Links #385

By Maggiemcneill @Maggie_McNeill

Don’t any Spanish speakers work at Taco Bell headquarters? – Jerry Coyne

I didn’t find this video actually scary because the ending was obvious from fifty seconds in, but it had a good atmosphere and there were a few moments that gave me a frisson, which is more than I can say for 99% of what passes for “horror” these days (which are basically nothing but long lead-ins to jump scares).  The links above it were provided by Cathy ReisenwitzJesse WalkerAmy AlkonRadley BalkoKevin WilsonTim Cushing, and Scott Greenfield, in that order.

From the Archives

  • When government stops prohibiting things & treats prisoners like humans.
  • “Authorities” amazed imaginary problem doesn’t materialize by mandate.
  • Don’t want to worry about neighbors? Buy yourself a country house, twit.
  • They’re “changing hearts and minds”, all right, but against their tyranny.
  • The brave heroes of Washington DC stop the menace of rogue twerkers.
  • Talk about serial killers targeting whores; don’t mention criminalization.
  • Palantir is the same company which is helping cops spy on sex workers.
  • Media in the British Isles are much more critical of anti-porn hysteria.
  • Ignorant, pearl-clutching screeds are starting to seem almost quaint.
  • Not the first time Weinstein’s been accused of financial shenanigans.
  • It’s great to see so many physicians coming out against prohibition.
  • The “Facebook pimps” myth is one of the silliest of the whole panic.
  • A “ring” of independent workers & the cops are looking for “pimps”.
  • Let’s put the entire next generation on the “sex offender” registry!
  • The narrower the neck, the more “illegal” sex work there will be.
  • Why am I so different from what society expects of mistresses?
  • The New York Times apologizes for libeling nail salons, kind of.
  • A pro-decriminalization argument for a conservative audience.
  • This is the kind of sick mind that believes in “porn addiction”.
  • I think my car will soon be able to get to the airport by itself.
  • Judge Posner can claim a freebie from me anytime he likes.
  • If the Church were sanely-run, this article would be true.
  • People sometimes ask me why I moved out of Louisiana.
  • It’s not every day that the Boss Lady drops by in person.
  • Cops make up creative excuses for brutalizing gay men.
  • Cornpone cop spins sexual fantasies of raped teen girls.
  • Prudes will turn anything related to sex into a problem.
  • The cops are happy to serve as an ex’s revenge goons.
  • On the anniversary of a very memorable dinner party.
  • Cops, alchemy, Steve Ditko, Medusa and much more.
  • The State’s two-faced attitude toward “revenge porn”.
  • Judge is intimidated into backing down from a ruling.
  • Laura Lee on the appalling blindness of “authorities”.
  • The problem with criminalizing sex workers’ clients.
  • Once in a while a rapist cop gets his comeuppance.
  • Another sex work-positive article in Cosmopolitan.
  • The amazing Tara Burns interviews Margaret Cho.
  • Economists have nearly all come over to our side.
  • Screwdriver-wielding anal rapist cop of the week.
  • The truth about Charlie Sheen and sex workers.
  • Rapist cops of the week.  Lots and lots of them.
  • Tits and Sass interviews Suzy Favor Hamilton.
  • Desmond Ravenstone introduces CoSWAC.
  • Cops, boogers, TSA, Elvis and much more.
  • It’s like they’re not even trying any more.
  • The gravy train just keeps rolling along.
  • Sometimes cops even rape other cops.
  • Sex rays contaminate buildings!
  • How big is civil asset forfeiture?
  • Do as they say, not as they do.
  • Watch what you say, comrade.
  • The Red Umbrella Diaries.
  • Can a client be an ally?
  • R.I.P. Cynthia Payne.