The human body is not essentially…pornographic, and I think to make it so is a mistake. – Pat Robertson
This was one of those weeks in which I couldn’t be sure who was going to take the top position; it went back and forth several times before Radley Balko took it with six. Popehat and Grace were tied for second place with four each (“irony”, “911”, “nanny”, and “fireman” for Popehat; “Palm Beach”, “3rd”, “hair”, and “spray” for Grace); Jesse Walker (“gothic”, “Pat Robertson”), Cop Block (“10”, “20”) and Edward Cunningham (“together”, “test”) had two each, and the rest of the links were provided by Franklin Harris (“RIP”), Walter Olson (“physics”), Police Misconduct (“cop-lovers”), Jasper Gregory (“scrolls”), Jason Kuznicki (“cost”), Jemima (“strip”), Mike Siegel (“ABC”), and Lenore Skenazy (“sign”). The Via North Carolina Harm Reduction requested I share the second video, and I discovered the first while reading this article in order to answer a reader question.
- Cops torture man into false confession, charge him with “lying to police”.
- Cops arrest & charge old man for being given the wrong prescription.
- Another day, another trespassing cop, another murdered dog.
- Cop who tried to burn his family alive gets slap on the wrist.
- The DEA teaches agents how to lie to courts
- A nominee for the Inspector Javert award.
- Oh, the irony.
- Gothic cosmology.
- Palm Beach’s finest.
- R.I.P. Arthur Rankin.
- Fighting fascism with physics.
- So much for the 3rd amendment.
- Pat Robertson is slowly going sane.
- Libertarianism even happens to cop-lovers.
- 911 brings the cops, so don’t call that either.
- Cop fractures 10-year-old’s leg for recording him.
- The searchable online copy of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
- I don’t think “cost” is the most important concern here.
- The UK strives to match the US in mindless nanny-statism.
- Cops arrest woman for being drugged, then hack off her hair.
- Georgia cops now strip-searching passengers in minor traffic stops.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
- Florida demands blind, comatose, dying boy take standardized test.
- Cops arrest man for being in a place they decided to spray with bullets.
- ABC discovers that inanimate objects tend to stay where you put them.
- School officials upset by gun-banning sign that displays outline of a gun.
- Cop arrests fireman for trying to save someone’s life instead of obeying his parking instructions.
- Man imprisoned for 20 years after cops torture him into confessing to two murders committed while he was under arrest on a minor charge.
From the Archives
- Cookie Monster, swans, monsters, tag, Stairway to Heaven, prohibitionism, cops, government, language, drugs and huge ships.
- Libertarians want government out of our bedrooms, but some politicians want people out of their bedroom clothes.
- Some “sex trafficking” fetishists waited until Super Bowl Sunday to trot out their claims last year.
- “Police have a special inclination toward confabulation…[and] an incentive to lie“.
- Kansas Supreme Court rules strippers are employees, not contractors.
- African countries which are more civilized about sex work than the US.
- When the state turns custom into law, most people don’t even flinch.
- Look past the “sex slave” rhetoric to what’s actually going on here.
- “For $11 per minute, patrons…can ask for the…butt pillow…service“.
- Atlanta’s police chief wants to “banish” sex workers from “his” city.
- The high standards of American journalism have reached Pakistan.
- Femen protests are less annoying if you just look at the pictures.
- My little sister’s peerless recipe for chicken and andouille gumbo.
- What advice do you have for an escort who’s losing regulars?
- The namesake of my “That Was the Week That Was” feature.
- Another would-be sex worker “ally” who should just shut up.
- Follow-ups to examples of cop violence against sex workers.
- Video of a thought forming in the brain of a larval zebrafish.
- A study identifies the genes that cause gendered behavior.
- A short biography of the wild and extravagant Cora Pearl.
- Must every strong urge now be described as an addiction?
- Is the United Kingdom learning from her former colonies?
- In Saudi Arabia, a war between humans and baboons.
- Indian politicians try to quietly criminalize prostitution.
- Machines built by bigotry work to grind up everybody.
- Another bogus “meat kills” study from radical vegans.
- More good stuff about sex work with disabled clients.
- Why are some women attracted to mass murderers?
- Yet another debunking of the “gypsy whores” myth.
- Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?
- Man says female IRS agent coerced him into sex.
- There’s more than one way to skin a lawhead.
- Harvey Silverglate reviews Unlearning Liberty.
- Cult hysteria meets “sex trafficking” hysteria.
- Judge sends man to prison for comic books.
- Dr. Brooke Magnanti on the “pimp” myth.
- My two previous columns for Imbolc.
- Two excellent posts by readers.
- Another “dog bites man” thing.
- All prohibitionism is the same.
- What Would Orrin Hatch Do?
- The hooker vote.