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A busy week this time around, both in links and in my life; I’m striving diligently to get ahead because I’ll be only able to do minimal work for the first three weeks of July. And on top of everything else, I discovered this little surprise in my truck last Saturday, which as you can imagine has required me checking on them at least three or four times a day. Anyhow, our top contributor this week was Radley Balko, with the first six links and the first video below them; keep in mind this exercise in “fun with fascism” portrays cops, not soldiers. The second video (an honest campaign ad) is from Kevin Wilson (who also provided “crazy ants” and “drugstore”), and the others between the videos were supplied by Cheryl Overs (“ERB”), my cat (“griffins”), Jesse Walker (“surprises”), Gideon (“never call cops”), Krulac (“workers’ paradise”), Lenore Skenazy (“truancy”), and Glenn Greenwald (“NSA”).
- What if international journalists used the same language to report on the US as US journalists use to report on other countries?
- A solid establishment of the precedent that anyone can be imprisoned for crimes committed by others on their property.
- Why you now need to lock your door at all times, even when at home.
- Cops arrest woman for asking to see a warrant they didn’t have.
- Does fighting over food cause premature aging?
- Cop admits to framing 185 innocent people.
- Paging Edgar Rice Burroughs…
- The smaller relatives of griffins?
- Geographical and temporal surprises.
- Suicidal “crazy ants” destroy electronics.
- A particularly odious form of “stop faking”.
- Drugstore chain fined $80 million for selling drugs.
- Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever, kitten edition.
- Cops tase severely retarded man for standing in his mother’s yard.
- Another blow for the proletariat from the Glorious Workers’ Paradise.
- Witness describes 5’5″ Hispanic man; cops arrest 4’10” black woman.
- Prosecutor threatens to steal people’s children and assets if he thinks kids miss too much school.
- So many American kids now have an imprisoned parent, Sesame Street felt the need to address it.
- Senate staff told they’re not allowed to read any of the widely-available leaked NSA documents, and must turn themselves in if they do.
From the Archives
- Journalists don’t learn truth about sex work because they don’t want to.
- Canadian government tries to emulate American prohibitionist insanity.
- Swedish housewife sets up a BDSM dungeon in an abandoned bunker.
- Thai sex workers ask prime minister to stop licking Uncle Sam’s boots.
- This won’t stop until we stop giving cops so much power over people.
- Irish police raid homes looking mostly for people who don’t live there.
- CNN “trafficking” gurus aren’t real experts, but they play them on TV.
- UK organization fights for the sexual rights of the mentally disabled.
- Neofeminism is not a coherent political philosophy, but rather a cult.
- A helpful guide to not getting your comments posted on this blog.
- Yet another maniac chooses his victims from among sex workers.
- Mother Russia wants to prove she’s as pigheaded as Uncle Sam.
- Dear Men, please stop sending us penis photos. Love, Women.
- The more laws a society has, the less moral its people become.
- Prudes object to their own lascivious thoughts about a statue.
- A handy compilation of numbers and figures about sex work.
- Dania Suarez announces plans to start a sex worker charity.
- Neofeminist prohibitionists condemned by their own words.
- Kristof says individual rights are old-fashioned and passé.
- How “sex trafficking survivors” are like UFO abductees.
- Malawian sex workers fight oppression via civil courts.
- Sex worker rights, big tents and lockstep conformity.
- I really wish politicians would stop proving me right.
- A short biographical sketch of my best friend, Grace.
- The beginning of a continuing pattern of overwork.
- The beginning of US attempts to suppress bitcoin.
- Tennessee criminalizes hurting people’s feelings.
- New York says dancing isn’t dancing if it’s sexy.
- The first two adventures of Aella the Amazon.
- Franklin Harris on Hollywood’s sex-negativity.
- Libertarianism in science fiction and fantasy.
- An ambivalent essay on “sex trafficking”.
- Happy 50th birthday, silicone implant!
