Be mindful of your surroundings and don’t feed sharks. – Melissa Brunning
Mocking brutal dictators is a long tradition, exemplified by Spike Jones’ “Der Fuhrer’s Face“. But due to his megalomania and bizarre antics, the monstrous Idi Amin was an especial favorite of comedians from Peter Cook & Dudley Moore to Richard Pryor. This is a song by the British comedian John Bird, which I first heard on The Doctor Demento Show when Amin was still in power; I thought of it last week when I realized that Trump is a lot like Amin in many ways. The links above it were provided by Clarissa, Phantom Joker, Scott Greenfield, Kevin Wilson, Nun Ya, and Tim Cushing, in that order.
- As one does.
- Sex trafficking!
- Just protecting and serving.
- Darwin Award honorable mention.
- Spiders are like creatures out of science fiction.
- Idiot reports self to cops for injuring own foot with exploding camera.
From the Archives
- A craptastic mixture of the obvious, the pearl-clutching & the dead wrong.
- Media never tire of presenting ordinary sexwork practices as new & novel.
- Despite this fantasy’s popularity with UK cops, none has ever been found.
- Adult man wearing a costume mansplains professionals’ own job to them.
- Massage parlor licensing is widely touted as a way to “fight prostitution”.
- Cops, Shazam, Pokemon, Sweden, Michigan, bureaucracy & much more.
- There aren’t enough real “victims”, so the rescue industry creates fakes.
- Remember, cops: raping whores is OK; it’s paying them fairly that isn’t.
- They “see it as a business transaction” because that’s exactly what it is.
- The gap between what actually happened & what cops claim happened.
- Hawaii joins other states in recriminalizing acts that are already illegal.
- Clearly, critical thinking skills are not a prerequisite for nursing school.
- Another chapter in this grotesque campaign to intimidate sex workers.
- Portraying whores as depraved monsters rather than pathetic victims.
- It’s great to see a sex worker run for office, especially when she wins.
- Small cities’ ludicrous concepts for supposed “gypsy whore” magnets.
- Scaling back claims about Charlotte, NC being a “sex trafficking hub”.
- Watching “sex trafficking” hysteria spin out of control of “authorities”.
- Some cops just can’t stick with the “all whores are victims” program.
- No, you fucking filthy liar, it’s not “unique” and you fucking know it.
- Prosecutors’ magic Shazam power can turn “children” into “adults”.
- Fetishists expend so much energy on something that doesn’t exist.
- Your regular reminder that a child-shaped toaster is still a toaster.
- Labeling a particular street a “hotbed” of sex work or “trafficking”.
- Is it “sexist” for a sex worker’s client to request a custom service?
- “Sex trafficking” hysteria spins out of control of the “authorities”.
- Is it OK to ask a sex worker friend if she’d see me professionally?
- Do you want prosecution for acts that weren’t illegal at the time?
- A politician describes my flexible, lucrative job as “undesirable”.
- Is the ACLU finally beginning to do the right thing, at long last?
- Fanatics are recycling old “sex trafficking awareness” stunts.
- Yet another surveillance tool for hunting down sex workers.
- A guest columnist writes about Dennis Hof & Lamar Odom.
- Another in an anti-“sex offender” registry series from Vox.
- Germany prepares a horrible new set of anti-whore laws.
- On the humorous, adventurous rapists of Disneyland.
- Chi Adanna Mgbako on sex worker activism in Africa.
- But picket-fence queers say cops aren’t our enemies.
- Laura Lee braves the hostile waters of Mumsnet.
- Kate Iselin gets it, though four years after I did.
- Notable American proponents of “end demand”.
- A promising start for decrim in South Australia.
- Heading to the Desiree Alliance conference.
- Lorelei and I prepare to depart for Ireland.
- How Taiwanese police harass sex workers.
- “Crime”: stillbirth. Penalty: life in a cage.
- Don’t think this is unique to Oakland.
- “The next generation of condom”.
- Not a good move on Deen’s part.
- Cops, Vangelis and much more.
- It’s enough to make one vomit.
- Good riddance to bad rubbish.
- Writing a column in the air.
- Rapist cops of the week.
