Something is broken in our society when millions feel the need to self-medicate in this way.
Two weeks ago I featured “Popcorn”, and now here’s another instrumental favorite from my chidhood: “Telstar” by The Tornados. Obviously it was no longer being played on pop stations, but it could still be heard often enough in various contexts for me to become familiar with it sometime in the late ’60s or early ’70s. The links above it were provided by Scott Greenfield, Jesse Walker, Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Carol Fenton, Jesse Walker again, and Clarissa, in that order.
- As one does.
- Dracula’s cannonballs!
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- Cops make up shit like this to get in the news.
- If people wrote about caffeine as they do other drugs.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
From the Archives
- When migration control disguised as “sex trafficking” law is very apparent.
- Another rescue industry character claiming to have been a “sex trafficker”.
- Even the MSM begins to see the War on Whores is the new War on Drugs.
- Monsters torture sexual minorities under guise of “helping” or “curing” us.
- Indian press can’t let go of word “rescue”, even when it’s patently absurd.
- May has been pushing internet censorship since she was home secretary.
- Future historians will ponder the link between “sex trafficking” and pizza.
- I have zero faith in the magical protective powers of “restraining orders”.
- Anybody who thinks this is “like a real human” needs a pro immediately.
- While sex work is at all criminalized, cops have power over sex workers.
- The stench of FOSTA is all over India’s terrible new “anti-trafficking” bill.
- A bizarre claim even by the standards of anti-porn nuts & gun-grabbers.
- Prohibitionists’ lies are never more blatant than when they misquote us.
- Amateurs: a health menace who should be licensed & heavily regulated.
- Bigots try to cover racism and misogyny by blaming imaginary “gangs”.
- Do we really want rapists to eschew condoms to avoid federal charges?
- Hair-splitting & moral panic create strange stew from age-old behavior.
- We’re seeing ever-more columns like this from self-identified feminists.
- More deliberate racial profiling under government-approved guidelines.
- More on the maltreatment of sex workers in another large police state.
- Remember, cops: raping whores is OK; it’s paying us fairly that isn’t.
- Will Asstoon ever get professional help for his delusions of grandeur?
- Are amateurs really so sheltered that this sort of thing shocks them?
- Cops no longer pretend that this is about anything other than profit.
- When a highway is destroyed, the traffic has to go into side streets.
- Good advice to a heavily scarred, sexually traumatized young man.
- One can never have too many debunkings of prohibitionist bullshit.
- Politicians had to make this bad law even worse before passing it.
- Articles like this are much more common in the Canadian press.
- Despite this popular UK cop fantasy, none has ever been found.
- Calling this “sex trafficking” lets the government steal property.
- Cops, Florida, munchkins, Japanese Zeppelin, and much more.
- Small rescue industry profiteers learn the value of slave labor.
- Another state requires anti-whore indoctrination for licensing.
- Cops, Sweden, Gary Gygax, Wall of Voodoo, and much more.
- Not a bad article on the benefits of sex work for the disabled.
- How many moronic prohibitionist plays can the market bear?
- Prohibitionists contort facts so as to support their fantasies.
- There are only two Ladies of the Night special editions left!
- In case you thought I was too paranoid about mentoring.
- Whorearchy from an empty-headed little twit in Nevada.
- The government’s own moral panic come back to bite it.
- An excerpt from Brooke Magnanti’s You Don’t Know Me.
- What should I do if an escort’s ad seems illegitimate?
- Can y’all please send a delegation to talk to the ABA?
- Is nonconsensual shackling worse for kinky women?
- Politicians are totally losing their minds over sex.
- My irony meter just overloaded and burned out.
- An anti-whore video featuring a fake game.
- Yes, I really do have red sheets on my bed.
- Partisanism is like a form of self-lobotomy.
- The “End Banking for Dirty Whores” Act.
- Another sex worker murdered in India.
- Introducing the Prostasia Foundation.
- Recycled propaganda from Seattle.
- Good news from South Australia.
- How to summon me to your city.
- That didn’t take long, did it?
- It just keeps getting worse.
- Liara Roux on coming out.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- A visit to Chicago.
