Links #536

This family…didn’t choose…to [allow] Jefferson Parish to look into their home and judge what happens there.  –  Chelsea Cusimano

The big news this week was the death of Eddie Van Halen; I wasn’t really a fan, but this song was recent enough when I was teaching that some of my students used to “innocently” sing it within earshot.  The links above it were provided by Nun Ya, Stephen Lemons, Tim Cushing, Popehat, Scott Greenfield, Cop Crisis, and Thaddeus Russell, in that order.

• Recycling!
• I hate it when this happens.
• Maybe Siri really is intelligent.
• Paging the late Senator McCarthy.
• What “no sense of humor” looks like.
• Still think you don’t live in a police state?
• Never let any “authority” aim a camera into your home.

From the Archives

• Every internet company profits from sex workers without giving us credit.
• Trumpists & anti-Trumpists fight to control the “sex trafficking” narrative.
• I can tell you why these cases aren’t being pushed, but you won’t like it.
• California mandates indoctrinating hotel workers as anti-whore snitches.
• Burying government in lawsuits is the only way to slow its depredations.
• Christian religious nuts are now being accused of being “sex traffickers”.
• 4% of all humans per decade magically vanish without anyone noticing.
• I’ve never seen anything galvanize support for sex workers like FOSTA.
• The result of non-binding “policies” that leave oppressive laws in place.
• Cops are increasingly being forced to deny “sex trafficking” scary tales.
• Nutritionists aren’t “scientists”, because nutritionism is pseudoscience.
• Nigerian sex trafficking juju mafia terrorists.  I am not making this up.
• Alabama “licensed massage therapists” emulate California pomposity.
• Where “public safety” means “accessibility to government snooping”.
• Those who gain power from opioid hysteria aren’t going to like this.
• Whores are not only the new drugs; we’re also the new “terrorism”.
• At least politicians correctly classified the dolls as “arcade games”.
• Please tell us more about how legalization “protects” sex workers.
• The “Nigerian sex slaves” wanking fantasy has crossed the Alps.
• Puritans argue that a federal court ruling doesn’t apply to them.
• UK judge says only “good” women should be protected by laws.
• Interesting buried detail: she’s a cop herself. Birds of a feather…
• A game to teach pigs racist fantasies about Asian sex workers.
• Yes, this really is as stupid and evil as it seems at first glance.
• Another of those nonexistent false sexual assault accusations.
• 19th-century whore stigma is still hurting Indian sex workers.
• As I keep saying, it’s already far too late to stop this tyranny.
• Cops, racism, Venezuela, Barbara Stanwyck and much more.
• It’s good to see so many challenges to these medieval laws.
• Cops, power-madness, toys, Ginger Baker, and much more.
• Costumes and fancy titles do not negate individual consent.
• No, it’s almost wholly to blame. As we warned it would be.
• Real pimp decides to ape prohibitionist wanking fantasies.
• How can I help my partner see that my work is just work?
• The deeply-unpleasant end of my residency in Oklahoma.
• Anything that helps demystify sex work is a good thing.
• Still believe that Nevada politicians are pro-sex work?
• Surveillance beyond the wildest dreams of the Stasi.
• Another slap on the wrist for a sexually-entitled cop.
• I wonder if they realize what they’re admitting here?
• China’s campaign to exterminate the Uighur people.
• Jailers pretend “concerns” and shed crocodile tears.
• Texas especially loves the “Facebook pimps” myth.
• What really goes on in Seattle’s “john school”?
• Why it’s a bad idea to quit sex work for “love”.
• Improving the accuracy of facial recognition.
• Making friends with Liz Brown’s cat, Esme.
• Isn’t faking orgasms counterproductive?
• Good news about the FOSTA challenge.
• Cops being humiliated is always funny.
• More yellow journalism from the BBC.
• We’re way past the watershed now.
• News from Snake Mama.
• Rapist cop of the week.

