You’re lucky I don’t get out of this car and beat your ass. – Ronald Serpico
Though to my adult ear this song is terribly silly, I quite liked it when it came out. Of course I was just a child at the time, and it appealed to my dyed-in-the-wool lack of respect for authority and my growing rebelliousness. And since C.W. McCall didn’t exactly have a string of hits, here we are. The links above it were provided by Clarissa, Franklin Harris, Cop Crisis, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Cop Crisis again (x2), and Tim Cushing, in that order.
- R.I.P. C.W. McCall.
- Frogs, meet scorpion.
- This is not reformable.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- No, your reason is not an exception.
- Raising victim-blaming to an ugly art-form.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
From the Archives
- Everything about modern corporate work makes me happier I’m a whore.
- “Social purity” campaigns have always been a wholly bipartisan crusade.
- Do I really have to add, “Not because you saw your neighbors outdoors”?
- If only there were a concise word for “systematically forced to have sex”.
- Nobody’s listening to prohibitionist wanking fantasies during the plague.
- Cathy Reisenwitz on a power-hungry politician’s lies about the internet.
- “[The state] incentivizes hotels to pry into the sex lives of their guests“.
- “Sponsored content” means an article is actually an ad, not journalism.
- Politicians have been trying to control the internet ever since it started.
- “Interesting that everyone who left soon committed a traffic infraction.”
- The power to declare something “non-essential” is the power to ban it.
- I hope you amateurs enjoy being hunted like animals by armed thugs.
- Specimens of homo sapiens are always afraid of things they can’t see.
- The bipartisan war on the internet moves us a step closer to idiocracy.
- Why even not-quite-prohibitionist documentaries are not quite good.
- Three of my friends have thoughts on the massage parlor massacre.
- Fascists scheme to make the UK surveillance network even worse.
- We’ll see more articles like this as “sex trafficking” hysteria dies.
- Once the state takes a power, it never surrenders it voluntarily.
- Consent is neither as simple nor as static as puritans pretend.
- Copsucking reporter claims to be critical of mass surveillance.
- Cops, pimples, punctuation, Beverly Cleary, and much more.
- It’s been a while since I’ve seen this topic addressed so well.
- It’s important that “out” sex workers not hide our nerdiness.
- There’s a reason I’ve repeatedly called this cult “dangerous”.
- I hope Pasco County, Florida is bankrupted by this lawsuit.
- I am not your attack dog, so don’t try to whistle me up.
- When I upgraded this blog to avoid an “improvement”.
- This psychopath is far too close to power for comfort.
- Cops, government, ghosts, Godzilla, and much more.
- I haven’t seen this once-popular fantasy since 2018.
- Sex workers have often been blamed for epidemics.
- Prohibitionists want Ontario to be more like the US.
- Cops, restaurants, the Freakies and much more.
- Prohibitionists claimed this would be a disaster.
- A retrospective of my blogging for March 2011.
- As always, sex workers take care of our own.
- Moving my books into my new bookcases.
- The twelfth member of my Hall of Shame.
- Why my news columns are shorter now.
- Decorating, a fundraiser, and a baby.
- Too much “togetherness”, y’all?
- Scratch a SWERF, find a TERF.
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