- Penguin perversion.
Re: Walgreen’s; I have scant patience for the government’s despicable attacks on patients with chronic pain and their doctors. I think the notion that possibly ‘saving’ drug addicts from themselves justifies keeping innocent people in permanent pain is barbaric and indefensible. That said, I can totally believe that a chain drugstore has huge numbers of records keeping violations. My Lady has multiple prescriptions, and has had for years. It is impossible to get a medicating physician to write prescriptions one per sheet (I’ve tried). In my experience, chain drugstores are incapable of filling one prescription off of a sheet of six, and recording the rest in such a way that the data can be found later. They simply cannot do it. Furthermore, once this problem has surfaced (again) they cannot be trusted to call the doctor and confirm the prescription on their own (while you do something useful with the time, like shop elsewhere), you have to stand there in the middle of their store, having a tantrum, or they forget about you. Apparently chain drugstores have a policy of hiring the terminally bewildered to work in their prescription departments. I have had the most experience with a chain whose name SHOULD mean “Strike Carrier” (assuming that CVE means Escort Carrier, which it does), but NO chain drugstore of my experience is worth the oil that will be necessary to fry it in hell. I have (thank the gods) used small, locally owned drugstores for years now. They may be a tiny bit more expensive, but I figure that I save a bundle on ulcer medication. It seems likely to me that the violations, or some of them, mention in the article in question are matters of record keeping that should be within the capabilities of a slightly trained chimp, but which the chain-store clerks have bungled because the chains hire the mentally vacant. If I thought for one instant that this would inspire the chains to do something about the general incompetence of their employees, I would regard this as an instance of not all unintended consequences being bad. Sadly, I suspect that the management of the chain drugstores will learn nothing and change nothing.
I think I lost brain cells by watching that uptown girl video. What’s with the fat soldiers? Well at least they do demonstrate the proper carry for a firearm.
Breast-feeding in Venezuela. Well abortion is also illegal (and a crime for which women get jail time) in Venezuela and if the state has a right to tell a woman what she can do with her womb then why not with her Tatas also?
Less global warming too because less manufacturing of glass bottles. Breast-feeding – it’s the green thing to do. I think every woman who believes in global warming should take the breast-feeding pledge if they are truly interested in saving the earth.
When I was a kid and I first got my wife pregnant I believed in all the positive aspects of breast-feeding. So I tried to encourage my wife to breast feed my kids. She was like – “standdown you fucking musclehead I got a handle on this”.
She never breast-fed a single one – a single time. They got absolutely no quality chest time – poor babes.
Yet they all grew up to love their mother and they are all taxpaying citizens – go figure!
Not soldiers, cops. Look again.
Oh okay yeah … fat cops … that plays then. 😀
Indeed it does and you’re taking a walk down history lane with that one!
Actually, CVS is my favorite drug store. In my little town – they have some very hot and attentive young girls working there. I don’t have any monthly prescriptions – but the girls know me because I’m in there every few weeks to buy Primatine (which is “over the counter – behind the counter”). I don’t have asthma – I just use it for my workouts and working long hours when I’m deployed. They also saved me on my first colonoscopy “prep”. They actually had the new FDA approved one when no one else did. That new prep is a lifesaver – puts the prep on a very nice “autopilot”.
“They actually had the new FDA approved one when no one else did.”
Which one would that be? I’m coming up on one soon.
Prepopik … it was approved last year. It’s two cups taken on two different days and they’re easily downable. To get you through the liquid diet phase I recommend Isopure Zero Carb Protein Drinks. Pretty bad aftertaste but 40 grams of protein per drink and I didn’t lose any muscle mass prepping for mine and Doc said I was squeaky clean. 😀
I wish the hell I’d known that last year.
I’ll get to these LINKS posts when I’ve caught up to the others. That’s WHEN, not IF. It’s taking me long enough, but it WILL happen.