If you had relationships with any of the people on the block, you wouldn’t need [surveillance]. – Asiaha Butler
ZZ Top had lots of songs about whores; I’ve already featured “La Grange” and “Mexican Blackbird” elsewhere, so to honor their bassist’s passing I’m featuring this one, which is at least whore-adjacent. The links above it were provided by Genya Coulter; Mike Siegel and Scott Greenfield; Franklin Harris; Radley Balko; and Cop Crisis (x2), in that order.
- I live deep in the deepest purple.
- R.I.P. Jackie Mason and Dusty Hill.
- “True communism has never been tried.“
- Cops even get their equipment to lie for them.
- Cop shops screen less thoroughly than fast-food places.
- Cops regularly demonstrate what they are. Believe them.
From the Archives
- Do airlines really want liability for employees racially profiling passengers?
- Redbridge has a history of harassing whores with stupid “crime” rhetoric.
- No one is free while some claim the “right” to lock people in filthy cages.
- One day, “People work to make money” will be recognized as non-news.
- Just letting sex workers see clients in private never occurs to the Dutch.
- This’ll simply force cops to find a different excuse for harassing women.
- Why can’t straight vanillas recognize sexual behavior when they see it?
- Another (very) slight setback for universal facial recognition in the US.
- Anti-sex brainwashing programs for women are very popular in Ohio.
- Once Patreon started following Facebook’s lead, this was inevitable.
- Blaming behavior on an imaginary “addiction” is not responsibility.
- New York increases “indefinite imprisonment” to “death sentence”.
- Prohibitionists supported a delusional cop involved in this hoax.
- Cops, racism, John Saxon, Olivia de Havilland, and much more.
- Truthful headline: “Police Pay Man to Rape Immigrant Women”.
- Puritan fanatics have given tyrants an all-purpose accusation.
- Phoenix Calida on the absurdity of a sex-work-free “Utopia”.
- Everything cops and other “justice” officials tell you is a lie.
- The government war on thought is wholly unconstitutional.
- Any internet-connected device can be used to spy on you.
- Cops, homeless people, Rutger Hauer, and much more.
- Facts have absolutely nothing to do with US sex laws.
- Fetishists trying to shore up their collapsing fantasy.
- Sometimes the War on Whores is the War on Drugs.
- A Who night, black pudding, and a good hair day.
- No, you can’t “save the planet” by going vegan.
- Where “bad vibes” is used to mean “sex rays”.
- A reminder of my impending semi-retirement.
- The result of “abstinence only sex education”.
- Our government refers to this as “correction”.
- A baby step forward for disabled Australians.
- Yet another example of the McNeill Rule.
- Politicians’ potty obsession goes federal.
- A sample of tweets you missed out on.
- My two previous columns for Lammas.
- EARN-IT is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
- Phase two of my bathhouse project.
- Spending much less time in Seattle.
- “Youth pastors” are as bad as cops.
- Rapist cop of the week.