I wandered lonely as a clod,
Just picking up old rags and bottles,
When onward on my way I plod,
I saw a host of axolotls;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
A sight to make a man’s blood freeze. – Mad #43
Given the sad news about Mad, it seemed appropriate to feature one of the songs from one of its albums (some of which were actually included in “specials”; if you’re old enough to remember those, you should remember “sound sheets“). The links above the video were provided by Radley Balko, Nun Ya, Emma Evans, Mike Siegel, Ivan Dragomiloff, and Radley Balko again, in that order.
- But for video.
- R.I.P. Mad Magazine.
- Much more of this, please.
- What would it look like had it “gone right”?
- It’s like RAY-AY-AIIIIIIIN on your wedding day…
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
From the Archives
- Despite this fantasy’s popularity with UK cops, none has ever been found.
- Adult man wearing a costume mansplains professionals’ own job to them.
- Politicians can’t grasp that whores might be neither criminals nor victims.
- More European government humanitarianism to “fight human trafficking”.
- Evil douchebags trying to criminalize Nevada brothels fall on their faces.
- Massage parlor licensing is widely touted as a way to “fight prostitution”.
- In my “ideal world”, hypocritical apologists for feminism wouldn’t exist.
- Clearly, critical thinking skills are not a prerequisite for nursing school.
- Another chapter in this grotesque campaign to intimidate sex workers.
- Small cities’ ludicrous concepts for supposed “gypsy whore” magnets.
- Useful idiots are surprised, though this was as predictable as sunrise.
- Scheme to cut sex workers off from the healthcare system continues.
- Watching “sex trafficking” hysteria spin out of control of “authorities”.
- Some cops just can’t stick with the “all whores are victims” program.
- Prosecutors’ magic Shazam power can turn “children” into “adults”.
- Fetishists expend so much energy on something that doesn’t exist.
- Scumbags don’t get caging humans induces pathological behavior.
- Adult woman turns into “child” via the power of a magical camera.
- Your regular reminder that a child-shaped toaster is still a toaster.
- An attempt to slander the good work done by SWOP Behind Bars.
- Is it “sexist” for a sex worker’s client to request a custom service?
- “Sex trafficking” hysteria spins out of control of the “authorities”.
- It’s not often a judge rules against cops in favor of a sex worker.
- A pet judge isn’t going to be able to make this scandal go away.
- A politician describes my flexible, lucrative job as “undesirable”.
- What happens when you refuse to tailor your pet law narrowly.
- Where “cutting-edge” is used to mean “hopelessly inaccurate”.
- Total number of frogs in Lisa Lewis’ self-destructive chorus: 3.
- Cops, sharks, spiders, Idi Amin, and other dangerous animals.
- Once Patreon started caving in to PayPal, this was inevitable.
- Fanatics are recycling old “sex trafficking awareness” stunts.
- Rapist cop escapes consequences of his actions by croaking.
- I’ve been a harsh critic of these do-nothing law for 7 years.
- More inevitable “monkey see, monkey do” from the UK.
- Seven years in a cage for drawing a fictional character.
- Mike Siegel on the “harm enhancement” of prohibition.
- Another victory for feminism against jobs for women.
- On the humorous, adventurous rapists of Disneyland.
- Yet another perfect example of the McNeill Rule.
- I suspect this sort of story isn’t all that unusual.
- A promising start for decrim in South Australia.
- My seventh and eighth anniversary columns.
- Another chance for you to help sex workers.
- Lorelei and I prepare to depart for Ireland.
- How Taiwanese police harass sex workers.
- A functioning police state needs no police.
- “Crime”: stillbirth. Penalty: life in a cage.
- Rapist cops of the week, 2017 and 2018.
- Welcome to our world, infertile women.
- Welcome to our world, cannabusiness.
- Some good stuff is better than none.
- Not a good move on Deen’s part.
- Cops, Vangelis and much more.
I’m sorry, but I can’t agree with you on the Starbucks issue. If ‘public accommodation’ laws can be used to force southern white bigoted to serve blacks – and they can, I’m not arguing otherwise – then Starbucks can be required to serve utilities workers, firemen, and cops. And that idiot in northern Virginia can be in trouble for refusing to serve somebody with different political beliefs.
If public accommodation laws are a good idea (and they seem to be) then they cut both ways. None of this “we’ll enforce the law when we happen to agree with it’ business that Elites are so goddamned fond of.
Much as I agree with you on a host of issues, I must respectfully disagree on this one.
Public accommodation laws are based upon immutable characteristics. Nobody can choose not to be black, blonde, short, tall, of Irish or African ancestry, etc. Therefore, generally speaking, no business open to serve the general public can lawfully refuse to serve someone based upon such immutable characteristics.
But any business can, and some do, choose not to serve people based upon characteristics that the person can change at will. For an obvious example, a do-it-yourself machine shop can lawfully refuse to admit long-haired customers who will not wear hair netting, or customers who wear flowing robes.
It may be unwise, from a business perspective, for a coffee shop to refuse service to policemen, or plumbers, or vegetarians, or Democrats or Republicans. But any person can choose not to be one of those. Therefore it is lawful for the business to refuse service to them.
Likewise, any potential customer of such a business, whom the business is willing to serve, is free to take his business elsewhere.
Precisely. Pigs keep trying to pretend laws like “hate crimes” apply to them, when clearly they don’t; though authoritarian thuggery is indeed a immutable charcteristic, it’s not one a supposedly free society should protect. And if “job” is ruled a protected characteristic, that instantly strikes down every prostitution law in the US.
I would be DELIGHTED to strike down every prostitution law…and also every drug dealer law.
That said; I believe that the basis of public accommodation laws is that either you are open to the public…and must therefore SERVE the public, including those portions you don’t like…or you are not.
Or, looking at it another way, either you serve the police when they want to buy a coffee, or you accept that the police aren’t going to respond when you call 911.
Yes, police are often thugs. Yes, ‘qualified immunity’ should go the way of the Divine Right of Kings. Yes, any time there should be video evidence, and it passed into police hands and vanished, the police should be assumed to be committing perjury.
This kind of virtue signaling still strikes me as questionable.
Bullshit. If members of a gang who regularly attack residents of your area came into your business, would you not ask them to leave? That’s what cops are. Just because they’re the BIGGEST gang, with the best organization, does not change their intrinsic character: a gang of violent hooligans enforcing their leaders’ rule by threats and intimidation. There is NO place for them in a peaceful business unless they forsake their threat-regalia and enter as citizens.