We’ll [have] the most militarized border since the fall of the Berlin Wall. – John McCain
This was another quiet week, which was good because it gave me a sorely-needed chance to do a bit of catching up. I’m in the home stretch with the first draft of this scholarly paper and should finish it tomorrow; revision isn’t nearly as difficult for me as initial composition, so after this it should be all downhill unless they totally hate it or something. Anyhow, the leading contributor was Radley Balko, who provided everything down to the first video. That was supplied by Laura Lee and was represented by the person who posted it on YouTube as a Russian tampon commercial; however, several commenters said it was actually a clip from a new spoof film called Movie 43. In either case, it beats the hell out of the usual blue liquid, white dress and horseback riding nonsense (don’t worry, guys, it’s not yucchy). The second video (from Marty Klein) is a Mississippi sex-ed teacher’s brilliant method of getting around his state’s ban on showing students how to use condoms, and the links between the videos were provided by Walter Olson (“poop scoop”), Grace (“hidden cost”), Mike Riggs (“welcome”), and Nun Ya (“Hello Kitty” and “gun rape”).
- Cops arrest and jail coed for buying bottled water.
- Why Snowden asked his visitors to refrigerate their phones.
- Three cases of cops getting away with behavior you could be jailed for.
- Michigan state police raid legal marijuana dispensaries and city government offices, describe July 4th fireworks as “IEDs”.
- Poop scoop suit.
- The hidden cost of big government.
- Welcome to our world, university grads.
- A massive chart of every superpower ever.
- Hello Kitty almost causes a riot in Singapore.
- Teen jailed since February over sarcastic Facebook comment.
- Cops sit in front of house for 20 minutes, then shoot owner’s dog.
- Cops sodomize innocent man with gun to coerce him into snitching.
- For those who say I’m exaggerating when I call the US a police state.
- American cops think they’re above kings, and non-cops are below cats.
From the Archives
- Is the “Obedient Wives Club” right about divorce being caused by women not satisfying husbands?
- Debunking the myths of the “dirty whore”, the “gypsy whore” and the “Asian slave-whore”.
- The predictable Western reaction to steroid use in Bangladeshi brothels.
- Japanese cops are adopting American-style prudishness and repression.
- Another man convicted of “child porn” for pics of his legal-age girlfriend.
- William Shatner gets it, even if the former mayor of Ilfracombe doesn’t.
- How do I help an Asian working girl whom I suspect may be trafficked?
- This description of the “white slavery” panic will sound awfully familiar.
- I can’t have orgasms with other people; could a sex worker teach me?
- How does one handle group sex with several men and one woman?
- Article sympathizes with serial killer, ignores his sex-worker victims.
- How the FBI manufactures “pimps” to fit the “trafficking” narrative.
- What’s the difference between archeofeminism and neofeminism?
- How does one tell professionalism from actual romantic interest?
- Louisiana just won’t give up trying to destroy people’s lives.
- How decriminalization would benefit clients and academics.
- Norway may yet fight the Swedish cancer into remission.
- The Salvation Army says homosexuals deserve death.
- The bizarre cult which dominates Swedish feminism.
- It’s good to see prohibitionists attack one another.
- How “sex trafficking hysteria” is rooted in racism.
- My lifelong love of astronomy and space travel.
- So much for “negative secondary effects”.
- My favorite TV dramas and comedies.
- We’re up to 50 clients a night now.
- $250,000 bail for a misdemeanor.