Eventually, the item believed to be Napoleon’s penis was bought in an auction… – Ishaan Tharoor
As so often happens these days, I got occupied last night and was unable to finish setting everything up by deadline. Sorry about that! The video below is from Mike Siegel, who also contributed “accidentally”; Radley Balko gave us “headline”, Skye “transit”, Lenore Skenazy “camping” and Popehat “call out”.
- Headline of the week.
- New York’s shadow transit system.
- The beginning of the end of pot prohibition.
- Cop murders teen for flashing his headlights.
- Cops have intense standoff with lawn ornament.
- Cops abduct children because the family was camping.
- Don’t accidentally call them, either. Or call out to them.
From the Archives
- Cops, Batman, carnivorous plants, altruism, bullies, surveillance, concrete, Scooby Doo, New Zealand, registries & Penn Jillette.
- Despite annoying visuals and a few clumsy phrases, an excellent argument against prohibition of sex work.
- I don’t know what’s more pathetic, Rachel’s idea of “big events” or her mathematical illiteracy.
- Cops, games, Florida, robots. language, kink, schools, science fiction & Soviet Funk.
- A teacher who describes note-passing as “scary”? The jokes write themselves.
- When this happens in India: media circus. In Sweden: {cricket sounds}.
- Dear unethical sex businesspeople: Stop videotaping clients, you idiots.
- “Pimp” myths used to justify Nevada’s draconian “sex trafficking” law.
- Debunking the moronic claim that sex work is immune to economics.
- Sex workers who espouse Marxism or misandry are self-defeating.
- Why you shouldn’t ask me to argue with individual prohibitionists.
- Amateurs refuse to understand that prostitution laws affect them.
- Woman miscarries after attack by two women’s rights champions.
- In which we learn that nail parlors are havens of “sex trafficking”.
- Why do so many politicians think sex overrides the Constitution?
- There is no magic formula which can protect a whore from a cop.
- Several criticisms of an especially-revolting “end demand” sting.
- US tries to pretend “Trafficking in Persons” report is apolitical.
- The “anti-prostitution pledge” is struck down in the SCOTUS.
- New York defines people as crime victims against their will.
- Tennessee moves to criminalize smoking during pregnancy.
- Another P411 security breach betrays 22 escorts to pigs.
- What about clients who really need a woman to orgasm?
- More cracks in the “sex offender” registration regime.
- Man dials 999 to complain about a prostitute’s looks.
- Authority figures use their influence to coerce sex.
- My two previous columns for the summer solstice.
- AHF unveils whore-shaming propaganda graphic.
- The trial of Franck Ribery and Karim Benzema.
- The campaign against Operation Choke Point.
- The prevalence of HPV has dropped by half.
- More evil clownishness from Rhode Island.
- The aftermath of Somaly Mam’s downfall.
- Researcher says there’s no “typical” client.
- Another excellent essay from Felicia Anna.
- A re-education camp by any other name…
- Support for “apostrophe laws” is waning.
- Noah Berlatsky on Chong Kim and Eden.
- Another of the TSA’s many pedophiles.
- The science of sexual assault via fraud.
- Meet the Fokkens and Diamond Men.
- Canadians heckle prohibitionist lies.
- Libertarianism happens to people.
- Lost erotic painting rediscovered.
- This is absurd on so many levels.
- Another warped view of touring.
- My visits to Tucson & Las Vegas.
- Still more fatal butt injections.
- The Naked Football Club.
- The danger of fast food.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- Do as I say, not as I do.
- A letter from Aella.
- The missing word.
- Anti-C36 rallies.
- Bacchus ladies.