It’s sending a message that there is no accountability for what you have done. – cop spokesman Martin Halloran, on forgiveness
I’m not a fan of either death metal or avante-garde music, but there’s something strangely intriguing about this cover of John Cage’s “4’33″” by the band Dead Territory, provided by Jesse Walker. The links above it are from Tim Cushing (“protect”, “fantasy” and “justice”), Ed Krayewski (“whatsoever”), Amy Alkon (“isolation”), Mike Siegel (“step”), and Mistress Matisse (“goats”).
- To protect and serve.
- Good fantasy, bad reality.
- Not for any reason whatsoever.
- The damage wrought by isolation.
- For once, a judge actually dispenses justice.
- Non-Catholics may not realize what a huge step this is.
- I wish I’d have thought of this while I still owned goats.
From the Archives
- The “commodification of sex and desire” is not a bad thing, but a good one.
- A top-secret organization of nuns who pose as whores to infiltrate brothels.
- Trans people have been hanged, stoned & even killed by their own parents.
- What is it about massage parlors that brings puritans out of the woodwork?
- In the US, she would’ve been arrested when she reported the rape to cops.
- Long-time readers will remember that I’ve made similar points in the past.
- Prohibitionists are terrified of people realizing that sex work really is work.
- Funny how relatives who hate BDSM relationships focus on mental illness.
- How a young woman discovered her grandmother had been a sex worker.
- Cows, cops, Sweden, poets, metaphors, Jean-Michel Jarre & much more.
- Government steals all money Rentboy could have used for legal defense.
- Any study which equates sex work with “crime” is flawed from the forge.
- From the people who had hearings vs communists, comics & song lyrics.
- 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.
- After AZ & WA, FL is most hysterically tyrannical over “sex trafficking”.
- As long as these laws exist, amateurs will be harmed by them as well.
- Cops raid & rob old woman for letting people play cards in her house.
- Los Angeles’ response to “sex trafficking”: increased police brutality.
- The Swedish model has virtually eliminated prostitution in Sweden!
- Cops, love letters, irony, Florida, totalitarianism and The Avengers.
- “They did not feel like trafficking victims, but victims of the police“.
- The rhetoric is ridiculous, but even stupid snitches are dangerous.
- Indian NGO wants to force sex workers into brainwashing camps.
- Sexually-regressive Washington moves forward quickly on drugs.
- Fleur de Lit is a lot more optimistic than I am; I hope she’s right.
- Florida whores are forced into a religious brainwashing program.
- These are the people “feminists” want in charge of sex workers.
- Spam doesn’t become sinister just because sex workers use it.
- This would be hilarious if real women weren’t being hurt by it.
- Why I hate “Black Friday” and too-early Christmas displays.
- New Jersey considers defining prostitution stings as rape.
- Celebrity tries to excuse violence as consensual BDSM.
- The UK literally robs sex workers of their life savings.
- Scotland Yard “apologizes” for enabling rapist cops.
- In New Mexico, civil forfeiture is big business.
- Why drinking on the job is a really bad idea.
- If he asks for change, say you don’t have it.
- None of this surprises me even one tiny bit.
- November 2011 and 2012 in retrospect.
- There seems to be a word missing here.
- How to succeed as a “rescue” profiteer.
- What wonderful company the US is in!
- My last two columns for Thanksgiving.
- The Swedish model is still a scam.
- And don’t think this is atypical.
- Glenn Kessler does it again.
- My return from Seattle.
- I am not your monkey.
- My new car.
