Links #312

By Maggiemcneill @Maggie_McNeill

Too bad I can’t eat too many without lowering blood pressure too much.

I’m very fond of short videos that put an unusual “spin” on a familiar subject; this week’s example was contributed by Tim Cushing.  The links above it were provided by Radley Balko (“paradise”), Amy Alkon (“children”), Nun Ya (“laws”), and Popehat (“policies”).

From the Archives

  • Does the New York Daily News have editors qualified to recognize an incoherent mess when they see it?
  • FBI myth: crack experts at hunting dangerous criminals. FBI truth: lazy pickers of low-hanging fruit.
  • Ugly bandwagon-jumping hastens the day when the public is sick of “sex trafficking” nonsense.
  • People rotting for decades in prison on bogus “sex trafficking” charges won’t be laughing.
  • Cop defines sex worker as “a person who has been probably raped at age 8 if not earlier”.
  • “Cross-border trafficking of prostitutes” actually means “escorts driving across town”.
  • Kissing, government, cops, headlines, death, umlauts, bureaucrats & more.
  • Should be pasted to forehead of everyone who believes in magic formulae.
  • It’s such a pleasure to see someone admit this in the mainstream media.
  • At least Canadian media have the sense to put “rescue” in scare quotes.
  • The truth of one fact doesn’t change the incoherence of 1st part of this.
  • This wouldn’t “shock” anyone with the approximate timidity of a sheep.
  • How little you’d have to change to make this about the war on whores.
  • Why can’t Tom Flanagan see the moral panic is already well underway?
  • Cops, Don Martin, Patrick Macnee, Dolly Parton & Captain Kangaroo.
  • The key players in the recriminalization of sex work in Rhode Island.
  • The ridiculous things that constitute “trafficking” in the Netherlands.
  • Politician pretends closing a red-light district will “end prostitution”.
  • Another mainstream article tearing down “sex trafficking” hysteria.
  • I’m not sure why this was controversial; nobody can deny it’s true.
  • A profile of sex worker Kitty Stryker, in Cosmopolitan of all places.
  • It isn’t just whores who have power to grant demons “permission”.
  • New Zealand tells Uncle Sam where he can stick his “report card”.
  • Why do amateurs care if pros do something better than they do?
  • Some choice words for that “sex working grandmothers” story.
  • Jezebel swallows the “trafficking town” myth  like a big, slimy…
  • In which danah boyd takes a few more steps toward the light.
  • I do keep telling you that the “gypsy whores” myth is bogus.
  • Conner Habib wrote last year’s best essay about prohibition.
  • Bindel can’t possibly be as delusional as she pretends to be.
  • If a man wants an open marriage, what’s the wife there for?
  • Announcing SWOP’s sex worker comedy & variety show.
  • Sex workers are dehumanized by calling us “networks”.
  • Because ordinary English words can emit sex rays, too!
  • Imagine American cops making a statement like this.
  • Hortense Mancini was a whore down to her genes.
  • My two previous columns for the summer solstice.
  • Ignorance of the law creates train wrecks like this.
  • Sexually exploitative prison guards of the week.
  • What is probably the first report on Neal Falls.
  • A 3000-word mound, reeking to high heaven.
  • DA willfully lies about exonerated prisoner.
  • Those magical pimps work amazingly fast.
  • The rapist of a sex worker is convicted.
  • A sex worker’s murderer is convicted.
  • Whores leave cooties in rented beds.
  • Who are the “sex traffickers” again?
  • Sex Addiction: A Critical History.
  • More cops devouring their own.
  • On the past exonerative tense.
  • My views on a certain video.
  • Rapist cops of the week.
  • Pimp cops of the week.
  • The bus trip from Hell.