Be careful who you honk at the next time. – Jeremy Sweet
Once again, I apologize for letting a “Links” column post in an unfinished state; the reason is the same as the last time, back in July. I’m simply not a very good traveler, and even though train travel is better than air travel, it still has a tendency to get me sick and I was mortified to be in a rather bedraggled state to meet my hostesses last night. The first video was contributed by Michael Whiteacre, and the second is a National Lampoon parody which was dislodged from the ’70s to buzz around my head again for the past few weeks. The links above the first video are from Radley Balko, and those between the videos from Rick Horowitz (“more”), Jesse Walker (“Watterson”), Angela Keaton (“transmen”), Clarkhat (“never” and “discourse”), David Ley (“old”), and Tushy Galore (“FBI”).
- The law is the law.
- More of this, please.
- A new Bill Watterson comic.
- Cops harass and abuse transmen, too.
- Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever.
- The exact level of political discourse in the modern West.
- Retired cop murders his nursing home roommate for being old.
- FBI wants power to hack any computer, anywhere, without warrant.
From the Archives
- Police state, garbage, electoral awfulness, Adam & Eve, William Shatner, elephants, daylight saving time, witchcraft and a zombie planet.
- Prostitution stories involving Florida cops would be hilarious if their moronic shenanigans didn’t hurt real women.
- Prohibitionism, white culture, Big Brother, cops, England, Chrome, cats, cows, the SPLC and the ultimate infographic.
- A few clueless idiots looking for cheap pussy becomes “People trading gas for sex on Craigslist.”
- Edinburgh renewed its sauna licenses (before the cops overruled that).
- Fanatics want to destroy 1000 people for trying to talk dirty to a robot.
- Voting is a custom more honored in the breach than the observance.
- Dutch outlaw more whores, feign surprise when more work illegally.
- Another life destroyed by fanatics who don’t know what a “child” is.
- Mathematical illiterates in California want young girls to fear boys.
- Reporter actually condemns a former model’s firing over her past.
- A former Rhode Island male escort talks about decriminalization.
- An “app” for busybodies to report their “suspicions” to the cops.
- You know that study that claims fewer men are paying for sex?
- Wouldn’t a retired courtesan make the best partner for a man?
- French clients wrote a manifesto opposing the Swedish model.
- Swede acquitted of rape charge because he has magic sperm.
- Justin Bieber caught trying to sneak out of a Brazilian brothel.
- What if a client starts mistaking romance for professionalism?
- “Sex trafficking home” is my new favorite “trafficking” idiocy.
- Is it in the harlot’s best interests to maintain the patriarchy?
- How the agency of young sex workers is habitually denied.
- The good, the bad & the ugly of last November’s elections.
- Germany’s first professional association for sex workers.
- So, where are the calls to ban “ethical” chicken farming?
- An escort service that “wasn’t prostitution or anything”.
- Scientist explains that water is wet and the sky is blue.
- More on the judge who called rape “theft of services”.
- Everett, Washington’s freakish war on coffee stands.
- Just reading this made me incredibly uncomfortable.
- Greek brothel owner donates €3000 to a school.
- The willful blindness of a prohibitionist politician.
- Sex workers in Chennai want a red-light district.
- Only three Storyville buildings are still standing.
- Kansas hits a sperm donor up for child support.
- In which I introduce “King of the Hill” rankings.
- Compare and contrast with Swedish rhetoric.
- The “sex trafficking” gyre continues to widen.
- Irish prohibitionists advertise to hire shills.
- If something’s in a movie, it must be true!
- My last two columns for Guy Fawkes Day.
- The tall tales told by Texas “authorities”.
- Sex slaves! 40 clients a day! Ice cream!
- Sacred prostitution at a shrine in Java.
- The beginning of Monica Jones’ case.
- A review (of sorts) of Sheri’s Ranch.
- Olympic-level mental gymnastics.
- More “sex trafficking” hentai.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- The Egyptian.
I notice that the young Street Preacher pest the little girl is heckling has to use an amplifier to make himself heard.
1) I wonder of that is even legal. Is he over the level of local noise ordinances?
Could you shut him down, or at least abate his ability to dominate the neighborhood, by making a noise complaint?
2) When I was in high school, I worked in a Comic Book store in downtown Cleveland on the weekends. One of the local characters was a street preacher-lady (Black), who used nothing but the voice God gave her. You could understand her clearly for three city blocks. THERE was a woman sharing the news! Nobody minded her. The Campus Crusade for Jesus would occasionally set us a flew blocks away with megaphones. They were incoherent across the street. I felt, and still feel, that that said something about the levels of belief and commitment the two types of street preacher exhibited.
I’m with the little girl on this one, whether it was staged or not (several people on TheBlaze thought so). Public disturbances should be stopped regardless of what the speaker is saying. If you want to preach, hire a hall. Or print a paper (but take no for an answer when you try to hand them out).
I’m not in favor of “shutting down” street preachers; that’s freedom of speech, and if they go, the positions I want to spread go, sooner or later.
On the other hand, I would be in favor of requiring a permit of anyone who wants to use amplification. They have an absolute right to speak, and I have an absolute right to ignore them.
The ‘Back pages’ of the New Statesman have a weekly competition where readers enter short pieces an a given topic; they are often very literary and clever.
This week, readers were asked to remove a letter from a book’s title, and write a synopsis.
The winner was “Moy Dick”, described as ‘a wide-ranging selection from Paddy O’Flaherty’s diary, containing his daily conversations with his penis’.