Is there anyone incapable at this point of seeing what the United States has become? – Glenn Greenwald
Another week, another crop of links. Our top contributor, as so often happens, was Radley Balko, who provided everything down to the first video: Peter Sellers reading the lyrics to the Beatles’ “She Loves You” in a Doctor Strangelove voice. If you enjoy or (or else just can’t resist), you might also want to watch him reading them as a Cockney, and Irishman and an upper-class twit (thanks to Szusa, who also provided “letter to Hitler”). The second video is propaganda from 1954 which tried to convince Americans that one’s house stands a better chance of surviving a nuclear attack if it’s clean and painted; nine other hilarious propaganda films from all over the world can be found here. The links between the two videos were provided by Mistress Matisse (“honor”), Jesse Walker (“road stealing”), Mike Siegel (“lard”), Penn Jillette (“nothing so dumb”), Joyce Arthur (“exact change”), Michael Whiteacre (“murder charges”), Popehat (“DEA”), and Laura Lee (“Satanists”).
- Austin cops want the murders they commit to be hidden from the public.
- The FBI authorizes 15 crimes a day because “It’s not done randomly”.
- Man steals front-end loader to hide his nudity.
- 4% of all Americans were arrested in 2011.
- Cops murder a teenager for graffiti.
- Honor among thieves.
- Gandhi’s letter to Hitler.
- Man charged with stealing road.
- London sewer clogged by 15-ton mass of lard.
- There’s nothing so dumb that some people won’t fall for it.
- Woman fined $219 for not paying bus fare with exact change.
- Prosecutors refuse to drop murder charges against dead man.
- DEA directs NSA info to cops, instructs them to lie about source.
- Mississippi police want to arrest Satanists who turn dead people gay.
From the Archives
- Obviously nude pictures are far more dangerous to “children’s” lives than spending 20 years in prison.
- The effects of defining everything as “violence against women” or “human trafficking”.
- Never on Sunday, New Orleans, Pretty Baby and Taste the Blood of Dracula.
- Fanatics complain “authorities” don’t invent enough “trafficking victims”.
- “He was so desperate for money he actually opened a legal business!”
- Dear prudish twit actresses: leave sex worker parts to grown women.
- Politicians wasting other people’s money to fight a legal sex business.
- Cats, cops, apes, TSA, free speech, prohibition, guitars and fascism.
- Norwegian study says that Swedish Model causes “sex trafficking”.
- “The House of the Rising Sun”, “Farewell to Storyville” and “Jacky”.
- Swedish Model proponents are NOT “sex industry lobby groups”.
- It’s time for humanity to grow up and set aside childish beliefs.
- What it looks like when individuals behave as “authorities” do.
- “Trafficking” means whatever its proponents want it to mean.
- Man argues it wasn’t a crime because he only raped a whore.
- The weird situations that arise from sex work legalization.
- I wonder how this would have turned out in America?
- An extended example of New Orleans’ “Yat” dialect.
- “Authorities” who use their power to rape whores.
- Prohibitionists will say whatever they need to say.
- The bittersweet experience of leaving sex work.
- A historical version of “50 clients a night” idiocy.
- Behold the lawhead psychosis in action.
- The truth about “safe harbor” laws.
- The new Victorianism.
