How did we go from a routine traffic stop to narcotics-sniffing dogs? – Pamella Jenkins
The big news this week was the passing of Vangelis, the Greek composer most famous for his soundtrack work, whose albums from the late ’70s and early ’80s in particular formed a large portion of the soundtrack of my life. I’ve featured many of his compositions over the years, but never the one that first made me a fan, fittingly entitled “Alpha”. The links above it were provided by Franklin Harris, Cop Crisis (x2), Radley Balko, Popehat, and Nun Ya, in that order.
- The secret of bird navigation at last?
- Another brave hero protecting and serving.
- Cops will keep attacking even after you’re dead.
- Cops terrorize busload of girls because they can.
- Cop beats up woman just to show her who’s boss.
- Cops regularly demonstrate exactly what they are.
From the Archives
- People often die of “undetermined causes” while being brutalized by cops.
- “Kraft’s case punctured some of the overheated rhetoric around sexwork.“
- US courts hold that cops are robots devoid of all human moral judgment.
- Puritans hate folks having fun while confined by “leaders” to their rooms.
- Cops abduct & torture people in ways that would be crimes for non-cops.
- The government doesn’t care that its war on thought is unconstitutional.
- These same monsters think it’s OK to cage people for being near others.
- Too bad they can’t see that all criminalization of consensual acts is bad.
- It took almost 7 years, but the press finally caught up with me on this.
- Every so often one of these sadly-typical stories gets media attention.
- A high-profile example of the quiet rebellion going on all over the US.
- “Going after ‘sex stuff’ + ‘helping’ without bothering to understand.“
- Nobody is free while governments claim the “right” to cage people.
- I hope they’re so “disheartened” they go out and find honest work.
- You are not “accountable” to government; it is accountable to you.
- Do tell me more about “wings” and “blue states” and “democracy”.
- “Mind your own damned business” is a solution to many problems.
- US “authorities” keep pretending sex is an excuse for any tyranny.
- Corporations have become the favored tool of censors worldwide.
- Americans pretend “politician hires whores” is more than a yawn.
- Anti-whore stigma even harms sex workers who are therapists.
- There are still some Westerners who insist this isn’t genocide.
- Admitting to anorgasmia is a way to reclaim one’s sexuality.
- It’s good to see so many challenges to these medieval laws.
- Cops, fascism, Grumpy Cat, Tim Conway and much more.
- Cops, cruelty, California, Charles Grodin, and much more.
- Rewiring the mess of a breaker box my house came with.
- Being well-educated doesn’t mean knowing everything.
- Still think this djinni can be stuffed back into its bottle?
- All they were waiting for was a strong enough excuse.
- Politicians finally deign to make rape illegal for cops.
- The ugliest part of a peak moral panic: lynch mobs.
- Cops, ethics, Tolkien, Fred Willard, and much more.
- Prohibitionists want Ontario to be more like the US.
- Traveling in a good, though exhausted, headspace.
- Another cop demonstrating exactly what he is.
- Another step forward for disabled Australians.
- Expect a lot more of these before this is over.
- The human cost of a prohibitionist crusade.
- How many times will you let them fool you?
- Politician takes bribes, hires whores. Yawn.
- At its core, Australia is still prohibitionist.
- It’s just going to keep getting worse.
- My new living room floor.
- On replacing my old car.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- More tweets!
