The desire to write for publication is one which inheres strongly in every human breast…the whole intelligent public are today seeking expression…and yearning to behold their thoughts and ideals permanently crystallized in the magic medium of type. – H.P. Lovecraft
We’re just about back around to our normal configuration; look for next week’s news columns on Saturday and Sunday again (though not yet in the usual order), and we’ll also be back to numbering the links columns rather than naming them. I’ll be coming home from the symposium today (see yesterday’s column) so you may not see me around at all, but I should be back to business as usual tomorrow. Our top link contributor this week was Michael Whiteacre, who supplied everything down to the first video; that one (and “911”) was suggested by my cat. The second video (the beginning of a documentary on the making of A Clockwork Orange) was provided by Jack Shafer, and the links between the videos were contributed by Radley Balko (“desensitize”), Antonio Lorusso (“turn signal”), Cliterati (“vomiting” and “Lovecraft”), Neil Gaiman (“Kipling”), Pee-wee Herman (“magic crayon”), Jesse Walker (“endometriosis” and “Sherlock Holmes”), and Aspasia (“persecution”).
- Oklahoma man may have spontaneously combusted.
- Florida man stores bullets in oven; unpleasant hijinks ensue.
- Swede wanted for murder goes to surrender, finds police station closed.
- Ohio court says cops are justified in smashing down your door if you forget to use a turn signal.
- Cops are being trained to desensitize themselves to murdering children and pregnant women.
- Florida man arrested for repeatedly calling 911 after his cat was denied entry into strip club.
- Police beat, humiliate, abuse and arrest person for “crime” of vomiting.
- Scholar discovers fifty lost poems by Rudyard Kipling.
- Fake Soviet “Choose Your Own Adventure” books.
- Harold’s magic purple crayon becomes a reality.
- The shocking true form of endometriosis.
- The myth of Christian persecution.
- Who owns Sherlock Holmes?
- H.P. Lovecraft on blogging.
From the Archives
- My four-part interview with Jill Brenneman, sex worker rights activist and genuine survivor of coerced prostitution.
- How to make hard-to-get legal pseudoephedrine from readily-available illegal methamphetamine.
- Another article bemoaning the fact that women use sex to make a living.
- Politicians and cops snapping their fingers to keep the elephants away.
- Detroit police too busy chasing whores to worry about home invasions.
- Sweden tries men for running brothel “authorities” say doesn’t exist.
- Paypal has entered a “biggest busybody” competition with Google.
- Indian NGO “rescues” girls from prostitution by prostituting them.
- Olympe de Gouges: courtesan, writer and ethical revolutionary.
- Another reason why amateurs have more STIs than pros.
- When theft becomes the primary function of government.
- Uptight Italian women get in huff over sexy bartender.
- What’s the best way to perform oral sex on a man?
- R.I.P. Miss Edna, last madam of the Chicken Ranch.
- Another creepy gadget for spying on spouses.
- I won’t do another column like this until 2016.
- The secret indictment against Julian Assange.
- The court of the demimonde, February 1794.
- Nicholas Kristof’s fun new way to play God.
- Getting around the constitution in Florida.
- Why do so many more escorts kiss now?
- How to make money from a moral panic.
- Another butt-injection killer is caught.
- America’s scorched-earth war on sex.
- Louisiana’s crimes against society.
- How does one find an escort?
- Why is sex such a taboo?
- Strip clubs cause gangs.
- Leah outs David Vitter.
- Legislators gone wild.
