I always believed you had to do something wrong to be arrested.
– Joy McFarlin
I couldn’t let Halloween pass without at least one horror short; I hope you like this one. The links above it are from Radley Balko (“traveling”, “pretext” and “never”), Jillian Keenan (“women”), Mistress Matisse (“capitalism”), Nun Ya (“magnets”, “colors” and “yard”), Popehat (“fuck you”), Jesse Walker (“homeopaths”), and Tushy Galore (“cheese”).
- “At risk of traveling“.
- The term is “pretext stop”.
- Women already knew this.
- True capitalism vs corporatism.
- Fucking magnets, how do they work?
- I see your true colors, shining through…
- People just can’t grasp that word “never”.
- You’re never too old for libertarianism to happen.
- Also make sure they can’t just walk into your yard.
- In the running for most awesome “fuck you” of all time.
- Homeopaths “damage reputation” by taking drug with actual effects.
- For 17 years, I ate a grilled cheese sandwich nearly every Tuesday night.
From the Archives
- Brains, GIFs, letters, dark rides, Sasquatch, cops, necromancy, rats, schools, headlines and Halloween videos.
- I ♥ Sex Workers, And Then There Were None, Ada, Big Sister and Courtesans of the Italian Renaissance.
- This headline makes the contagion sound voluntary & evokes the “dirty whore” myth.
- In which I’m cited by a members of the US government Commission on Civil Rights.
- Idealists beg their masters to revoke one tiny part of universal criminality.
- Writer says Denmark doesn’t have enough reasons to lock people up yet.
- Hysteria, clowns, psychics, cops, headlines, stupidity, animation & more.
- Writer hates some women being more interested in profit than romance.
- Was this “child sex trafficking sting” really an act of revenge by the US?
- Clueless lawheads shocked that women need work despite harassment.
- Politicians claim nonexistent “sex trafficking” costs UK a billion pounds.
- Canadian “authorities” as obsessed with “trafficking” porn as US ones.
- Why 90% of whores prefer to work illegally than submit to licensing.
- It’s rare to see such raw misandry outside of neofeminist hate sites.
- In the US, new tools of tyranny always spread like a social disease.
- Barry Freundel is a strict moralist of a rabbi, so guess what he did.
- NSA says sex workers & associated parties are valid drone targets.
- Cop can’t understand why whores “don’t realize they are victims”.
- Indian expert suggests decriminalizing sex work to prevent rapes.
- How sexually repressive cultures generate sexual horror imagery.
- The agency-denying, lie-spreading nun-SOAP cabal is at it again.
- Thai cops arrest sex workers to please their American overlords.
- Another degenerate member of the mugshot/revenge porn clan.
- New examples of ridiculously old-fashioned anti-whore rhetoric.
- How can I become more confident and less shy around women?
- More ugly prohibitionist bullshit of the sort we’ve seen before.
- Atlanta is the largest “sex trafficking hub” in the entire world!
- I’m really pleased to see black intellectuals writing about this.
- The “Juju sex slaves” myth just keeps on going like a zombie.
- How many moronic prohibitionist plays can the market bear?
- Illegal migrants cheated of pay; notice what word isn’t used.
- China moves ahead of the US in one area of human rights.
- All it takes to be arrested in a “sex sting” is to be present.
- White US feminist goes “undercover” in a Turkish brothel.
- Guys, don’t accept unprotected sex from a whore. Really.
- Man sues cops for wrecking his life in an anti-sex “sting”.
- Politician says heterosexual male desire is “sickening”.
- Woman jailed for murder after having a miscarriage.
- The half-life of sex radiation must be over 40 years.
- A ridiculous “estimate” grows even more ridiculous.
- Sex rays are also dangerous to plants and wildlife!
- It turns out COAST is even sleazier than I thought.
- Fetishists claim “sex trafficking” is “unrecognized”.
- Whore-hatred carries no consequences for cops.
- Bad assumptions lead to ridiculous conclusions.
- Unfortunately, facts don’t concern politicians.
- The pending release of the San Antonio Four.
- We still don’t know who Jack the Ripper was.
- Yet another serial killer targets sex workers.
- Queer-curing “warlock” rapes teenage boy.
- Libertarianism even happens to politicians.
- The Somaly Mam Foundation closes down.
- How does sexual repression affect people?
- Since when do “scientists” treat patients?
- Rapist cops of the week, 2013 and 2014.
- Protests against the awful Project ROSE.
- A list of columns & links for Halloween.
- Whorearchy from a glamour model.
- Refuting the myth of the evil client.
- Tizzy Wall interviews Siouxsie Q.
- From sex worker to seamstress.
- Pop stars cause sex trafficking!
- Standard operating procedure.
- A short look at the big picture.
- Cuddling and diaper-flashing.
- The campus censorship fad.
- Whores migrate to Papua.
- Back to New Orleans.
- The Science of Fear.
- My second million.
Did you see that Linus will be vindicated this year?
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ma5tbf3cWo1rgr3eyo1_500.jpg
I reckon astronomers should have told everyone it was on course to score a direct hit on New York. Then they could shout “Trick or treat!” and we’d all have to give them candy.
Re: True capitalism vs corporatism. Same thing happened with Colchicine. Used for about 100 years to treat gout, a months supply was less than $10. Then one day I went to refill my prescript and it had jumped to over $200. Seems a drug company had made a deal to “certify” colchicine with the FDA. Now, they are the only FDA approved treatment for gout…and us consumers are being gouged. Reason #1, 892,023 that the government sucks and is in bed with big business!!!
Colchicine has been known as a specific for gout for millennia. But it was known through ‘expert opinion’, not clinical trials. The FDA required this ‘evidence’; Wikipedia has a great spiel about what happened. There are other drugs whose use is governed by custom and experience; they might well not get approved today.
In Europe, NSAIDS are more usually prescribed for gout.
I can tell you from experience that colchicine works for “my” gout. NSAIDS, no. And…I stick to my belief that the FDA did not “require” evidence. There was no great move to remove this “dangerous” drug from the market; as you said it had been used for millennia. It was known to work…and my doctor was shocked when I told her the price had gone up. The drug company “volunteered” to do the clinical trials so they could corner the market. I’d have to find the article again, but I did find the proof of what happened and shared it with my doctor.
If the results a friend of mine was getting in the early 80s are anything to go by, using colchicine will make you huge and extra potent. At least if you’re a cannabis plant.
In any case, corporatism is true capitalism.
Capitalism is basing your economy on the idea that investors should be rewarded for taking risks. Shkreli invested a lot of money into obtaining the patents for Daraprim in the hope of getting away with price gouging, with the attendant risk that someone like Baum would come along and undermine his plans. Corporatism as she is spoke in the US economy is the ability of capitalists to use other power blocs – especially government – to reduce their risk and/or increase their payout. In this case it’s state-enforced IP laws that Shkreli was counting on. If such a mechanism is available to a capitalist he would be remiss in not exploiting it.
It might be more valid to say this is an example of free markets vs capitalism but as free markets cannot exist (see Adam Smith on the tendency towards cartels and monopolies) you might as well call it fairy dust vs capitalism.
No. But that’s what a lot of people use the term to mean nowadays, which is why I won’t argue this.
I didn’t know that about howler monkeys, though I see what you are coming from. So is it the silent ones to really beware of? And, similarly, what do men know of women?
Homeopathy is (apparently) good for at least ONE thing:
…which is this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mku19fwKvq0
Even though that comment would be funny if it had been intentionally blank, not due to silly touchscreens.
Unfortunately I’m not into alcohol.
But I’d sure like to know where I can buy some of that homeopathic LSD.