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.
Just registered so that I can get more active on your wonderful site, Maggie. Your newsletter is one of the very few I look forward to daily. Thank you for all you do & keep up the stellar work.
Your fan, HRH CC
You’re very welcome. It’s notes like this one that keep me going! 🙂
With the way Maggie has been able to keep going, I’ve inferred that she must have super woman time management skills. Please teach us!
1) Marry someone who will support you financially.
2) Get your spouse to travel for work so he/she is gone about 45 weeks a year.
3) Be fanatical about whatever it is you want to do, and have almost no other life.
4) Don’t play music or have the TV on while you’re working.
5) Invest 12-16 hours a day, 7 days a week in your work and yell at or ignore anyone who interrupts you.
That’s pretty much it.
Appears they don’t “condone” common sense in that school either.
Linguistic Maps: Some of my relatives (on the French side) pronounce “mayonnaise” as “man-ez”. I do not think this is some common French pronunciation – I think it’s just something retarded that my relatives do.
I once heard a woman in a store pronounce “Jalapeno” as “Ya-la-pina”. LOL – we southerners know that the “real thing” is COKE! When I used to drink soda, I’d ask the lady in the drive-thru if I could have a “coke” … she’d always say … “We don’t have Coke – will Pepsi do?” And I would say … “Oh yeah I like Pepsi better anyway!”
A “sub-sandwich” in Groton, CT is called a “Grinder”. I used to love clam “grinders” when I was in Submarine school … and in Connecticut – you have to specify if you want the clams with the “bellies” or without. I always took them without but apparently real men always insist on having the bellies in those things!
Oh yeah … “The devil is beating his wife!” … very common term when I was growing up and I even passed that one on to my wife and kids.
Drive-thru liqueur stores? Saw one in the Navy in Hawaii once – never saw one in the south though. We DO have drive-through beer windows but they only serve beer. Also – there’s a “daiquiri” shop on every corner here in Louisiana. The open-container law that makes that possible is HEE-LARIOUS!!
I couldn’t believe they skipped “po-boy”, “mynez” and “coldrink”. And I still say “the Devil is beating his wife.”
As a resident of the UK, and therefore unfit to watch ads on TV, many thanks for the video of Pamela Anderson. Despite watching it, I don’t think I’ve been damaged.
And Pamela can give me a presentation any time 😉
I apologize for going off topic, but for me there was one huge story this week, and you didn’t mention it. Here.
If this is even halfway true it could very well have so crippled libertarian efforts to get out the vote as to have decided the 2012 election. In which case two of the Four Boxes that protect our freedom are now gone.
Appending a link to a links column is hardly off-topic!
With so many privacy violation scandals and examples of government targeting citizens illegally – I’m convinced we’re in the “quickening” stage of transformation in this nation. This will be the time that the sheep accept government control of everything because their little minds will just be overwhelmed with problems.
Also – I’d like to say something racist here – I will never ever vote for a black man for President … it’s clear to me that we’re incapable of holding a black man accountable in the oval office. This guy is bulletproof and can do any damn thing he wants to.
Putting the question of race temporarily aside, I’ve read comments in various places where this president is alternatively accused of being a tyrant on the order of King George and being a wimp who’s unable to get anything done because he’s too ‘professorial’ or what-have-you. So which is it, or is it somehow both?
And going back to the issue of race, does it really matter if he’s black when it comes to accountability? I believe Maggie once made a very good case that the system as it exists now is almost impervious to change or dismantlement, regardless of who occupies the White House. So wouldn’t we be having almost the exact same arguments if Mitt Romney had won?
That’s odd, I read a lot of conservative blogs and you’re the first person I’ve ever heard say they wouldn’t vote for a black for President. I can think of one at Stanford who’d be in my top ten, FWIW.
Thanks for linking the bits about transwomen, though I think I should have waited until I was fully awake, because I’m barely keeping my language from going completely Sailor, if you get my drift. I am amazed at the screamers talking about oppression yet so quick to do it to others. Who the hell thinks gender and sex are rooted in the social? If trans supports “the establishment” and is anti-women, men sure have a funny way of showing it. Why can’t any of the cretins get a clue and use the powerful research tool directly in front of them and look up “gender dysphoria”. The AMA and APA (you know, the scientists whose job it is to actually research this sort of thing) have determined that trans is a real thing, a psychological state- not a mental defect. It is not fakery, though these lame BS excuses parading as arguments certainly are. These screamers, just like the fundamentalists, are so rigid in their thinking they would rather do away with unpleasant facts than possibly think they are wrong, and hence lock themselves to the past Their beliefs are more important then the facts to them, and to that I say F- You. F- You for making a trans’ life a living hell more than what it already is because of you BS agenda. F- You for forgetting all the BS this life throws at you the moment you make a nickel’s profit from it. F- every gay man and woman willing to throw their trans brothers and sisters under the bus for any reason whatsoever. GLBT is FOUR letters not TWO, you self-righteous, self-annointed, self-important pus sacs of arrogance and ignorance. Maggie, however, we love you. You’re just letting us know what’s out there. P.S.: The Oatmeal have a cute comic on the Mantis Shrimp (I’ve known about that little bugger for years) and you may also want to research the pistol shrimp too. Yes, it’s a shrimp that actually has an underwtaer pistol.
That Oatmeal comic is epic. Someone also made a video in honor of The Oatmeal’s comic about the Mantis Shrimp: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7eimQE47wM
That Pam Anderson video was hilarious. But then, I’ve always liked Pam because she has a great sense of humor, doesn’t take herself seriously (she knows she’s not a great actress and doesn’t try to pretend otherwise), and I think she’s a lot smarter than she lets on.
I met Tommy Lee once (I have pics and can prove it). He was actually doing some “public service” which was a punishment he received from his domestic abuse conviction.
He had nary a good word to say about Pam! 😀
They didn’t have the best divorce.
“I think she’s a lot smarter than she lets on”
+1
Links. I’ll get back to it.