The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia. – Malcolm Turnbull
This video is two years old, but it first came to my attention last week and was too good to pass up! The links above it were contributed by Marijke Vonk (“lawheadedness”), Franklin Harris (“eels”), Jesse Walker (“happens”), Kevin Wilson (“never”), Radley Balko (“sitters”), and Tim Cushing (“together”).
- Peak lawheadedness.
- R.I.P. Martin Landau.
- My hovercraft is full of eels.
- I hate it when this happens.
- What part of “never ” is so hard to understand?
- Without government, who would protect us from pet sitters?
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
From the Archives
- People are starting to recognize the “Trafficking in Persons” report as a political weapon.
- Funny, but I started sex work at 30 because “I wanted my body to belong to me again”.
- If interstate highways are so dangerous, why don’t prohibitionists want them banned.
- Another rape victim caged to force participation in the state’s morality play.
- Florida cops claim to be “helping” marginalized women by brutalizing them.
- It’s only a “shock” to those who live with their heads in their rectal cavities.
- When will lawheads learn whores can’t be made to vanish by proclamation?
- Seoul is adopting ever-sleazier tactics to please its masters in Washington.
- “Pimp” classification schemes are among the stupidest tropes of the panic.
- Bizarre, stilted language is used to describe a very ordinary escort service.
- Sex workers who pretend they aren’t are almost as bad as prohibitionists.
- Kudos to Margaret Corvid for being willing to eat crow with a good heart.
- Calling a prison an “immigration centre” doesn’t make it less of a prison.
- Pro-censorship loon wants parents to panic about “artificial necrophilia”.
- Why idiocies like “mid-range prostitution is new” infuriate me so much.
- Is it ethical for a man I’m poly-dating to out me to his primary partner?
- Let’s hope this myth is dead, or at least nearly so, by the next election.
- Migrant women harassed by cops who declare them infantile “victims”.
- How about “calling on police” to stop arresting sex workers, period?
- German politicians are determined to wreck their sex work system.
- Though I was tempted to gloat, real people were endangered here.
- You know things have changed when this can appear in the VOA.
- “Anti-trafficking” publicity stunts are growing ever more bizarre.
- I wish my happiness wasn’t always mixed with pain and sorrow.
- The deep connection between the rescue & garment industries.
- Gawker outs a non-politician as a client; a train wreck ensues.
- Even when Vice isn’t being directly prohibitionist, it’s no ally.
- In which I start working openly under my best-known name.
- Transwomen wouldn’t be arrested as whores if it were legal.
- Man confesses to the murder of a sex worker 70 years ago.
- This is pretty appalling, especially given the disease factor.
- Seattle pigs conspire to destroy literally hundreds of lives.
- Whores continue working from an Indian “rescue center”.
- “Sex trafficking” is a convenient excuse for any tyranny.
- Prohibitionist nuns hunt down American whores as well.
- NPR licks the arsehole of “Truckers Against Trafficking”.
- Another paint-by-numbers “sex trafficking” tall tale.
- Cops, seagulls, eyeballs, poop and much more.
- Cops, cannabis, short horror and much more.
- To St. Mary Magdalene on her feast day.
- Notice how bad laws often follow fads?
- The Desiree Alliance in New Orleans.
- An apology for inadvertent offense.
- Glenn Kessler does it again.
- Much more of this, please.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- Tom Dart, movie critic.
- Say their names.
- I did tell you so.
