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.
I find this Scientific American article enlightening and disheartening. Note the psychopath rating list for world “leaders at the end of the article. The ratings for the 2016 candidates is located at the bottom of the list. Trump beats Hitler out by two points, but Idi Amin is a few points above Trump.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/of-psychopaths-and-presidential-candidates/