I hurt people . . . and then I make their cocaine fucking appear. – Constable James Ebdon
This was not a good week for me; on Tuesday night my slave hard drive (the one where all my data is saved) crashed, which meant I had to recreate yesterday’s and today’s columns (which were already mostly done) from memory. And though Outlook was supposed to be saving my mail and backup file on two separate drives, it seems it wasn’t. So now a data retrieval expert has my drive and will be letting me know sometime today if he can get my stuff back, so I don’t lose all my mail and a lot of other good stuff. No one person really dominated the links this week; our top contributor, Mike Siegel, only edged out two others by providing the first video (a simple but extremely effective horror short). The second video is a Taiwanese parody of the New York “stop and frisk” training video, and the links between the two were supplied by Grace, Gideon, Jesse Walker, Radley Balko (two links), Michael Whiteacre (two links), and Jillian Keenan (in that order); plus Mistress Matisse (“sex kittens”) and Emil Kirkegaard (“because he can”).
- Cop claims that a cell phone can be turned into a gun and that “officer safety” trumps the Constitution.
- Linguists trace modern Eurasian languages back to the late Pleistocene.
- High school class president suspended for criticizing a Twitter hastag.
- Chronic pain sufferers are “collateral damage” in the War on Drugs.
- Cops beat man to death, then steal all the witnesses’ cell phones.
- Woman “sends a message” by falsely claiming she was attacked.
- 40% of chronic lower-back pain may be curable by antibiotics.
- More than half of the human race lives within this circle.
- That’ll teach him to neglect safety precautions!
- Woman calls 911 to report kittens having sex.
- Because he can.
From the Archives
- Cops in Zimbabwe believe whores force men to have sex with them for free, those in South Africa think we form syndicates and poison clients, and those in Pennsylvania imagine we have our own SWAT teams.
- The vice cops of Syracuse, New York are so aggressively ignorant and unselfconsciously stupid that they actually boast about it.
- Crusade to impose Western norms on Nepal turns low-caste people into persecuted criminals.
- Reminiscing about my wild youth, my favorite grandmother and my dear, departed friend Terry.
- The US government conjures thousands of “pimps” and “trafficking victims” out of thin air.
- We all have the right to our preferences, but nobody has the right to impose his on others.
- How infantilization of teenagers and adults has the opposite of its intended effect.
- Why extrajudicial punishment of whores is a spectacularly bad idea.
- The tale of a young woman who wins a chance at her dream job.
- The FBI wants private companies to enable its spying on people.
- In which I demolish a load of total nonsense about “sex robots”.
- Lawheads delight in charging a crime victim with another crime.
- A bizarre neofeminist manifesto in the Wall Street Journal.
- Gonorrhea is rapidly becoming immune to all antibiotics.
- How the whorearchy is used as a tool of social control.
- Spain continues to turn the screws on streetwalkers.
- Dania Suarez is interviewed on the Today show.
- The first of several virginity auctions last year.
- Why Janet Jackson’s nipple won’t go away.
- The incoherent absurdity known as Femen.
- The ignominious demise of Escorts.com.
- Deep Geek on sex worker rights.
