I don’t call him my boyfriend. He’s more a good spirit friend who happens to be from the octopus race. – Stephany Fay Cohen
Sometimes it becomes obvious early in the week who’s going to be the lead contributor, but other times it’s close up until posting time. And once in a while I have actually collected the leader’s links at the top of the draft, only to have him fall behind in the end. That’s what happened this week; Jesse Walker only surpassed Radley Balko on Friday afternoon, and then by only one link. All of the links down to the first video are Jesse’s, as is the last part of “welcome to our world”; the first two parts were contributed by Marginal Utilite and Mike Siegel respectively, and the first three links after it are Radley’s. Both videos were supplied by Grace; the first one features her kind of guy (her own inventions aren’t quite that Goldbergian), and the second is a primer on a Supreme Court case I’ve mentioned before. “Warrant” and “judicial overreach” were provided by Gideon’s Trumpet, “unnecessary quotes” by Popehat, “new teeth” by Luscious Lani, “penis thieves” by Michael Whiteacre and “errant shooting” by Aspasia. This week we’ve also got an unusually-high number of articles by link contributors, as the bylines will show.
- Mars peopled by one vast thinking vegetable.
- Pushing back against “zero judgment” policies.
- Woman says her alien lovers are better at sex than any Earthling.
- Welcome to our world, drug users, gay people & domestic abuse victims.
- Cops shoot robbery victim eleven times, then arrest him to cover it up.
- 38 funny local television news captions.
- An encouraging development.
- “Where’s that warrant now?”
- I would call this judicial overreach.
- The “blog” of “unnecessary” quotation marks.
- The newest criminalization cash cow: school truancy.
- In the future, it may be possible to induce growth of new teeth.
- Publisher says free speech is bad because he’s afraid of zombies.
- US Air Force shoves drone attack statistics down the memory hole.
- Arizona tried to execute a crime victim on the word of a known liar.
- Mike Siegel dismembers absurd claim that only misogynists like big tits.
- Those who think the US isn’t yet a police state really need to read this.
- West Africans panic over thieves stealing men’s penises via black magic.
- Prosecutors charge man with first-degree murder for allowing his adult wife to voluntarily consume a nontoxic substance.
- If I went on a rampage, firing wildly into random vehicles, somehow I doubt it would be referred to in the media as an “errant shooting”.
- An interview with Stanley Siegel, whose Psychology Today sex blog was cancelled for being about sex.
- In every kind of bondage, government creates the legal climate that allows oppression to flourish.
- The absurd results of following premises of “consensual crime” laws to their logical conclusions.
- A cautionary tale about the dangers of believing in governmental power to alter reality.
- One of the larger prohibitionist groups of the first “sex trafficking” panic.
- Feminists are starting to realize that neofeminist policies hurt feminism.
- The tale of a parallel Maggie in the world envisioned by Ray Bradbury.
- The cause of sex worker rights could use a little help from our friends.
- Another good, clean charity refuses money from nasty, dirty whores.
- In which I actually agree with a prohibitionist district attorney.
- In the UK, being a cop confers expertise in oncology research.
- The bizarre looking-glass world of sex work prohibitionists.
- In Mumbai, there is a bank which serves only sex workers.
- In California, crime is whatever school officials say it is.
- The underage whore who became a fashion designer.
- Michael Weinstein opposes HIV prevention measures.
- A two-part Q & A session with activist Jill Brenneman.
- Just how old is the “world’s oldest profession”?
- Reviews of four movies with hooker heroines.
- Tyrants find neofeminists to be useful idiots.
- How Switzerland deals with streetwalkers.
- PayPal backtracks on a censorship policy.
- Man dies while visiting his sugar baby.
- Iranian women’s topless protest.
- The Healing Power of Sex Work.
- Another Canadian serial killer?
- Man’s inhumanity to whores.
- A few things I did last March.