Some days are grumpier than others.
Beloved comedian Tim Conway died last week, but I decided to hold off reporting it until this week so I could share a video from The Carol Burnett Show (provided by Franklin Harris) in which Conway demonstrates one of his favorite pastimes, ad-libbing bits so funny they made Harvey Korman piss himself on live television. The links above the video were contributed by Amy Alkon, Tim Cushing, Glenn Kessler, Jillian Keenan, Radley Balko, and Clarissa, in that order.
- No shit.
- Fascism in action.
- R.I.P. Grumpy Cat.
- A good metaphor for statism.
- Don’t call them because a comedian is Muslim.
- Don’t call them if you’re a fucking corporation, either.
From the Archives
- If Sweden gave a damn, it would’ve just pledged not to extradite Assange.
- Cops raping whores is so common, rapists pose as cops to facilitate rape.
- Tennessee “authorities” say sex workers are “victims” even if we say not.
- Hilariously, cops are now starting to believe their own wanking fantasies.
- Where “inside” means “in fantasies of busybodies peering from outside”.
- Another “sex trafficking” hysteria film for future generations to laugh at.
- One of the best feminist arguments for decriminalization I’ve ever seen.
- Most of this is the usual garbage, but there’s one rather amusing point.
- This will be much more common due to the ramped-up war on whores.
- Prohibitionists demonize sex workers’ partners into “loverboy pimps”.
- Better to be seen as dangerous seductresses than pathetic “victims”.
- Canadian prohibitionists desperate to cash in before panic implodes.
- Attractive women have been used to market sports for generations.
- Anti-human rights groups voice support for “Cuckoo Clock” McCain.
- Post-Backpage, anti-whore pogroms turn back to low-hanging fruit.
- A retrospective of my columns from May of 2014 and May of 2015.
- Another twist in the New Zealand migrant sex worker controversy.
- Grown woman pretends to be harmed by lame ’40s elevator joke.
- The San Francisco Bay Area Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival.
- Liz Brown dives into the ugly facts about federal vice pogroms.
- Cops, Daleks, muppets, Roger Moore, Florida and much more.
- Kate Lister on the background history of the Harlots TV show.
- Not an outcome one would expect in prohibitionist New York.
- Nice lady goes to slums and is horrified by poor sex workers.
- Sending dick pics to a stranger is a bad idea, but this is epic.
- In a post-apocalyptic future, a predator stalks human prey.
- Nearly every single sentence in this pile of shit is wrong.
- Mocking people for their tastes is stupid and puritanical.
- Touring the Scottish Highlands with Brooke Magnanti.
- Marijuana prohibition will soon be a thing of the past.
- We did warn you this wouldn’t stop with sex workers.
- The ugliest part of a peak moral panic: lynch mobs.
- Is this enough blood yet? Can we please stop now?
- What our government calls a “correctional facility”.
- Cops, Greek, cake, nightmares and much more.
- Pictures of Brooke Magnanti & me in the UK.
- Why do people have such trouble with this?
- I’m not going to bother quoting this trash.
- So much fantasy, so many contradictions.
- Do you give discounts for regular clients?
- Fear of death hampers enjoyment of life.
- What advice can you give a “sex addict”?
- The state says this isn’t a punishment.
- Paperwork, coffee and Velvet Swing.
- My essays at Reason and elsewhere.
- Then they came for the strippers…
- Now, this is an interesting twist.
- A pretty typical “leader”, really.
- This totalitarian idea won’t die.
- A marriage made in heaven.
- The end of the internet?
- Rapist cop of the week.
- It’s already here.