I think my family is dead. – Harper Hansman
I spotted this video on YouTube last week, and it was so silly I had to share it. The links above it were provided by Scott Greenfield, Radley Balko, Amy Alkon, Boatfloating, Jesse Walker, and Mike Siegel, in that order.
- Feminism!
- Oh, what a surprise.
- I hate it when this happens.
- Not a police state, no sirree!
- Some vindication for Heyerdahl.
- Too horrible to make a Florida joke about.
From the Archives
- This looks like a huge victory against the powerful Indian rescue industry.
- Is there any non-prohibitionist who fails to recognize FOSTA is a disaster?
- How countries with healthy ideas about sex react to the Swedish disease.
- In case you thought screws restricted their petty sadism to the prisoners.
- The answer to “Why don’t you do x?” is usually “Because I don’t want to”.
- The incidents we hear about are only a fraction of the ones that happen.
- Cracked has fewer pro-sex work articles than it did, but this is excellent.
- The State keeps contradicting itself to crucify the founders of Backpage.
- Having their lives destroyed so bourgeois Englishwomen can feel good.
- The term “pimp” is hopelessly contaminated and cannot be “reclaimed”.
- Apply a label like “prostitute” or “gang member” and civil rights vanish.
- Picture what you’d think of as “sex trafficking”, then compare it to this.
- Federal appeals court agrees “women who dress like sluts cause rape”.
- Blaming bad behavior on an “addiction” is not accepting responsibility.
- My favorite seems to have ghosted on me; should I try to contact her?
- Cops, Rome, Atlantis, Antarctica, Simpsoni, Denise Nickerson & more.
- Stories about hooker jails are crammed with appalling euphemisms.
- No fad spreads faster than a new way to tyrannize innocent people.
- Cops don’t test rape kits because it doesn’t advance their purpose.
- Everybody knows cops are stupid, but this is a new level of idiocy.
- It’s train-wreck fascinating to watch the lies spiral out of control.
- It’s the same everywhere our work is even partially criminalized.
- The “Good Shepherd Sisters” = Magdalene laundries = Ruhama.
- Shaming clients is an exercise in evil fuckery that just won’t die.
- West African “penis stealing” hysteria has spread to East Africa.
- This abomination started as a means of spying on sex workers.
- Locking pregnant women in cages for “trafficking” themselves.
- Manufacturing data to “prove” a problem exists is not science.
- Dr. David Ley can always be counted on to speak good sense.
- As I keep saying, it’s already far too late to stop this tyranny.
- No one person can undo an entire system of fascist tyranny.
- On the hypocrisy of Democrats cheering for Stormy Daniels.
- Delays in cases like this always benefit the government.
- Another sleazy scam artist raping aspiring sex workers.
- What is it with Alabama politicians and underage girls?
- Why, how could anyone have predicted this outcome?
- Cops, KISS, margarine, Nyalathotep and much more.
- This stopped being a “fringe position” two years ago.
- Stress tends to aggravate chronic health conditions.
- The ugliest part of a peak moral panic: lynch mobs.
- Sex work can also be a boon for disabled workers.
- Spooge-based sexual assaults are growing worse.
- I wonder what biological sex the victims were?
- A productive week despite seasonal anxiety.
- Another week full of gifts and good clients.
- The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
- All laws are backed by a gun in the room.
- Not an article you’d see in the US.
- An update on my fundraiser.
- Fascism in action.
- We told you so.
FYI, the links running to archive.is don’t work for me. It looks like they’re not getting domain name service (at least from my ISP,) because I can’t ping the site either. They do, however, have a whois entry, and I can ping the domains elsa.archive.is, dave.archive.is, and carl.archive.is.
Ah, Stairway to Gilligan’s Island, one of the better investments I never made.
Back in 1978 a record store near me got a stack of 100 Little Roger’s Splash 45 rpm records. They wanted $1 each. I saw them, listened to one, and thought it was the coolest record I’d heard in a while.
But I didn’t buy even one. Don’t know why. Today, that stack of 100 virgin 45s would be worth about $7500, if e8ay listings are representative.
Lyrics to Gilligan’s Island and Stairway to heaven are in classical ballad stanza meter: 1st and 3rd lines iambic tetrameter (sometimes trimeter), 2nd and 4th iambic trimeter. So are The Yellow Rose of Texas, House of the Rising Sun and Amazing Grace.
Most of Emily Dickinson’s poems can be set to the music of any of those songs. Y0utube is full off these mashups. For example: