Detective Conway’s use of force was justified and commensurate for the situation.
We had to spend the night away from our place last night, and like an idiot I forgot the power cord for my laptop so I couldn’t finish this column in time! I know this is happening more frequently than it did prior to the start of my tour last year, but I’m afraid that’s just a consequence of my far-less-settled schedule. This week’s video is from Mike Siegel, and the links above it are from Rick Horowitz, Веселин Жилов, Jesse Walker, Jillian Keenan and Franklin Harris, in that order.
- To protect and serve.
- Has a crime been committed?
- The legend of Giant Plastic Island.
- Man jailed for going to work early.
- What part of “never” do people not understand?
From the Archives
- Umbrellas, bootlicking, bureaucrats, police state, cops, conspiracies, bigotry, redshirts, books, dogs, censorship, sorcery & Pokemon.
- Prohibitionists use a young woman’s murder as excuse to deny her agency and talk about short skirts.
- How do I reconcile my dislike of sex work with my belief that people should control their own bodies?
- Are most sex workers insulted by gifts with “get out of prostitution” hotline numbers attached?
- If a sex worker doesn’t see herself as a victim, the state must victimize her to prove her wrong.
- French whores continue to push back against increased criminalization.
- One would never know these claims have been repeatedly debunked.
- Soi-disant conservative declares individuals are owned by society.
- Sex therapist argues disability should cover hiring sex workers.
- Dr. Brooke Magnanti on the lessons we can learn from Pompeii.
- Tracy Elise of Phoenix Goddess Temple involuntarily committed.
- The ACLU actually did something for sex workers for a change.
- Client screening tips & helpful links from a New Orleans escort.
- Video of my appearance at the Albany Law School symposium.
- Arizona wants to force some women to use men’s restrooms.
- Increased access to sex services for disabled Netherlanders.
- Busybodies who want to help cops brutalize & cage women.
- The Rennie Gibbs case was another Steven Hayne travesty.
- If it’s just a job, why don’t prostitutes use their real names?
- Proposed South Australian law isn’t quite decriminalization.
- The evangelical Christian roots of “sex trafficking” hysteria.
- Dutch anti-sex politicians use a shill to attack sex workers.
- Tunisian sex workers demand their brothel be reopened.
- Vancouver settles with the survivors of Pickton’s victims.
- Why don’t sex workers mind being objectified by clients?
- Yet another example of what real sex slavery looks like.
- The wholly predictable outcome of prohibitionist idiocy.
- Another good argument against anti-polygamy laws.
- Baboons have been observed keeping dogs as pets.
- Charlotte Shane reviews a sex surrogate’s memoirs.
- Taboo, cops, sex hysteria, tea, McFlurries and birds.
- Bernard Baran, another victim of the Satanic Panic.
- Ed Wood’s early career in television commercials.
- Horrible Houma whore helps cops entrap clients.
- My two previous columns for the vernal equinox.
- UK literally robs a sex worker of her life savings.
- Danish researchers protest the Swedish model.
- Advocates respond to rescue industry types.
- Is it true that clients really hate prostitutes?
- High school football causes “sex trafficking”!
- Lawyers censure another lawyer for lying.
- 40 years after “Free to Be…You and Me”.
- 14 more people have been cured of HIV.
- The Fokkens sisters have finally retired.
- Another ridiculous “sex trafficking” film.
- Another good Noah Berlatsky article.
- Caty Simon interviews Audacia Ray.
- King of the Hill: Portland, Oregon.
- No, rape is not worse than death.
- Nevada joins the “pole tax” mob.
- Eight of my favorite cake recipes.
- When science looks like religion.
- A new low in intra-family spying.
- The developing Canadian mess.
- One last raid, just for old times.
- Library censorship in Sweden.
- An anti-censorship protest.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- R.I.P. Harry Reems.
- Whither Canada?
Regarding the plastic “Island”; so the Environmental groups of the world are a bunch of hysterical liars.
Can’t say I’m shocked.
One of my jobs … I “pull” things off the ocean floor. I use different methods such as grappling, dredging, and netting.
I have never pulled a plastic bottle – or anything else plastic – off the ocean floor.
TONS of telephone wire though!! 😀
I always thought if the “story” was true, someone would have been out there with a ship scooping up all of the plastic to make more plastic with. If it was as big as claimed I’m sure they could make money at it.
I will say, though, that we humans are pretty filthy beasts. I live in the Great Miami River valley of Ohio; every time the river raises and lowers the amount of trash on the banks is staggering. It may not hurt the ocean or the environment, but it does make enjoying the river a thoughtful experience, and not in a good way.
And it’s not just the Great Miami. I’ve canoed or kayaked on several rivers in our area and the story is always the same: here and there dump sites where old cars, fridges that couldn’t be legally trashed because of the Freon, washers, dryers, stoves…you name it and people dump it.
Now, having said that, we must be doing something right. As a child of the 60’s we never, ever saw geese, ducks or turkeys. Seeing deer was rare. And the thought of seeing a black bear in Ohio was unheard of. I see all of them now on a regular basis except the bear. But one was spotted a couple of years ago in an adjacent county, probably traveling, looking for a place to stake his claim. And black bear have made a home in the most southern part of Ohio, which is where this wondering fellow probably returned to.
In the 70’s the schools made a huge deal out of Silent Spring and how we were all going to die from industrial pollution. I’d come home spouting this stuff and my dad would laugh at me. In HIS day the sky was full of coal dust because everyone heated their homes with coal and he knew that even in the early ’70’s things were better than when he was a child.
What it all boils down to is…it’s bad business to kill off your customers or your own planet. Sometimes it takes a while, but your P&G’s of the world have a vested interest in making money AND surviving long term. They realize they don’t do that by killing off the planet!
Whew…sorry for the long post. Kinda got started and just couldn’t stop. 🙂
I don’t see anything wrong with the “going to work early” story. People have a right to be able to sleep in their homes; and they did try fines first. Granted, company management may have deserved the arrest rather than the driver.
Trashmen making too much noise too early in the morning is a complaint of long standing. I recall seeing a cartoon about it from the first decade of The New Yorker, and I suspect Punch had similar going back into the Victorian era.