Headline of the week. (Radley Balko)
New York’s shadow transit system. (Skye)
The beginning of the end of pot prohibition.
Cop murders teen for flashing his headlights.
Cops have intense standoff with lawn ornament.
Cops abduct children because the family was camping. (Lenore Skenazy)
Don’t accidentally call them, either. Or call out to them. (Mike Siegel)(Popehat)
From the Archives
- Cops, Batman, carnivorous plants, altruism, bullies, surveillance, concrete, Scooby Doo, New Zealand, registries & Penn Jillette.
- Despite annoying visuals and a few clumsy phrases, an excellent argument against prohibition of sex work.
- When this happens in India: media circus. In Sweden: {cricket sounds}.
- Dear unethical sex businesspeople: Stop videotaping clients, you idiots.
- “Pimp” myths used to justify Nevada’s draconian “sex trafficking” law.
- Debunking the moronic claim that sex work is immune to economics.
- Sex workers who espouse Marxism or misandry are self-defeating.
- Amateurs refuse to understand that prostitution laws affect them.
- Woman miscarries after attack by two women’s rights champions.
- In which we learn that nail parlors are havens of “sex trafficking”.
- Why do so many politicians think sex overrides the Constitution?
- There is no magic formula which can protect a whore from a cop.
- Several criticisms of an especially-revolting “end demand” sting.
- US tries to pretend “Trafficking in Persons” report is apolitical.
- The “anti-prostitution pledge” is struck down in the SCOTUS.
- New York defines people as crime victims against their will.
- Another P411 security breach betrays 22 escorts to pigs.
- What about clients who really need a woman to orgasm?
- More cracks in the “sex offender” registration regime.
- Man dials 999 to complain about a prostitute’s looks.
- My two previous columns for the summer solstice.
- The trial of Franck Ribery and Karim Benzema.
- The prevalence of HPV has dropped by half.
- Support for “apostrophe laws” is waning.
- Another of the TSA’s many pedophiles.
- Meet the Fokkens and Diamond Men.
- Canadians heckle prohibitionist lies.
- Lost erotic painting rediscovered.
- Still more fatal butt injections.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- Do as I say, not as I do.
- The missing word.
