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A busy week this time around, both in links and in my life; I’m striving diligently to get ahead because I’ll be only able to do minimal work for the first three weeks of July. And on top of everything else, I discovered this little surprise in my truck last Saturday, which as you can imagine has required me checking on them at least three or four times a day. Anyhow, our top contributor this week was Radley Balko, with the first six links and the first video below them; keep in mind this exercise in “fun with fascism” portrays cops, not soldiers. The second video (an honest campaign ad) is from Kevin Wilson (who also provided “crazy ants” and “drugstore”), and the others between the videos were supplied by Cheryl Overs (“ERB”), my cat (“griffins”), Jesse Walker (“surprises”), Gideon (“never call cops”), Krulac (“workers’ paradise”), Lenore Skenazy (“truancy”), and Glenn Greenwald (“NSA”).
- What if international journalists used the same language to report on the US as US journalists use to report on other countries?
- A solid establishment of the precedent that anyone can be imprisoned for crimes committed by others on their property.
- Why you now need to lock your door at all times, even when at home.
- Cops arrest woman for asking to see a warrant they didn’t have.
- Does fighting over food cause premature aging?
- Cop admits to framing 185 innocent people.
- Paging Edgar Rice Burroughs…
- The smaller relatives of griffins?
- Geographical and temporal surprises.
- Suicidal “crazy ants” destroy electronics.
- A particularly odious form of “stop faking”.
- Drugstore chain fined $80 million for selling drugs.
- Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever, kitten edition.
- Cops tase severely retarded man for standing in his mother’s yard.
- Another blow for the proletariat from the Glorious Workers’ Paradise.
- Witness describes 5’5″ Hispanic man; cops arrest 4’10” black woman.
- Prosecutor threatens to steal people’s children and assets if he thinks kids miss too much school.
- So many American kids now have an imprisoned parent, Sesame Street felt the need to address it.
- Senate staff told they’re not allowed to read any of the widely-available leaked NSA documents, and must turn themselves in if they do.
From the Archives
- Journalists don’t learn truth about sex work because they don’t want to.
- Canadian government tries to emulate American prohibitionist insanity.
- Swedish housewife sets up a BDSM dungeon in an abandoned bunker.
- Thai sex workers ask prime minister to stop licking Uncle Sam’s boots.
- This won’t stop until we stop giving cops so much power over people.
- Irish police raid homes looking mostly for people who don’t live there.
- CNN “trafficking” gurus aren’t real experts, but they play them on TV.
- UK organization fights for the sexual rights of the mentally disabled.
- Neofeminism is not a coherent political philosophy, but rather a cult.
- A helpful guide to not getting your comments posted on this blog.
- Yet another maniac chooses his victims from among sex workers.
- Mother Russia wants to prove she’s as pigheaded as Uncle Sam.
- Dear Men, please stop sending us penis photos. Love, Women.
- The more laws a society has, the less moral its people become.
- Prudes object to their own lascivious thoughts about a statue.
- A handy compilation of numbers and figures about sex work.
- Dania Suarez announces plans to start a sex worker charity.
- Neofeminist prohibitionists condemned by their own words.
- Kristof says individual rights are old-fashioned and passé.
- How “sex trafficking survivors” are like UFO abductees.
- Malawian sex workers fight oppression via civil courts.
- Sex worker rights, big tents and lockstep conformity.
- I really wish politicians would stop proving me right.
- A short biographical sketch of my best friend, Grace.
- The beginning of a continuing pattern of overwork.
- The beginning of US attempts to suppress bitcoin.
- Tennessee criminalizes hurting people’s feelings.
- New York says dancing isn’t dancing if it’s sexy.
- The first two adventures of Aella the Amazon.
- Franklin Harris on Hollywood’s sex-negativity.
- Libertarianism in science fiction and fantasy.
- An ambivalent essay on “sex trafficking”.
- Happy 50th birthday, silicone implant!
- Penguin perversion.