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No Explanation

October is, of course, Halloween month, a time for spooky stuff; my October movie choices are always horror.  That of course means older movies; series-obsessed Hollywood long ago lost the ability to consistently make good horror movies.  Every time some creator manages to come up with a decent fright flick, Hollywood has to turn it into a franchise, totally destroying any possibility of a scare.  The original Nightmare on Elm Street was a good, original, haunting flick; the studio soon destroyed that by turning its haunt into a wisecracking clown.  Paranormal Activity was entertaining; how many sequels are they up to now?  Even older movies are remade or sequelized into absurdity; I recently read that they’re trying to make an “origin story” for Damien, the boy Antichrist in The Omen (and several shitty sequels).  Let’s put aside for a moment the absurdity of making an “origin” prequel to a movie that is already an origin story; instead I’d like to comment on the misconception at the root of all this.  The author of that linked article states matter-of-factly, “Horror, more so than other genres, often struggles with how to offer viewers satisfactory explanations for the terror that unfolds on-screen.”  No, no, no; that’s almost the exact opposite of a correct analysis.  In true horror, there is little to no “explanation”, because the unnown is far more horrifying than any trite Hollywood “origin”.  Compare the utterly terrifying 1963 The Haunting, in which the only explanation for the goings-on is that the house was “born bad” (???) with 1999’s idiotic yawner of a remake with its ridiculous “explanation” involving “slave children”.  One of the things that makes Ringu (and its US remake The Ring) so terrifying is that it turns this stupid trope on its head, smashing the protagonist’s attempt at “explaining” and thus laying* the malevolent ghost back in her foolish face.  It’s just too bad there’s no way to lay Hollywood’s art-negating greed, which just keeps coming back as often and pointlessly as the protagonist-villain of far too many teen-oriented slasher franchises.

*Yes, “laying” is the proper gerund for destroying/stopping an undead creature. “To lay” is short for “to lay to rest”. eg, “they laid the vampire by putting a stake through its heart”. Sometimes different uses of a word from different time periods generate unintentional humor.

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Links #533

I can’t breathe! I’m gonna die, help!  –  Stephen Dolceamore

The great Diana Rigg died late last week, and though I could’ve moved things around I preferred to honor her with a video as well.  UK readers may not ever have seen the “chessboard” intro, which came before the main credits in the US for the 1966 season, the first one shown in the US.  The links above the video were provided by Franklin Harris, Zuri Davis, Elizabeth N. Brown, Scott Greenfield, Cop Crisis, and Robby Soave, in that order.

• R.I.P. Diana Rigg.
• Riding in a Lyft while black.
• Another brave hero, protecting and serving.
• Holy shit, STOP CALLING THE FUCKING COPS!
• How many times do I need to say, “Not for any reason”?
• Do I really need to say, “Not because a kid played with a toy”?

