I apologize for this column posting incomplete; Jae kept me very busy last night. Here’s another animated GIF, this one from Matt. You may have noticed from his previous contributions that he’s a huge Star Wars fan, and though the prequels don’t do much for either of us, we both thought this was pretty amusing. The links are from Rick Horowitz (“protect”), Radley Balko (“something” and “laws”), and Popehat (“together”).
- R.I.P. Oliver Sacks.
- To protect and serve.
- It’s good to be needed for something.
- The unintended consequences of stupid laws.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
From the Archives
- Brawls, fabulous animals, Cello Wars, fried chicken, goats, nutritionism, nannies, Hamlet, censorship, cops, mythology and mystery.
- Graham Ellison continues his fight vs imposition of the Swedish disease on Northern Ireland.
- It’s never called “trafficking” when politically-connected companies do it.
- Looking at “sex trafficking” hysteria as though it were a virulent illness.
- Another lawsuit against a strip club treating contractors as employees.
- As bad as the US is, at least sex workers aren’t usually executed here.
- Even when politicians oppose criminalization, they want brothels.
- A bogus client study from the warped mind behind Project ROSE.
- Transgender woman beaten to death in front of a police station.
- Their next study will attempt to determine if water is really wet.
- How Jane Shore crossed Richard III, and what became of her.
- An acclaimed outreach program is suffocated by red tape.
- A good introduction to the horrors of the Swedish model.
- Yet another film about imaginary “sex trafficking” victims.
- The downward spiral of British feminism into silly trivia.
- Dave Barry on the awfulness of sex worker stings.
- Politicians give cops another pretext for robbery.
- Hope for Satanic Panic victims Fran & Dan Keller.
- “Morality” is a convenient excuse for land grabs.
- What do you think about “opt-in” porn filtering?
- Laws are only for the hoi-polloi, not the rulers.
- How “trafficking” raids endanger sex workers.
- OK, now this politician/hooker story is news.
- When all else fails, shoot the messenger.
- A good article about Ruhama.
- The truth about Femen.
- King of the hill!
