As you plan your child’s Halloween costume, you must consider the district’s Zero Tolerance Policy.
The increasing trend of people saving Halloween links for the last three days before the holiday results in my not having any until the Links column after Halloween. It’ll be just as bad next year, but the year after that Halloween’s on a Monday so that should be better. Ah, well. This week’s top contributor was Lenore Skenazy, with the first video and everything above it; the second video is from Franklin Harris, and the links between the two were provided by Cop Block (“protect”), Popehat (“clowns” & “chili”), Tauriq Moosa (“layout”), Kevin Wilson (“investors”), David Ley (“plastic”), Michael Whiteacre (“show”), Radley Balko (“sequel”), Molly Crabapple (“seizure”), Clarissa (“accidentally”), and Molli Desi (“together”).
- Cops menace parents because their toddler cried on an airplane.
- Cops lock down school as a “precaution” vs. a piece of wood.
- A shining example of puritanical bean-counting.
- The law is the law.
- To protect and serve.
- Yet another clown attack.
- The importance of page layout.
- Another finger-in-Wendy’s-chili case.
- Welcome to our world, tech investors.
- Jesse Walker’s Halloween radio show.
- Plastic is both safer and more sanitary.
- Like something from an Anne Rice novel.
- A real-life Halloween horror show. And its sequel.
- The crime: owning a plant. The penalty: death by seizure.
- Don’t call anyone who might “accidentally” call the cops, either.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
From the Archives
- Fall guys, soul murder, spam, smartass whale, Offense 101, goblin porn, horror comedies, skunks, Dutch artists, galaxies, cops & more.
- Devils, monsters, Ouija, cops, words, bullying, Gollum, “Annabel Lee”, censorship, government, horror films and two horror shorts.
- In my country buying sex is much more stigmatized than selling it; how do I avoid feeling guilty?
- You might be a king or a little street sweeper, but sooner or later you dance with the Reaper.
- What should I do if a girl I love wants to be an escort, but I think it’s the wrong choice for her?
- Court protects civil rights; politicians make a law overruling the decision.
- When will amateurs learn that the War on Whores affects them as well?
- That “1 in 5” claim rests on defining “attempted forced kissing” as rape.
- Take a good look at the prohibitionist company the US prefers to keep.
- Busybodies can’t resist interfering with other people’s business deals.
- Indian whores protest another attempt to impose the Swedish model.
- Muscatine, Iowa. 16 LE agencies. 2 months. 27 misdemeanor arrests.
- Another example of the state punishing citizens for following its lead.
- This academic’s blind spot about “sex trafficking” hysteria is massive.
- Politicians who can’t resist cutting off their noses to spite their faces.
- 97% of those charged in Illinois “end demand” crusades are whores.
- More pearl-clutching about young pop-stars from old, dried-up ones.
- Seven Edinburgh sauna licences renewed despite police objections.
- Interviews with activists about the rescue industry and its myths.
- It was a “cleansing initiative”. You know, like “ethnic cleansing”.
- Media pretend bureaucrat hiring whores is somehow shocking.
- “Right. And the Invisible Fence collar…lets my dog be a dog.“
- A meaningful opportunity to speak up for sex worker rights.
- The TSA presumes everyone is a terrorist drug dealer pimp.
- Another generally-balanced profile of several sex workers.
- The zombie legislation called CISPA just won’t stay dead.
- The US locks up more prostitutes than sex traffickers do.
- How should I act for my boyfriend who’s into cuckolding?
- Zürich’s tippelzones have too much surveillance to work.
- Apple happily licks China’s boots for the almighty dollar.
- A collection of things to read and watch for Halloween.
- How cops and the media collaborate to destroy lives.
- US Marine tried for murder of a sex worker in Hawaii.
- A powerful argument against draconian sentences.
- The Lancet comes out in favor of decriminalization.
- A sign of the deep Western weirdness about sex.
- Theresa May moans about “modern day slavery”.
- “Trafficking” as an excuse for surveillance again.
- Cops refer to teens as a criminal “sexting ring”.
- His motive is obvious, but this is still freakish.
- A national alliance of sex workers in Malawi.
- The history of the Contagious Disease Acts.
- The intimate relationship of sex and fear.
- My two previous columns for Halloween.
- Why we need a day to celebrate death.
- The vile mistreatment of Alicia Beltran.
- “Why are feminists so afraid of sex?“
- Umpteenth verse, same as the first.
- Business as usual in a police state.
- Sara Kruzan is finally paroled.
- Taiwanese funeral strippers.
- October 2010 in retrospect.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- Another TSA pedophile.
- Messiah of Evil.
I’m more and more convinced that these “low fat” diets are for couch potatoes.
I work out hard, a lot … like every day for at least two hours a spat. I usually eat pretty clean – low sodium, kind of low fat but I don’t get fascist about it, and I try to limit carbs. On this diet – I can LOOK awesome but my performance in the gym isn’t nearly as good as when …
I eat DIRTY.
I won’t eat “dirty” for long … just enough to “bulk” on 15 pounds or so before I “cut”. I used to try to do “clean bulks” – but those took too long and I was eating all the time – more than I could stomach. Dirty bulk? Pizza … Panini’s, Wendy’s Chilli (Yum!), even … chocolate (MilkyWays for the win!).
I feel like Superman on that diet.
So I think all this government interference in diet is based on the least common denomenator – and the idiots writing these diet specs are doing it for people who live completely sedintary.
I’m fortunate, as a miserable old anchorite, to live just far enough away from the village not to be tortured by kids trick or treating. But really it’s a pretty harmless bit of fun for them; and yet the dead hand of authoritarian fear seeks even to eliminate this.
You have to have a licence here in N Ireland if you want a fireworks show; but there were clearly a few unlicensed parties here. But having had to deal with the unhappy effects of some Halloween “accidents”, I’m not too concerned about this. But I’m really concerned and unhappy about how beliefs around the dangers of Halloween totally drown out the factual reality. I suppose there has always been an element of society that prefers beliefs, however unreasonable, to the facts. But this seems the dominant theme today.
I know you call it bad page layout, but somehow I’m not surprised to see Winnipeg “Winnie” Pooh and Abonimable “Bumble” Snowman appear in a mug shot. I’m only surprised this didn’t happen sooner. So that was only honey in that jug marked “XXX”? Yeah…right….
It’s so weird seeing a story from my town listed here. People have been talking a lot around here about the decapitation, but I still didn’t know many details until I read your link.
“Tension between the family and cabin crew grew so intense, a spokesperson for Frontier told KSDK flight staff requested police saying the Khalfins had been abusive toward them. When the plane landed in St. Louis, Khalfin said he, Regina and toddler Sam were ushered off and met by police “like criminals.” ”
Pfft. And the other side of the story? I’ll bet those bloody parents were every bit as abusive towards the longsuffering flight staff as those staff claim they were. Why yes, as a matter of fact freaking out on a aluminium tube a mile above the ground with 300 other people on it *is* a crime, and no – being a parent is not an excuse.
Oh, I could be wrong. Maybe the staff were just being fascist for the hell of it – stranger things have happened. But my money is on “not telling the whole story” here.