From the Archives

• Another church using a fake “shelter” scam to exploit marginalized people.
• Highway destroyed, morons cheer; traffic diverts to streets, morons bleat.
• If your rulers have their way, phone privacy will soon be gone completely.
• Anything they want to increase hysteria about is perpetually “on the rise”.
• How countries with healthy ideas about sex react to the Swedish disease.
• Another airline employee following government racial profiling guidelines.
• Cops will never stop this as long as the state keeps giving them pretexts.
• Clownish cops pratfall over fentanyl hysteria, despite doctors’ debunking.
• Christian eschatology, Scientology, and ancient-astronaut tinfoil-hattery.
• “Study” reaches stunning conclusion that hotels cluster along highways.
• Beauty magazines recognizing they owe their very existence to whores.
• Anti-whore stigma also harms sex workers who aspire to be therapists.
• Is there anything narrower & meaner than the mind of a prison official?
• Another explosion of mathematical imbecility from “One Hand” Kristof.
• Alabama’s late but bat-shit-crazy campaign of “sex trafficking” lunacy.
• Are amateurs really so sheltered that this sort of thing shocks them?
• Deaths from a black market product? Just expand the black market!
• Another entry in the “sex trafficking” scare story invasion of Twitter.
• Cops will keep pulling these shenanigans as long as courts let them.
• A disproportionate number of pimps who actually do exist are cops.
• We don’t see as many dumb “anti-trafficking” stunts as we used to.
• This rapist cop must’ve somehow crossed someone very important.
• The government has announced its new post-Backpage bogeymen.
• Funny how many cops who are willing to pay prefer underage girls.
• Austria doubles down on using gay stereotypes to deport refugees.
• Criminalized transactional sex is always a weapon against women.
• Cops, drought, Florida, Rube Goldberg machines and much more.
• Funny how the rescue industry isn’t afraid of “sex rayed” money.
• A pretty typical level of “evidence” for allegations of prostitution.
• Mar Brettmann will say anything to sell her anti-whore snake oil.
• Misogynists hate it when women teach girls to know their worth.
• Power corrupts, no matter what the race, sex, etc of its wielder.
• Gentrification motivates persecution of all kinds of sex workers.
• Hiding migration control behind the “sex trafficking” narrative.
• It usually starts with sex workers, but it never stops with us.
• Can you let me know when [you do some particular thing]?
• Why are you trying to avoid talking about Jeffrey Epstein?
• Ohio moves to punish sex workers for outing rapist cops.
• A list of sex-worker friendly criminal defense attorneys.
• “I support sex workers, just not those dirty whores“.
• When moral panic and yellow journalism intersect.
• Recipe for a good week in the Seattle demimonde.
• Cops, metaphors, Ric Ocasek, and much more.
• A nude selfie and running out of steam.
• A 12-step program.  For serial rapists.
• My two previous columns for Mabon.
• But they’re “going after the johns”!
• Just another rapist/murderer cop.
• Rapist cop of the week.

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Links #532

I can’t breathe.  –  Daniel Prude

It’s hard to believe that today is already the 21^st anniversary of the greatest disaster in human history, when we lost the Moon to a bizarre nuclear accident.  What, you don’t remember that?  The video below may help.  The links above it were provided by Mistress Matisse, Cop Crisis, Popehat, Billy Binion, Amy Alkon, and Popehat again, in that order.

• Be this goat.
• Playing tag while black.
• No, your reason is not a fucking exception.
• Not because somebody stuck his tongue out, either.
• Oh look, it’s what I’ve said for the last four decades.
• Crime: teenage fighting. Penalty: infliction of 2nd degree burns.

From the Archives

• “Dangerous teen fad” hysteria’s funnier when cops are its primary vectors.
• The US increases interference into private lives; India goes the other way.
• Will porn companies be next to face the music for exploiting sex workers?
• She’s on the wrong side of an imaginary line; we have to destroy her life!
• Canadians join Americans in filling kids’ heads with anti-sex propaganda.
• The problem is that facial recognition won’t stay inaccurate much longer.
• A new challenge is needed because Liberals lied about repealing the law.
• They’re “certified” in making up absurd stories & spreading moral panic.
• Pimps are uncommon, but a disproportionate number of them are cops.
• Why don’t decrim supporters work with those who support legalization?
• Fascists think nobody should have privacy, even in their own thoughts.
• Racist airline employee fantasizes an international criminal conspiracy.
• Trying to manufacture data to “prove” a problem exists is not science.
• How government circumvents the push to reduce prison populations.
• Cops, protests, snakes, black humor, Burt Reynolds and much more.
• I think we have enough evidence to start calling this “McNeill’s Law”.
• I really like sharing my nice things with those who appreciate them.
• Another attempt to harass Asian massage parlors out of business.
• Instead of hunting sex workers, Argentina negotiated with them.
• Moral panics make it so easy for pathetic twits to feel important.
• Cops, whales, words, waffles, Terrance Dicks, and much more.
• The government still won’t admit that TSA attracts pedophiles.
• Facebook doesn’t try to stop cops from making fake accounts.
• Winnowing out the time-wasters, clowns, and cheapskates.
• Cops are trying to regain control of a runaway moral panic.
• On the prohibitionist fantasy of a sex worker caste system.
• Rapists and murders say they want to “regain public trust”.
• You didn’t really think these would stay separate, did you?
• It’s good to see that the media is beginning to grasp this.
• Anything that helps demystify sex work is a good thing.
• Strip club raids exist only for pigs to get their jollies.
• Florida “officials” must enjoy getting sued over this.
• Possibly the silliest “King of the Hill” claimant ever.
• Weird prohibitionist sex fantasies about bouncers.
• In which I inspire a border patrol agent to resign.
• The 17th murder of a trans person in 2019.
• The last special edition Ladies of the Night.
• This brings the toll to 19 so far this year.
• Your government calls this “correction”.
• Amber DiPietra on the DASANetwork.
• I applaud any client who comes out.
• Crypto-moralism in the news again.
• Why is “attractive” in scare quotes?
• Sex workers need your help.
• I guess it runs in the family.
• I’m sure you feel safer now.
• A week full of parties.

