working girl whom I suspect may be trafficked?
- FBI helps cops harass coffee shops because the baristas wear bikinis.
- Tanzanian police torture, rape and assault sex worker, among others.
- Idiot complains job program helps women find lucrative, flexible work.
- A short biography of Marie Duplessis, the real “Lady of the Camellias”.
- Selling Sex: Experience, Advocacy and Research on Sex Work in Canada.
- Debunking the myths of the “gypsy whore” and “Asian slave-whore”.
- There were a few Magdalene Laundries in the United States as well.
- Silvio Berlusconi sentenced to 7 years for unproven victimless crime.
- How does one handle group sex with several men and one woman?
- The inevitable result of letting “authorities” investigate themselves.
- Article sympathizes with serial killer, ignores his sex-worker victims.
- How the FBI manufactures “pimps” to fit the “trafficking” narrative.
- Christopher Ryan corrects Hugo Schwyzer on “social construction”.
- A prime example of Americans’ criminal ignorance about sex work.
- How does one tell professionalism from actual romantic interest?
- If you thought ultrasound requirements for abortion were bad…
- How “Gay, Inc” abandoned anyone who isn’t “normal” enough.
- Try to imagine an editorial like this in an American newspaper.
- How service disputes are handled when a profession is legal.
- Louisiana just won’t give up trying to destroy people’s lives.
- New Jersey gets an early start on “gypsy whores” hysteria.
- How can I make sure my escort experience is enjoyable?
- Norway may yet fight the Swedish cancer into remission.
- Gee, I can’t imagine why the police took these paintings.
- The Salvation Army says homosexuals deserve death.
- Frantic pearl-clutching over sugar babies from Jezebel.
- More hysteria over structural sex ray contamination.
- The bizarre cult which dominates Swedish feminism.
- Tracy Quan on strange and unpleasant bedfellows.
- It’s good to see prohibitionists attack one another.
- The Czech Republic creates a sex work bottleneck.
- Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever.
- My lifelong love of astronomy and space travel.
- Archaeologists discover an ancient brothel.
- Why Gabriela Leite likes the word “whore”.
- So much for “negative secondary effects”.
- My favorite TV dramas and comedies.
- A revival of the Myth of the Wanton.
- We’re up to 50 clients a night now.
- $250,000 bail for a misdemeanor.
- R.I.P. Richard Matheson.