I can’t breathe. – David Glen Ward
The name of Caroll Spinney, who died earlier this month, may not be familiar, but I’m sure you’ll know the names of two characters he played for almost half a century: Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch. So I can’t think of a better way to observe Christmas and honor Spinney than to feature this video of Oscar sharing his feelings about the holiday. The links above it were provided by Mama Tush (“faking” & “strangles”); Radley Balko (“explain”); Anarras Ansible (“treatment”); Mike Siegel (“Kampala”); and Cop Crisis (“execution” & “umbrella”).
- Stop faking!
- No, not to “explain” either.
- Cop strangles innocent man to death.
- Your rulers call this petty torture “treatment”.
- “His special skill is well known across Kampala“.
- Crime: shoplifting. Penalty: summary execution.
- Cop attempts to murder man for having an umbrella.
From the Archives
- Steinem’s been peddling this since 1978; I’ve been mocking it since 1984.
- If you’re tempted to badge-lick, reread the original article of this heading.
- While US media self-destructively cheer censorship, Canada gives us this.
- Prohibitionist forced to admit prohibition is intended to harm sex workers.
- Amateurs: a menace to public health who should be licensed & regulated.
- The evil painting must be exorcised lest its sex rays “sexualize children”!
- Having sex is apparently the worst thing this bird-brain can conceive of.
- Man proposes to solve problem of bad sex work laws with MOAR LAWS!
- I’ll bet the Swedes get all butthurt if foreign countries respond in kind.
- Strippers are spearheading the movement for sex worker labor rights.
- Another good argument against the evil of “sex offender” registration.
- This sleazy tactic spread from Canada to Scotland, England & Ireland.
- I’m glad people are beginning to realize how dangerous Facebook is.
- Here’s more detail on Philadelphia’s scam to steal citizens’ property.
- Cops, racism, metaphors, witches, Lindsey Stirling and much more.
- Academics keep “discovering” what we’ve been saying for decades.
- TSA’s specific plan is to help DHS build a giant biometric database.
- Louisiana somehow got a federal court to reverse its own decision.
- Oklahoma prohibitionists claim HIV+ people emit sex rays as well.
- Hey, picket-fence gays, are you ready to support sex workers yet?
- It’s good to see Médecins du Monde make this position official.
- Another attempt by politicians to destroy the entire internet.
- Cops ineptly try to regain control of a runaway moral panic.
- The “end demand” strategy carried to its logical conclusion.
- This is a type of surveillance the Stasi would recognize.
- Cops, D&D, relationships, Tom Lehrer and much more.
- They were “safeguarded”, no doubt at a “safe house”.
- Miranda Kane on how NOT to deal with a sex worker.
- Shysters chasing the “sex trafficking” bandwagon.
- STOP going to see unknowns who may be cops!
- The State calls this a “correctional institution”.
- “Environmental cost” = “public health crisis”.
- This us about as “dog bites man” as it gets.
- My holiday schedule is all over the place.
- My previous columns for December 17th.
- I don’t know which is more exploitative.
- Why you should follow me on Twitter.
- This brings the toll to 28 for the year.
- The story is the same the world over.
- “Youth pastors” are as bad as cops.
- A talking toaster is still a toaster.
- Prohibitionists call this “rescue”.
- Rivers & McNeill ride again.
- All prohibition is the same.
- Rapist cops of the week.