When you’re less popular than cockroaches, Genghis Khan, traffic jams, and…even Nickelback…it might be time to reevaluate. – Tom Jensen
As if to make up for the holiday lull, this was an astonishingly busy week for links; besides having a record number of them (56 plus the two videos) and a record number of different contributors (17), the average number of links contributed (1.88) was quite high. The top supplier was Radley Balko, who provided everything down to the first video plus the second and third parts of the first one below it; the first part of that one was provided by Grace, who also contributed “25%”, “David Frum” and “new trial”. In the first video (via the Free Speech Coalition) a former gay porn star helpfully explains that anal sex causes the recipient to give birth to demons from his anus; by contrast, the second is an intentional parody from the TV series Robot Chicken, written by Rachel Bloom and performed by pop star Kesha. The links between the two were contributed by Marc Randazza (“catheter”); Aspasia (“Vestal Virgins” and “criminal cat”); Franklin Harris (“looking gay” and “dinosaur meat”); Kevin Wilson (“delicate creatures”); Cthulhuchick (“Satanists”); Walter Olson (“vegetarianism”); Satoshi Kanazawa (“wrinkled fingers”); Antonio Lorusso (“orange cup” and link above it); Nun Ya (“Lego”); Jesse Walker (“Mother Goose” and “militia”); Popehat (both RPG-related links); the Cato Institute (“libertarian test”); and Paul Reinerfelt (“handy words”). I saw that last when it came out, but since I wasn’t doing links columns yet Paul gets credit for calling it back to my attention.
- Cops without a warrant force their way into home minutes after death of terminally ill woman, demand her distraught 80-year-old husband give them her pain medication.
- Americans hate Congress more than roaches and root canal surgery.
- Probable causes of the decades-long decline of violence in America.
- It’s like they’re just going around looking for dogs to murder now.
- Shopping for shoes and dildoes in ancient Rome.
- What could possibly go wrong?
- Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever. I mean it, not any reason at all, and don’t let a machine call them on your behalf, either.
- Court rules that cops are allowed to forcibly shove a tube up a guy’s urethra to “prove” he was smoking weed.
- Hairstylist and amateur archaeologist succeeds in recreating the long-lost hairstyle of the Vestal Virgins.
- Two men sentenced to five years in prison for “looking gay” and ordering Bailey’s Irish Cream.
- Indonesian city tries to ban women from riding astride “because they are delicate creatures”.
- Satanists rally for Florida governor due to his support for public prayer at school functions.
- Vegetarian diets result in more animal deaths than omnivorous ones.
- The evolutionary reason one’s fingers get wrinkled in the bath.
- Another consequence of “trafficking” hysteria.
- Hot chocolate tastes better in an orange cup.
- Master-level customer service from Lego.
- Cat arrested for smuggling in Brazil.
- Charles Addams’ Mother Goose.
- The Kansas Anti-Zombie Militia.
- A snake on a plane. Really.
- Indie band or D&D monster?
- The libertarian purity test (I got an 89).
- 25 handy words that don’t exist in English.
- What kind of dinosaur meat would taste best?
- A good example of why the US has 25% of the world’s prisoners.
- Swaziland police begin enforcing 1889 law banning “immoral clothes”.
- Father hires in-game assassins to kill his unemployed son’s characters.
- David Frum wants to “send a message” that marijuana is like a student loan or mortgage.
- A man has waited in prison for a new trial since his murder conviction was overturned…in 1980.
- Ambulance-chasers hope to turn New Mexico spaceport into cash cow; spacelines refuse to cooperate.
- Pregnant woman goes to emergency room in terrible pain; cop digs in her purse, arrests her for having two pain pills, and takes her to jail…where she dies less than two hours later.
From the Archives
- “Dog bites man” stories have become newsworthy because the media have convinced many people that dogs don’t actually bite men.
- “Child sex slaves” supposedly “rescued from traffickers” by Australian con artists are shown to be ordinary Thai schoolchildren.
- If you’ve never read Václav Havel’s famous essay “The Power of the Powerless”, you really should.
- How ignorance combined with desire to avoid personal responsibility supports prohibition.
- Human rights organizations are accused of “promoting prostitution”; guess the country.
- The rude, ignorant and childish behavior of empty-headed celebrities.
- Dutch women have better things to do than climb corporate ladders.
- Societies, like people, sometimes develop autoimmune disorders.
- The more “ordinary” women get involved in sex work, the better.
- Another implication of Roe vs. Wade that feminists won’t admit.
- My two previous columns for King Day (AKA Little Christmas).
- Lisa France of CNN was apparently educated in a convent.
- Playboy Playmates are really, really cheap whores.
- Why whores aren’t out of place in church.
- Another example of Jezebel not getting it.
- The story of my operator, Gilda.
- When I first started Twitter.
- Divorce blackmail.
