People die in these circumstances. – Darci Tierney
I saw this video pop up a few days ago; someone decided to compile all of the silly window cameo jokes from the old Batman TV series, and it seemed an apropos feature given Adam West’s recent demise. The links above it were provided by Tim Cushing (“patience” and “bicycle”), Jillian Keenan (“happens”), Radley Balko (“partisanism”), Cathy Reisenwitz (“whatsoever”), Kevin Wilson (“game”), and Lenore Skenazy (“lucky”).
- Pathological patience.
- I hate it when this happens.
- The deep stupidity of partisanism.
- Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever.
- Humans are so surprised when beaten at our own game.
- NOT FOR ANY REASON. She’s lucky she isn’t in a cell or hospital.
- Crime: no bicycle light. Sentence wanted by prosecutor: life in prison.
From the Archives
- Massage parlors are popular cop targets because they’re low-hanging fruit.
- Prohibition turns people into “crime scenes”, to be violated by cops at will.
- So nice when “sex trafficking” bullshit is called out in mainstream media.
- Only parts not profoundly ignorant are those that’re profoundly obvious.
- “Cross-border trafficking of prostitutes” = “escorts driving across town”.
- At least Canadian media have the sense to put “rescue” in scare quotes.
- How “Walk Free Foundation” comes up with ridiculous “slavery” figures.
- Politicians realize cops’ scam is too obvious, pretend to be “concerned”.
- The truth of one fact doesn’t change the incoherence of 1st part of this.
- This wouldn’t “shock” anyone with the approximate timidity of a sheep.
- Should a sexually-traumatized man go to a whore to lose his virginity?
- The people prohibitionists want in charge of “protecting” sex workers.
- Cops, Don Martin, Patrick Macnee, Dolly Parton & Captain Kangaroo.
- Most people are so naive they don’t realize this is par for the course.
- “Residential farm” = “doing menial agricultural labor for their keep”.
- The key players in the recriminalization of sex work in Rhode Island.
- Another overly-broad and mindlessly-draconian “revenge porn” law.
- Another mainstream article tearing down “sex trafficking” hysteria.
- I’m not sure why this was controversial; nobody can deny it’s true.
- SCOTUS demolishes what little was left of the Fourth Amendment.
- A profile of sex worker Kitty Stryker, in Cosmopolitan of all places.
- Cops openly admit being lazy fascists; the public just stays asleep.
- It isn’t just whores who have power to grant demons “permission”.
- I’m not sure how working for free could be considered a “protest”.
- Cops claimed they didn’t know if this murder was hate-motivated.
- This looks like another case in which everyone involved is awful.
- Irish iterations of the “gypsy whore” myth are the silliest ones.
- What “legal but heavily regulated” actually looks like in action.
- Conner Habib wrote last year’s best essay about prohibition.
- Bindel can’t possibly be as delusional as she pretends to be.
- If a man wants an open marriage, what’s the wife there for?
- RAPING a whore is OK; it’s only paying her that’s an issue.
- Announcing SWOP’s sex worker comedy & variety show.
- Because ordinary English words can emit sex rays, too!
- Imagine American cops making a statement like this.
- You know that “negative secondary effects” bullshit?
- A ludicrous masturbatory fantasy from San Diego.
- Hortense Mancini was a whore down to her genes.
- My two previous columns for the summer solstice.
- Ignorance of the law creates train wrecks like this.
- Once in a while an insanely-broad law is defeated.
- Once again, actual figures disprove the hysteria.
- Cops, laws, toys, Picasso, 2001 and much more.
- Sexually exploitative prison guards of the week.
- What is probably the first report on Neal Falls.
- Cops say having sex is “as serious as it gets”.
- Those magical pimps work amazingly fast.
- Rapist cops of the week, 2015 and 2016.
- Another cop, another prostitution sting.
- The rapist of a sex worker is convicted.
- Definitely not a police state, no sirree.
- A sex worker’s murderer is convicted.
- Who are the “sex traffickers” again?
- Sex Addiction: A Critical History.
- More cops devouring their own.
- On the past exonerative tense.
- Self-care and whale-watching.