If you don’t want your yard dug up, don’t get accused by psychics of having buried bodies there. – Ken White
This was an extremely quiet week, which was good because I was so busy working on my house I wouldn’t have had time to deal with a busy one. More details on that next week! But in the meantime, here are two links and a video from Popehat, another video from EconJeff, and the links between them from Amy Alkon, Mike Siegel, Thomas Larson and Radley Balko (in that order).
Miami police chief says those who don’t want to be tased should leave the United States; Ken shares some more helpful hints on how to avoid the senseless brutality of police.
- The Popeye myth.
- Sociopath of the week.
- Florida bans all internet-capable devices.
- Apparently, some cops recognize which side they’re really on.
- Guantanamo inmate who killed himself was cleared for release in 2004.
From the Archives
- A thorough debunking of the oft-repeated claim that “human trafficking is the third most profitable crime”.
- The government just can’t resist trying to control anything involving sex.
- Government “study” made to justify sexist “trafficking” preconceptions.
- How to support decriminalization without revealing personal interest.
- Wealthy control freak wants everyone on the “sex offender” registry.
- Other things FBI agents believe in besides rampant “sex trafficking”.
- Australian prohibitionists say that poor Asian women are all stupid.
- US blocks sex workers from conference, so they set up their own.
- Yet another case of government interference magnifying harm.
- Why streetwalkers are a bone of contention among activists.
- At least Argentinian “survivors” don’t support criminalization.
- Swedish prostitutes win the right to claim social benefits.
- The inevitable result of laws which infantilize women.
- Interview with an escort arrested for looking young.
- The beginning of my guest blogging on The Agitator.
- Transactional sex is an important part of marriage.
- Why I have no sympathy for dangerous enemies.
- French sex workers protest the Swedish model.
- Could bitcoin help in the Greek monetary crisis?
- New York’s most famous madam of the 1920s.
- Five whores protest their pimps’ prosecution.
- The outing of prohibitionist shill “Stella Marr”.
- My first and second anniversary columns.
- A short history of prostitution research.
- A two-part interview with my husband.
- Another week, another rapist cop.
- A mysterious gift.
