We remain very concerned that…legal [products] are being sold openly in our high streets. – Detective Superintendent Dave Knopwood
Whenever the topic of nursing in public came up in my younger years, I let it be known that I fully intended to nurse my babies whenever they were hungry, no matter where I might happen to be at the time, and that anyone who complained would learn just how sharp my tongue is. As it turned out I never had the experience myself, but my feelings on the subject haven’t changed so I really appreciated this funny video my husband discovered. Everything above it is from Clarissa, and the second video (from Mistress Matisse) is a real ad for an actual lawyer; the links between the videos were provided by Kevin Wilson (“comics”), Thaddeus Russell (“graffiti”), Lenore Skenazy (“libertarianism”), Popehat (“paranoid”), Jesse Walker (“map”), Mike Siegel (“paintball”), Cthulhuchick (“goats” & “handcuffed”), and Radley Balko (“nothing”).
- Police raid shop, steal legal products they don’t like.
- Don’t make drunken bets with Kiwis.
- Headline of the week.
- 15,000 free comic books.
- Textbook graffiti masterpieces.
- Libertarianism happens to people.
- Some of y’all thought I was paranoid.
- Map of things cops claim to have mistaken for guns.
- A brief history of the microwave oven as murder weapon.
- Tax-funded involuntary paintball games for the delusional.
- “People often underestimate how dangerous a goat can be.”
- Nothing I could say would be nice, so I’ll just leave this here.
- Another handcuffed young man materializes a gun and shoots himself.
From the Archives
- Mars, machines, aliens, zeroes, criminalization, censorship, cops, captions, courts, cocks, teeth, tits and welcome to our world.
- While pretending to care about “trafficking”, Ireland turns down nearly all asylum requests from “trafficking victims”.
- Prosecutor lies about a service’s fee to ratchet up the number of counts.
- One of the larger prohibitionist groups of the first “sex trafficking” panic.
- Government creates the legal climate that allows oppression to flourish.
- Feminists are starting to realize that neofeminist policies hurt feminism.
- This is only “stunning” to those who believe in the “pimps & hos” myth.
- Dr. Brooke Magnanti on Comic Relief’s subscription to prohibitionist lies.
- Swedish neofeminists label surrogate motherhood “human trafficking”.
- The tale of a parallel Maggie in the world envisioned by Ray Bradbury.
- The deep connection between addiction rhetoric and crypto-moralism.
- Politician says caging people & giving them criminal records is “help”.
- Another good, clean charity refuses money from nasty, dirty whores.
- Cops claim hiring whores was a “botched prostitution investigation”.
- The sex blogger whose sex blog was cancelled for being about sex.
- Dallas tries to push off its “diversion” scheme on the rest of Texas.
- A legal clinic in Cape Town provides legal services for sex workers.
- The media finally notice that using condoms as evidence is insane.
- Government officials attacked for failing to find what isn’t there.
- A federal appeals court struck down Virginia’s anti-sodomy law.
- In which I actually agree with a prohibitionist district attorney.
- In the UK, being a cop confers expertise in oncology research.
- In Mumbai, there is a bank which serves only sex workers.
- Is the sex worker rights movement nearing a watershed?
- The radical concept of paying people for things they sell.
- In California, crime is whatever school officials say it is.
- The tale of a lonely woman who found a higher calling.
- Tullia d’Aragona: courtesan, poetess and philosopher.
- The underage whore who became a fashion designer.
- Michael Weinstein opposes HIV prevention measures.
- Dr. Laura Agustín on the concept of “empowerment”.
- Another attempt to decriminalize in South Australia.
- Jesse Walker’s good short piece on Santa Muerte.
- Jennifer Reed debunks the “sex trafficking” panic.
- Supporting moral panics with bogus checklists.
- Reviews of four movies with hooker heroines.
- Why banishment has come back into fashion.
- Tyrants find neofeminists to be useful idiots.
- How Switzerland deals with streetwalkers.
- PayPal backtracks on a censorship policy.
- Man dies while visiting his sugar baby.
- Two reader-authors exchange books.
- Iranian women’s topless protest.