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Links #520

I can’t breathe.  –  Derrick Scott

A Brave New World radio play narrated by Aldous Huxley himself?  With a Bernard Herrmann score?  Yes please!  The video was contributed by Anarras Ansible, and the links above it by Stephen Lemons, Conner Habib, Popehat, Mark Bennett, Mama Tush, Radley Balko, and Amy Alkon, in that order.

• Actually, it’s 42.
• But of course you can.
• Beginning to see a pattern yet?
• The best satire stays close to the truth.
• Cops molest & abduct teen for crossing the street.
• No, your reason for calling them isn’t an exception.
• In case you thought only US cops were this deranged.

From the Archives

• Never underestimate the human capacity to obsess about the nonexistent.
• “Standing up for a child’s welfare” means condemning a man to seizures.
• How many kids need to be sacrificed to this obscenity before it’s enough?
• With Backpage gone, anti-whore pogroms turn back to low-hanging fruit.
• Partisans say “two wrongs don’t make a right”, but don’t really believe it.
• Liberals not only lied about repealing a law; they’re actively defending it.
• Seattle “officials” think harm reduction principles only apply to drug use.
• Prohibitionist tactics are the same no matter what they want to prohibit.
• And yet the Times supports the Magdalene orders’ rebranding, Ruhama.
• If the Democrats were smart, they’d adopt this as their official platform.
• Why do reporters repeat this egregious nonsense without fact-checking?
• Canadian cops love to harass and intimidate sex workers & call it “help”.
• The only sex workers excluded from New Zealand decrim are migrants.
• Rebranding “prostitution-free zones” as “human trafficking-free zones”.
• CBP pretends face pics are “encrypted” and “only kept for a brief time”.
• Ever wondered how bureaucrats came up with over 300,000 “crimes”?
• Florida “authorities” commit atrocities in the name of “sex trafficking”.
• The world’s largest “anti-trafficking” organization is the only real one.
• “…But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
• Feminists claim the state should own and control all women’s bodies.
• How governments get around the push to reduce prison populations.
• Are amateurs really so sheltered that this sort of thing shocks them?
• A four-hour interrogation by armed thugs is downplayed as “urging”.
• Prudes like to pretend sex work isn’t part of the entertainment field.
• Stigma against sex workers invariably affects other women as well.
• Observation: homeless camp in woods. Conclusion: sex trafficking!
• Some members of the psychiatric community live in the real world.
• Even I’m impressed with the speed this is happening in New York.
• Cops busting kids’ lemonade stands isn’t even news any more.
• Another shitty law specifically designed to harm sex workers.
• It usually starts with sex workers, but it never stops with us.
• Where in the Gospels did Jesus tell people to attack harlots?
• Velvet Swing is the first female sex aid that actually works.
• Yeahno.  This still smells like a publicity stunt gone wrong.
• Just in case you thought this particular insanity was over.
• Entrapment so blatant even a judge couldn’t swallow it.
• When a boss cop rapes, the victim is often underage.
• Cops, Koko, hoax studies, tall ducks and much more.
• Alex Vitale on the development of modern policing.
• The tide has definitely turned on sex worker rights.
• Cops, government, “Spanish Flea” and much more.
• My two previous columns for the summer solstice.
• On seeing my name and work all over the place.
• Thai sex worker activists are made of awesome.
• The recrudescence of a public health nightmare.
• Top this one, “sex trafficking event” hysterics.
• Some Louisiana cops prefer to rape by proxy.
• Is this idiotic enough yet?  Can we stop now?
• Remember the “nail parlor slavery” myth?
• What is wrong with doctors who do this?
• Back from one trip and off on another.
• Why I have trouble writing at Sunset.
• “Pastors” are almost as bad as cops.

