I am willing to wear a wire and set Jesus up. – Tito Watts
When animation first became popular in the 1930s, it was not viewed as entertainment for children, but rather for adults. Walter Olson contributed this 1935 short by German animator Lotte Reiniger; it’s basically a music video for “Papageno” from Mozart’s The Magic Flute, and I think you’ll be pretty impressed. The links above it were provided by Brooke Magnanti, Tim Cushing, Scott Greenfield, Tushy Galore, Dave Krueger, Popehat, and Radley Balko, in that order.
- Most Florida news story ever.
- This week in your police state.
- Just how many dogs do cops murder every year?
- I’m surprised nobody ever thought of this before.
- Cop murders teen for owning a phone while black.
- The real story is that so few people recognized this from the start.
- “Sending messages” is the most important function of government.
From the Archives
- I don’t know what’s more pathetic, Rachel’s idea of “big events” or her mathematical illiteracy.
- Cops, games, Florida, robots. language, kink, schools, science fiction & Soviet Funk.
- Glenn Kessler isn’t the only journalist attacking “sex trafficking” mythology.
- Look more closely at what the brothel owner wants from the “authorities”.
- A teacher describes note-passing as “scary”; the jokes write themselves.
- Headlines, transit, prohibition, cops, Bohemian Rhapsody & much more.
- I suspect Georgia politicians will close this loophole almost immediately.
- Mark Draughn on the claim sex work “costs” France €1.6 billion a year.
- It seems to me that these women knew exactly what they were doing.
- In which I discover that I really do like green eggs and ham, after all.
- Amherst says even unconscious men are morally superior to women.
- How much of this is due to the end of Somaly Mam’s disinformation?
- If Patricia Spencer doesn’t pace herself, she’ll burn out her Hitachi.
- “Sex trafficking” used as an excuse to destroy and loot businesses.
- Why you shouldn’t ask me to argue with individual prohibitionists.
- Miranda Kane uses her good reviews to catch reporters’ attention.
- The Daily Fail reverses the “sugar babies are exploited” narrative.
- Cop says people’s lives should be destroyed for their own good.
- Sex workers often drive the development of new technologies.
- An article about women who sell panties on Reddit ends thus.
- I wonder if these reporters realize how ridiculous they sound.
- Tennessee moves to criminalize smoking during pregnancy.
- The “trafficking tattoo” trope has taken on a life of its own.
- The TLC Trust connects disabled clients with sex workers.
- Who really gets targeted under U.S. sex trafficking laws?
- “Vice unit is a club…detectives…go drinking every night.”
- One can always tell a story influenced by the CAMTC.
- Authority figures use their influence to coerce sex.
- AHF unveils whore-shaming propaganda graphic.
- The campaign against Operation Choke Point.
- More evil clownishness from Rhode Island.
- Researcher says there’s no “typical” client.
- Another excellent essay from Felicia Anna.
- The aftermath of Somaly Mam’s downfall.
- A re-education camp by any other name…
- How can I become a high-end courtesan?
- Noah Berlatsky on Chong Kim and Eden.
- The science of sexual assault via fraud.
- The Red Umbrella March in Vancouver.
- Nevada is looking for new vices to tax.
- A feminist case for decriminalization.
- Libertarianism happens to people.
- This is absurd on so many levels.
- My visits to Tucson & Las Vegas.
- Was this outcome ever in doubt?
- Another warped view of touring.
- On the son of Aella the Amazon.
- From the “no shit” department.
- The Naked Football Club.
- The danger of fast food.
- R.I.P. Blaze Starr.
- Anti-C36 rallies.
- Bacchus ladies.
