I went on down to de Audubon Zoo An’ dey all axt fuh you; Dey all axt fuh you, (fuh who?) Well dey even inquired aboutcha I went on down to de Audubon Zoo An’ dey all axt fuh you Da monkeys axt, da tiguhs axt An’ da elephant axt me too. - The Meters [...]
Archive for August, 2011
They All Axed for You
Posted in History, Miscellaneous, tagged anecdote, New Orleans, restaurants on August 31, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Counterfeit Comfort
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, Perception, Tyranny, tagged cops, dirty, hysteria, law, psychology, rape on August 28, 2011 | 46 Comments »
A false sense of security is the only kind there is. - Michael Meade On August 16th, a federal appeals panel in Washington, D.C. rejected a challenge to the District of Columbia’s sex offender registry on the grounds that it is a “civil system of registry” (like driver’s licenses) and “not an additional [and unconstitutional] criminal [...]
Law of the Instrument
Posted in Current Events, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged California, condoms, cops, dirty, drivers, fantasy, hysteria, law, lawheads, pimps, psychology, stereotypes on August 26, 2011 | 55 Comments »
It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. - Abraham Maslow The principle known as “Maslow’s Hammer” due to its popularization by psychologist Abraham Maslow in his 1966 The Psychology of Science actually first appeared in 1964 in the writings of the [...]
Saving Them From Themselves
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, Perception, Tyranny, tagged censorship, dirty, harm reduction, hysteria, law, lawheads, porn, psychology on August 25, 2011 | 14 Comments »
Adults are prone to create myths about the meaning of adolescence. - Louise J. Kaplan One year ago today I wrote about those who want to “rescue” whores from lives they consider “degrading”, “disgusting”, “filthy”, “sinful”, etc. This desire is, of course, based in what I referred to as the “bizarre yet prevalent notion that sex [...]
Fictional Interlude: Ghost in the Machine
Posted in Fiction, Miscellaneous, Philosophy, tagged courtesans, ethics, fantasy, porn, psychology on August 23, 2011 | 32 Comments »
One year ago today I published my second “fictional interlude”, which concerned an inanimate object endowed with a human personality. Today I’d like to revisit that theme, but via the medium of science fiction rather than fantasy and set in the future rather than the past. I hope you like it. “Are you sure it’s safe?” [...]
The Fur Is Flying
Posted in Current Events, Perception, Philosophy, tagged bisexuality, California, censorship, dirty, ethics, fantasy, hysteria, Madonna/whore, porn, psychology, stage names, stereotypes on August 22, 2011 | 28 Comments »
Your argument defends an ideology; mine defends the truth. - Mason Cooley Furry Girl has been in the news lately; her project to fund the first-ever sex worker rights billboard in the United States has succeeded, and it will be going up in Los Angeles in the next two weeks. That has received a small [...]