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Links #516

How dare you!  –  Greta Thunberg

Here’s yet another unusual song cover to prove that “cultural appropriation” is awesome; it was provided by Radley Balko, and the links above it are from Franklin Harris, Rick Pettit, Kevin Wilson, Popehat (x2), The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, and Stephen Lemons, in that order.

• R.I.P. Fred Willard.
• The shopping cart test.
• How to solve all problems.
• Antidepressants or Tolkien?
• Buying a TV set while black.
• Retro-future tech is mighty cool.
• The best satire cleaves closely to the truth.

From the Archives

• Clubs need to learn that the bad old days of exploiting dancers are over.
• Another “sex trafficking” hysteria film for future generations to laugh at.
• Rubmaps may be the new prohibitionist bogeyman to replace Backpage.
• One of the best feminist arguments for decriminalization I’ve ever seen.
• Most of this is the usual garbage, but there’s one rather amusing point.
• This will be much more common due to the ramped-up war on whores.
• Finally setting the record straight on decriminalization in Rhode Island.
• Strippers are spearheading the movement for sex worker labor rights.
• Liz Brown, Kaytlin Bailey & Maya Morena on “sex trafficking” hysteria.
• Despite propaganda, what they’re targeting are ordinary escort sites.
• Better to be seen as dangerous seductresses than pathetic “victims”.
• Attractive women have been used to market sports for generations.
• Anti-human rights groups voice support for “Cuckoo Clock” McCain.
• A retrospective of my work from May 2015 and (mostly) May 2016.
• Post-Backpage, anti-whore pogroms turn back to low-hanging fruit.
• Mar Brettmann is a sleazy opportunist selling anti-whore snake oil.
• You are not “accountable” to government; it is accountable to you.
• Another twist in the New Zealand migrant sex worker controversy.
• Because mentioning their sex practices wasn’t quite lurid enough.
• Grown woman pretends to be harmed by lame ’40s elevator joke.
• Most “prostitution” cases come apart like wet toilet paper at trial.
• Another fashion magazine comes out on the side of sex workers.
• How to totally destroy your relationship with your teen offspring.
• Even Reuters is starting to listen to sex workers about “rescue”.
• An unbelievable number of useful idiots complained about this.
• A rare case where a rapist of sex workers is actually convicted.
• Even some mainstream journalists saw though Copmala’s lies.
• Not an outcome one would expect in prohibitionist New York.
• This sleazy tactic started in Canada, then spread to the UK.
• More racist cop sexual fantasies about Nigerian juju rituals.
• In a post-apocalyptic future, a predator stalks human prey.
• Abolishing due process for whores established a precedent.
• Cops, fascism, Grumpy Cat, Tim Conway and much more.
• Being well-educated doesn’t mean knowing everything.
• Touring the Scottish Highlands with Brooke Magnanti.
• Another good anti-prohibition article at New Republic.
• Marijuana prohibition will soon be a thing of the past.
• We did warn you this wouldn’t stop with sex workers.
• A “dark underworld” that’s somehow “in plain sight”.
• Rape victims are increasingly treated like criminals.
• Dare I hope for a return of “creepy clown” hysteria?
• Traveling in a good, though exhausted, headspace.
• What our government calls a “correctional facility”.
• Cops, Greek, cake, nightmares and much more.
• Please, David Rosen, become a prohibitionist.
• These are some of the nuns behind Ruhama.
• Pictures of Brooke Magnanti & me in the UK.
• Why do people have such trouble with this?
• I’m not going to bother quoting this trash.
• Do you give discounts for regular clients?
• The state says this isn’t a punishment.
• Then they came for the strippers…
• A pretty typical “leader”, really.
• This totalitarian idea won’t die.
• Just 1500 isolated incidents.
• On replacing my old car.
• The end of the internet?
• Rapist cop of the week.
• Welcome to the future.
• It’s already here.

