There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want. – Calvin & Hobbes
Altogether, rather a busy week for links! I’m still working on catching up from all the various delays I’ve had since February (including the recent hard drive crash), so it was nice not to have to work too hard on this column. The race this week was very close; Jesse Walker was in the lead at first, then Grace overtook him, only to be passed on Friday by perennial champ Radley Balko. Everything down to the first video is his; the first three after the video are Graces’s, and the next three Jesse’s. The video itself is a parody of this rather unsettling Beyonce song which went so well with yesterday’s “Oscillation” I used it today. The second video is a mock newsreel referring to the events in Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness, and the links between the two were provided by Mistress Matisse (“Calvin and Hobbes”), Feminist Whore (“fallacies”), Aspasia (“Call of Cthulhu”), Walter Olson (“litigious”), Nine (“El Salvador”), Jemima (“negative impact”), and Krulac (“cronyism”).
- The proto-internet, established 1910.
- Anarchists target Spanish Catholics with exploding sex toys.
- Coroner claims man just happened to die of a heart attack while being beaten by cops.
- “Nice dairy farm you’ve got here, Granny; it’d be a shame if something were to happen to it.”
- Undercover cops trick a socially-awkward teen into buying weed.
- Teacher suspended for “inappropriate use of a banana”.
- Man fined $1000 for saving boy’s life.
- Inactive Dalek discovered in pond.
- The Mariko Aoki phenomenon.
- A chocolate zoetrope.
- Life lessons from Calvin and Hobbes.
- “Stop faking” results in yet another death.
- A hyperlinked taxonomic diagram of logical fallacies.
- If “The Call of Cthulhu” had been written by Dr. Seuss.
- Law student sues law school for implying he’s litigious.
- A new short-short story by Neil Gaiman, “Feminine Endings”.
- Nutella corporation demands woman stop liking Nutella so much.
- El Salvador declares dying fetus more important than living mother.
- Cops brutally beat man for trying to read bogus ticket before signing it.
- Ilford cops steal food and sleeping bags from homeless people to “reduce their negative impact”.
- Crony capitalist says it’s “necessary” for government to impose draconian rules that no citizen actually wants.
From the Archives
- Senators “discover” that G-men hire whores, feign surprise and outrage.
- Tracy Quan on a documentary about whores in three different countries.
- “Abstinence only” sex education is even worse than previously believed.
- “Sex trafficking” hysteria is really the old “Satanic Panic” in a new guise.
- Namibians prove they understand human rights better than Americans.
- Current events, Massachusetts Puritans and the Long Island cover-up.
- Another man convicted of “child pornography” for owning comic books.
- Prostitution is not an evil to be tolerated, but a good to be celebrated.
- Busting myths about migration, extramarital sex and mythology itself.
- Another study confirms what whores have been saying for decades.
- Los Angeles begins to realize that its condom law is unenforceable.
- “I’m pretty sure [pimps] are out there. Kinda like the Chupacabra.”
- How yesterday’s forbidden activity becomes compulsory tomorrow.
- What a “sex trafficking” trial reveals about the “Swedish Model”.
- My reviews of The Pyx, Soylent Green and Three Felonies a Day.
- The tale of a dedicated professional doing what is necessary.
- A Japanese service provides sex workers with cover stories.
- Phoenix jumps into “trafficking” hysteria with both feet.
- The arrival of armed drones on American soil.
- Another of Nick Kristof’s exercises in fatuity.
- A parable about sex work and restaurants.
- What I really mean by the word “myth”.
- The truth about Swedish snake oil.
- 69-year-old identical twin whores.
- The menace of rock and roll.
- Fake internet girlfriend.
