There were no open pits spitting forth curtains of brimstone and perdition’s flames to be found, and nary a single cloven-hoofed demon could be seen dancing about the streets of downtown Oklahoma City—and from all reports, nobody seemed any more or less possessed than they were before the event took place. – Jason Vaughn
It was a very active week for links! The top contributor was Grace, with the second video and all the links above the first one (which IMHO as someone with mild OCD is one of Rachel Bloom‘s funniest yet). The links between the videos were provided by Popehat (“protection” and “seat belt”), Lenore Skenazy (“correlation”), Nun Ya (“html”), Jason Kuznicki (“Karen Black”), Tushy Galore (“preacher”), Saladin Ahmed (“Snark”), Korhomme (“museum”), Cop Block (“trespassing”), Janet Bloomfield (“cannoli”), and Ally Fogg (“addiction”).
- Now cops don’t even wait until someone’s actually born to tase him.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
- Cop murders man for sitting in car while deaf.
- Fun with murder.
- School punishes boy for sharing.
- Just another day in a police state.
- The state calls this “child protection”.
- Correlation does not equal causation.
- What happens when you don’t close html tags.
- All this plus the Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black.
- Cops tase preacher for praying over his dead son’s body.
- The crime: seat belt violation. The penalty: shot in the hip.
- Beautifully Sendakian illustrations of “The Hunting of the Snark”.
- Cops let old lady drown, threaten men with arrest if they save her.
- What will future students will say while looking at this in a museum?
- “Students were literally running & jumping fences in fear of a dresser.”
- Crime: trespassing in abandoned house. Penalty: 5 shots in the back.
- I assume they mean “vulva”; vagina-shaped cookies would be cannoli.
- I’m sure this seems reasonable to those who believe in “food addiction”.
From the Archives
- I have such a good regular relationship with a professional that I no longer feel the need for a conventional relationship. Have I gone nuts?
- Corpses, Congress, cops, prohibitionism, Paul Bunyan, the future, the mess, politicians, gayness, the Amish, authority, art and ice cream.
- Cops, cheese, confiscation, criminality, fascism, Shakespeare, virgins, baby-eating, telepathic rape and Oompa Loompas.
- How would one let a prospective husband know that he should only cheat with a professional?
- Yet another poor fool dies from allowing filth to be injected into her arse.
- As long as government actors have power over people, this will happen.
- Canadian courts slap down another attempt to deny sex workers rights.
- New York officially classes all whores as passive objects without agency.
- Phoenix only “treats prostitutes as trafficking victims” when convenient.
- The nuns who ran the Magdalene laundries are still exploiting whores.
- UK moves toward defining people in their early twenties as “children”.
- Remember the video that claimed most Dutch whores are “trafficked”?
- Common drug appears to completely eradicate HIV from cell cultures.
- Cambodian cops have learned to parrot their American masters well.
- The CASE Act is so awful even trafficking victim advocates oppose it.
- Excerpts from the diary of Dr. Brooke Magnanti’s awful ex-boyfriend.
- In Phoenix, dog porn is a higher law enforcement priority than rape.
- Serial rapist claims his deals with whores “went bad”. Seven times.
- An excellent New York Times op-ed against “end demand” rhetoric.
- Melissa Gira Grant on the increasing desperation of prohibitionists.
- The Backpage-Village Voice split and Michael Wolff’s opinion of it.
- Korean sex workers demand revision of anti-sex trafficking laws.
- Feministe shoves a prohibitionist screed down the memory hole.
- Why aren’t women concerned about female sexual dysfunction?
- Family of man murdered by cops gets a $3.4 million settlement.
- Georgia tries to outdo Washington in “sex trafficking” hysteria.
- It’s probably unwise to physically attack bad clients in public.
- Edinburgh saunas compile list of politicians who paid for sex.
- Sons of two Indian whores picked for champion soccer team.
- What if we were closely related to the other kind of chimp?
- When “trafficking” fetishists raised it to 100 clients a day.
- Australia agrees that cheating a whore is a form of rape.
- “Sex trafficking” articles are like paint-by-number kits.
- Anna Gristina pleads guilty to promoting prostitution.
- The urge to ban books is the urge to cripple thought.
- A prohibitionist harpy interviews the Fokkens twins.
- A dangerously unbalanced buyer’s market in Japan.
- French hookers work to circumvent busybody laws.
- Strip club sues software giant for an unpaid bill.
- Unambitious gypsy whores in Washington, D.C.
- The first actual study of Irish sex workers.
- Elizabeth Loftus on the fiction of memory.
- A feminist guide to silencing sex workers.
- I make a brief appearance in this video.
- The humiliating fall of Straight Pride UK.
- Chester Brown gets an art exhibition.
- The neuroscience of a dead salmon.
- My last two columns for Mabon.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- My favorite short films.