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Robocops

In Hollywood movies, robots are characters; they are often funny, charming, resourceful or even heroic.  So naturally, in the movie Robocop, the title character was heroic, resourceful, and, to a degree, even funny and charming.  Of course, in real life, robots have no personality; they are (as Isaac Asimov once observed) “high-speed morons” which will do anything they are instructed to do, no matter how stupid, destructive or violent, without the slightest delay due to judgment, instinct, empathy, ethical considerations, or other human factors.  From the standpoint of rulers, then, real “robocops” would be ideal; they would inflict whatever violence they were instructed to inflict, using whatever criteria they were programmed to use, without an iota of conscience or personal ethics.  They would “only follow orders” and faithfully “do their jobs” by carrying out the whims of the rulers, no matter how idiotic, abominable or mutually-contradictory, without a moment’s hesitation.  So perhaps it’s a matter of judicial wishful thinking that in this century, US courts have increasingly ruled that cops are so robotically stupid that they are absolutely devoid of human moral judgment, and therefore cannot be held responsible for even the most flagrant violations of law, ethics or even basic common decency unless they are specifically instructed that the exact act, described in the most precise detail, is wrongful:

Two businessmen who [were robbed by] Fresno police [of] more than $225,000…are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to close a legal loophole that shields [cops] from liability.  Under “qualified immunity” victims can only sue government officials for damages if they prove that their rights were violated and that those rights were “clearly established.”  So when the two men, Micah Jessop and Brittan Ashjian, filed a civil rights lawsuit against the [robbers], their case was dismissed.  “There was no clearly established law holding that officers violate the Fourth or Fourteenth Amendment when they steal property seized pursuant to a warrant,” the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled in September…Ashjian told the Fresno Bee last year…“if the police have a search warrant that’s valid, they could steal your things and you don’t have the ability to pursue it…I am about as pro cop as anybody, but what happened doesn’t make any sense”…

It’s really too bad that we can’t, through some super-scientific reprogramming of the brains of these supposed “heroes”, force them to limit their depradations to judges, politicians, and other “pro cop” douchebags.  Alas, some things exist only in science fiction.

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Links #513

The government does not have the power to change the dictionary.  –  Justin Pearson

The best parody is very close to the truth; this video (from a dude we’ve seen before) is an excellent example.  The video was provided by Annie Sprinkle, and the links above it by Franklin Harris (“cosplay”), Dave Krueger (“imitation”), Nun Ya (“literal”), and Jesse Walker (everything else).

• Good ruling; let’s hope it stands.
• Pigs want to terrorize a person for cosplay.
• Because laws are more important than people.
• Like Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Thank Dolly Parton.
• Government demands real milk be labeled “imitation”.
• We are entering a new dark age, but this is a bit literal.

From the Archives

• Glorification of New York’s prohibitionist shitshow “sex trafficking court”.
• The war on whores has brought disgusting creeps out of the woodwork.
• Cops, Lovecraft, viral media, classic Hollywood Avengers & much more.
• Deeply underestimating the emotional contact men want from whores.
• US rulers believe they have right to disrupt lives of millions worldwide.
• UK feminists release revenge porn of women who disagree with them.
• Discrimination vs sex workers invariably affects other women as well.
• How things have changed since Belle Knox was mercilessly harassed.
• Know why cops don’t like to investigate rapes? Professional courtesy.
• Whores need to keep suing until every cop shop is buried in lawsuits.
• Politicians pretend the point of anti-porn laws is to “protect children”.
• In which a partisan jackass chases his own “human trafficking” tale.
• The heating up of the war on whores made for an exhausting week.
• When a headline asks a question, the answer is nearly always “no”.
• Mark Bennett kills Texas’ mindlessly-draconian “revenge porn” law.
• This licks prohibitionist arseholes so hard it nearly made me vomit.
• You mean physical behaviors have stronger effects than pictures?
• Now you can be a useful idiot without even using a special app!
• If you don’t understand this, try looking up “Napoleonic Code”.
• Previous columns for May Day and May Eve (Walpurgisnacht).
• This procedure has come a long way in only three years.
• Who Gay, Inc chooses to side with against sex workers.
• Anyone surprised by this hasn’t been paying attention.
• Naturally she’s doing this; she’s an intelligent woman.
• How Pete Buttigieg covered up for violent rapist pigs.
• Cops, anal worms, Florida, Vangelis and much more.
• The hypocrisy of politicians sometimes defies belief.
• Will Canadian cops go after this billboard company?
• It’s good to see this getting more attention lately.
• The tendency toward such penalties is increasing.
• A look at the antics of loose-cannon Florida pigs.
• Evil people use moral panics to cover their evil.
• Like an explosion in a Froot Loop factory.
• The week Hermes was unhappy with me.
• Gee, I wonder where they got this idea?
• I love it when they feed on their own.
• Lewis & her friends are naive fools.
• A week of travels in the Midwest.

