Some magicians may ride a broom and fly in the air with the help of the djinn. – Sheikh Abdel Mohsen Obeikan
As I explained last week, I was absolutely swamped with links; this week we’re more back to normal, which is good because one extra TW3 column (which will appear Tuesday) is quite enough, thank you very much. Our top contributor, as so often happens, was Radley Balko, with everything down to the first video. That one was provided by Franklin Harris, who also gave us “disgrace”; it’s fairly long but well worth it if you’re a fan of Star Wars, Batman: The Animated Series, or both. And though being an avid bicyclist might increase your appreciation of the second video (contributed by Jillian Keenan), enjoying slapstick will also do the trick. The links between the videos are from Broke Brehon (“Steed”), Jesse Walker (“witchcraft”), my husband (“homeless”), Nun Ya (“OK”), Lenore Skenazy (“lava lamp”), Mike Siegel (“closing”), Susan (“freedom of assembly”), and Cop Block (“never call cops”).
- Because only America’s ruling class is immune to prosecution in America.
- Cops shoot dog because former tenant let car registration expire.
- There is no such thing as a “consensual” police encounter.
- There is a God, and He has a sense of humor.
- A disgrace to her profession.
- From the John Steed collection.
- Saudi Arabia’s war on witchcraft.
- Welcome to our world, homeless people.
- A magic button that makes everything OK.
- Bomb squad successfully defuses lava lamp.
- Feds threaten to arrest man for closing down his own company.
- That whole “freedom of assembly” thing was nice while it lasted.
- This week’s edition of “Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever.”
- Against her own will and all previous judgments, Maggie admitted to herself: I like this Pope.
From the Archives
- Fascism, patient abuse, six words, an unintended metaphor, spell ban, cops, guilt without fault and the Cult of Personality.
- Cops arrest strippers under vague “sex trafficking” pretenses, and random people on spurious prostitution charges.
- Apparently, some British juries recognize that a prostitute can be raped.
- Under criminalization, is reporting a ripoff hooker to cops really worth it?
- Both 2012 presidential candidates were descended from polygamists.
- The role of Manichean thinking in creating “sex trafficking” hysteria.
- The problems Asian sex workers face in Victoria’s legalized system.
- Volunteering at a shelter confers “trafficking” expertise in months.
- Filipino “trafficking” hotline is confused about number of “victims”.
- It’s so nice when people who have never done sex work get it.
- A once-important festival now consigned to the attic of history.
- Indian sex workers rescue a little girl from her abusive mother.
- Barcelona’s campaign to drive vulnerable women into poverty.
- Scientific illiterates attack a politician’s scientific illiteracy.
- The Indian Supreme Court waffles on decriminalization.
- Another attempt to destroy the internet is defeated.
- Northern Ireland contracts the Swedish disease.
- How to obscure reality by manipulating words.
- Two very different tales of artificial life forms.
- An online conflict between two activists.
- $2 billion in preventable medical costs.
- Several examples of sex work scams.
- Three whores go to a strip club.
- The moral panic over “sexting”.
- A look at sex work in Yemen.
- Porn causes terrorism!
