I can’t breathe. – Javier Ambler
Sometimes it’s difficult to choose which of a musician’s songs to use as a memorial, but this time it was a no-brainer. The links above the video were provided by I Am Curious Blue, Mark Draughn, Furrygirl, Popehat and Walter Olson, Kevin Wilson, and Mark Bennett, in that order.
- Headline of the week.
- I hate it when this happens.
- Not a police state, no sirree.
- R.I.P. Ian Holm and Vera Lynn.
- WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED THIS?
- Crime: failure to dim headlights. Penalty: summary execution.
From the Archives
- It’s almost like these people have never actually been to central Kentucky.
- “Sex trafficking is EVERYWHERE!” articles are starting to sound very tired.
- I’ve never seen anything galvanize support for sex workers as FOSTA has.
- Cops, KFC, ghosts, protest, translation, Justin Raimondo, and much more.
- One day, reporters will get that “People Work To Make Money” isn’t news.
- “Sex trafficking” fetishist fantasizes that emojis are part of a pimp “code”.
- Do the hoi-polloi recognize how “cool” technology expands a police state?
- Maybe we’re about to witness the beginning of the end of these evil laws.
- whores are morons whose lives must be micromanaged by governments.
- It’s rare that political “monkey see, monkey do” actually works for good.
- They won’t let a whore’s body get cold before attacking her community.
- The FBI running a child porn site is called “law enforcement ingenuity”.
- Google is now so big it isn’t even accountable to its own shareholders.
- This eschews the usual puritanical lingo in favor of Copese pomposity.
- Clearing up a few persistent errors I keep seeing from wannabe allies.
- Remember 110 clients in one day? How about 182 a day for 15 years?
- Charity barred from giving to poor because white ladies are offended.
- Surprised how fast mass censorship is taking hold? We did warn you.
- Omaha uses this same tired “sex trafficking” magnet tale every year.
- “Licensing” is one way governments try to surreptitiously ban things.
- It’s appropriate that an article full of lies opens with a misattribution.
- Another shitty drug intended to capitalize on an imaginary “problem”.
- US sex workers: don’t forget, FOSTA harms sex workers worldwide.
- “Mommy whores” are good, but “gramma whores” are even better.
- Your periodic reminder that a child-shaped toaster is still a toaster.
- Prohibitionists attack an article saying everyone has human rights.
- Any non-politician would have given this up as a bad idea by now.
- Cops, chickens, Harlan Ellison, fascism, stupidity and much more.
- How stupid & blatantly illegal cops’ & collaborators’ actions were.
- Another deep dive into the facts of the persecution of Backpage.
- Just another fatality from the state’s sick need to police women.
- Lenore Skenazy reports another absurd “sex trafficking” panic.
- Hysteria is like a disease; it spreads among friend & foe alike.
- Cops at Pride is Gay Inc’s “fuck you” to the rest of queerdom.
- Useful idiots are unable to understand how precedent works.
- I am reminded of the fable, “The Frogs Who Desired a King”.
- Decriminalization has become a safe position for politicians.
- A retrospective of my blogging from June 2015 and 2016.
- How should I interact with ladies who work at soaplands?
- Another small but important victory for sex workers.
- In which bootlickers volunteer to be spied upon.
- It’s always a “gang”, even when it clearly isn’t.
- Fawning praise of a fascist surveillance organ.
- Creating a new sex worker rights document.
- One of the sleaziest legal dodges this year.
- Another casualty of the War on Whores.
- This is called “pulling up the ladder”.
- “Youth pastors” are as bad as cops.
- Jose Torres, AKA “Joey the Player”.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- An air travel collapse.
