All bathtubs should be banned. Just imagine it! – King Carl XVI Gustaf
On Thanksgiving night I was relaxing (yes, I’m starting to figure out how to do that) and listening to music on my Tubular Bells-based Pandora station, when I suddenly heard a piece of music whose identity has eluded me for 34 years. It was the soundtrack for a sequence about gravitational wormholes in an episode of Cosmos, and I adored it; however, it wasn’t included on the soundtrack album and the internet didn’t exist in 1981. Furthermore, when the series was released on video at the end of the decade, that sequence had a different score; clearly there had been a problem with the rights, so it had been replaced. But I never forgot the tune, so when I heard it on Thursday night I practically leaped to my phone to discover its identity. So here it is: Equinoxe, Part 4, by Jean-Michel Jarre. The links above it were provided by Jesse Walker, Matt Welch, Wendy Lyon, Grace, Popehat, Jillian Keenan, and Glenn Greenwald (in that order).
- Feral cows.
- Exactly as old.
- Because Sweden.
- To protect and serve.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- Which poet should you fight?
- Man accidentally comes up with perfect metaphor for the “War On Terror”.
From the Archives
- The “commodification of sex and desire” is not a bad thing, but a good one.
- Prohibitionists are terrified of people realizing that sex work really is work.
- Funny how relatives who hate BDSM relationships focus on mental illness.
- Any study which equates sex work with “crime” is flawed from the forge.
- Dr. Marty Klein trying to make up for long silence on sex worker rights.
- While sex work is criminal, whores are vulnerable to cops & scammers.
- Cops raid & rob old woman for letting people play cards in her house.
- How the US government promotes censorship on college campuses.
- Cops, love letters, irony, Florida, totalitarianism and The Avengers.
- A moral panic is nearing its zenith when mobs with torches appear.
- “They did not feel like trafficking victims, but victims of the police“.
- Holidays, clown panic, cops, recalls, songs and racist sandwiches.
- Florida whores are forced into a religious brainwashing program.
- Fanatics want to destroy the internet to eliminate dirty pictures.
- Spam doesn’t become sinister just because sex workers use it.
- Remember the “London slaves” who turned out to be Maoists?
- This would be hilarious if real women weren’t being hurt by it.
- The McCain, Inc “sex trafficking” cuckoo clock is striking 13.
- Why I hate “Black Friday” and too-early Christmas displays.
- 5% of Japanese women have done some kind of sex work.
- Cops admit there’s no “sex trafficking” in massage parlors.
- Another example of “sex trafficking” as default bogeyman.
- Why are there so many flaky, unprofessional escorts now?
- The Swedish model reaches Vietnam, and it’s still a scam.
- New Jersey considers defining prostitution stings as rape.
- Naive idiots volunteer to conduct SWAT raids on brothels.
- Celebrity tries to excuse violence as consensual BDSM.
- More ludicrous Victorian “sex trafficking” phraseology.
- “Don’t believe our data; believe our dogma instead!”
- Wouldn’t you love to see articles like this in the US?
- My recipes for cornbread stuffing and dog biscuits.
- Another example of the need for eternal vigilance.
- More virginity bullshit from Catarina Migliorini.
- Some rapist cops don’t stop with mere rape.
- Why drinking on the job is a really bad idea.
- If he asks for change, say you don’t have it.
- Swaziland is far more sensible than the US.
- November 2010 and 2011 in retrospect.
- How to succeed as a “rescue” profiteer.
- An ugly exercise in arse-backwardness.
- My last two columns for Thanksgiving.
- My return from Seattle.
