The Honest Courtesan

I hadn’t realized that classical Greece had an early form of pipe organ, the hydraulis; thanks to Genya for drawing my attention to this recording of a reconstructed example of the instrument.  The links above the video were provided by Mike Siegel, Amy Alkon, Cop Crisis (x3), Dan Savage, and Lenore Skenazy, in that order.

• R.I.P. Pelé.
• I’m sure you feel safer now.
• Protecting nobody and serving up idiocy.
• Cops keep demonstrating what they are.
• When will people learn not to trust cops?
• R.I.P. Barbara Walters and Pope Benedict XVI.
• The writing of people Europeans considered illiterate.

From the Archives

• Blaming behavior on an “addiction” is the opposite of taking responsibility.
• Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
• In case you thought screws restricted their petty sadism to the prisoners.
• Prosecutor begs judge to let him keep illegal porn video for personal use.
• Prohibitionists can always find bogus “studies” to support their fantasies.
• Sounds like somebody who followed my repeated advice to older virgins.
• Cops will never stop doing this as long as the state gives them pretexts.
• Hey, female cops; how’s collaboration with the police state working out?
• Florida prosecutors desperately trying to wipe the egg off of their faces.
• Funny how often people “die suddenly” while cops are brutalizing them.
• Yet another trans woman murdered, this time by a self-proclaimed ally.
• Are the Japanese the only people left who can tell fantasy from reality?
• Oh look, Western nations are starting to notice a genocide in progress.
• Nobody questions the stigma that let this scum destroy women’s lives.
• Yet TERFs want you to believe trans women are the dangerous ones.
• Texas won’t be satisfied until every functionary is spying on women.
• Innocent people accused of “sex trafficking” are starting to hit back.
• Yellow journalists try to avoid responsibility for their irresponsibility.
• Courts are losing patience with arbitrary authoritarian “lockdowns”.
• Worst of all, Western governments are looking at this as a model.
• How to totally destroy your relationship with your teen offspring.
• This will continue until reporters stop parroting cop PR releases.
• The hotel industry is going to regret collaborating with fanatics.
• My two previous columns for Epiphany (AKA Little Christmas).
• Does anyone really believe this wasn’t a foregone conclusion?
• At last, the world is starting to pay attention to sex workers.
• The unhinged Guinasso and his pet fantasist are at it again.
• Cops, amateurs, Betty White, April Ashley, and much more.
• The word “healthy” is no longer a semantically neutral one.
• Cops, lycanthropy, Luna, Barbara Shelley, and much more.
• The only thing “growing” about “sex trafficking” is the lies.
• Abolishing these evil, tyrannical laws is an uphill climb.
• In which the Wall Street Journal licks Xi Jinping’s arse.
• Half of Australia will be contaminated by sex rays!
• Another example of why cops are not reformable.
• There are four separate meanings of “libertarian”.
• Congress won’t stop until it controls the internet.
• Are you beginning to see the whole picture now?
• Another example of barking up the wrong tree.
• Your government refers to this as “correction”.
• The US is following in the footsteps of China.
• In which I build a new kitchen shelving unit.
• The Dutch Disnification scheme continues.
• As the young people say, “So much nope”.
• Your “leaders” refer to this as “correction”.
• Meanwhile, next door to New Hampshire…
• Cops, dumplings, Rush, and much more.
• When it’s too cold to work on the annex.
• The Sunset bookcase project continues.
• Surprising absolutely no trans people.
• An argument I’ve often made myself.
• The Swedish model protects women!
• Prohibitionism is a mental illness.
• Rapist cops of the week.
• Twelfth Night at Sunset.

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