The Honest Courtesan

They couldn’t keep him alive for two weeks.  –  Richard Blodgett

David Crosby was not the strongest songwriter in Crosby, Stills & Nash, but this unusual composition is highly regarded by critics.  The links above the video were provided by Radley Balko; Mistress Matisse; Jesse Walker and Mike Siegel; Cop Crisis (x3); and Kevin Wilson, in that order.

• But for video.
• The War on Drugs is a war on people.
• R.I.P. Gina Lollobrigida & David Crosby.
• Cops arrest woman for having a stroke.
• Cops beat and arrest woman for loving cheese.
• Drunk cop runs family off road, threatens to shoot them.
• Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.

From the Archives

• This histrionic has-been has made a rotting moral panic her whole career.
• Trumpists & anti-Trumpists fight to control the “sex trafficking” narrative.
• I wonder how many more fakeumentaries we’ll see before the implosion?
• Woman paid to cause non-consensual harm thinks sex work is shameful.
• “Sex traffickers” have spread from big stores to gas station mini-marts.
• Don’t be fooled by this “shutdown”; it’ll be back in an even-worse form.
• A man has been convicted of “crimes” against people who do not exist.
• The Dutch scheme to Disnify De Wallen is no longer merely a scheme.
• Oh noes, they contaminated public places with their eeeevul sex rays!
• What kind of sick mind thinks hunting & raping women “builds trust”?
• Another cop scam to shore up the dying “sex trafficking” mythology.
• Just as we said would happen before this terrible law was imposed.
• Virginia screws sexually assault women like this on a regular basis.
• Even I’m impressed with the speed this is happening in New York.
• Pathetic public promotions of misogynistic masturbatory material.
• I’m sure the US Army really cares about “diversity and inclusion”.
• Does this anti-whore bullshit spring from the film or its reviewer?
• “Give me your huddled masses, so I can lock them in dungeons”.
• Take a guess why this woman hates sex workers. Go on, guess.
• They’re trying to cut off sex worker access to travel worldwide.
• Cops, politicians, buttholes, dinosaurs in love, and much more.
• Oh look, a psychopathic rapist-murderer cop has raped before.
• We haven’t seen a case of white van hysteria in almost a year.
• The verbal equivalent of vomiting up gallons of toxic diarrhea.
• Cops, satire, Cloris Leachman, Cicely Tyson, and much more.
• Judge denies prosecutors’ wish to keep nonconsensual porn.
• Tara Burns on the “But she’s a whore!” defense for rape.
• Still doubt that politicians are deranged megalomaniacs?
• Notice how often predatory cops’ victims are underage?
• One of the greatest legal abominations ever conceived.
• “The crime was sexually motivated”.  No shit, really?
• A retrospective of my blogging from January 2012.
• Another obituary of Margo St. James from 48 Hills.
• People sometimes ask why I’m not on Facebook.
• Are most cops even capable of telling the truth?
• Michael Bloomberg vs. Melissa Petro’s sex rays.
• Cops, headlines, Don Wilson, and much more.
• White van hysteria appears to be broadening.
• There is nothing as contagious as a bad idea.
• The Miami Herald‘s Super Bowl tragedy porn.
• The US is following in the footsteps of China.
• The US has regularly done this for decades.
• Until SCOTUS acts, this will only get worse.
• Sex workers cannot cure violent misogyny.
• A number of things fall quietly into place.
• Part 2 of my six-part review of Blake’s 7.
• This is why we can’t have nice things.
• My two previous columns for Imbolc.
• The arrival of our standby generator.
• We’re way past the watershed now.
• The second leaf of my atrium roof.
• A circle-jerk of prudish teamsters.
• Job opportunities with Prostasia.
• The “security” system that isn’t.
• How bisexual is Maggie?
• Rapist cop of the week.
• The right kind of snow.
• The Omega Factor.

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