Defense counsel: So you entered the house based on a lie?
Cop A.B. Beck: Yes.
Defense counsel: And this is your policy for domestic violence warrants?
Cop A.B. Beck: Yes.
Usually I’m very conscientious about recording where I saw a given item first, but I’m afraid I lapsed in the case of today’s first video. Weird Al Yankovic has released a new video every day this week to promote his new album, and so many people have tweeted them I lost track of who went first; this one was my favorite, and I think you’ll find it appropriate. The second video (which I’m sure everyone with BDSM experience will appreciate) was sent me by Libertine Video, everything above the first was provided by Grace (who also gave us “how about now?”), and the links between the videos were contributed by Radley Balko (“fascism”), Amy Alkon (“God”), Walter Olson (“pig”, “colony” and “police state”), Teller (“centennial”), Jesse Walker (“nightmares”), Aspasia (“not Florida”), Rick Horowitz (“terrorist”), and Popehat (“caste” and “records”).
- Small army dispatched against one nonviolent man for taboo pictures.
- The crime: getting sick in jail. The sentence: death by pepper spray.
- “Pit bull” = “dog I murdered”. “Lunging” = “present”.
- Blacker than black.
- Fascism at work.
- Let God sort ’em out.
- Just a pig being a pig.
- Martin Gardner’s centennial.
- The lost Confederate colony.
- Just another day in a police state.
- Photographs of children’s nightmares.
- Astonishingly, this did not happen in Florida.
- TERRORIST (noun) one who employs terror as a political weapon.
- Still believe America doesn’t have a caste system? How about now?
- After cop brutally beats woman, his bosses steal her medical records.
- Blessed are the peacemakers; they shall be called the children of God.
From the Archives
- Would it be a good idea to arrange for a discreet pro to meet with a divorced friend as if by accident, to rebuild his confidence with women?
- Surveillance, cops, Nazis, Calvin & Hobbes, gay mice, Nancy Grace, hypocritical vegetarians, Europe and drug decriminalization.
- Because obviously, a random amateur will give him a better experience than a skilled professional.
- Congress’ new strategy is to enact SOPA piece by piece so it doesn’t attract so much attention.
- If prohibitionists really want to “save” sex workers, why do they stop us from getting other jobs?
- It’s difficult to judge claims’ legitimacy when no victims are interviewed.
- Indonesian lawheads think closing red-light districts will end sex work.
- Lies & myths don’t become true merely because they appear in a film.
- Could a sex worker help a man learn to delay premature ejaculation?
- A man has offered to “keep” me in real style; how do I make it work?
- Ruhama shills admit their goal is to drive whores into homelessness.
- Observation: girl runs away from home. Conclusion: “sex trafficking”!
- SANGRAM and VAMP fight for sex workers vs American “soft power”.
- The redefinition of “sex trafficking” into a “gang-related activity”.
- Prostitution in a world where the Protestant Reformation failed.
- Lawyer sues Apple for not censoring his internet connection.
- More journalists are speaking out against criminalization.
- It looks as though an AIDS vaccine is finally within reach.
- What will happen if abortion is eventually recriminalized?
- Indian politicians defy court-mandated decriminalization.
- Aren’t vandalism and indecent exposure already illegal?
- In which I head off to the Desiree Alliance convention.
- He who sups with the Devil should use a long spoon.
- On would-be allies who use “selling bodies” rhetoric.
- Why “sex addiction” is such a destructive paradigm.
- US anti-whore rhetoric resembles that of Zambia.
- South African sex workers gain pro-decrim allies.
- Arch-prohibitionist cops coerce women into sex.
- A hooker “scandal” that didn’t make the news.
- How “sex trafficking” hysteria infested Mexico.
- Sleazy rapist jailed for fake sugar baby scam.
- The tale of a harlot with a rather special gift.
- Dr. Brooke Magnanti on French brothels.
- “We have the right not to be rescued.”
- The TSA vs. the world’s largest penis.
- Singapore stands up to Uncle Sam.
- The naivete of Najat Belkacem.
- On the value of disagreement.
- The wacky world of Ed Wood.
- Octomom does it again.
- The Mechanical Bride.
- R.I.P. Dora Oezer.