The committee didn’t achieve what it had hoped for. – Geir Lundestad
Even if you don’t usually watch my featured videos, you really should watch this scene from Stormy Weather (1943), which Fred Astaire called “the greatest dancing he had ever seen on film.” And if that still isn’t enough to recommend it, maybe I should tell you it was unrehearsed and filmed in one take. The video was contributed by Jesse Walker, and the links above it by Amy Alkon, Walter Olson, Franklin Harris, Carol Fenton, Tim Cushing (x2), and Rick Horowitz, in that order.
- No shit; I said this in 2009.
- I hate it when this happens.
- The zenith of lawheadedness.
- The banality of the US police state.
- On the deep absurdity of malum prohibitum.
- These people actually imagine themselves to be sane adults.
- Cue the excuse-making, badge-licking and victim-defamation.
From the Archives
- How will he keep these “children” in the “safe house” to endure “therapy”?
- Authoritarians refuse to admit that a child-shaped toaster is still a toaster.
- Just imagine this absurd defense working for one in a different profession.
- Say your product “fights sex trafficking” & the stupid will give you money.
- I’d be much happier if the money went to his victims instead of the State.
- Whores in the Global South are so much better at activism than US ones.
- Glamorizing government agents who violently suppress consensual acts.
- Prohibitionists exhume rotting corpse of the “Scottish model” yet again.
- Five years ago, Ipswich was claiming to have “eradicated” street work.
- Another “rescue” scam to recruit unhappy whores into prohibitionism.
- Another US-style “crackdown” in a country the US proudly resembles.
- This is what robo-fetishists want you to believe will take my job soon.
- 1st-amendment lawyers speak out against the Backpage persecution.
- I’ve mocked this BS for nearly as long as Steinem’s been peddling it.
- A few sane people oppose the bizarre schemes of Oregon politicians.
- The lawyers behind this shitshow only appealed to cover their arses.
- This wouldn’t be OK even if the notions it’s based on weren’t idiotic.
- Horrifying new government surveillance tools, FOR THE CHILDREN!
- Any advice for a lesbian relationship that started as escort & client?
- A list of payment processors that are openly hostile to sex workers.
- Please don’t let non-doctors inject who-knows-what into your butt.
- Anyone who understands group psychology should’ve known this.
- For a sex worker to out a prohibitionist is not an ethical violation.
- Cops, Chuck Berry, Venezuela, robots, medicine and much more.
- Idiots don’t actually understand what the word “average” means.
- Politicians hire male sex workers almost as often as female ones.
- It’s good to see academics in the afflicted countries saying this.
- Sometimes “trafficking” just means “bringing in brown people“.
- The word for government/corporate collaboration is “fascism”.
- This is a lot better than Vice‘s last article on leaving sex work.
- How real life intervened in the process of writing a new book.
- The carceral state is a far greater threat than any one rapist.
- Cops, lemons, evil, 2001, affirmative consent & much more.
- The “sex trafficking” equivalent of a lake in a basement flat.
- Even in Ireland, the truth is dawning on many feminists.
- A generous special and a tour that failed to materialize.
- A monumental heap of reeking prohibitionist bullshit.
- Is anyone actually still surprised when this happens?
- Interactive map of legal treatment of prostitution.
- The old strip club business model is a dead duck.
- My two previous columns for the vernal equinox.
- Seriously, has this girl been living under a rock?
- How you can help support sex worker activism.
- Serial rapist of sex workers caught in Seattle.
- Is this idiotic enough yet? Can we stop now?
- South Africa’s National Sex Worker HIV Plan.
- Bureaucrats can turn anything into a hassle.
- Potty obsession is rotting politicians’ brains.
- More “grocery store sex trafficking” lunacy.
- This article could’ve been so much better.
- Rapist cops of the week, 2016 and 2017.
- Still another abomination from Alabama.
- Another example of the McNeill Rule.
- So much for human uniqueness.
- St. James Infirmary’s new clinic.
- Once a whore, always a whore.
- A bad week and a new book.
- Because NHI is so feminist.
- Little by little, bit by bit.