Links #555

By Maggiemcneill @Maggie_McNeill

I think someone stole my chicken.  –  Thomas Ramsey

This week’s video is probably the best-known composition by jazz great Chick Corea, who died late last week.  The links above it were provided by Tracy Quan, Radley Balko, Dan Savage, Mike Siegel, Radley again, Amy Alkon, and Cop Crisis, in that order.

  • R.I.P. Chick Corea.
  • Headline of the week.
  • Straight people, are y’all OK?
  • Another Darwin award nominee.
  • Don’t live near their clubhouse, either.
  • Because rules are more important than people.
  • Cop murders man for standing in his own backyard.

From the Archives

  • Human opinions were never & are never monolithic across a society & era.
  • Copmala tried to sell her dad’s heritage for political coin & he’s not happy.
  • The problem isn’t religion; it’s teaching kids to blindly submit to authority.
  • Amazon supports surveillance, but Bezos demands his privacy be exempt.
  • An insultingly-low sentence, but he wouldn’t be convicted at all in the US.
  • Maybe we’re about to witness the beginning of the end of these evil laws.
  • Newest fad: condemning consenting adults to the “sex offender” registry.
  • The only ones who still claim to believe this nonsense are prohibitionists.
  • Another pogrom to enable a billionaire sociopath’s twisted psychodrama.
  • Copmala tells her brainwashed fans she was a “progressive” prosecutor.
  • “Sex trafficking” fantasies induce psychosis in those who promote them.
  • It’s been awhile since we’ve heard from Annie Lobert of “Liars for Jesus”.
  • TSA goons are allowed to molest citizens, but this was a bit too blatant.
  • Legislative “studies” are useless, but maybe they’ll normalize the topic.
  • Politicians are too stupid to understand that all prohibition is the same.
  • They claim gypsy whores failed to materialize because of the hysteria.
  • Utah is another state which pays cops to sexually assault sex workers.
  • Law applying only to women “does not discriminate based on gender”.
  • Prohibitionists invent bogus stats to hide a failed entrapment scheme.
  • Another example of our culture’s obsession with form over substance.
  • The magic words “sex trafficking” will let prosecutors circumvent this.
  • Women work not to pay bills, but because we have “low self-esteem”.
  • Nebraska’s claims to be a “sex trafficking hub” are the most pathetic.
  • Maybe we’re about to see the beginning of the end of these evil laws.
  • Don’t teach kids about sex; fill their heads with anti-sex propaganda.
  • Why are men with so much to lose so goddamned stupid about sex?
  • Most “child predators” hold positions of authority over their victims.
  • The first duopoly candidate to actually support decriminalization.
  • European medical groups are increasingly pro-decriminalization.
  • Criminalization of transactional sex is a weapon against women.
  • Sometimes “trafficking” just means “bringing in brown people”.
  • Fake “sex trafficking” ads demonstrate prohibitionist depravity.
  • In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
  • Note that this positive article appeared on prohibitionist CNN.
  • When “sex trafficking” hysteria started morphing into QAnon.
  • Louisiana hides another molester cop from possible lynching.
  • Should I tell an escort that her email shows her legal name?
  • Cops wait a year to arrest a dangerous, violent serial rapist.
  • Cops, fascism, family values, the letter “I” and much more.
  • Polaris is now coming after your dating apps and websites.
  • Israeli prohibitionists are trying to criminalize all sex work.
  • You just can’t keep an out-of-control prohibitionist down.
  • Still doubt that politicians are deranged megalomaniacs?
  • My blog and Twitter feed are definitely not “safe spaces”.
  • How can I decide whether to come out to an advisor?
  • Seattle is remarkably quiet under a blanket of snow.
  • More on Amazon’s campaign to end privacy forever.
  • Another claim that disasters cause “sex trafficking”.
  • At least they’re not calling this an “escort service”.
  • Facebook can’t even follow its own “standards”.
  • This story just keeps getting uglier and filthier.
  • Cops, candidates, The Rutles, and much more.
  • My last travel before the pandemic hit us.
  • Anti-sex feminism’s days are numbered.
  • I’m sure she really had to “force” him.
  • Rerunning not one but two specials!
  • Introducing The War on Whores.
  • Why we can’t have nice things.
  • Rapist cops of the week.
  • Population 136,885.