You have the right to shut up. – unnamed Louisville cop
The videos were the first thing to be placed in this week’s column. The first is a simple demonstration of exactly how integral John Williams’ score is to Star Wars; it was pointed out by Popehat, who also provided the links above it. I thought I had already featured the second video soon after Ray Bradbury died, but Jesse Walker‘s mention of it reminded me that I hadn’t; it’s a Russian adaptation of Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains”, made in 1987. The links between the videos were contributed by Cop Block (“colors” and “toys”), Sarah Woolley (“headlines”), Tushy Galore (“gaze” and “power”), Molly Crabapple (“cosplaying”), Lenore Skenazy (“bakers”), Grace (“drinkers”), Franklin Harris (“Uber”), Rick Horowitz (“window”), and Mistress Matisse (“entrapping”).
- School refers to rape committed by student as “inappropriate touching”.
- Off-duty cop murders neighborhood dog for sniffing his dog’s butt.
- We believe you’ll enjoy detailing your sex life to bureaucrats.
- Headline of the week.
- I see your true colors, shining through…
- Cop “protects” needy children from toys.
- I’ll have that with a side of male gaze, please.
- Cops murder young man for cosplaying while black.
- Welcome to our world, bakers, drinkers and Uber drivers.
- I wish I had the power to magically produce a loaded gun at will.
- Crime: broken electric car window. Penalty: tased & severely beaten.
- What cops could be doing if they weren’t so busy entrapping people for consensual activities.
From the Archives
- Horses, dogs, gulls, video, cops, kids, boyfriends, Obama, censorship, strippers, nuns, grass, Twinkies, surveillance and science.
- People attempting to leave a country without government permission are now classed as “victims”.
- The CASE Act is so bad, even bona fide coerced prostitutes are against it.
- Ed the Happy Clown, The Encyclopedia of Prostitution, Minneapolis Madams.
- The German Prostitution Model: Reducing Violence Against Sex Workers.
- You can tell a legitimate scientific argument by its quotation of Genesis.
- Cops’ and journalists’ unwholesome obsession with underage whores.
- Cops, prisons, beer, philosophy, art, clowns, kindness & metronomes.
- While bureaucrats have power over people, this will keep happening.
- Cops “fight” violence vs. sex workers by subjecting them to violence.
- Women who want their choices respected need to have 14 kids first.
- “Human trafficking” is rapidly becoming a catchall excuse for tyranny.
- Charlotte Shane on journalists who pester non-activist sex workers.
- Sentenced to 20 years for consensual BDSM with ill-chosen partner.
- Answer to a manipulative hobbyist giving advice on how to haggle.
- Most women are more sexually open when they’re very turned on.
- Most women pick bigger implants after wearing a padded bra first.
- Another pervert “helping” teenage runaways by molesting them.
- An eloquent rebuttal to a stereotype-laden prohibitionist screed.
- Nina Hartley on why condoms in porn are an incredibly bad idea.
- A short biography of the late founder of SWOP-US, Robyn Few.
- The tale of a perfect wife who fears she’s losing her husband.
- Sex workers refute the asinine statements of a prohibitionist.
- Sweden says it’s OK for pubs to deny entry to Asian women.
- Actually obtaining the equipment was probably a bad idea.
- Judge rules that strippers are employees, not contractors.
- I’m a new client; why won’t any escorts agree to see me?
- What are so many economists so stupid about sex work?
- Why politician clients suffer far less than their whores.
- Busybodies try again to criminalize a lump of bronze.
- Another state gives cops more power to rob people.
- Rescue industry schemes aren’t usually this blatant.
- The “tyrannical laws named for dead children” path.
- Another rescue industry group exposed as frauds.
- Man claims his penis can exorcise vaginal ghosts.
- The same lies, repeated over and over and over…
- Significant questions about Sudhir Venkatesh.
- Bangladeshi sex workers sue brothel raiders.
- Louisiana sheriffs think they’re little tin gods.
- Aspasia on the hypocrisy of Jezebel readers.
- Susannah Breslin on the war against porn.
- An illustrative examples of Poe’s Law.
- Switzerland’s first sex workers’ union.
- Brooke Magnanti on The New Rules.
- When a man meets a donkey.
- Eve Ray on clients.
- Tesla vs. Tesla.