From what you’ve told me you don’t need an ambulance…You could try a warm bath but if you collapse, become unconscious [or] unresponsive…it’s 999. – Heidi Nicholls
I’m very disappointed at the tardiness of Halloween spirit the last few years; there’s only one more Links column before the big day, yet I’ve seen virtually no seasonal links and only one seasonal video (the first one below, contributed by Aspasia). I had to go looking for the second one myself, though I’m quite pleased with it. Everything above the first video is from Rick Horowitz, and the links between the videos from Brooke Magnanti (“colon”), ManCrack (“Dick”), Clarissa (“hammer”), Jesse Walker (“clowns”), Molli Desi (“medicine”), Saladin Ahmed (“authoritarian”), Radley Balko (“prohibition” & “bicycle”), and Mistress Matisse (“plug”).
- Gang member shoots man in back, pepper-sprays him as he dies.
- Cops point guns at woman in labor after destroying her tires.
- But it’s about public safety! Honestly!
- The power of hysteria.
- Because they can.
- The smell of his colon.
- 33 free Philip K. Dick books.
- When your only tool is a hammer…
- Just another day in a police state.
- The Bakersfield clown panic continues.
- Another triumph of socialized medicine.
- Huffpo falls for Popehat Kim Jong-Un parody.
- A terrifying peek inside the authoritarian mind.
- The wholly predictable consequences of prohibition.
- Artist admits “Tree” is actually an immense butt plug.
- Crime: riding bicycle. Penalty: choked unconscious, child abducted.
From the Archives
- Poe, chocolate, consequences, Monty Python, 6-word stories, lunch, eyeballs, roaches, drugs, beer, wine, Pokemon and the police state.
- Cops, animals, vocals, daycare, The Bus, blasphemy, Bill Watterson, Benedict Cumberbatch, stupidity, names and Scandinavia.
- Whether the infection is biological or technological, it’s always the same.
- As long as government actors have power over people, this will happen.
- Sex radiation is so dangerous, exposed students must be quarantined.
- Politician notices West is trying to “criminalize lust” after he’s charged.
- Teen threatened with “sex offender” registry for prank hangs himself.
- Jerry Brown pretends prison inmates don’t have sex with each other.
- A badge turns armed robbery into “improper use of forfeiture funds”.
- Charlotte Shane’s scathing review of Sudhir Venkatesh’s new book.
- Nairobi mayor threatens to arrest sex workers for doing as he says.
- Abuses always start with stigmatized groups, but never stop there.
- Sex workers contaminate Amazon wishlists with our dirty sex rays.
- How is it that women can seemingly cut off their sex drives at will?
- How can I get an escort to shower immediately before seeing me?
- University bans pole dancing due to its association with stripping.
- Canadian politician caught in US sting supported by sex workers.
- Florida cops try to penalize people for driving on certain streets.
- Natalie Rowe raided by police after revealing dirt on a politician.
- A unique and highly principled escort faces an ethical dilemma.
- The especially-revolting French version of the Swedish model.
- Crypto-moralists try to pretend that fatty foods are addictive.
- Online bookstore blames porn for its poor website design.
- Dr. Graham Ellison on the absurdity of the Swedish model.
- Sex trafficking victims enslaved by witchcraft and torture!
- Battle of the control freaks: abortion vs. “sex trafficking”.
- Accepting profile of a several San Francisco sex workers.
- Prudes make an unnecessary Gardasil study necessary.
- The noisome fruit of the “mandatory prosecution” tree.
- Cops lure drug buyers to Florida in order to rob them.
- Another UN agency reaffirms support of sex workers.
- I really like this trend of brothels sponsoring things.
- Prisons don’t actually have to be torture chambers.
- A three-part horror tale for the Halloween season.
- Dr. Brooke Magnanti on “sex trafficking” hysteria.
- Zimbabwean lawyers support decriminalization.
- Rupert Everett’s anti-Swedish model campaign.
- Dr. Gad Saad on ludicrous tabula rasa notions.
- Vietnam ends “re-education” of sex workers.
- A short interview with Dr. Heidi Hoefinger.
- Somaly Mam caught in another huge lie.
- Advice on being a good mistress.
- An anti-Swedish model tool kit.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- R.I.P. Gabriela Leite.
- My first million.
Oh I really liked the Lady ParaNorma video! I definitely shared that one on Facebook for my other friends who also like scary stories and paranormal fiction.
Maggie, I wonder if you’d be interested in The Little Norse Prince by Isao Takahata: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xx7i3w_little-norse-prince-valiant-little-norse-prince-valiant_shortfilms
If you were properly brought up, you wouldn’t know what a butt plug is, and so you couldn’t be offended by it. But if you did know what a butt plug is, why would you be offended?
You might be offended though, as this isn’t really great art.
Saying this isn’t great art is like saying frozen dinners aren’t haute cuisine.
US frozen TV dinners? The epitome of a culture?
For me, Art ends around the time of the neo-impressionists. You can keep all the pickled sharks you want :-}
At least around here, “Halloween spirit” seems to have been driven by kids, and now that the few kids who go trick-or-treating are driven around by Dad instead of being trusted to walk around at night by themselves, the enthusiasm has gone.
I expect the same will happen to college parties, courtesy of the politically correct “Anti-Sex League” types, unless something happens to stop it. This is why men need to continue fighting against rules like the horrible new California consent law, whether imposed by law or privately.
Precisely what is so “horrible” about the California consent law, Mr. “Galt”?
Here is the law. Please tell us what you find so objectionable. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB967
Good grief, even many of those who SUPPORT the flawed concept of “affirmative consent” recognize that this particular law is horrible. Ezra Klein even bizarrely argued that it was “necessary” precisely because it’s horrible. But I’ll make it simple: any law which discards presumption of innocence is horrible. Period. No matter what it’s called or what its supposed goal. Because it’s better 1000 criminals go free than one innocent person rot in jail.
What Klein said was: “Colleges have settled into an equilibrium where too little counts as sexual assault, where the ambiguity of consent gives rapists loopholes in which to hide, and forces women to spend their lives afraid. The Yes Means Yes laws creates an equilibrium where too much counts as sexual assault. Bad as it is, that’s a necessary change. A culture where one-in-five women is assaulted isn’t going to be dislodged with a gentle nudge. A culture where a frat thinks its funny to throw a party with signs that say “No means yes, yes means anal” won’t fall without a fight. Ugly problems don’t always have pretty solutions.”
For one thing: “The scope of the California law is limited. It’s not a criminal statute, and it won’t be sending anyone to jail. It only applies to university campuses and students. Its detractors are probably crediting it with more power for social change than it actually has.” (http://www.vox.com/2014/10/10/6952227/rape-culture-is-a-tax-on-women-CA-yes-means-yes-dierks-katz)
Specifically where in the law does it remove the presumption of innocence?
If you think a law is going to have “this law removes the presumption of innocence” in the text in those words, it’s hopeless to discuss this with you. There’s been plenty of good criticism of this, including a lot from self-avowed leftists; I suggest you read it.