Did you see the way its collar flew up into the air when I blew its head off? It was awesome! – Brice Woolly
Another rather quiet week, which is still good because I was even busier than I was last week! The epigram, the first video and the two links above it were all provided by Radley Balko; the second video by Michael Whiteacre; and the links between the two by Nun Ya (“megalomania” & “machete”), Clarissa (“obese”), Mancrack (“Mr. Rogers”), and Popehat (“together”).
- The crime: speeding. The sentence: slow death by denied medication.
- Jail keeps locking women in cells with men because “officer safety”.
- A textbook example of megalomania.
- Picture of an obese woman, according to the British NHS.
- This week in “Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever”.
- Mr. Rogers wouldn’t let Lady Aberlin star in Night of the Living Dead.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
- Woman’s home is raided by SWAT team because she uses loose tea.
- Can you think of a better reason to go on a machete-wielding rampage?
From the Archives
- An inability to tell fantasy from reality would normally be considered evidence of psychosis, but in law enforcement it’s a job requirement.
- Once you win your rights it’s OK to join in with stigmatizing other groups who haven’t yet, just to show you’re part of the gang.
- All or Nothing, Freakonomics, Harmful To Minors, Tickle My Tush and A Vindication of the Rights of Whores.
- Cops, de-extinction, police state, hysteria, censorship, Scientology, fascism and propaganda videos.
- “Bring Your Greenbacks”, “Jezebel”, “Louise”, “Big City Girls” and “Baroque Bordello”.
- Were many hookers molested as children? Are many drug addicts? And are most lesbians?
- It’s only OK to grope people if one puts on a uniform and does it without their permission.
- How should I answer a therapist’s claim that ALL prostitutes are slaves?
- Can you imagine U.S. cops contradicting a prohibitionist politician’s lies?
- The Ontario Court of Appeal upheld two-thirds of the Himel decision.
- Helping legal workers to conduct legal business is a crime in France.
- Phone app for teen girls who are suddenly “trafficked” by surprise.
- Even when the Feds botch an extortion scheme, they win anyway.
- Indian government reverses its sneaky criminalization attempt.
- Canadian neofeminists sneak over to Israel to poison the well.
- Activism, backward Satanic messages and my target audience.
- The Dutch consider licensing, despite knowing it doesn’t work.
- Police reports are more useful when they contain information.
- A $100,00 grant to develop “the next generation of condom”.
- More on the escort who was arrested for reporting a stalker.
- Charlotte Shane on the weakness of “enthusiastic consent”.
- Officials pretend that licensing schemes “help” sex workers.
- The real attitude of Swedes toward the sex payment law.
- A really bad review of a “sex trafficking” propaganda film.
- Bolshoi ballet dancer calls the company a “giant brothel”.
- Natalia Fabia loves hookers…as a promotional gimmick.
- The topless Tunisian checks into a psychiatric hospital.
- Sex worker says calling her a sex worker is “slander”.
- Another criticism of Nick Kristof’s anti-whore crusade.
- Is this really the company you want the US to keep?
- Acknowledging the ape does no harm to the angel.
- La Belle Otero, the last of the Grandes Horizontales.
- The US Treasury’s first attempt to regulate Bitcoin.
- The chief con man of a group of scammers resigns.
- Contrasting stories on sex work with the disabled.
- Another day, another politician, another whore.
- “The healthiest sex industry ever documented.”
- The truth about the birth control “controversy”.
- Oregon ramps up the “sex trafficking” hysteria.
- Interviews with Rob Arthur and Laura Agustín.
- New Wikipedia article on “Migrant Sex Work”.
- Would an HIV-positive escort quit working?
- Amanda Brooks’ advice for clients.
- New Orleans, Cthulhu and Fear.
- How do Kegels exercises work?
- King of the Hill: North Carolina.
- When sex is your day job.
- My favorite short stories.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- Modern-day Lysistrata.
- Karayuki and japayuki.
- Timing is everything.
- Superfreakonomics.
Question for Brits … Does your NHS have the authority to dictate dietary habits to British citizens? If yes … WTF? You guys think that’s acceptable?
Looking at that gal’s picture … all I can say … “Dear Jesus, I love FAT chicks and I wish you would make them all this way!”
This is why I don’t get excited too much over “childhood obesity” stats. In fact – I don’t get excited over ANY “obesity stats”. First of all – even if they were true and we have all these “fatties” running about – it’s still a lot easier to correct obesity than it is to correct stupidity. I would submit we have a mountain of problems with the latter so let’s forget the former for the time being.
The Navy’s way of measuring BF is kind of goofy …
http://www.linear-software.com/online.html
^^There’s several “calculators” on there – the Navy method is the one all the way to the right, labeled – “Tape Measure Method”.
Let’s take males …
Height – Neck – Abdomen … three measurements, but the “EVIL” one is …
“abdomen”
Inches added to height – or your neck – mean that you are allowed MORE inches on your abdomen.
Soooo … Sailors have figured out – that if they can get “taller” or make their necks “bigger” … they can have more of a spare tire around their waistline.
Can’t make yourself taller though. So what to do?
Question – What is the most USED piece of equipment in Navy gyms one month out from a physical readiness test?
Why of course – it’s that little “head harness”. The one that you strap around your head and it has a chain for you to hook weights on it. You then work out your neck by picking up the weights with your head.
And here’s a little known fact … you CAN significantly increase your neck circumference in a very short amount of time by working it like this.
