And they’re like, “Uhhhh. Who gave this to you?”
“The King of Sweden.”
“Why did he give this to you?”
“Because I helped discover the expansion rate of the universe was accelerating.” – Brian Schmidt
Lots of links this week but only one Halloween item so far; I’m hoping to see more this week. The first video is a German Volkswagen commercial from Grace (who also provided “home while black”); the second is from Dave Barry (I especially love the way Apostle Emeka is unable to prevent eye-rolling). Everything above the first video is from Radley Balko, and the links between the videos from Clarissa (“your way”), Angela Keaton (“consequences”), Nick Tolman (“tombstone”), Lenore Skenazy (“precaution”), Rick Horowitz (“another day” & “seat belt”), Mistress Matisse (“peasants”), Michael Whiteacre (“bureaucrats”), Jesse Walker (“distrust” & “combination”), Jason Kuznicki (“smartphone”), Cop Block (“vegetable”), and Paul Murray (“hysterically”).
- Cop robs man, pepper-sprays everyone who complains.
- The mayor’s wife’s chief-of-staff’s boyfriend. Seriously.
- What could make getting a traffic ticket even worse?
- The TSA vs. the Nobel Prize.
- Have it your way!
- No consequences. Ever.
- Make your own tombstone.
- Obviously a sensible precaution.
- Just another day in a police state.
- Laws are for peasants, not overlords.
- Seat belt laws are for your protection.
- Welcome to our world, sex therapists.
- When bureaucrats are in charge of hospitals.
- Always distrust anything the police tell reporters.
- Another good reason not to own a “smart” phone.
- Cops pepper-spray teen for being at home while black.
- Hysteria, police states and jokes: a dangerous combination.
- Yet another vegetable “mistaken” for cannabis by moronic thugs.
- When “in a very professional manner” actually means “hysterically”.
From the Archives
- Witch hunts, tinfoil hats, food trucks, police brutality, pigs, censorship, Poe’s Law, thoughtcrime, universal criminality, tribbles and fruit.
- Space war, Somalia, music, Poe’s law, cops, prosecutors, Twitter, Kubrick, porn, Snapple, monsters and leaping maggots.
- “Pimp” is copese for husband, driver, landlord, roommate, service owner, bodyguard, phone operator, parent…
- “Child Protective Services” have powers the Inquisition would’ve envied.
- UK insists “sex trafficking” is rampant, despite never finding any victims.
- Politicians want to protect “good” women of Saskatoon from sex rays.
- Another pregnant woman’s rights subordinated to those of a fetus.
- Government actors hiring whores is standard operating procedure.
- And if she really had been a hooker, that would have made it OK?
- Another good article about Equality Now from Melissa Gira Grant.
- Add Malawi to the countries better at human rights than the US.
- The nuisance of spam commenters and “guest post” spammers.
- Woman who had sex for money says she “felt like a prostitute”.
- It’s good to see some journalists finally starting to listen to us.
- The US Army says Santa Muerte worship isn’t a “real” religion.
- A short biography of Aileen Wuornos, whore and serial killer.
- San Francisco temporarily stops using condoms as evidence.
- “Prostitution has a social value, and it’s necessary in a city.”
- Jezebel says it’s OK to penetrate someone without consent.
- A young woman’s life is destroyed by “trafficking” hysteria.
- Politician flirts with stripper online; pearl-clutching ensues.
- How can I figure out what kind of sex work is best for me?
- SCOTUS refuses to hear challenge to Lawrence vs. Texas.
- Christian Vega, gypsy whores and migrating wildebeest.
- Another “ally” accepts the false claims of prohibitionists.
- Dangerous teen girl jailed for kissing another teen girl.
- The real agenda behind mandatory condoms in porn.
- Another way the Swedish model harms sex workers.
- Truly mythic levels of ignorance and disinformation.
- The vengeful badge-licking of Crime Victims United.
- Cathy Reisenwitz on New York’s “trafficking” court.
- Credulous reporters keep giving away ad space.
- Another lump of bronze, another dumb crusade.
- Swedish state neofeminism embraces Lamarck.
- A cop was sentenced to life in prison for rape.
- Most prison rape is committed by the guards.
- No, marriage isn’t prostitution; not at all.
- The need for more research on anal sex.
- A stage show about the Profumo Affair.
- A video on coming out as a sex worker.
- Whores evicted so fascists can profit.
- Frequently told lies about sex work.
- Diary of a Rookie Phone Sex Floozie.
- An Orientalist wanking fantasy.
- More cops cashing in on vices.
- Silk Road shut down by FBI.
- Seven jokes about whores.
- The arrest of Alexis Wright.
- The precursor of “sexting”.
- Handy figures revisited.
- Doctor Mordrid.
