The time has come to reject the canard of marijuana emanating from nearly every vehicle subject to a traffic stop. – Judge April Newbauer
Just a few hours after my last Links column posted, we learned of the death of Ric Ocasek (formerly of The Cars); this was my favorite of their videos, and one of my favorites of their songs. The links above it were provided by Tim Cushing, Jillian Keenan, Scott Greenfield, Dave Krueger, Popehat, and Tim Cushing again, in that order.
- As one does.
- Metaphor alert.
- Much more of this, please.
- Just protecting and serving.
- Sex workers already knew this.
- When non-cops do this, it’s called “child luring”.
From the Archives
- Places Americans dismiss as “3rd world” are ahead of the US in SW rights.
- Highway destroyed, morons cheer; traffic diverts to streets, morons bleat.
- A good article with a horrible headline: sex work is work, not an “offense”.
- I hope this rapist spends the rest of his life on the “sex offender” registry.
- Everyone harmed by “prostitution stings” needs to keep suing over them.
- Anything they want to increase hysteria about is perpetually “on the rise”.
- How countries with healthy ideas about sex react to the Swedish disease.
- Christian eschatology, Scientology, and ancient-astronaut tinfoil-hattery.
- When a whore dies, the media treats it as a form of lurid entertainment.
- “Study” reaches stunning conclusion that hotels cluster along highways.
- Cops, moral panic, Archie, cyborg insects, H.P. Lovecraft & much more.
- Is there anything narrower & meaner than the mind of a prison official?
- More bad laws that destroy civil rights in the name of “sex trafficking”.
- The difference between legalization and decrim cannot be overstated.
- Cops struggle to regain control of runaway “sex trafficking” hysteria.
- Cops will keep pulling these shenanigans as long as courts let them.
- Migrant African SWs treated as adults rather than childlike “victims”.
- Are amateurs really so sheltered that this sort of thing shocks them?
- Another entry in the “sex trafficking” scare story invasion of Twitter.
- A disproportionate number of pimps who actually do exist are cops.
- Austria doubles down on using gay stereotypes to deport refugees.
- “Progressive” Washington state reaffirms its “liberal” views on sex.
- Criminalized transactional sex is always a weapon against women.
- Another ludicrous concepts for a supposed “gypsy whore” magnet.
- It’s always a pleasure to see whore-raping scum thrown in prison.
- Cops, drought, Florida, Rube Goldberg machines and much more.
- A pretty typical level of “evidence” for allegations of prostitution.
- Misogynists hate it when women teach girls to know their worth.
- Congress is split on whether it’s OK for pigs to rob citizens blind.
- Gentrification motivates persecution of all kinds of sex workers.
- Hiding migration control behind the “sex trafficking” narrative.
- It usually starts with sex workers, but it never stops with us.
- Brooke Magnanti reviews Julie Bindel’s latest farrago of lies.
- Can you let me know when [you do some particular thing]?
- Beware of hotels eager to suck the cocks of “authorities”.
- What might the internet look like if SESTA isn’t stopped?
- A list of sex-worker friendly criminal defense attorneys.
- This year’s “creepy clown” panic is off to a good start.
- Shawna: A Life on the Sex Offender Registry.
- An unusual portrayal of sex work in cinema.
- Rapist cops of the week, 2017 and 2018.
- A nude selfie and running out of steam.
- A 12-step program. For serial rapists.
- My two previous columns for Mabon.
- But they’re “going after the johns”!
- Just another rapist/murderer cop.
- The last full run of my move.
- “Scientific” porn detection.