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Links #512

Live forever.  –  Mr. Electrico

This video is no surprise, given that it’s one of my favorite songs and I’ve featured videos from the lovely Luna before.  The links above it were provided by Juvenile Bluster, Mark Bennett, Anarras Ansible, Jesse Walker, Boatfloating, and Jesse Walker again, in that order.

• Much more of this, please.
• How to name animals in German.
• Buying sports equipment while black.
• Young Ray Bradbury meets Mr. Electrico.
• A cat and a dog debate ending “shelter in place”.
• No sillier than a lot of what US politicians claim, really.

From the Archives

• Cops raping whores is so ubiquitous, others pose as cops to facilitate rape.
• “With faggots out of the way…we can focus on helping their child victims”.
• “A brief period of time”, when DHS is building a giant biometric database.
• Puritanical language is an intrinsic part of any massage parlor raid story.
• The last attempt to start this hysteria also involved exactly three cases.
• Irish prohibitionists celebrated this increase in violence vs sex workers.
• This will happen much more until a replacement for Backpage appears.
• At last, the psychiatric community takes aim at “porn addiction” myth.
• Could this racist attempt to deter black migrants be more transparent?
• Massage parlors are now taking the brunt of “sex trafficking” hysteria.
• Americans will believe basically any scaremongering about teenagers.
• UK cops keep pretending they want to “help” the women they harass.
• Ric Curtis, Jon Jay study primary, is still debunking prohibitionist lies.
• NYC is way behind Seattle, Phoenix & Houston in promoting hysteria.
• One of those rare instances where a rapist really was a “former” cop.
• My feeings about cop fans, with help from the late, great Ted Geisel.
• Tyranny starts with despised minorities, but never stops with them.
• FOSTA may have been a serious miscalculation by the government.
• A disproportionate number of pimps who actually do exist are cops.
• Sometimes they don’t even hide the hysteria’s religious foundation.
• Your periodic reminder that a child-shaped toaster is still a toaster.
• Another complete shitshow involving a sleazy review board owner.
• The Young Liberals have pushed to repeal this law since it passed.
• Cops, progressivism, Waffle House, Bob Dorough and much more.
• Ken White explains the latest wrinkle in the Stormy Daniels case.
• This outcome was obvious once Trump appointed Huber to HHS.
• Are we now going to retroactively label all cults “sex trafficking”?
• “Sex trafficking” means whatever “authorities” want it to mean.
• I’m sure she was chained up & actually owned in a legal sense.
• “Sex addiction” charlatans fight to keep the gravy train rolling.
• Every so often the Nevada brothels are threatened by zealots.
• I’m pleased so many reporters recognized Harris’ sociopathy.
• Because they care so very much about “trafficking victims”.
• The right way to cancel an appointment with a sex worker.
• Prohibitionists just can’t stop beating this dead horse.
• Cops, politicians, millipedes, Nilsson and much more.
• Indian sex workers are tired of politicians’ bullshit.
• People sometimes ask why I’m not on Facebook.
• No, this sociopath isn’t pro-decriminalization.
• Dealing with an overstimulated pineal gland.
• Stereotypic conformation in progress.
• It’s just going to keep getting worse.
• Getting to meet one of my heroines.
• Far beyond mere spooge-throwing.
• Welcome back to the 16th century.
• My most generous special of 2018.
• April 2015 and 2016 in retrospect.
• All prohibitionism is the same.
• Rapist cops of the week.
• A classic case of NHI.
• A MILLION!!!!!