Now for real serious cases – the neck won’t be enough – so a day before measurements are made … they’ll go for that “body wrap” thing. I’ve guys tell me they lost up to six inches off their waist. It doesn’t stay gone long though – but long enough to pass the “tape”.
A whole cottage industry as sprung up around helping Sailors to pass their BF measurements …
http://knucklesnknots.com/body-wraps.html
“Question for Brits … Does your NHS have the authority to dictate dietary habits to British citizens?”
The answer is no. But there will be a lot of moralising if a BMI is in the overweight or obese categories. There is also a lot of advice about eating 5 fruit or veggies a day, for example; but we aren’t told why Mediterranean countries, where this ‘diet’ came from, can recommend up to 9 portions daily.
The BMI is a crude estimate for populations; it wasn’t originally designed for individuals. it’s popular because it’s simple; but it has lots of limitations, such as in athletes whose muscular mass can put them in the overweight category. There are more accurate methods of body fat measurement, but these are complex and not always suited to everyday use.
There is a special type of nurse who believes totally in the power of numbers such as the BMI and whose mind processes are sclerotically rigid. They are the sort who are “always right”; you simply cannot argue with them. I rather suspect that nurses aren’t the only type of people to show this subset.
As for Knuckles ‘n’ Knots, I’d guess that it works by dehydration, similar to techniques used by boxers at weigh-ins.
krulac
Question for Brits … Does your NHS have the authority to dictate dietary habits to British citizens? If yes … WTF? You guys think that’s acceptable?
NHS can’t force you to follow certain dietary habits but doctors can put a lot of pressure on a patient to ‘conform’.
What kind of pressure exactly?
Doctors over here in the U.S. try to do the same but …
It’s like with my orthopedist, I went in about a year ago with what I thought was a torn rotator cuff. Now, he’s a relative (through marriage) and his sister later told me that he said his nurses had a little argument over who would go in and assist him because they wanted to see me take my shirt off. I’m not bragging but I need to say this so you know how bullshit the Doc’s advice to me was later.
So anyway – he says, “No, your rotator cuff is not torn”. He gives me a shot of cortisone … or whatever it is and I must say – that eventually cured me after a few months.
But before I left he told me … “You need to stop lifting heavy … go light for more reps, you have the muscle mass and you only need to retain it.”
I mean … I just nodded my head and said … “Yeah, I’ll think about that”, but clearly this guy (who’s never lifted by the way) didn’t know what he was talking about – but he’s got this “MD” behind his name and so I’m sure lots of folks do believe him based on that alone.
But the fact is … I won’t keep muscle mass by doing a high rep / low weight routine. My body will adapt to that routine by catabolizing muscle and strength to compensate for the added endurance required. I’m sure eventually I’ll have to switch to that … you can develop muscle all you want and keep that strong – prolly forever.
But you can’t develop “bone joints” and “ligaments” which support the muscle – those age and they become the “weak link”. I’ll know when I get to that point when I can no longer lift heavy because I’m constantly injuring myself. That hasn’t happened yet.
Re: Obese
That is the epitome of what is wrong with the BMI. I don’t know why it continues to be used as a metric for health.
Re: Loose leaf tea
I guess I should stay out of hydroponics stores since I drink loose leaf tea almost exclusively. A former roommate of mine loved to grow plants (seriously, our front room looked like a conservatory). There was a variety of flowers that she wanted to grow but needed a certain type of bulb in order to grow it. It’s a bulb that is apparently also used to grow marijuana. The number of bulbs that are purchased is tracked and due to that roommate decided to pass on growing the flowers at all.
as far as the music vid, I didn’t know Prince was such a shredder…
For me – he’s the best the world has ever seen. Now I know their are technical geniuses like Satriani who may be technically better and understand the guitar and it’s scales more – but no one plays with as much heart as prince.
He did a live performance on TV where he performed a song called “I love you baby … but not like this guitar”. He wore a baby blue long shirt and played a baby blue Fender Stratocaster … it was the best guitar playing I’ve ever seen live. I think it might have been Leno. Unfortunately – the Prince organization pulled the video off YouTube – which is something he does a lot when his stuff pops up on there.
I was trying to figure out what the song “Seven” meant – it seems to have a lot of religious stuff in it. An online forum commenter said … “No, it was about vaginas … written during a phase of Prince’s life when he was obsessed with vaginas.”
The commenter immediately after remarked … “It was a phase?”
LMAO!!
I love Prince. He’s weird – but he may be the greatest ever.
krulac,
I think you’ll like this:
–and I realize this might be a strange thing to say–
As far as Prince, I remember seeing one of his music vid’s when I was a kid. It showed his parents fighting, but then he left on the motorcycle with the pretty lady. My parents were fighting all the time so I really picked up on that. He got to leave in the video, I didn’t. I thought he was a badass…
That was the video for “When Doves Cry”.
I found the vid here:
http://www.mojvideo.com/video-prince-when-doves-cry/63806cee6342494500af
Strangely enough, the youtube vid shows the video but has some other music–must be a copyright thing. I’ve heard ZZ Top is also really careful with their music like that…
Krulac, the kind of pressure they use is to scare you with tales of what will happen if you don’t follow their advice, They will also deny that a particular medication has bad side effects despite the amount of evidence from patients to the contary..
I wonder what Fred Rogers would’ve thought about Betty Aberlin appearing in the various Kevin Smith movies?
My mouth fell open when I saw Aberlin in that nun’s habit in “Dogma”. Until that moment I had no idea she’d even been in anything outside of Pittsburgh.