The Honest Courtesan

I can’t even breathe.  –  Neal Saunders

This seemed like the right song to memorialize composer Ned Rorem, especially since it’s also seasonally appropriate.  The links above it were provided by Mike Siegel; Dave Crisp; Jesse Walker, Franklin Harris, & Dan Savage; Cop Crisis (x2); and Carol Fenton, in that order.

• As one does.
• Not for any reason, anywhere.
• R.I.P. Kevin O’Neill, John Aniston & Ned Rorem.
• Cops regularly demonstate exactly what they are.
• Cops search for way to blame teen for asphyxiating himself.
• Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.

From the Archives

• “The government failed in its move to criminalize basic human kindness.“
• Mastercard’s concern kabuki is the result of “sex trafficking” propaganda.
• Rapist gets a respectful title; his victims are dehumanized as “offenders”.
• To flush civil rights, just apply a label like “prostitute” or “gang member”.
• This authoritarian psychopath wants you to forget what she’s really like.
• While cops suffer no consequences, this is mere political grandstanding.
• Cops, chips, California, Johnny Rotten, Jeffrey Combs, and much more.
• The racism of European “anti-trafficking” is getting harder to disguise.
• A petition to put a decriminalization measure on the ballot in Oregon.
• Nevada brothel whores feel compelled to vomit out toxic whorearchy.
• Government sends a SWAT team to stop people from reading fiction.
• A good argument for refusing to roll over and let yourself be robbed.
• The state demands an eye for an eye, but it doesn’t care whose eye.
• It’s no surprise when men paid to behave violently, behave violently.
• Censors have learned to use “progressive” rhetoric to cloak prudery.
• Another cop scam to shore up the dying “sex trafficking” mythology.
• These “new regulations” are intended to do just what they’re doing.
• To be neutral in situations of injustice is to side with the oppressor.
• This regurgitation of debunked nonsense is pathetic even for cops.
• Grossly-unconstitutional robberies were illegal from the beginning.
• Why I avoid “Black Friday” and collect toys for needy kids instead.
• Pasco County’s “predictive policing” scheme doesn’t spare minors.
• Will Facebook finally stop cops from making predatory accounts?
• “Sex workers are better aware than most of the value of sex.“
• “The latest installment of Visa & Mastercard’s war on porn“.
• The ruinous War on Drugs is finally starting to wind down.
• Cathy Reisenwitz on the origin of whore-hatred in women.
• This is symptomatic of the government’s deep moral rot.
• Cops, headlines, spelling, Gifaanisqatsi, and much more.
• Cops, nightmares, Stephen Sondheim, and much more.
• Another would-be magic lasso based in pseudoscience.
• The moral panic continues to spin wildly out of control.
• Fascist corporations are happy to assist in a genocide.
• Now this will set the cat among the pigeons.
• My two previous columns for Thanksgiving.
• November 2016 and 2017 in retrospect.
• So I spent all afternoon on my back.
• Another curated selection of tweets.
• A blissfully boring week.
• Rapist cop of the week.
• Electrizzical arithmetic.

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