Don’t any Spanish speakers work at Taco Bell headquarters? – Jerry Coyne
I didn’t find this video actually scary because the ending was obvious from fifty seconds in, but it had a good atmosphere and there were a few moments that gave me a frisson, which is more than I can say for 99% of what passes for “horror” these days (which are basically nothing but long lead-ins to jump scares). The links above it were provided by Cathy Reisenwitz, Jesse Walker, Amy Alkon, Radley Balko, Kevin Wilson, Tim Cushing, and Scott Greenfield, in that order.
- Nightmare of the week.
- Lovecraft’s secret archive.
- Chocolate covered pubic lice.
- Eight years in a cage with no trial.
- Climate equivalents of the United States.
- Cops beat homeless man for sleeping at shelter.
- They can’t agree on whether to fry them or make chowder.
From the Archives
- When government stops prohibiting things & treats prisoners like humans.
- “Authorities” amazed imaginary problem doesn’t materialize by mandate.
- Don’t want to worry about neighbors? Buy yourself a country house, twit.
- They’re “changing hearts and minds”, all right, but against their tyranny.
- The brave heroes of Washington DC stop the menace of rogue twerkers.
- Talk about serial killers targeting whores; don’t mention criminalization.
- Palantir is the same company which is helping cops spy on sex workers.
- Media in the British Isles are much more critical of anti-porn hysteria.
- Ignorant, pearl-clutching screeds are starting to seem almost quaint.
- Not the first time Weinstein’s been accused of financial shenanigans.
- It’s great to see so many physicians coming out against prohibition.
- The “Facebook pimps” myth is one of the silliest of the whole panic.
- A “ring” of independent workers & the cops are looking for “pimps”.
- Let’s put the entire next generation on the “sex offender” registry!
- The narrower the neck, the more “illegal” sex work there will be.
- Why am I so different from what society expects of mistresses?
- The New York Times apologizes for libeling nail salons, kind of.
- A pro-decriminalization argument for a conservative audience.
- This is the kind of sick mind that believes in “porn addiction”.
- I think my car will soon be able to get to the airport by itself.
- Judge Posner can claim a freebie from me anytime he likes.
- If the Church were sanely-run, this article would be true.
- People sometimes ask me why I moved out of Louisiana.
- It’s not every day that the Boss Lady drops by in person.
- Cops make up creative excuses for brutalizing gay men.
- Cornpone cop spins sexual fantasies of raped teen girls.
- Prudes will turn anything related to sex into a problem.
- The cops are happy to serve as an ex’s revenge goons.
- On the anniversary of a very memorable dinner party.
- Cops, alchemy, Steve Ditko, Medusa and much more.
- The State’s two-faced attitude toward “revenge porn”.
- Judge is intimidated into backing down from a ruling.
- Laura Lee on the appalling blindness of “authorities”.
- The problem with criminalizing sex workers’ clients.
- Once in a while a rapist cop gets his comeuppance.
- Another sex work-positive article in Cosmopolitan.
- The amazing Tara Burns interviews Margaret Cho.
- Economists have nearly all come over to our side.
- Screwdriver-wielding anal rapist cop of the week.
- The truth about Charlie Sheen and sex workers.
- Rapist cops of the week. Lots and lots of them.
- Tits and Sass interviews Suzy Favor Hamilton.
- Desmond Ravenstone introduces CoSWAC.
- Cops, boogers, TSA, Elvis and much more.
- It’s like they’re not even trying any more.
- The gravy train just keeps rolling along.
- Sometimes cops even rape other cops.
- Sex rays contaminate buildings!
- How big is civil asset forfeiture?
- Do as they say, not as they do.
- Watch what you say, comrade.
- The Red Umbrella Diaries.
- Can a client be an ally?
- R.I.P. Cynthia Payne.
a lol to the Lovecraft’s secret archive.link, reminiscent of the Innsmouth story.. Thanks also for the lead-in to The Crypt youtube videos via that Scary Horror film link.
Happy International Men’s Day to sex workers who make men’s lives better!
People have pointed to the ant eating fungus, demanding “How can you believe is God when something like that exists!?!?!?”
A) I’m an agnostic, not a Christian
B) Sound Christian theology holds that what happens in this world, in terms of pain and suffering, is of moment only to the degree that is was willfully caused by beings with souls. So, Rachel Carson is going to Hell for condemning tens of millions of children and old people to death from Malaria, but the ant eating fungus does not matter.
C) Since I, personally, look at the world and deduce the existence of a Creator (which may or may not at all resemble to the Christians’ God) from the existence of creatures that look like a 14 year old with a cosmic Photoshop program said “I wonder what will happen if I do ‘x’?”, the ant eating fungus bolsters my beliefs.