The doctors told the amputee he might experience a phantom limb from time to time. Nobody prepared him for the moment, though, when he felt cold fingers brush across his phantom hand.
After three weeks, things are back to normal around here; however, I’m still scrambling to catch back up, so I hope you’ll forgive me for keeping this brief so I can get started on Tuesday’s column (yes, I’m THAT behind). Our top contributor was Radley Balko, with everything down to the first video; that was provided by Laura Lee, and the second one is a parody of it. The links between them were supplied by Tracy Quan (“sexting”), Harlot’s Parlour (“annoying”), I Am Curious Blue (“memories”), Stacey Swimme (“marijuana”), Carol Fenton (“never call cops”), Kevin Wilson (“vodka”), and Mike Riggs (“guilty”).
- Man fights with drunk cop; SWAT team retaliates against his family.
- Appreciate these horror photos, but don’t read the comments.
- What would Jesus do?
- Victorian sexting.
- Two-sentence horror stories.
- The UK criminalizes being annoying.
- An erotic alphabet from the Soviet Union.
- Implanting false memories via biochemistry.
- US foreign propaganda can now be broadcast domestically.
- The SCOTUS may agree to hear the case for medical marijuana.
- Police chief wants everyone in his city harassed at least once per year.
- This week’s edition of “Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever”.
- Russians violate gay rights, so Americans boycott pro-gay vodka brand.
- NYPD chief claims that every single person ever stopped by his cops was guilty of something.
From the Archives
- When one with unusual interests commits a crime, cops blame interest.
- If whores really need “rescue”, why do they resist & flee the “saviors”?
- What should I do before, during and after a client intends to rape me?
- “Objectification”, blah blah blah. ”Sending messages”, simper simper.
- Charlotte Shane’s essay on the myth of rape as uniquely destructive.
- A brief respite from a criminalization campaign in Western Australia.
- LA billboard companies refuse sex worker rights ad, but allow this.
- Another comedian’s career destroyed by busybodies with badges.
- A prison with a swimming pool and volleyball court is still a prison.
- What common disease symptoms should I be on the lookout for?
- Mitt Romney promised to work hard to increase the rape rate.
- Nestle Corporation proves it’s almost as clueless as cops are.
- Another bogus “study” from the most active font of such filth.
- Is birth control essential, or are condoms okay on their own?
- UK cops grudgingly admit that stripping doesn’t cause rape.
- The neofeminist campaign to rewrite the history of harlotry.
- What should I expect from an agency regarding security?
- A moronic op-ed on the “hookernomics” of Chattanooga.
- Politicians speak out against “anti-prostitution pledge”.
- What’s the best way to figure out what a client wants?
- How problems can be handled under decriminalization.
- Another example of the inanity of prostitution laws.
- Finland is exposed to the Swedish disease.
- How common are difficult or creepy clients?
- Disruptive sex worker protests at IAC.
- Are scars a big obstacle for an escort?
- The many harlots found in the Bible.
- Coerced oaths as a tool of tyranny.
- The myth of the omnipresent pimp.
- The legacy of Lawrence vs. Texas.
- An early form of the links column.
- The “rape epidemic” that wasn’t.
- Is kissing clients unavoidable?
- My favorite musicals.
- A kissing drone.
I love your list of favorite musicals, Maggie.
I’m on a South Pacific kick lately. I just watched the entire Lincoln Center Theater production on YouTube.
And apropos of nothing, my first-ever crush on a movie star was Christopher Plummer in Sound of Music.
Wow, that’s two of my favorite musicals about “spunky” women marrying high-status older men. I’m sure some feminist theory of patriarchy is being proved by that. 😉
I will not rest until I’ve converted everyone to my love of The Music Man (though I admit the ending is a bit of a wash).
“Now think Men! Think!
This story is typical of the crap that passes for science journalism – especially in neuroscience.
There is no evidence whatsoever that Tonegawa’s team implanted any false memories. What they did was create associations and demonstrate conditioned response – just like Pavlov with his dribbling dogs.
The fact that they stimulated neurons directly with channelrhodopsin and laser light rather than indirectly via bells and auditory nerves is neither here nor there.
What they may have done is provided evidence of neuronal engrams (all the articles I’ve seen fail to mention that engrams are a theory with very little supporting evidence thus far) but even that is pretty doubtful.
They probably could have got the same effect by chemically ‘tickling’ the mouse’s tail in the first room then ‘tickling’ it again with a laser in the second. That would not be evidence that mice use their rear ends to think but it may be evidence that neuroscientists do.
I did read the comments under the Horror photos. My suspicion is that they were written by Mary Whitehouse types who never watch horror films. There was nothing in those photos that you couldn’t see in something like Poltergeist, It (One of them seems to be a direct homage to It) or Pet sematary. Actually, it was reminiscent of the senate hearings on video games in the 90s. Senators turned their heads in horror from cartoonish 90’s video games.
“Won’t somebody please think of the children?”
Well, given how many laws we have on the books, he’s probably right about that. I’m not sure, but I may have had an undersized lobster at some point.
As for the cat video, my soul cat — a big fat tabby — would always come to the door to greet me. And both my tabbies would walk around me meowing and purring when they hadn’t seen me in a while. So, thhhhhbbbtttt.
re NYPD Chief: Since 88% of those stopped aren’t charged with any crime, even though they are guilty of something, I guess this means the NYPD is completely incompetent and unable to find evidence.
I have a feeling that somehow this guy is going to end up as the new police chief in Auburn, Alabama.
One can hope, right?
Links. I’ll come back to it.
The think with the bank really threw me off. I’ve started falling further behind again. I haven’t exercised as much or done as much baking, either. But that’s behind me now; the money has been restored and the debit card inactivated and destroyed. Onward!