It was a bit like an end-of-days scenario. – Brett Stones
As so often happens these days, the best Halloween videos appear too late to be shared before Halloween; this is the first of Walt Disney’s classic Silly Symphonies cartoons, with animation & music by two greats who later worked for Warner Brothers, Ub Iwerks and Carl Stalling. It was suggested by Skye, and the links above it by Tim Cushing, Cathy Reisenwitz, Popehat, Radley Balko, David Ley, Kevin Williamson, and Ed Krayewski, in that order.
- Totalitarianism starts small.
- Still not a police state, no sirree.
- Is “never” really such a difficult concept?
- Sometimes I’m asked why I left Louisiana.
- Amateurs are disgusting, classless and rude.
- Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.
- Cop murders potato-sized dog, wants to bill family for bullet.
From the Archives
- I’m pretty sure Savannah was riding in my car while giving this interview.
- How many more kids’ lives have to be destroyed before we stop the cops?
- Tara Burns, Maxine Doogan and two others on “sex trafficking” in Alaska.
- Low-population states have the silliest supposed “gypsy whore” magnets.
- San Diego has become one of the US’s most corrupt pocket police states.
- How many hand jobs did these “heroes” get during their “investigation”?
- Cops, chickens, Dali, Fred Flintstone, Florida, monsters and much more.
- The age-old story of a mother refusing to accept her daughter’s choices.
- Truth from a politician: rarer than an anti-prohibition stance in Ireland.
- She’s right at home in a movie based on ridiculous conspiracy theories.
- Timothy T. Cutcher denies having sex with dogs or any of his relatives.
- When NPR questions “sex trafficking” hysteria, its days are numbered.
- Yet another software package designed to sell whores out to the cops.
- Intelligence is not a prerequisite for public office or local news media.
- Conditioning kids to accept surveillance of every aspect of their lives.
- Noah Berlatsky with another analogy for the absurdity of prohibition.
- Scammer uses “internship” website to exploit wannabe sex workers.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
- Generally true in essence, but where are the supporting statistics?
- Laura Agustín on the uselessness of the term “human trafficking”.
- The narrower the neck, the more “illegal” sex work there will be.
- What’s “shocking” is most people’s ignorance about sex workers.
- I’m glad to see this dangerous placebo is flopping on the market.
- On the yellow journalism which permeates coverage of sex work.
- Kathryn Griffin and her “prostitution diversion” scam in Houston.
- “The Harvard of sex trafficking” or “The Harvard of pimp school”?
- Crappy sci-fi TV show inspires pearl-clutching over a sex fantasy.
- When “child sex trafficking” really means “giving a friend a ride”.
- “Authorities” claim credit for streetwalkers shifting to online ads.
- Court rules that SAVE Act doesn’t apply to regular escort ads.
- None of these “human trafficking” cases involve prostitution.
- What really happens when a wannabe “pimp” abducts a girl.
- It’s good to see so many challenges to these medieval laws.
- How can I find out if my girlfriend is secretly a sex worker?
- Frankie Mullin on the then-recent Soho & Chinatown raids.
- Cops, surveillance, phenylephrine, aliens and much more.
- “Oakland City Council Takes Stand Against Sex Workers“.
- Sadly nearing the end of the Great Clown Panic of 2016.
- A mainstream publication can now feature this article.
- Sweden is so liberal, so pro-social, so just and kind!
- This article is so stupidly evil it’s almost fascinating.
- Indefinite imprisonment without trial or sentence.
- A parliamentary symposium on decriminalization.
- 10 Kenyan sex workers murdered in one month.
- Like reading something from the 17th century.
- A few hundred down, tens of thousands to go.
- Margaret Cho comes out as a former whore.
- “Youth pastors” are nearly as bad as cops.
- My last two columns for Guy Fawkes Day.
- Rapist cops of the week, 2015 and 2016.
- My birthday week, 2015 and 2016.
- So much for human uniqueness.
- Let’s play “count the idiocies”.
- Because they are?