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Links #511

I think I’ve drawn almost everyone in Hollywood.  –  Mort Drucker

This 1933 cartoon version of The Wizard of Oz only resembles its source material in that it features a little girl, her dog, a tornado, and an animated scarecrow and tin man.  It was provided by Jesse Walker, who also gave us “Heyerdahl”, “Drucker”, and “fireworks”.  The other links above the video were provided by Angela Keaton (“puritans”), Clarissa (“Blackman”), Kevin Wilson (“surprises”), and Brooke Magnanti (“Cthulhu”).

• Paging the ghost of Thor Heyerdahl.
• This is going to drive puritans crazy.
• R.I.P. Honor Blackman and Mort Drucker.
• I’m not the only one who hates surprises.
• More fireworks and less bootlicking, please.
• Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.

From the Archives

• Since judges are now the handmaidens of prosecutors, this is no surprise.
• CAMTC: pompous, stuffy, bootlicking language in anti-whore propaganda.
• Fetishists claim massage parlors are part a huge international conspiracy.
• Fascism allows for a form of censorship more effective than suppression.
• The more “mommy whores” they see, the more they’ll see it’s mundane.
• Feds use high-stigma accusations to force guilty pleas to lesser charges.
• Another setback in getting rid of these tyrannical, unconstitutional laws.
• It’s not “trafficking” when that would be inconvenient for a government.
• Japanese historian says comfort woman phenomenon was complicated.
• Canadian cops claim sexual harassment of women is to “protect” them.
• Millions can thank Carl Ferrer for selling them out to save his own skin.
• Will gullible reporters ever stop publishing Ashley Madison ads for free?
• This anti-whore brigade couldn’t get politicians to support them, either.
• “Legalization” always has weird laws written by obsessive bureaucrats.
• It’s dangerous to be a woman who knows the secrets of powerful men.
• Because obviously pigs don’t have enough excuses to cage people yet.
• A lot of adult businesses are forced to use dodgy payment processors.
• Nobody wants to admit that forced celibacy exacerbates these issues.
• The idiocy of tribalism has increased with the waxing of this century.
• Dutch sex workers are being threatened by Swedish plague carriers.
• Too pathetic to make it as a sex worker; he should’ve stayed a cop.
• FOSTA may have been a serious miscalculation by the government.
• Asian sex workers are fighting the racist “sex trafficking” narrative.
• I’m afraid it’s far too late to put this evil djinni back into its bottle.
• Age of consent laws were always intended to criminalize teen sex.
• Now we know why they wouldn’t say what kind of animal before.
• She was “found dead” after a cop stalked her. Just a koinkydink.
• It’s the same everywhere our work is even partially criminalized.
• Governments are reining in these depredations much too slowly.
• Grosso has consistently pursued this course for four years now.
• The US wars on all sex workers, even those in other countries.
• In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
• Another state requires anti-whore indoctrination for licensing.
• In which I help a reader shed his guilt about paying for sex.
• A “school” where scores of boys were “reformed” to death.
• Cops, justice, bagpipes, geological time and much more.
• Farley’s evil bigotry is finally coming back to bite her.
• Cops, vandals, puritans, Ohio, spies and much more.
• Liz Hilton of Empower on “rescue raids” in Thailand.
• All things must pass, including beautiful buildings.
• On the arrests of Michael Lacey & Jim Larkin.
• How can I deal with work-related anxiety?
• Rapist cops of the week, 2018 and 2019.
• A rare victory for sex workers over pigs.
• My itinerary for the spring of 2019.
• Yet another sociopath with a title.
• My two previous posts for Easter.
• Prohibitionists call this “rescue”.
• A difficult trip to the Bay Area.
• A cartoon version of myself.
• Oh, what a surprise.

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