I won’t help you until you help yourself. – jail “nurse”
Regular readers know how I feel about abuse of words, especially by government, so this video (called to my attention by Elizabeth N. Brown) really spoke to me. The links above it were provided by Mike Siegel, Kevin Wilson, Scott Greenfield, Jesse Walker, and Cop Crisis (x3), in that order.
- R.I.P. Mikhail Gorbachev.
- Punctuation isn’t optional.
- Just protecting and serving.
- The tragic backstory of Skippy peanut butter.
- Laws are only for the peasantry, not the rulers.
- “Crime”: getting drunk. Penalty: permanent paralysis.
- Nothing is too trivial to serve as an excuse for police violence.
From the Archives
- Easiest way to increase “sex trafficking” stats: invent imaginary “victims”.
- This isn’t nearly enough, unless it’s drawn from the screws’ pension fund.
- Trumpists & anti-Trumpists fight to control the “sex trafficking” narrative.
- Even more worthless than NPR’s usual bluenosed imitation of journalism.
- “Progressives” finally deign to notice discrimination vs some sexworkers.
- I have no sympathy for members of the dangerous “porn addiction” cult.
- Evangelicals get their just desserts for embracing “sex trafficking” myth.
- Once in a while, there are witnesses to the way cops act toward women.
- Cops, karma, dead artists, extra-stupid megalomania, and much more.
- Will this make it harder for cops to molest kids by calling it a “search”?
- Polaris forced to debunk some of the hysteria it has peddled for years.
- Cops don’t care how many lives they destroy with their sick fantasies.
- Fascism is rapidly making private communications a thing of the past.
- Moral panics never end until they start harming unintended targets.
- Celebrities cosplaying as sex workers apparently won’t fight stigma.
- “Search” is the most common government euphemism for “molest”.
- Cops, horror, stupidity, Douglas Adams, recursion, and much more.
- Reporters, please learn the difference between “size” and “length”.
- Cops, copyright, irony, Ed Asner, Charlie Watts, and much more.
- “The sex worker rights movement is getting too loud to ignore.“
- Lacey & Larkin remind you of what their trial is actually about.
- Dumb “anti-trafficking” stunts are now mostly ads for sports.
- What the world looks like when viewed with racing thoughts.
- Any internet-connected device can be used to spy on you.
- What “legal but heavily regulated” looks like in action.
- Why are so many “celebrities” such hypocritical trash?
- The annoyingly-slow progress on our bathhouse roof.
- Matthew 21:31 seems pretty straightforward to me.
- Moral panics really spin out of control as they age.
- A retrospective of my blogging from August 2011.
- “We’re not trying to argue morality, but reality.“
- Cops even get their equipment to lie for them.
- How do escorts decide how much to charge?
- “I love you and you are important to me.”
- The “inspiring work of Dan Satterberg”.
- My own favorites of my own stories.
- “Any drug can be used responsibly.“
- This is getting sweeter by the day.
- Straight from the horse’s mouth.
- Progress on projects at Sunset.
- Wiring my guest cottages.
- My second guest cottage.
- Remember this scandal?
- Rapist cop of the week.