Perhaps now that the arms race on the street has resulted in criminals equipping themselves with gravity, police should be issued with the Strong Nuclear Force so as to keep their edge. – Clark Bianco of Popehat
The internet has rebounded from a run of slow weeks with a vengeance, swamping me with a deluge of good stories and links. While this column is flexible enough to absorb the surge, the “That Was the Week That Was” feature has a fixed length of ≈2000 words, and I can only trim the stories down so much before they turn into plain links. Generally, stories that appear up to Wednesday night or Thursday morning make it into that week’s TW3, but this week I had my quota by Tuesday morning, and by Thursday morning I had enough for another column! As you read this I’ve already posted this coming Saturday’s TW3, and the overflow will go into an extra edition on Tuesday the 27th. Our top contributor was, as so often happens, Radley Balko, with everything down to the first video and “don’t wave at cops”. But two others provided three links each, namely Mike Siegel (“39 stats”, “rhinoceroses” and “testes”) and Jesse Walker (“Area 51”, “terrorist” and “1776”); Grace clocked in with two (“ring” and “never call the cops”). The first video (via pws) is a mini-horror film (from the creator of Ju-on) which is no less effective for its brevity, and the second is a demonstration of why government control of weapons is doomed. The other links were supplied by Gideon (“Batman”), Franklin Harris (“waiter”), Luscious Lani (“spontaneous combustion”), Pee-wee Herman (“where no man”), Nun Ya (“26¢”), Amy Alkon (“journalists”), Glenn Greenwald (“non-compliance”), and Stacy Swimme (“Iceland”).
- Somebody actually thought a Hitler-themed sitcom was a good idea.
- A retired cop blasts America’s degeneration into a police state.
- Since when do prohibitionists care about facts?
- Cop sues the family of a man he murdered.
- Cops literally scare a man to death.
- Hitchcock’s 39 stats.
- More of this, please.
- Ring around the Earth.
- The truth about Area 51.
- Holy sound file library, Batman!
- How to be a suspected terrorist.
- The best waiter in all time and space.
- Chronic spontaneous human combustion.
- The ages of the Founding Fathers in 1776.
- To boldly fry where no man has fried before.
- Time has done what guns and bombs could not.
- Man refused life-saving transplant for a 26¢ error.
- Welcome to our world, rhinoceroses and journalists.
- “…an artifact in a D&D campaign where the DM hates you.”
- Teenage boy sentenced to death for “history of non-compliance”.
- University fines faculty who don’t report touching their own testes.
- Icelanders reserve tickets for anti-gay preacher’s talk & don’t show up.
- Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever. And waving at them isn’t a good idea, either.
From the Archives
- The search for the Long Island Killer stopped as soon as they realized he was probably a cop, so the victim’s families hired detectives instead.
- Adults’ obsession with adolescent oral sex isn’t at all creepy or perverse.
- Chimps, gazillions, guitars, spying, the first website and the police state.
- It’s time for people to get over their childish attitudes toward sex work.
- Basic arithmetic is not required for a government position in Brooklyn.
- A reader’s story of his own encounter with “sex trafficking” hysteria.
- Yet another collection of prohibitionist myths vomited out by cops.
- Prostitution charges are often based on nothing but a cop’s lie.
- The wholly-ridiculous claims of soi-disant “trafficking survivors”.
- Indian sex workers again demonstrate their awesomeness.
- The full implications of California’s new “sex trafficking” law.
- The problem with a state-sponsored “ugly mugs” scheme.
- A two-part examination of whores who think they aren’t.
- How New Orleans escort services blackballed a bastard.
- Cops harass strippers with their super cop powers.
- The total absence of “trafficking” in New Zealand.
- The true face of Ashley Madison’s fake women.
- Prohibitionist cockroaches flee from the light.
- Why neofeminists hate sexy female hurdlers.
- Because whores look just like other women.
- A small sex worker victory against Google.
- Ignorant sexologists begin to wake up.
- My top ten columns as of August 2011.
- Rescuing sex workers from “rescuers”.
- The indiscretions of Mary Anne Clarke.
- My autographed copy of Paying For It.
- The selective blindness of partisans.
- The problem of the “perfect victim”.
- Impotent anti-streetwalker laws.
- Giving up harlotry for love.
- Dirty amateurs.
