We live in an age where you can’t take things like that to school. – Commissar Larry Boyd
Thanks to Savannah Sly’s offering to fill in for me tonight at the hospital, I could relax a little, finish up this column and get to sleep. Since nobody shared any videos I found especially interesting this week, I dug up this old Dr. Demento Show tune I thought y’all might enjoy. The links above it are from Radley Balko (“serve” and “libertarianism”), Franklin Harris (“state”), Laura Lee (“headline”), Cassandra Fairbanks (“suspicious”), and Popehat (“jaywalking”).
- To protect and serve.
- Today in your police state.
- Headline and picture of the week.
- Cops beat man for “looking suspicious”.
- Crime: jaywalking. Penalty: beaten by a gang.
- Sometimes libertarianism even happens to cops.
From the Archives
- Gay marriage supporters claim that for two men who love each other to marry “makes a mockery of marriage”.
- People attempting to leave a country without government permission are now classed as “victims”.
- Nobody in India seems to think it strange that “rescued” women want to escape their “rescuers”.
- Ordinary business practices don’t magically become newsworthy when hookers use them.
- Politicians who obsess about certain kinks are nearly always practitioners of those kinks.
- Would Facebook dare to treat picket-fence gay folk as it does drag queens?
- The German Prostitution Model: Reducing Violence Against Sex Workers.
- A social worker explains why she rejected the “sex trafficking” paradigm.
- Ed the Happy Clown, Encyclopedia of Prostitution, Minneapolis Madams.
- Tip for reporters who don’t want to look like prohibitionist ignoramuses.
- Is there a loving, respectful way to discuss performance with a partner?
- As opposed to what, howdahs? Dirigibles? Amphibious landing craft?
- Cops, prisons, beer, philosophy, art, clowns, kindness & metronomes.
- “Human trafficking” is rapidly becoming a catchall excuse for tyranny.
- Cops “fight” violence vs. sex workers by subjecting them to violence.
- Sentenced to 20 years for consensual BDSM with ill-chosen partner.
- Ohio State essentially defines all unscripted human contact as rape.
- What’s a madam on Titan to do when the marshal doesn’t like her?
- Answer to a manipulative hobbyist giving advice on how to haggle.
- Cops, bureaucracy, science fiction, welcome to our world & more.
- Nina Hartley on why condoms in porn are an incredibly bad idea.
- An eloquent rebuttal to a stereotype-laden prohibitionist screed.
- The German Association of Female Lawyers rejects prohibition.
- 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.
- Lock up your daughters! Sex traffickers are EVERYWHERE!!!
- 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?
- My tour was made possible by the kindness of strangers.
- 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.
- No, Zurich’s was NOT the first tippelzone in Europe.
- How to instantly turn anyone into a “sex criminal”.
- Man claims his penis can exorcise vaginal ghosts.
- The same lies, repeated over and over and over…
- My Baton Rouge ad only barely justified its cost.
- Child abuse in a nun-run New Jersey orphanage.
- Significant questions about Sudhir Venkatesh.
- Media try to create hysteria over Slender Man.
- Bangladeshi sex workers sue brothel raiders.
- Louisiana sheriffs think they’re little tin gods.
- Never tell a cop your fantasies, either.
- Terri-Jean Bedford has a little list.
- “A continuation of the clitoris“.
- I suspect missing information.
- How low can they go?
- My own IMDb page.
- Eve Ray on clients.
- Tesla vs. Tesla.
Good to hear Friendly Neighborhood Narco Agent Again. Jef Jaisun has made a second career of photographing Blues and Zydeco musicians. http://jaisunphoto.com/ But he is still a little miffed that Warner Brothers wouldn’t include his hit song on a Dr. Demento compilation back in the day. At that time there was a censorship campaign targeting music that glamorized drugs.
As long as I’m going on about Dr. D and censorship, another song that was popular on the show was Penis Envy by the Seattle group, Uncle Bonsai. The song garnered an $10,000 FCC fine which meant it radio stations, and the Dr. could no longer play it. But the publicity gave Uncle Bonsai a big, if brief, boost. The last couplet of the song is, “If I had a penis I’d still be a girl, but I’d make much more money and conquer the world.
This video of Penis Envy was probably shot about 30 years ago:
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=uncle+bonsai+penis+song&FORM=VIRE3#view=detail&mid=D56FBDD229C60F7037F0D56FBDD229C60F7037F0
Dr Demento show is awesome! 🙂
1st place I heard this.
Oh, Ahmed didn’t “make” anything. Just took the guts out of an old radio shack alarm clock and put them in a pencil case. More to this hoax than meets the eye.
If I had been the first teacher, I would have confiscated it as a safety hazard. Could shock somebody or start a fire.
Stephen: Unlike you, the first teacher knew a little about electronics. Batteries like you’d find in a clock don’t produce voltages that create a shock hazard. It is possible to design a circuit to step up the voltage, but that would not be a clock circuit. Nor would a small voltage step-up circuit running from a small battery be likely to produce enough current at high voltage to give more than a harmless little shock. For the smallest device that can do that, look at a taser – but that’s still supposedly nonlethal.
As for fire hazard,
1. If it _was_ a repackaged commercial clock circuit, there’s no danger.
2. Starting a fire with the energy from a small battery (e.g. a 9V battery or 2 to 4 AA cells) is possible, but you have to directly short the battery to build up enough heat. If a homemade clock was running and was well-made (no wires that would easily break off), it would be safe. When you hear about a battery-operated device starting a fire, it’s always a rechargeable battery that was being recharged – that is, most of the energy came from the charger, not the battery.