I hurt people . . . and then I make their cocaine fucking appear. – Constable James Ebdon
This was not a good week for me; on Tuesday night my slave hard drive (the one where all my data is saved) crashed, which meant I had to recreate yesterday’s and today’s columns (which were already mostly done) from memory. And though Outlook was supposed to be saving my mail and backup file on two separate drives, it seems it wasn’t. So now a data retrieval expert has my drive and will be letting me know sometime today if he can get my stuff back, so I don’t lose all my mail and a lot of other good stuff. No one person really dominated the links this week; our top contributor, Mike Siegel, only edged out two others by providing the first video (a simple but extremely effective horror short). The second video is a Taiwanese parody of the New York “stop and frisk” training video, and the links between the two were supplied by Grace, Gideon, Jesse Walker, Radley Balko (two links), Michael Whiteacre (two links), and Jillian Keenan (in that order); plus Mistress Matisse (“sex kittens”) and Emil Kirkegaard (“because he can”).
- Cop claims that a cell phone can be turned into a gun and that “officer safety” trumps the Constitution.
- Linguists trace modern Eurasian languages back to the late Pleistocene.
- High school class president suspended for criticizing a Twitter hastag.
- Chronic pain sufferers are “collateral damage” in the War on Drugs.
- Cops beat man to death, then steal all the witnesses’ cell phones.
- Woman “sends a message” by falsely claiming she was attacked.
- 40% of chronic lower-back pain may be curable by antibiotics.
- More than half of the human race lives within this circle.
- That’ll teach him to neglect safety precautions!
- Woman calls 911 to report kittens having sex.
- Because he can.
From the Archives
- Cops in Zimbabwe believe whores force men to have sex with them for free, those in South Africa think we form syndicates and poison clients, and those in Pennsylvania imagine we have our own SWAT teams.
- The vice cops of Syracuse, New York are so aggressively ignorant and unselfconsciously stupid that they actually boast about it.
- Crusade to impose Western norms on Nepal turns low-caste people into persecuted criminals.
- Reminiscing about my wild youth, my favorite grandmother and my dear, departed friend Terry.
- The US government conjures thousands of “pimps” and “trafficking victims” out of thin air.
- We all have the right to our preferences, but nobody has the right to impose his on others.
- How infantilization of teenagers and adults has the opposite of its intended effect.
- Why extrajudicial punishment of whores is a spectacularly bad idea.
- The tale of a young woman who wins a chance at her dream job.
- The FBI wants private companies to enable its spying on people.
- In which I demolish a load of total nonsense about “sex robots”.
- Lawheads delight in charging a crime victim with another crime.
- A bizarre neofeminist manifesto in the Wall Street Journal.
- Gonorrhea is rapidly becoming immune to all antibiotics.
- How the whorearchy is used as a tool of social control.
- Spain continues to turn the screws on streetwalkers.
- Dania Suarez is interviewed on the Today show.
- The first of several virginity auctions last year.
- Why Janet Jackson’s nipple won’t go away.
- The incoherent absurdity known as Femen.
- The ignominious demise of Escorts.com.
- Deep Geek on sex worker rights.
Sorry to read about your hard drive Maggie. It’s one of these computer problems that I might try to help someone with in person, but would never give advice over the Internet about. I’m glad you have someone who knows what they are doing to help you.
My absolutely WONDERFUL tech guy called me at about 9:30 to say he woke up early due to insomnia, got started on my drive and had by that point already recovered 3/4 of it, including my email backup. Yaaaaay!
Glad to hear that Maggie!
This didn’t get a lot of publicity this week – but it’s one of the most significant admissions I’ve seen in a long time.
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/47597
The excuse?
“Heh, apparently we had some kind of vast left-wing conspiracy among some very … and we do mean very low level IRS employees. No one in authority knew what the hell was going on – kind of like Benghazi you know? Also a bit like when the BATF sold guns to Mexican Drug Cartels. Shit happens you know? So we’d like to fire some people – but probably won’t. Sorry guys for the inconvenience!”
This would have prolly been a more productive and legal effort for the IRS to pursue …
http://news.investors.com/politics-andrew-malcolm/031113-647482-obama-aides-behind-in-income-tax-payments.htm?p=full
Hi Maggie,
The article on the father whose daughter is suffering from MD is infuriating. Would that every one of the sadistic busybody Dea, cops, prosecutors, nand legislators could be afflicted with the same – and then be required to submit to their very own “reasonable” constraints on pain relief. I’d include drug hypocrite Limbaugh and Sean Hannity in the same treatment regime.
I get so pissed off everytime I read your column…need to take a break.