Informally known as “mooning,” exposing one’s buttocks is a practice often intended as a sign of defiance or disrespect. – Will Greenlee
Another quiet week, and I’m disappointed there weren’t even any memorable April Fool pranks except for this one from REI discovered by my husband. That is, of course, unless you count has-been comedian Jim Carrey making an April Fool of himself over gun control a few days early; today’s first video mocks the fact that opposing vaccination (as Carrey does) probably kills far more people than guns do. The second video continues our Star Trek theme of the past few weeks, and was provided by Grace; everything above the first video was contributed by Radley Balko, and those between the two by Jolene Parton, Popehat, Lenore Skenazy (two items), Jesse Walker, Amy Alkon and Aspasia (in that order).
- Man moons bus driver, then removes dentures and steals basketball.
- “This is not a photo of the actual papayas…thrown in the incident“.
- Judge rules that careful driving is not a crime in New York.
- So, a goat walks into a bar…
- They never learn.
- A rhyme for “orange”?
- Universal criminality in action.
- 14 words that are their own opposites.
- 7-year-old charged with felony for shooting BB gun.
- This is quite possibly the longest book title of all time.
- Man sentenced to decades in prison for custom car modifications.
- Next time someone tells you to go to Hell, you’ll know how to get there.
From the Archives
- My Easter columns for the last two years, and a creepy story I wrote on Easter Sunday, 1997.
- Stupidly endangering oneself is not a political statement; it’s just stupid.
- Women do not always have the luxury of obeying stupid, arbitrary laws.
- Vaginal injuries are just as likely to result from consensual sex as rape.
- Imaginative sex law ideas proposed by politicians in Alaska and Texas.
- Heroic cops save town from menace of a desperately-hungry woman.
- A one-woman prohibition campaign enabled by a sleazy political deal.
- Fanatics multiply a credible estimate of “trafficking” victims by 1000x.
- Sex workers in Asia and Africa are an example to those in the West.
- The Swedish Model is “a failed experiment in social engineering”.
- Why the “Occupy” movement should support sex worker rights.
- The real origin of that claim about “300,000 trafficked children”.
- A petition to press criminal charges against prohibitionist liars.
- Is New Orleans serious about giving up on harassing whores?
- Judge releases 400 sex workers from “sex offender” tyranny.
- An extreme example of how anti-whore laws hurt all women.
- Are the negative effects of underage sex as bad as claimed?
- How the entire trafficking myth is held together with lies.
- The New York Times takes aim at its own collective foot.
- The crumbling of Nicholas Kristof, idol with feet of clay.
- An ancient Roman festival and pictures of my pussy.
- How prohibitionists take statistics out of context.
- Witch-hunting is still a popular pastime in Salem.
- The how and why of the politicization of rape.
- An influx of web traffic and my first milestone.
- More on the upholding of the Himel decision.
- Jezebel’s weird ambivalence about sex work.
- Several links for sex worker rights in Korea.
- Gloria Steinem, “sex trafficking” fetishist.
Kind of off-topic, but I wanted to post this link now because a vote on this will be happening soon. This is a petition to protest “CISPA”. Petitions can and do work:
https://www.aclu.org/secure/tell-obama-veto-CISPA?Ms=web_ac_130306_cispa
That’s not the real Gate to Hell – it’s a decoy.
The real gate (and I know this because I’ve had to “charge” it many times with a water pistol to save beautiful damsels from the ravages of Satan) … is actually here …
Another Janus word is “utter” – it used to mean to write a legal check but now means to write a false check.
When I was in school a half rhyme was a “male” rhyme – one syllable – and a 2 syllable rhyme was “female” but I guess that is sexist now.
On the home loans – another example of “the one thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.” But we used to have a longer interval between instances of ignorance.
When the Feds try to coerce people to act as informants and get them killed, I dream of a superhero that then takes that lowlife and drops them into a drug compound in central Mexico -naked but for their fed-creds on a chain around their neck.
There was a joke by a radio dj here in NYC regarding William Shatner’s 82nd birthday:
“William Shatner turned 82 today, but using Priceline, managed to bring it down to 72.”
There were two DJs in Florida that got the sack for telling people that dihydrous monoxide (H2O) was leaking into the water supply – sent everyone into a panic! That’s a good one….
Yeah, the difficult thing about that is deciding who was more stupid, the radio listeners who panicked and wanted to complain to the FCC about “a hoax”, or the station manager who suspended them for “a hoax”, or the various journalists who wrote it up as “a hoax”.
First clue: if it’s true, it’s not a hoax.
Yeah, there was a truck load of stupid in Florida that day. Well, a truck load more than usual 😉
LINKS. Will get to later.
I’ve been binge-watching Star Trek on Netflix. The old Star Trek, not the “JJ Abrams” universe which I’m sorry to have paid 10 bucks to see in 2009. Gotta love that shaky camera, eh?