Where is the baby pit bull? – cop, during no-knock raid
I’m really annoyed that The Steven Banks Show, an extremely funny comedy produced by my home-town PBS station, WYES, has never been released on DVD. To give you a taste, here’s the show’s soundtrack album (which I own on CD, naturally). The links above the video were provided by Mike Siegel, Franklin Harris, Cop Crisis, Jesse Walker, Cop Crisis again, and Amy Alkon, in that order.
- I’m helping!
- R.I.P. William Hurt.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- The oldest businesses in the world.
- Cops believe they have Divine right to inflict violence.
- I remember when this was the plot of a Doctor Who story.
From the Archives
- Trumpists are clinging to the “sex trafficking” narrative like grim death.
- The travel industry will regret collaboration with “trafficking” fetishists.
- People need to keep suing government actors for every single assault.
- “Human trafficking” is nothing more than a dysphemism for sex work.
- “Sex trafficking” now means whatever authoritarians want it to mean.
- Unless some country provides a haven, the open internet is doomed.
- “Packed” = “concentrated”. And the word for “tent facility” is “camp”.
- It took almost seven years for the press to finally catch up with me.
- The government needs to be buried in lawsuits before this will stop.
- Japanese attempts to hide sexuality will never be enough for gaijin.
- A perfect storm of stupidity, sex fantasy and authoritarian violence.
- “Authorities” want to keep sex workers from protecting each other.
- Cops, lawheads, dogs, Kentucky, Star Trek opera and much more.
- I’ve never seen chicks grow and develop as quickly as this batch.
- Removing excuses cops use to persecute people is always good.
- “Survivors” are exploited by prohibitionists, but some wake up.
- Texas cops routinely destroy lives by creating false memories.
- Your last bit of privacy during travel is about to be eliminated.
- An imaginary “offense” is excused by an imaginary “disorder”.
- It’s good to see the “sex addiction” myth slowly falling apart.
- “This is not about sex trafficking; this is about local NIBMYs.”
- A long-overdue move by Mexico to throw off US domination.
- Columns like this one by Steve Chapman are no longer rare.
- Why do you advise activists not to debate prohibitionists?
- Another step toward a fully-independent demimonde.
- A list of sex work-friendly criminal defense attorneys.
- When malodorous moralists went after Pepe Le Pew.
- Still doubt politicians are deranged megalomaniacs?
- Why do puritans pretend that shaming is “modern”?
- Doctor Who has always been one of my favorites.
- My two previous columns for the vernal equinox.
- Cops, Metallica, Lyle Waggoner, and much more.
- This will definitely be uphill in most of Louisiana.
- Prohibitionists love victim-blaming sex workers.
- The Canadian premiere of The War on Whores.
- Your government calls this “border protection”.
- We told you so, over and over and over again.
- Tips for sex workers pivoting to online work.
- How China tries to keep the genocide quiet.
- How the pandemic is harming sex workers.
- There really is nothing new under the sun.
- This is going to hurt a lot of sex workers.
- In praise of my producer, Paul Johnson.
- Cops, covers, saints, and much more.
- I move to Sunset for the duration.
- Sex workers reaching out via art.
- Far too little, far too late.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- More Twitter stuff!