You don’t find out what it’s all about, but you have a lot of fun being extremely confused. – Douglas Adams
Here’s a really unusual cover of a familiar tune, played on a most unusual instrument. The video was provided by Inspireland, and the links above it by Lenore Skenazy, Boatfloating, Gustavo Turner (“Cardin”), Lucy Steigerwald, Jesse Walker, and Scott Shackford, in that order.
- Not a police state, no sirree!
- Universal criminality in action.
- R.I.P. Pierre Cardin and Dawn Wells.
- Not because your neighbor started his truck, either.
- A 35-year-old interview about the best computer game ever.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
From the Archives
- If amateurs weren’t trying to ruin our lives, they could learn a lot from us.
- We’re not hearing quite as much of this “highway” bullshit as we used to.
- As long as sex work is marginalized, whores will be targeted for violence.
- More cops raping sex workers (excuse me, “rescuing trafficking victims”).
- In case you thought screws restricted their petty sadism to the prisoners.
- 300 texts does not equate to 300 men, since many guys send a barrage.
- Cops wait a year to arrest a dangerous, violent serial rapist. Guess why?
- This article by 3 academic allies covers a lot of ground, but starts here.
- Imprisonment doesn’t magically become “care” for prisoners under 18.
- New items of this type appear under the heading “Permanent Record”.
- When will the US abandon “re-education” for sex workers and clients?
- A Nigerian vice gang allowed to do anything to terrorize sex workers.
- Just another lying politician who wants to police others’ private lives.
- “Abatement”. A term used for inhuman things, especially nuisances.
- If sex work weren’t illegal, laws like this would be easily overturned.
- It’s the same everywhere our work is even partially criminalized.
- Opportunists produce “studies” to “find” what is already known.
- I’ll be rather pleased if Philadelphia beats Seattle to the punch.
- In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- Minnesota imprisons a bunch of migrants as “sex traffickers”.
- A “national leader in the field of sex offender management”.
- Indian sex workers fight a terrible new “anti-trafficking” bill.
- Think being a “legal” sex worker protects you from cop lies?
- Just in case you though FOSTA was as bad as it would get.
- Cops are being forced to deny “sex trafficking” scary tales.
- Previous columns for New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.
- The 20th anniversary of my becoming a full-time escort.
- Cops, government, racism, rock & roll and much more.
- Our government refers to this as “correction”.
- Beginning the remodeling project at Sunset.
- Cops, fantasy, love in Iran, and much more.
- A video about China’s genocide of Uighurs.
- Why doesn’t this say what kind of animal?
- How my 2012 predictions looked in 2019.
- I figured they could at least count to ten.
- Enjoying some seasonal relaxation.
- The “security” system that isn’t.
- So progress! Much Seattle!