To hear the cops tell it, they’re the “thin blue line” that stands between civilization and a species of chaos resembling Mad Max meets Lord of the Flies in the midst of an immense drunken free-for-all in Somalia. Bait and Switch ”
Lammas , August had plenty of regular features: the guest columnist was Marijke Vonk ; the fictional interlude was “Coming Up Short “; the harlotography was “Liu Rushi “; the Q&A columns were “Bad Idea “, “The Wrong Track “, “Screen, Screen, Screen “, and “Getting Caught “; and the Cliterati reprints were “Prudesville “, “Business As Usual “, and “Another Fine Mess “. That leaves only “844,739 “, a paean to Waffle House; “The Monsters Are Due “, an old Twilight Zone episode about moral panic; “New Excuse “, my first full-length statement that the War on Whores is the new War on Drugs; “Making It Up As They Go “, a look at how “sex trafficking” hysterics literally just make things up; and “Bait and Switch “, an explanation of how police departments create “child sex predators” out of ordinary young men.
