Oh, you’re gonna shoot me? – Robert Redus, last words
Behold the power of prior planning: despite being in New Orleans since Wednesday and having a horrible sinus headache yesterday, I still managed to get this Links column done on time. The first video is the Beatles’ Christmas record for 1966; these were sent to members of their fan club every year from 1963 to 1969, but this one is IMHO the best of the lot. Everything above it was provided by Jesse Walker, the second video was provided by my cat and the links between them were provided by Eugene Volokh (“Dalek”), Radley Balko (“metadata”), Grace (“suicide” and “sarcasm”), Mike Siegel (“Shakespeare”), Cop Block (“body slam”), Popehat (“eventually”), and Mike Riggs (“together”).
- Vast reserves of fresh water discovered under the ocean.
- Dogs aren’t the only pets that cops wantonly murder.
- Soviet Christmas cards.
- 19th-century GIFs.
- Mr. Dalek Head.
- It’s just metadata.
- The term is “suicided”.
- Nightmare of the week.
- The Shakespearean insult kit.
- Cops body-slam 70-year-old woman.
- University cop murders student for sarcasm.
- I’m sure I’ll eventually think of a use for this.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
From the Archives
- Surveillance, propaganda, Prohibition, Calvin & Hobbes, puppycide, cops, Pearl Harbor, concentration camps, DNA and Manic Pixie Prostitute.
- Philippine cops & bureaucrats want immunity to lawsuits filed by sex workers who were “rescued” against their will.
- Two columns on governmental regulation of human sexual relationships.
- Just because someone made a movie doesn’t mean the subject is real.
- Censors selflessly devote their lives to watching porn so others can’t.
- How police privilege and anti-prostitution laws endanger all women.
- In the US, this story would be forced into the “trafficking” paradigm.
- Officials admit they knew a law they wanted was unconstitutional.
- Idiot calls cops to complain that a hooker shorted him 10 minutes.
- Aspasia explains to a feminist why many women aren’t feminists.
- Sydney cops raid brothel which won a judgment against the city.
- Why Kate Gould is opposed to criminalizing the purchase of sex.
- Another politician, another sex crime, another slap on the wrist.
- Xaviera Hollander is now a 69-year-old hotelier in Amsterdam.
- The European Women’s Lobby is totally detached from reality.
- Clearing sex workers from Louisiana’s “sex offender” registry.
- Why a gay activist is conflicted about same-sex marriage.
- Never put your name on a building while you’re still alive.
- Another study finds almost no “sex trafficking” in the UK.
- Holier-than-thou whining from licensed masseuses.
- The perfect job for a sadistic, misogynistic pervert.
- A documentary about the inspiring Rachel Wotton.
- Cops try to pin Long Island killings on a non-cop.
- The real purpose of the “condoms in porn” law.
- “Human trafficking” compared to other crimes.
- “The world’s first college of applied sexuality“.
- The confusing idea of “legalized” prostitution.
- French politicians love persecuting whores.
- Yet another teacher outed as a porn actor.
- Yet another thing you can’t be addicted to.
- Don’t confuse push factors for pull factors.
- Puritanism takes precedence over charity.
- Pretending all adolescents are the same.
- Can men and women really be friends?
- A primer on the indexing of this blog.
- An Austrian sex-education kerfuffle.
- The clueless leading the hysterical.
- A speech by Jill Brenneman.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- More “sex ray” hysteria.
- Strippers in the news.
- Lethal butt injections.
- Cheapskate spiders.
- Sex and Punishment.