You are sitting here like cattle! Is this America? – Robert Small
I really do try to balance all the stories of bureaucratic tyranny and police brutality with light, funny or fascinating items; some weeks it’s just a lot more difficult to do that. This week’s first video, a cute comedy based on Jesus raising Jairus’ daughter from the dead in the eighth chapter of Luke (trust me) was provided by Antonio Lorusso, and the second, on performing Shakespeare with original pronunciation, by Franklin Harris. The first two items below (and the “puppy” part of the third) were provided by Radley Balko, but the first part of the third came from Grace (who also contributed “PTA”) and the “Alzheimer’s” part from Cop Block (who also contributed “bystander”). The first seven between the videos were supplied by Brooke Magnanti, Nun Ya, Jesse Walker, Gideon, Popehat, Mistress Matisse, and Mike Siegel (in that order); Mike also provided “dead horse”.
- When Oompa Loompas go bad.
- Government steals grocer’s bank account for “crime” of small deposits.
- Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever, especially not if Alzheimer’s disease or a puppy is involved. (Warning: graphic photo)
- Let’s make dresses from American cheese slices & pose with classic cars.
- Woman gets husband to shoot neighbor for telepathically raping her.
- Perhaps they’re trying to awaken one of the Great Old Ones.
- Pittsburg tickets people for parking in their own driveways.
- Boy suspended from school for playing in his front yard.
- Fascism in action.
- A prohibitionist’s nightmare.
- Why women want to eat babies.
- Cops attack yet another random bystander.
- Obama beats a horse dead since the US Civil War.
- Parent faces ten years in prison for speaking at PTA meeting.
- A map of all world countries where people can be sentenced to die in prison for crimes committed before they’re 18.
From the Archives
- I have such a good regular relationship with a professional that I no longer feel the need for a conventional relationship. Have I gone nuts?
- Corpses, Congress, cops, prohibitionism, Paul Bunyan, the future, the mess, politicians, gayness, the Amish, authority, art and ice cream.
- How would one let a prospective husband know that he should only cheat with a professional?
- Yet another poor fool dies from allowing filth to be injected into her arse.
- As long as government actors have power over people, this will happen.
- Canadian courts slap down another attempt to deny sex workers rights.
- Phoenix only “treats prostitutes as trafficking victims” when convenient.
- The nuns who ran the Magdalene laundries are still exploiting whores.
- Cambodian cops have learned to parrot their American masters well.
- The CASE Act is so awful even trafficking victim advocates oppose it.
- An excellent New York Times op-ed against “end demand” rhetoric.
- The Backpage-Village Voice split and Michael Wolff’s opinion of it.
- Korean sex workers demand revision of anti-sex trafficking laws.
- Sons of two Indian whores picked for champion soccer team.
- What if we were closely related to the other kind of chimp?
- Anna Gristina pleads guilty to promoting prostitution.
- A prohibitionist harpy interviews the Fokkens twins.
- A dangerously unbalanced buyer’s market in Japan.
- French hookers work to circumvent busybody laws.
- Unambitious gypsy whores in Washington, D.C.
- Dehumanization, sex workers and serial killers.
- A feminist guide to silencing sex workers.
- I make a brief appearance in this video.
- I despise misuse of the word “vagina”.
- Women’s views of male sex workers.
- The neuroscience of a dead salmon.
- My last two columns for Mabon.
- The fallacy of “empowerment”.
- Dominatrices in the news.
- My favorite short films.
- Banned Books Week.