I am outraged that Mr. Alexander for two and a half decades failed to take this matter seriously. – Judge Kathleen McCarthy
It’s not often that we have a tie for the most links, but we do this week. Radley Balko provided everything down to the first video, and Jesse Walker the second video plus “rumor” and “clowns”. The other links were provided by Grace (“trigger”), Elizabeth N. Brown (“facts”), Cop Block (“thanks”), Angela Keaton (“mean”), and Nun Ya (“ANY”).
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
- Today in your police state.
- Urban life.
- Rumor of the week.
- Clowns in the news.
- I suppose this one needs a “trigger warning” for guys.
- So what if the court’s order is in flagrant violation of the facts?
- Cops claim family thanked them for causeless beating & arrest.
- Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever. I mean it. Not ANY reason.
From the Archives
- Dogs, dildos, Mars, Monty Hall, ignorance, immigration, police state, bureaucracy, fossils, orgasms, Star Wars, LOLcats & the end of time.
- We don’t have any “sex trafficking” cases, but we know they must be around because we have an interstate highway.
- Tainted Love, poop, cops, government, headlines, clowns, witches, nightmares and the Voynich manuscript.
- A few slightly-less-yellow journalists are beginning to question the more obviously-absurd claims.
- Sex work isn’t a profession, uses no creativity and nobody earns a living through it.
- DA explains why it’s a good thing he persecutes teenagers for “sexting”.
- Michael Weinstein wants a new city department just to enforce his law.
- Megalomaniac imagines new social media site will wipe out all others.
- Italy denies whores way to pay tax, then charges them with evasion.
- The most hilariously absurd iteration of the “gypsy whores” myth yet.
- The word “trafficking” is a blunt instrument in governmental hands.
- Miranda Barbour has a delightful conversation with credulous cops.
- The meat of a story you may have heard just after the Super Bowl.
- Rescue industry tries to defend abduction of sex workers’ children.
- Manipulating statistics to serve an agenda is like a number puzzle.
- Promoting the official narrative, one sensationalized tale at a time.
- Comic Relief fails to recognize a “pathological liar” comedy routine.
- Article about sex work with the disabled covers good ground, but…
- The damage to sex workers caused by “end demand” campaigns.
- The “pizza” meme may be the funniest one of the entire hysteria.
- The “alternative media” is more competent than the mainstream.
- The detachment of these people from reality is truly astonishing.
- Oklahoma officials’ creepy enchantment with “human trafficking”.
- Spanish whores protest a planned crackdown on streetwalking.
- Dublin City Council rejects the Turn Off The Red-light campaign.
- There’s some creepy stuff buried in this “gypsy whores” idiocy.
- Does a bisexual woman dating a man still really want women?
- Fun promotional video from the Sex Worker Freedom Festival.
- Canadian cops harass sex workers using “trafficking” excuse.
- Ireland tries to cheat the Magdalene laundries’ victims again.
- Highlights from a symposium on the German Prostitution Act.
- North Carolina law could imprison women for going topless.
- Nigerian mob drags 14 gay men out of homes, beats them.
- Letting cops write the laws; what could possibly go wrong?
- On the cruelty of denying commercial sex to disabled men.
- Florida fanatics want whores committed to psych facilities.
- Huge number of NGOs asks politicians not to ignore facts.
- Dr. Paul Maginn has published another appeal for sanity.
- Where is the apology from the Magdalene laundry nuns?
- Brazil undergoes the usual pre-mega-event sanitization.
- The moral purification of the US Armed Forces continues.
- What prostitutes, nurses and nannies have in common.
- What would be the ideal mate for a sex worker be like?
- On drawing sharp lines between types of sex workers.
- A methodologically-sound study of 10,000 porn actors.
- Activists fight plan to banish sex workers from Atlanta.
- Woman charged for helping daughter get an abortion.
- “Sex trafficking” NGO founder charged with child rape.
- Four things you should know about women who strip.
- I just can’t think of what word might be missing here.
- Another fanatic claims porn causes “sex trafficking”.
- Kristof’s fun new way to play God makes its debut.
- Growing the police state, because “sex trafficking”.
- UK “sex trafficking” scare is actually a racist hoax.
- The truth about another dumb “trafficking” claim.
- Another good interview with Melissa Gira Grant.
- Encouraging readers to comment on the blog.
- Egypt convicts nine gay men of “prostitution”.
- Canadian readers get a chance to be heard.
- Two more “sex trafficking” fakeumentaries.
- No justice for victims of the Soho pogrom.
- Cops harass sex workers in Kyrgyzstan.
- My previous columns for Mardi Gras.
- More sketchy “sex trafficking” math.
- More internet censorship in the UK.
- Sex worker activism in Malawi.
- The Great Firewall of Iceland.
- The first Belle Knox article.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- 60 men per day!
- Sex at Dawn.
