I think when people give money to the city to help the homeless they fully anticipate that’s what those funds will be used for. – Cathy Alderman
Are you surprised to see the Links column appearing on a Friday? You should be, because it’s only happened twice before, both over three years ago. But it was either that or post the Guest column on a Friday (which I didn’t want to do) or the news columns only two days apart (which I also didn’t want to do), so here it is. Besides, I don’t want y’all to get too complacent. The video is of a piece of music that really wowed me when it came up on my Pink Panther Pandora station one night while I was not anything like sober, but I don’t think you need to be in that state to appreciate it. The links above it are from Cathy Reisenwitz (“children”), Tim Cushing (“government” and “protect”), Amy Alkon (“ground”), and Lucy Steigerwald (“together”).
- R.I.P. Noel Neill.
- For the children.
- Whatever would we do without government?
- Crime: broken taillight. Penalty: summary execution.
- Cops murder restrained man lying face down on the ground.
- Cops arrest a man who broke no law, claim it was to “protect” him.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
From the Archives
- Getting a massage is grounds for public shaming at the hands of the state.
- The real motive behind high-profile attacks on escort advertising websites.
- Cops want to create “child porn” to prosecute teen for taking nude selfies.
- The unholy mess created by trying to stop people from migrating to work.
- Cops, Kafka, noses, Barbie, bureaucracy, law, music & Captain America.
- CMT pap is probably the most unintentionally-hilarious anti-whore pap.
- Politician blames advertising site for damage caused by criminalization.
- At least US “authorities” don’t yet lock up “sex trafficking” debunkers.
- Unnecessary cops claim “prostitution is…one of the biggest problems”.
- Neighbors complain about a dominatrix because, naturally, sex rays.
- A reminder that Dennis Hof is a revolting excuse for a human being.
- Enjoy this thorough French denunciation of sex work “abolitionism”.
- Cathy Reisenwitz on the psychology behind support for prohibition.
- States compete to inflict the most mindlessly-draconian sentences.
- Why doesn’t my sex worker girlfriend want sex with me any more?
- Elizabeth Brown analyzes the latest “sex trafficking” Trojan horse.
- Cops aren’t satisfied with merely sneaking spooge; they throw it.
- Distributing soap bars to fight “pimps” hiding in hotel lavatories.
- “Justice system” destroys woman’s life for giving a friend a ride.
- Asinine prohibitionist act puts over 9000 people out of work.
- How the “trafficking” paradigm harms young sex workers.
- Mass surveillance in Tennessee, because “sex trafficking”.
- This article on the Backpage credit card issue quotes me.
- Exceptions to general rules do not invalidate those rules.
- Backpage’s big “fuck you” to Tom Dart & Swanee Hunt.
- Legal experts condemn Canada’s new prostitution laws.
- Another excellent parody of “sex trafficking” nonsense.
- The damage caused by the FBI seizure of MyRedbook.
- Darwin, tech guys, TSA, government and much more.
- How a judge condemned 65 sex workers to death.
- My two previous columns for Independence Day.
- UK “porn” filters block 20% of popular websites.
- The California Red-Light Abatement Act, redux.
- How can a new independent escort get started?
- Another bureaucrat extorting sex from women.
- My fourth and fifth anniversary columns.
- The #rightsnotrescue Twitter campaign.
- France avoids the Swedish rot for now.
- Tom Dart’s sleazy attack on Backpage.
- Belle Knox on sex worker solidarity.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- “Proof” of drug dealing.
- Canada has a problem.
- Dog bites man.
