Even though some might say this is just a teenage prank, who knows what this teenager might have done. – Chris Nocco
This week’s video needs a little explanation; it’s an Italian musician’s idea of what an American song sounds like, and the suggestion that one is listening to unintelligible English lyrics (rather than pure nonsense) is very powerful. The video was provided by Michael Whiteacre, who also gave us “brontosaurus”. The other links were contributed by Radley Balko (“headline”), Jesse Walker (“braid”), Lenore Skenazy (“happens”), and Scott Greenfield (“might”).
- Headline of the week.
- An Eternal Golden Braid.
- I hate it when this happens.
- The return of the brontosaurus.
- That whole “free speech” thing was nice while it lasted.
- Teen charged with felony for what he “might have done”.
From the Archives
- The police state, Jim Crow, the Drug War, Elvis, eldritch life, hipster babies, guilt, American English and God’s Gospel Lizards.
- How can I reconcile my conscience with working for a company that’s involved with spreading “trafficking” hysteria?
- Sex rays can enter one Lego construction & be emitted from other Legos, presumably via quantum tunneling.
- Who cares that a woman was stabbed? The sadfeelz of naïve prudes are much more newsworthy!
- School, airlines, Nick Cage, tits, cops, cadavers, the police state and Asian commercials.
- They won’t stop until they extend the “gypsy whores” myth to every event.
- It takes a special kind of stupidity for a reporter to call for censorship.
- Add Latin America to the list of places better at activism than the US.
- Articles with minimal whore-bashing in CNN and the New York Times.
- Even Swedish model propaganda increases violence vs sex workers.
- Sydney madam convicted of keeping students in “sexual servitude”.
- Only three weeks earlier they were saying there was no serial killer.
- What event sparked all this portentous talk of vast criminal cartels?
- Politicians broaden crime’s definition, panic when it then increases.
- The Bundesrat is not impressed with “sex trafficking” propaganda.
- Police state jails elderly quadriplegic for “crime” of sexual feelings.
- Is there anything more worthless than an “authority’s” promise?
- Gloria Steinem uses “pro-life” rhetoric to attack women’s rights.
- More on End Demand Illinois’ ugly campaign of disinformation.
- The Gambia criminalizes male prostitution and cross-dressing.
- Dr. Laura Agustín explains that all prohibitionism is the same.
- A short biography of Skittles, best of the grandes horizontals.
- Thaddeus Russell on A Renegade History of the United States.
- The tale of a series of brothel raids that don’t go as planned.
- A strong criticism of the ethical bankruptcy of Project ROSE.
- Queer Strike “names and shames” anti-whore LGBT groups.
- In which feminists throw sex workers under the bus again.
- What can a woman do if she stays dry during “duty sex”?
- How can I help a friend lose his virginity with an escort?
- It’s so gratifying to see “sex trafficking” in scare quotes.
- “Sex trafficking” as excuse for racism and xenophobia.
- Deon Haywood, Women With a Vision and the arson.
- Cops use dysphemisms to destroy legal businesses.
- Another “sex trafficking” NGO exposed as a scam.
- San Francisco bans condoms as evidence, sort of.
- Indian prohibitionists seek to censor the internet.
- Belle Knox on the “desperate exchange” concept.
- Massive fraud dismissed as “certain allegations”.
- Texas tries to criminalize escort advertising.
- Epidemic levels of mathematical illiteracy.
- Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
- The official launch of Ladies of the Night.
- Does real sneakiness require a double X?
- The Anti-Barbie League is at it again.
- Yet another anti-sex education law.
- Escort becomes infidelity counselor.
- Another lunatic sheriff runs wild.
- Go the Fuck to Sleep: the movie.
- Polygamy should be legalized.
- Sweet, sweet schadenfreude.
- Guest columnist: Laura Lee.
- Rapist priest of the week.
- The Call Girl of Cthulhu.
