I looked down there this morning at my willy and there’s a fucking flea bite on it. – Johnny Rotten
It’s not often that I laugh out loud at a video, even from The Onion, but this one was hilarious (at least to a literature nerd). The links above it were provided by Amy Alkon, Jesse Walker (x3), Mike Chase, and Walter Olson, in that order.
- {Cue “Yakety Sax”}
- Headline of the week.
- California’s namesake.
- Where’s Jeffrey Combs when you need him?
- When Orwellian surveillance is a “republican value”.
- Remember the old “Hitchhiker’s Guide” computer game?
From the Archives
- One day, reporters will get that “People Work To Make Money” isn’t news.
- It usually starts with the politically unpopular, but it never stops with us.
- Burying government in lawsuits is the only way to slow its depredations.
- The state believes it owns you and you have no right to defend yourself.
- If case you still think decriminalization in Rhode Island was “accidental”.
- Sometimes “sex trafficking” = helping an underage sex worker survive.
- We keep learning more about Amazon’s fascist collaboration with cops.
- What an actual attempt at abduction into forced prostitution looks like.
- This fantasy number now exceeds 1.3% of the entire world population.
- The popular but dangerous belief that masturbation is harmful to men.
- Another bad law giving prosecutors more ways to charge teen sexters.
- It’s rare for an organization to prioritize ethics over the heckler’s veto.
- A jury slaps down the government’s crusade against Christian charity.
- US reporter thinks her sadfeelz trump Filipinas’ right to make a living.
- Why must people be subjected to police theatrics in order to get help?
- Cops, karma, headlines, myths, Lovecraft, zoetropes and much more.
- One day, “small businesses have landlords” will not be seen as news.
- Can Nevada brothel workers collect disability for work-related injury?
- Why local laws banning facial recognition are just feel-good bullshit.
- African sex worker news articles are full of bizarre, stilted language.
- When a highway is destroyed, the traffic has to go into side streets.
- Our descendants will wonder why we thought this was noteworthy.
- An interesting history of Annie Sprinkle’s salon in 1980s New York.
- Persecution of sex workers invariably affects other women as well.
- The second stupidest claimed “cause of sex trafficking” of all time.
- Why I avoid “Black Friday” and collect toys for needy kids instead.
- May this presage the end for the evil, deranged Sunitha Krishnan.
- Your “leaders” don’t like being caught with their hands in your till.
- Prohibition has been proven to be unsafe to humans in any form.
- Arizona says anyone even accused of a sex crime is subhuman.
- The mainstream media is a font of disinformation on sex work.
- Why do sex workers and others believe in “immunity” policies?
- Sweden has never really given a damn about this rape charge.
- Shitty strip-club management as “evidence of sex trafficking”.
- My first proper sit-down feast in my own place since the ’90s.
- Cops, headlines, spelling, Gifaanisqatsi, and much more.
- Pigs and prohibitionists say one is “as many as 150”.
- Tell me again how the US isn’t a police state.
- My two previous columns for Thanksgiving.
- Mexico may be getting rid of “avails” laws.
- Rapist cops of the week, 2018 and 2019.
- November 2015 and 2016 in retrospect.
- Liz Brown on the “sex robot” fantasy.
- It’s impossible to state this too often.
- At peak hysteria, all it takes is this.
- “Correcting” people to death.
- A blissfully boring week.
- Safety first.