- The Healing Power of Sex Work.
- Another Canadian serial killer?
- A few things I did last March.
- A profile of Grace Bellavue.
Breastfeeding – I’m fine with it and I don’t stare. BUT – I do “cop” a peek if the woman is good looking and has an outstanding pair. As long as she’s fine with it – I’m good. However, I do recall one time when a Norwegian lady sat across the isle from my seat on a plane when she started nursing. I had already “eyeballed” her when she got on the plane – because she was a long, tall stellar example of Viking femininity. When she pulled down her blouse – the “bad” part of me just couldn’t believe my fucking luck! So I looked – and, she saw me look. I got dirty stares from her the rest of the flight – and I only “peeked” at her for less than a second. Sooooo … ladies – if you have a problem with guys looking – take the action to the head.
Some women are cool about things like that though. I had a customer in the bar who was talking to me – and her boobs were just spilling out of her low-cut blouse. At one point she says … “Are you looking at my tits?” And I said … “Yes I am. What man wouldn’t? They’re incredible.” And she smiles big, bats her eyes and says … “Thank you, Krulac!” LOL.
On the trooper shooting …
I know you tend to think the worst – but this could be totally accidental and, likely is. First – his kids were in the house and it you’re gonna “ace” the wife you don’t normally do it with the kids around. Second, I almost shot myself once doing the same thing. Got up at 2 am (couldn’t sleep) and remembered that I needed to clean my .45 – so I got it and went in the living room. All I know is that one point I was looking into the barrell with a flashlight and I saw the head of the .45 acp loaded into the chamber. Then I looked at the safety – it was off … and the hammer was cocked. The slightest pressure on the trigger would have set it off. I got a chill up my spine, unloaded the gun, and put it the fuck back into it’s case and went back to bed. I have always been a safe firearm owner – but the combination of lack of sleep and complacency was not a good combination for me that night.
In submarines, we always aimed for ZERO mistakes. One of the things we learned was – the more often an individual does a task, the more he’ll begin to “disconnect” his mind from that task while performing it. THAT’s when accidents and mistakes happen. A newbie is so often so scared he’ll fuck up – he checks everything two or three times – but with someone who’s very experienced, the tendency is to go for the one-handed catch.
As I said, anything I said about that incident wouldn’t be nice, so I won’t say anything.
Meanwhile, in the UK, a girl gets called a ‘tramp’ for breastfeeding in public; and she even got photographed doing it. Result? Backlash:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/young-mum-labelled-a-tramp-for-breastfeeding-daughter-in-public-9184587.html?origin=internalSearch
I do like the attitude of krulac’s bar customer; if only more girls were like that!
The younger girls tend to be like that – okay, well more and more of them are (especially after a drink or two). But what I’ve noticed is that the young women of today tend to be more sexually liberated than when I was growing up. To a certain extent – this seems to have even infected women who are close to my own age who I KNOW couldn’t have been as “liberated” when they were younger – but now seem to have adopted some of the attitudes of the younger gals.
I think they understand men better these days – maybe the internet and porn have allowed them to learn things that in the past their parents sheltered them from? Maybe it’s the fact that not many men these days expect (or even want) women to be sexually inexperienced – so the girls don’t have to try to pretend to be.
Girls talk to me a lot at the bar and you’d be surprised how “matter-of-factly” they’ll discuss certain things now. You should hear all the “disastrous sex” stories they’ve jokingly told me! Or, for example … one girl came up to me one morning, rolled her eyes, sighed and said … “Krulac, can you throw my boyfriend out of the bar? He wants to go home and fuck, and I want to go home and fuck, but if he keeps drinking and talking to his buddies he won’t be able to do anything and I have to fucking WORK tomorrow and need some sleep!”
The attacks on legal highs are being officially encouraged across the UK. The small town I live in had its legal high shop raided by six costumed thugs recently. They have little else to do locally as serious crime is very low. The leftist, university educated scum reporters on the local press have been crapping on for months with a “campaign” against the so-called dangers of legal highs.
