But who will fix the roads? – statists
I’ve been watching my collection of Pink Panther cartoons lately, usually one right before bedtime, and I saw this one last week when I was quite high (which, naturally, made it even more amusing). The links above it were provided by Jesse Walker, Scott Greenfield, Jesse Walker again, Tejas, Inspireland, Franklin Harris, and Radley Balko, in that order.
- Anarchy in action.
- Not a police state, nope.
- Paging Morgus the Magnificent.
- How dare she die? THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
- This squares with my experience living in 3 of these.
- Desperately looking for someone, anyone, to control.
- They won’t stop until everyone has a criminal record.
From the Archives
- So very many people completely bereft of the capacity for rational thought.
- I’m skeptical about anything Seattle PD says about victimized sex workers.
- There’s no relationship between porn viewing & ED in healthy young men.
- Bootlicker calls me heartless liar for attacking her masturbatory fantasies.
- Rescue industry’s getting so successful it now has mergers & acquisitions.
- Would this language have been used for this same situation 20 years ago?
- Think a non-cop would merely have lost his job with no criminal charges?
- Nobody looks too hard at those financing efforts for more criminalization.
- Another astonishingly-stupid “study” produces predictably-stupid results.
- It’s not just many pros who dislike oral sex; some amateurs don’t either.
- South Korea’s court battle over US-encouraged sex work criminalization.
- A good article on the use of shaming tactics against sex workers’ clients.
- As usual, the buffoonish Nick Kristof’s not too concerned with the truth.
- “Artists” claim that phone numbers have sympathetic magic properties.
- Soon there’ll be too few free people to buy all the “modern-day slaves”!
- Are the Japanese the only people left who can tell fantasy from reality?
- In which a dumb kid tries to trick me into doing his homework for him.
- “Sex trafficking” fetishists advise doctors to “speak love into [victims]”.
- So very much stupidity here, but I guess the main thing is the “signs”.
- All this requires is the “testimony” of a lying cop out to score arrests.
- The monolith is crumbling; this was in International Business Times.
- Only the alternative media question noxious “end demand” rhetoric.
- Can you hear the sound of fapping while you read this guy’s words?
- It’s so good to see debunking spreading to the mainstream press.
- Dominatrix Kim Petro gets an instant ticket to my Hall of Shame.
- Cops spy on woman who sued them for allowing one to rape her.
- A young man gets more than he bargained for in a strange drug.
- Would this excuse have worked for a victim with any other job?
- Is the ACLU finally beginning to do the right thing, at long last?
- An in-depth analysis of how Eden and its ilk harm sex workers.
- Sometimes “trafficking” just means “bringing in brown people“.
- Crappy poll claims the number of whores & clients is the same.
- Mark Draughn on the claim that sex work hurts the economy.
- The same “sex trafficking” story from different media outlets.
- A whore uses her superpower to seek revenge on an enemy.
- The United States, a shining example of liberty to the world.
- Brooke Magnanti sues idiot who claims she wasn’t a whore.
- Would a stay-at-home wife contract be legally enforceable?
- Another state expands the definition of “prostitution”.
- These fake numbers aren’t nearly as absurd as usual.
- Cops, criminality, plastic, Daleks and much more.
- Thailand arrests refugees as “trafficking victims”.
- My two previous columns for the vernal equinox.
- Noah Berlatsky on anti-sex writer Chris Hedges.
- Obviously, these “facts” don’t include any math.
- On the simultaneous having and eating of cake.
- Cops, rhetoric, propaganda and much more.
- More “questionable” than being a vice cop?
- In which I try to settle into life in Seattle.
- Jillian Keenan schools ignoramus judges.
- Charlie Sheen recommends sex workers.
- Sex work is evidence of brain damage?
- Higher education in the US is dead.
- Google censors antiwar protests.
- “Might be”? Try again, Emily.
- Catching up from SASS.
“We are Portland Anarchist Road Care. We believe in community oriented direct action. … Portland Anarchist Road Care aims to mobilize crews throughout our city, in our neighborhoods, to patch our streets, build community, and continue to find solutions to community problems outside of the state.”
“Community” is simply a micro-state. Let’s say the “community” has problems with certain individuals – say – damaging the playground equipment. What happens next? Either you call the cops, or “the community” takes care of it, possibly by way of administering a beating to the perps. Congratulations. You now have a judicial and penal system.
The anarchists are dreaming. There is no possible way to get away from people regulating other people’s behaviour. Put three humans on a desert island, and in short order they’ll be making rules and agreed-upon standards of behaviour such that if A aggresses against B, then C – whom A did not aggress against – is expected to help B penalise A for doing so.
I don’t recall ever seeing that Pink Panther before. I’ve always loved how surreal his cartoons could be, and this one’s a bit more surreal than usual. I just wish you had a copy without the laugh track.
You might be interested to know that I had my very first edible last week– a Gummy Bear imitation that my friend gave me. I was pretty worried because I’ve heard a lot of scary stories about edibles being way too strong for beginners, but this one wasn’t very strong at all.
She just gave me a whole bag of them, so I might come back tonight and watch this cartoon Maggie-style.
The laugh track, unfortunately, is original. Very few Pink Panther cartoons have them; I’m not sure why. It may be that the laugh track was dubbed in for the ’70s TV show and the original was later lost, but that seems kind of dubious. The worst laugh track I’ve discovered so far is in a very early cartoon from 1964, which also contains a LOT of speaking by the Pink Panther (one of only two cartoons in which the character speaks).
Rowan Atkinson has a sketch “Laugh Track”, satirising laugh tracks.
I do know that the laugh track was added for TV. I’ve read about that before. I don’t know why you’d say it’s dubious for the original to be lost. I know that’s happened with other cartoons (haven’t heard of it happening with the Pink Panther, though).
I’ve never seen one in which the Pink Panther speaks more than one line. There was a later TV version where Matt Frewer did his voice, but I only count the original theatrical cartoons. The only one I’ve seen with him speaking is one about a big-game hunter who builds an ark, and the Panther had one line at the very end.
I’d assumed I’d seen all the original shorts by now, but I guess I haven’t. I need to start looking them up.
The one you’re talking about is “Sink Pink” (released 4/12/65), which has the one line. The other is “Pink Ice”, released 6/10/65. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbI7CcIPy90&w=640&h=360%5D
Wow! A bonus cartoon! I should really learn to write comments more often.
In the “police state” link, there is a comment at the bottom regarding state senator Ralph Shortey. I think it is hilarious that the guy putting forth a bill for harsher drug laws over the will of the people just got busted for underage prostitution with pot involved. 🙂
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ralph-shortey-republican-senator-child-prostitution-charges-plans-to-resign-oklahoma/