His behavior during imprisonment convinced the authorities that [he]…was no longer to be feared. – The New York Times, December 20th, 1924
This week’s videos need a little more explanation than usual. The first, provided by Mike Siegel, is an extremely moving Thai television commercial based on an urban legend which proves once again that the best way to ensure people watch your ad is to make it interesting and memorable. The second, via Brooke Magnanti, shows what happens when metronomes are placed on a movable surface so they can transfer kinetic energy to one another (trust me, it’s a lot more interesting than it sounds). The links above the first video were provided by Radley Balko, and those between the two by my cat, Nun Ya, Jesse Walker, Aspasia, Mike Riggs, Franklin Harris, Popehat, Ally Fogg, Mistress Matisse and Dean Clark, in that order.
- I like God better when He says to feed strippers and not harass them.
- Officials call cops “heroic” for burning innocent man to death.
- A demonstration of the rehabilitative power of prison.
- Hello Kitty beer.
- Strangers in our bodies.
- Calvin and Hobbes and Muad’Dib.
- How to recognize the artists of paintings.
- Welcome to our world, victims of “stop and frisk”.
- Don’t approach the cops in any way whatsoever, either.
- Cops murder 96-year-old man for refusing a medical test.
- Clown wrecks clown car; oversized shoes are not to blame.
- In other clown news, one of them is terrorizing an English town.
- New York cops shoot wildly into Broadway crowd, injuring two women.
- Cops harass pregnant epileptic woman to “protect her from abduction”.
From the Archives
- Horses, dogs, gulls, video, cops, kids, boyfriends, Obama, censorship, strippers, nuns, grass, Twinkies, surveillance and science.
- The CASE Act is so bad, even bona fide coerced prostitutes are against it.
- You can tell a legitimate scientific argument by its quotation of Genesis.
- Cops’ and journalists’ unwholesome obsession with underage whores.
- Why do some people ask questions but refuse to accept the answers?
- While bureaucrats have power over people, this will keep happening.
- Women who want their choices respected need to have 14 kids first.
- Illustrative examples of clueless neofeminist whining and Poe’s Law.
- Charlotte Shane on journalists who pester non-activist sex workers.
- Most women are more sexually open when they’re very turned on.
- Most women pick bigger implants after wearing a padded bra first.
- Another pervert “helping” teenage runaways by molesting them.
- An elderly harlot tells her granddaughter about a favorite client.
- A short biography of the late founder of SWOP-US, Robyn Few.
- On sex workers who waste energy in internecine squabbles.
- What are so many economists so stupid about sex work?
- Another rescue industry group exposed as frauds.
- Aspasia on the hypocrisy of Jezebel readers.
- Susannah Breslin on the war against porn.
- Guest columnist: Norma Jean Almodovar.
- Switzerland’s first sex workers’ union.
- Brooke Magnanti on The New Rules.
- How the Swiss deal with sex work.
- When a man meets a donkey.
