The Honest Courtesan

It’s like a Swiss Army knife of excretory openings.  –  Jakob Vinther

Since I like to memorialize musicians with one of their songs, I try not to feature two musicians’ obits in the same column.  But since most of Jules Bass’s best lyrics were from the Christmas specials he and his partner Arthur Rankin are best remembered for, and it’s a bit too early for that, I gave this week’s video to Jerry Lee Lewis.  The links above it were provided by Radley Balko, Walter Olson, Franklin Harris, Clarissa, Ally Fogg, and Aaron Ross Powell, in that order.

• But of course it is.
• Recipes from the dead.
• R.I.P. Jules Bass and Jerry Lee Lewis.
• Good. Let’s hope all the others follow suit.
• Who among us has never wanted to drive a choo-choo?
• The excuses for intrusive surveillance are growing ever more absurd.

From the Archives

• And yet amateurs pretend that sex workers are the one who spread STIs.
• Kristof is a vile excuse for a human being; naturally he went into politics.
• The government doesn’t care that its war on thought is unconstitutional.
• Swedish criminalization harms sexworkers by creating a climate of fear.
• Calling a bunch of unrelated raids & arrests a “human trafficking sting”.
• The power to declare something “non-essential” is the power to ban it.
• Bird-brains still think realistic porn cartoons are the worst use for this.
• Nevada politicians accomplish by decree what they couldn’t do legally.
• PREA is feel-good pap while screws have absolute power over victims.
• The only “evidence” these racist sociopaths need is being Romanian.
• Nobody is giving expensive cannabis edibles to your spawn for free.
• “The truth is, what affects sex workers eventually affects everyone.“
• Sex workers need to keep suing prohibitionists whenever possible.
• “Porn addiction” is still being used as an excuse for violent crimes.
• While US cops favor VR porn games, Kazakh cops prefer LARPing.
• Brnovich does what an ethical judge would’ve done a year earlier.
• Politicians will criminalize virtually anything that can be defined.
• The “Violence Against Women Act” promotes its named subject.
• We are watching the beginning of the end of the War on Drugs.
• ACLU finally bothers to call for decriminalization, 45 years late.
• There has literally never been a case of drugged trick-or-treat.
• All too often, evil arrives cloaked in the mantle of expediency.
• Remember, Twitter claims this surveillance isn’t surveillance.
• “Vagina Egg” Paltrow joins noted bigot Jada Pinkett Smith.
• Vomit out the right buzzwords and you can censor at will.
• Watch what you say in front of your children, comrade.
• “Migrant workers are a driving force of the…economy.“
• It wasn’t easy to get the steel for my bathhouse roof.
• Cops, horror, irony, Sean Connery, and much more.
• There’s too much surveillance to fit in just one tag.
• A firsthand account of China’s torture of Uighurs.
• Cops, scary music, Mort Sahl, and much more.
• My two previous columns for Guy Fawkes Day.
• A permanent dumb “awareness raising” stunt.
• A fancy Halloween spread for my birthday!
• My two previous columns for Halloween.
• Cops, gender, covers, and much more.
• The first leaf of my bathhouse roof.
• Birthday presents are awesome.
• Prohibitionists call this “rescue”.
• My encounter with a “Karen”.
• Much more of this, please.
• A catalog of thanatopses.
• Rapist cop of the week.

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