A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. – Edward Snowden
This is about par for the course for Christmas week; I’m glad we had so many seasonal ones. The first video is of Edward Snowden’s “alternative Christmas message” on the UK’s Channel 4 (in case you didn’t get to see it); everything above it was provided by Jesse Walker. The second video is from Mike Siegel, and the links between the two were contributed by Paul Murray, Cop Block, Radley Balko, Aspasia, Chris Hall and Rick Horowitz (last two), in that order.
- School calls the cops on Santa Claus.
- The FBI file on It’s a Wonderful Life.
- Salvador Dali’s Christmas cards.
- Presidential drugs of choice.
- Your police state at work.
- Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever.
- The regulations are carefully designed to protect you.
- Wisconsin defrosts icy roads by spreading cheese on them.
- Atheists save Christmas for woman rejected by Christian charity.
- Judge rules it’s OK to arrest people for learning foreign languages.
- Don’t take your children anywhere near Boston Children’s Hospital.
From the Archives
- The police state, Mr. Bingle, missing planets, Christopher Lee and the non-end of the world.
- My previous columns for Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day.
- The US Senate asks someone else to be a “responsible global citizen”.
- The resemblance between decriminalization of drugs and prostitution.
- “Trafficking” witch hunt victims acquitted due to total lack of evidence.
- How can one pass screening without giving incriminating information?
- This is why most whores in legalization regimes refuse to register.
- How can one find a good escort if one only has Backpage to use?
- Montreal jury acquits special-effects artist of “corrupting morals”.
- I’ll bet those pearl-clutching Welsh academics didn’t expect this.
- Bollywood figures are beginning to support decriminalization.
- How does a couple go about finding a reputable sex worker?
- A new and revolting twist on “revenge porn” extortion sites.
- A deconstruction of the ridiculous claims of social scientists.
- Cops arrest people on Christmas Day, for their own good.
- New York forces private corporations to do its dirty work.
- Teaching someone to keep herself safe is now a “crime”.
- It looks like prohibitionists are getting more desperate.
- Even the ignorant are beginning to distrust Kristof.
- When the US sounds like a third-world militocracy.
- Misogynistic Labour-party puritans are at it again.
- A Treasury of Great Recipes and lots of candy.
- The Roman festival in honor of a courtesan.
- Google breaks its “Don’t be evil” motto.
- Support your local thought police.
- The original “Presents” column.
- My favorite Christmas things.
- Tracy Elise is arrested again.
- He sure does get around!
