I can’t breathe. – Charles Wade
On Wednesday we saw clueless news-idiots in Texas purporting to uncover the “secret” meanings behind emojis and jargon used in escort ads. In that same vein, here’s comedian Stephen Colbert riffing on an equally-idiotic local news report from Tacoma, WA (a state which never saw a hysteria it didn’t like). The links above were supplied by Jesse Walker (“continent” & “supervillain”), Tim Cushing (“serve” & “incident”), Mike Chase (“state”), Emma Evans (“lawn”), and Walter Olson (“rarely”).
- The lost continent.
- To protect and serve.
- President Supervillain.
- Another isolated incident.
- Not a police state, no sirree.
- “Get off my lawn”, cop style.
- In the real world, evil loses only very rarely.
From the Archives
- If you’re going to argue against bad sex work laws, it’s probably best if you eschew language like this.
- The idea that men paying for women’s company is “unconventional” is so naive it’s hilarious.
- Huge coperations have never found more than a single-digit # of UK “sex trafficking” cases.
- Amateur women’s attacks on whores are always pathetic, but this one is truly stupefying.
- Do they ever think about anything other than who’s allowed to fuck whom?
- The need to deny that sex work is work has some weird results at tax time.
- Why are my escort partner’s friends so skeptical about my feelings for her?
- “Authorities” don’t care how many whores are killed to further their show.
- Is Michael Weinstein’s bizarre one-man crusade against porn over at last?
- It’s illegal to pay for sex in Sweden, except as a defense vs rape charges.
- Small cities can only compete to be “sex trafficking hubs” in their states.
- Skeptical of “gypsy whores” myth, but not “sex trafficking” mythology.
- An especially amusing twist on the “porn causes sex trafficking” trope.
- Clueless academic makes stupid, ignorant statements about sex work.
- Cops, celibacy, Sweden, messages, government and Leonard Nimoy.
- End result of prohibitionism: more women are pushed into sex work.
- Cops, bad babies, Mad, government, Randolph Carter & much more.
- Why can’t people get this simple concept through their thick skulls?
- A remarkably stupid, impressively ignorant anti-BDSM hate-screed.
- Court delays favor the rich and powerful, so this is unsurprising.
- A “sex tourism destination” about an hour’s drive from Chicago.
- The word for government/corporation cooperation is “fascism”.
- I think we’ve reached the “possessed toaster” level of hysteria.
- All too often, evil arrives cloaked in the mantle of expediency.
- Quite possibly the stupidest statement ever made about sex.
- Retrospectives of my blogging for February 2012 and 2013.
- The “New Orleans sex economy” ain’t just strip clubs, y’all.
- It took three years to bring these serial-rapist cops to trial.
- Attempt to recriminalize sex work in New Zealand fails.
- These types of stories are often stunningly incoherent.
- “Sex trafficking” used as weapon vs. massage parlors.
- “Hookers for Hillary” was just a Dennis Hof PR scam.
- A short profile of escort and activist Kimberlee Cline.
- Politicians just can’t get their minds out of the toilet.
- Every generation thinks it invented non-vanilla sex.
- She’s facing a lot worse than mere “discrimination”.
- Korean cops are learning US-style agency negation.
- What alternatives to P411 would you recommend?
- It’s good to see the mainstream media getting it.
- Governments now think they own their subjects.
- Sheri’s Ranch indulges in flagrant whorephobia.
- Rapist cops of the week, part one and part two.
- Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Queen of Whore Allies.
- WE’RE NUMBER FOUR! WE’RE NUMBER FOUR!
- Whore-murderer keeps changing his story.
- No, NBC, this is not “bribery”; it’s rape.
- Sex workers on police body cameras.
- My previous columns for Mardi Gras.
- Brooke Magnanti’s first crime novel.
- On the vile bigotry of Gay, Inc.
- Another wake-up call to wives.
- Most incompetent pimp ever.
- Butt-injection killer on trial.
- A lesbian client speaks out.
- My first week in Seattle.
- A year of rapid change.
- It’s for their own good!
- The Devil’s doorbell.