How lucky we are to live in “democracies”
Everything I’ve read indicates they’re far more dangerous than illegal substances like cannabis & cocaine…and absolutely nobody would be using them if the latter were legal. But if you’re going to call something “legal” and then go around impounding it, you have degenerated into flat-out totalitarianism without even the veneer of the rule of law.
Okay, I’m probably going out on a limb here, but I noticed the qualifying quote marks around the words legal high. Are these products actually meant, specifically, to get one high? Or, are they products that are meant for some other purpose that, since they aren’t outlawed, people are abusing in order to get high? Not that it should matter, of course.
I’m also looking at the picture that accompanies that article, and while photographs can be deceiving, I see no body armor, no masks, no huge guns being brandished, no battering rams or property damage. The article even states that no one was arrested (…yet).
Police violence does not always require guns to be present; the implied threat is enough. And if you don’t think closing down a retail business for hours while cops root through every inch of the store is low-key violence, you’ve never owned a retail business. I guarantee you that he’s lost some customers permanently; some people will NEVER enter a business they fear may be under police surveillance.
” And if you don’t think closing down a retail business for hours while cops root through every inch of the store is low-key violence, you’ve never owned a retail business.”
Full disclosure, I have not owned one. I was attempting to draw a comparison between how British police chose to handle this situation (not condoning it, mind you) and how a comparable American police force would have handled it. Again, I’m going out on a limb, but I bet if that story had taken place in America, someone would have been needlessly injured or killed.
I also wonder which one the [mostly unarmed] people feel they can push back against more, a police force that doesn’t use guns where they apparently don’t need them (the implied threat notwithstanding) or one that ALWAYS starts shooting at the least provocation.
Totally agreed. Better low-key and implied violence than actively trashing the place, looting it, shooting people and causing tens of thousands of dollars worth of damage.
They are meant to get high, but they are sold under the “claim” that they’re bath salts – so anyone consuming them are abusing them are misusing them. This claim is supposed to provide legal cover for the guy manufacturing and selling them.
Some guy will mix these up in his garage and sell them. When they become popular – they get “banned”. The guy making them simply goes back into his garage again and chemically alters the substance slightly – producing a new “un-banned” substance and sells that. That eventually gets banned – he goes back into his garage and alters it again – probably each alteration makes it even more dangerous. This is folly of prohibition – prohibition is like a dog chasing his tail.
You see this in steroid abuse too. Did you know – you can LEGALLY buy steroids on Amazon.com?
http://www.amazon.com/Xtreme-Mass-60ct-Product-quality/dp/B00J0AMSWY/ref=sr_1_4?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1394993381&sr=1-4&keywords=methylstenbolone
That’s methylstenbolone – a full on steroid. Some people confuse it with a “prohormone” – which is a non-steroid that “converts” to a steroid in the body once consumed.
Methylstenbolone is a derivative of Methyldrostanolone (Superdrol) – which was completely legal for years until IT was banned.
Methylstenbolone will eventually be banned – in fact, it is already banned by all branches of the U.S. military.
But again – each time a steroid is banned, guys like Patrick Arnold (you’ll have to google him) simply go back into their garage and chemically alter the molecular structure – and viola! A new legal substance to make money with for a few years until it’s eventually banned.
> prohibition is like a dog chasing his tail.
Nah, prohibition is like a dog that bites its own tail off and then drives itself batshit spinning in circles, trying to reach the bloody stump. Insane to start with, insane forever after.
This is a little on/off the topic here but … have you heard of “Krocodil” (Desomorphine)?
One of the bouncers alerted it to me last night. Some think it’s in the U.S. now. If you want to know how destructive it is – just Google “Krocodil Addicts” and go the image results. DO NOT do that though if you don’t have a strong stomach.
The drug is supposed to be a better high than Heroin but it eats at the flesh. My bud was telling me that it’s all over Russia and there are whole towns of Kroc addicts. When I looked at the images he showed me – I could not believe a human being would put that shit in their body.
Wikipedia makes this statement …
The Wiki suggests with this statement that perhaps Russia’s failure to put restrictions on the availability of codeine is the reason they have such a problem with it – because Kroc is relatively easy to synthesize using codeine as a base?
