Police officers who risk their lives every day…deserve every possible protection, and those who treat them with disrespect [and] harass them…deserve to pay a price for their actions. – Joe Griffo
This was definitely not a quiet week for news. The giant surveillance scandals (which I linked the first hint of five weeks ago) dominated the US media and were big news nearly everywhere in the world, because everyone is affected; nearly all internet traffic passes through servers on American soil, and the US government claims the right to interfere with or spy on any of it without bothering to let anyone know. Even the smaller world of harlotry was buzzing with stories; I featured a record-setting 26 of them in yesterday’s TW3 column. But the field of interesting links was a little quieter except for the usual police brutality stories. The top contributor this week was Radley Balko, with everything down to the first video (itself provided by Buzz Aldrin). The second video was banned from British TV for being “sexist and degrading to women”, and was contributed by Mike Siegel; the links between the two are from Mike Riggs (“judges”), Lenore Skenazy (“magic word”), Cthulhuchick (“badgers”), Grace (“killer shrimp”), Jesse Walker (“hero”), Gods & Monsters (“ducks”), my cat (“smuggler”), and Thomas Larson (“zombies”).
- Linguistic maps of the US.
- Cop beats partly-deaf woman for talking on a phone.
- Man reports himself as suspicious for public photography.
- A drug court judge is in drug rehab after another judge he was partying with ODed on cocaine they bought from a probation officer.
- Cops beat man for driving while black, flee upon finding he’s also a cop.
- Murderous cops play at attacking Rasputin (note “stop faking” mantra).
- This week’s edition of “Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever.”
- Cop claims 4th amendment is instantly negated by magic word “gun”.
- Extremists chased through London by women dressed as badgers.
- Killer shrimp’s claws strike at velocity of a .22 caliber bullet.
- Cops murder horse for “crime” of being ridden by a drunk.
- New York politician wants “annoying” a cop to be a crime.
- Yet another male punished for saving someone’s life.
- Big yellow ducks are not allowed in China.
- Another feline smuggler.
- Because of zombies.
From the Archives
- When women in professions which barely differ from prostitution claim that they’re “better” than we are.
- Why it’s OK that a large fraction of whores’ fees are actually paid by clients’ employers.
- Busybodies define a problem into existence, then pretend to “solve” it by brute force.
- Another guy plays BDSM games with strangers and no signed contract.
- “If you dare to disagree with me again, I’m going to stop reading you.”
- The events leading up to the birth of the sex worker rights movement.
- Mira Sorvino calls Sacramento “leading destination for sex traffickers”.
- Tolerating others’ icky behavior is the price for others tolerating ours.
- Transgender hookers charged as clients for “end demand” purposes.
- Sex rays can flow through computers or become embedded in paper.
- Swedish Model proponents try to hijack the term “decriminalization”.
- Why are they so much more sensible about sex work Down Under?
- Colorado spends money it doesn’t have yet to harass sex workers.
- Irish Police are forced to admit that prohibitionists are full of crap.
- Sex businesses counterattack prohibitionists with civil litigation.
- From Australia, examples of why legalization isn’t good enough.
- Another gang leader sentenced on “human trafficking” charges.
- Octomom backs out of a lucrative contract due to hurt feelings.
- Two Detroit men accused of being serial killers of sex workers.
- Driskill Mountain, the loftiest prominence in my home state.
- I think you’re probably better off just learning on the job.
- Male escort says essentially all of his clients are male.
- The third and fourth members of my Hall of Shame.
- The only whore ever to become a Disney princess.
- Why criminalization is dangerous to public health.
- The great Satoshi Kanazawa firestorm of 2011.
- “Study” finds porn-hating women hate porn.
- San Diego makes excuses for rapist cops.
- First they came for the hookers…
- The Versatile Blogger Award.
- R.I.P. Ray Bradbury.
