I’m thankful that the police officer came out quickly, that we live in a city where we can depend on police to react quickly. – Chris Reeves
I’m mostly back to my normal schedule now, though only one week ahead so far; by the next Links column I should have a comfortable two-week buffer again. We’ve got the usual assortment of amusing, interesting and infuriating links this week, but a few words of explanation are in order for the videos. The first, “I Am Here”, is a project started by two Chilean university students, Violeta Pinda and Felipe Guzman, to call attention to stray dogs that people usually ignore. All they did was to attach balloons on which they wrote things like “scratch me”, “play with me” and “don’t leave me” to the dogs…but when creatures who were essentially invisible suddenly become visible, magic happens (and Maggie cries). The second video is an animation of XKCD’s unique comic strip “Time”, which changed every half hour for the first week and every hour thereafter, from March 25th to the end of July. Everything down to the first video was provided by Radley Balko, the second video by Mike Siegel and the links between the two by Jesse Walker (“Sahara Sea”), Popehat (“baby prize”), Luscious Lani (“graffiti”), Kevin Wilson (“weapons”), PWS (“Detroit”), Lenore Skenazy (“school cops”), Brooke Magnanti (“whistleblowers”), and Antonio Lorusso (“child porn”).
- State abducted little girl from parents because they smoked pot, then gave her to a woman who murdered her.
- Judge fires clerk for helping wrongly-convicted man prove his innocence.
- The US government “honors the memory” of human traffickers.
- Bootlicking homeowner thanks cop for murdering his dog.
- Cops murder random old man, blame poor light.
- You park like an asshole.
- Nightmare of the week.
- The Hum.
- The Sahara Sea.
- 18th-century hentai.
- Cops frame an 11-year-old boy.
- Welcome to our world, street vendors.
- Pakistani game show gives away babies as prizes.
- Government is just a word for things we choose to do together.
- Worker removes graffiti, later discovers image of himself in its place.
- Cops shoot teen 9 times, then tase corpse & blame it on the weapons.
- Detroit cops are now directly robbing people, i.e. not under color of law.
- A catalog of recent abuses of schoolkids by cops, culminating in murder.
- Government celebrates newly-declared “National Whistleblower Day” by preparing to bury a whistleblower alive.
- Person or persons unknown are trying to frame liberty activists by sending them disguised child porn files via email.
From the Archives
- UK cops send “extreme” porn to anti-cop politician, then bust him for it.
- Do you think there is a connection between intelligence and sexuality?
- Sick minds see sex where it isn’t, fear magic powers of taboo pictures.
- Canadian politicians are just as dishonest as their American brethren.
- Cops stage massive raids to charge people before CANS law repeal.
- Only other peoples’ kind of sex work is bad! Ours isn’t even sexual!
- Is it OK to stay the full time after climax, just to enjoy her company?
- Sri Lankan police stage evidence-free hotel raids, for the children.
- Condemned to the “sex offender” registry for euthanizing a dog.
- Anti-whore NGO gets big donation from convicted child molester.
- Have you ever had a prostitute “read” you as a former whore?
- Government use of laws always exceeds their stated purpose.
- I’m very glad I never had this kind of celebrity as a client.
- Two HIV+ men have been seemingly cleared of the virus.
- Cops raid strip club so they can strip-search the dancers.
- A short biography of the great Athenian hetaera Aspasia.
- Some Korean whores prefer suicide to “rescue” by cops.
- Indian high court order decriminalization of prostitution.
- The newest threat to public health: the over-50 crowd.
- Yet another gun to the internet’s head is turned aside.
- Tennessee cops blatantly invent “trafficking” numbers.
- Obama crony jokes about hookers being gang-raped.
- Is the wind starting to shift toward decriminalization?
- Do you think jealousy is due to nature or nurture?
- What should we do about underage hookers?
- What should be done about “sex trafficking”?
- The erosion of “innocent until proven guilty”.
- Danish journalists mock the Swedish model.
- Why do so many escorts like doggie style?
- Can whores and clients really be friends?
- Will your husband ever write a column?
- My two previous columns for Lammas.
- Canadian town buys a strip club.
- BBW escort turns comedienne.
- The craziness of Zimbabwe.
- Another early Links column.
- A picture book of vulvas.
- Legalizing Prostitution.