I don’t like prohibition – but, putting myself in Putin’s shoes – his country’s ability to wage conventional war against the entire West is greatly handicapped by his population’s willingness to abuse and get addicted to substances like Kroc and … alcohol. His “tribe” is weakened by this.
I would not want the same to happen here. Not saying we should prohibit everything … well, not really sure what the hell I’m saying here … but I would not want that shit to happen here because it would severely weaken us.
Krokodil has only become widespread in areas where codeine is available without a prescription AND heroin is unavailable/very hard to find. In addition, it seems to be a drug used overwhelmingly by those who are already dependent on another narcotic. So it seems to me it’s a problem created by prohibition of safer and cleaner narcotics.A similar situation has developed in the US over the past 5 years or so: prescription narcotics used to be much more easily available at pain clinics, which meant a lot of casual drug users were exposed to pretty hard opiate drugs in a clean form/reliable strength. The DEA cracked down on these clinics and the US has since seen an increase in heroin users and overdoses, as users/addicts scrambled for a replacement for their drug of choice.
(Sorry for typos/formatting, commenting on my phone.)
Chemical “manufactured” legal highs can be a bit iffy (but so can booze and many other things). Legal highs also include a world of plants, herbs etc in use from the dawn of time. Many of those using are “neo-pagans” (whatever you may think of their beliefs) and the substances they use are far less iffy than the chemical bros products. Altho’–like everything–they are not 100% safe. So if aren’t going to die or ever be ill otherwise–obviously not using them is a good idea.
Public breastfeeders need to remember that there is also a First Amendment right to photography in public.
Surely you don’t think this would’ve bothered me. As for others, the world is full of people who think they can have their cake and eat it, too. And others who confuse rights with good manners.
Of course it wouldn’t bother you.
But there are many women who would be downright aghast at the idea of being photographed whilst nursing openly in public, yet not realized the how both of those rights can intersect at their expression.
Sometimes I think the founders wrote as few laws as they could – and gave as many rights as they could thinking … “Well people will have to “police” themselves on good manners and the appropriate usage of their rights.” Which includes a big guy stepping up to the plate and just punching the fuck out of weirdo’s who have no manners – like guys photographing women breast feeding.
If you photograph ANYONE – you should get their permission first. If you don’t – then don’t complain when the husband turns the pavement into a cheese grater for your face.
I assumed that the lawyer ad was an attack ad on “Dan.” I never thought that I would see an ad by a lawyer saying “Hey, I defend criminals and scumbags, and I’m PROUD of it!” That being said, that’s the attitude I want from my defense lawyer—someone willing to defend me zealously before the law and not worried about what their friends or colleagues are going to think.
I wonder if Popehat knows if this Dan is a good lawyer or simply an ambitious lawyer with a clever commercial.
Never got the hullabaloo over breastfeeding. We’re mammals and breasts are why we’re categorized as such. Feeding the young is the very purpose of having them, regardless of what Madison Avenue says.
Actually, the second video is a fake commercial, as mentioned in the admittedly INCREDIBLY FAST legal disclaimers at the end of it.
Besides, one expects real lawyers to be able to lie more convincingly than that. 😉
According to a Pittsburgh newspaper, the ad is real. The disclaimer is about the actors in the commercial playing criminals.
Speaking of “censorship” (there ought to be another word for the private kind), does Amazon still have its policy of not letting sexual material show up in search results? I wonder if that has impacted your own book.
No effect at all, but then my book has far less sexual content than the average mainstream novel these days.
It doesn’t affect Maggie, but I just did a search for a recent book that several friends of mine were laughing about because of the title: Abraham Lincoln: Fuck Lord of the Moon. That used to pop up when I searched for it, but now it doesn’t. That doesn’t mean Amazon doesn’t sell it—I took a closer look and in very tiny words there’s a notice after my search which reads “Showing 0 results; excluding 1 adult item.” You have to click on the “1 adult item” to see it.
Breastfeeding:
It’s not the tits that ruin my day. It’s the thought of contraceptive failure. Absolutely terrifying.