We cannot turn a blind eye to these violations. – Chuck Sykes
I’ve got a couple of animation videos for you this week; the first one is a short documentary from the planning stages of Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and the second another installment of The Kronies (a series mocking fascism by casting crony capitalists as ’80s superhero toys). The links above the first video are from Jason Kuznicki, and those between the videos from Michael Whiteacre (“headline”), Lucy Steigerwald (“stranger danger”), Scott Greenfield (“purdah”), Rick Horowitz (“libertarianism”), Jesse Walker (“Stonehenge”), Grace (“cat lovers”), and Popehat (“cycling”).
- White House says “Saudi Arabia has an extensive border with Syria“.
- Debunking the myth that money can’t buy happiness.
- Headline of the week.
- The real “stranger danger”.
- The word you’re looking for is “purdah”.
- Libertarianism even happens to seven-year-olds.
- Stonehenge was much larger than previously believed.
- Cops are concerned that cat lovers are insufficiently terrorized.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
- Crime: Cycling vs traffic on 1-way street. Penalty: death by police car.
From the Archives
- Why can’t women understand that most “creeps” are just frustrated, not dangerous?
- Even with broad definitions, UNODC can’t find many “trafficking victims”.
- Rapists & pedophiles find job where they can grope women & children.
- Condoms, karaoke, knives, conscious vaginas, rapist cops & parasites.
- How the summer slump in New Orleans affects the stripping business.
- A few journalists are beginning to question the “sex trafficking” hype.
- How can I get an amateur who’s attracted to me to accept payment?
- Cause: brothels cannot operate legally. Effect: many illegal brothels.
- If abortions are criminalized, should women who get be imprisoned?
- Tracy Elise has fired her attorney and will represent herself in court.
- Ethically-retarded academics get in bed with morally-bankrupt cops.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
- Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
- A long-form review of American Courtesans by a marriage therapist.
- Bangladeshi sex workers evicted so politicians can steal their land.
- Cops, comics, cats, bacon, science, police state and World War III.
- As usual when sex isn’t involved, the word “trafficking” is absent.
- More signs of the impending collapse of “sex trafficking” hysteria.
- Police launch “crackdowns” in anticipation of brothel legalization.
- Jemima mocks an anti-whore article by casting it as self-parody.
- Coming out to parents who are in denial about one’s sex work.
- Irish judges enjoy robbing whores & giving it to prohibitionists.
- An anti-sex fanatic’s crusade to criminalize a lump of bronze.
- The difference between saving a life and prolonging a dying.
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail as a modern blockbuster.
- Whore-hating New Zealand politician erects illegal signs.
- Lord Chancellor Chris Grayling tries to ban sex in prison.
- Indian actress recognizes that sex work reduces rape.
- Lap dancing clubs could soon be banned in Glasgow.
- The collapse of UK Olympic “sex trafficking” hysteria.
- Criminalizing things makes them magically vanish!
- Another win-win situation ruined by busybodies.
- California says it’s whores’ fault if they’re raped.
- A promising HIV vaccine is now being tested.
- The kisaeng, traditional Korean courtesans.
- Aspasia Bonasera on the goddess Oshún.
- The first escort agency to accept bitcoin.
- The beginning of the end for lads’ mags.
- Another transgender person murdered.
- Irish cops oppose the Swedish model.
- Every whore is somebody’s daughter.
- Bad literature turns girls into whores.
- An interview with Melissa Gira Grant.
- Sex workers organizing in Jamaica.
- Thoughts on my first conference.
- Filmmaker persecuted for profit.
- A nice little profile of Siouxsie Q.
- Sweden is in bed with the NSA.
- A fake dominatrix in Austria.
- Friday the Thirteenth again.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- R.I.P. Robyn Few.
- E pur si muove.