The Honest Courtesan

We’re rehearsing, we’re rehearsing, we’re rehearsing.
–  Domonique Champion

How the hell does one choose a song to honor the death of Burt Bacharach?  There’s almost no way to pick his best or most appropriate composition, so instead I chose what may be his silliest (though very catchy), most inappropriate one.  The links above it were provided by Mike Siegel, Yasmin Nair, Dan Savage, Phoenix Calida, Cop Crisis (x2), and Mark Bennett, in that order.

• Pleasant dreams.
• R.I.P. Burt Bacharach.
• R.I.P. Lisa Loring and Cindy Williams.
• Cops murder man for cleaning a house.
• Cops kidnap and beat a random homeless man for fun.
• Oinking out the magic word “priority” excuses hit and run.
• Inability to tell fantasy from reality is a job requirement for cops.

From the Archives

• Why do cats dislike having their picture taken while doing something cute?
• They actually admit part of the point is to normalize constant surveillance.
• The dumb “awareness raising” stunt field is now swamped by hack artists.
• Prohibitionists demonstrate the depravity of their lurid fantasies about us.
• Summer Stephan touts her personal animus against whores as “concern”.
• Defrauding & exploiting workers is only “trafficking” when sex is involved.
• Utah politician thinks he’s discovered a way around the First Amendment.
• Everyone harmed by “prostitution stings” needs to keep suing over them.
• Hysterical overreaction to the imaginary behavior of imaginary creatures.
• One of the rare occasions when I’m actually less pessimistic than others.
• To flush civil rights, just apply a label like “prostitute” or “gang member”.
• Canada pretends to care about privacy, but has plenty of snooping tools.
• The Miami Herald‘s Chicken Licken act is at the center of this debunking.
• This will continue as long as screws have absolute power over prisoners.
• Some companies want to destroy the internet to gain a temporary edge.
• “The increase…is so small…it is unlikely to be relevant for the individual“.
• 41% of cops admit to beating their wives; some don’t stop with beating.
• That the woman reported him tells me this wasn’t a coercion-free offer.
• Redbridge has a history of harassing sex workers with “crime” rhetoric.
• Some states want to stop cops from raping; Florida pays them to rape.
• This would at last truly be the beginning of the end for these evil laws.
• The “sex trafficking” moral panic is imploding in a spectacular fashion.
• California’s annual anti-whore pogrom did a lot less damage last year.
• Nobody will be safe until this odious practice is ruled unconstitutional.
• The hotel industry is really going to regret collaborating with fanatics.
• If a non-cop had done this, he’d be facing “sex offender” registration.
• Everett, WA still claims that “women who dress like sluts cause rape”.
• I think we have enough evidence to start calling this “McNeill’s Law”.
• Western articles about the Uighur genocide usually ignore the rapes.
• They didn’t refuse on principle, but rather on a warrant technicality.
• Cops, chicken, Christopher Plummer, Mary Wilson, and much more.
• The ongoing racist government campaign against massage parlors.
• Academics keep “discovering” what we’ve been saying for decades.
• The bipartisan war on the internet continues without even a pause.
• Finally, a politician actually supports sex worker rights with deeds.
• This unconstitutional bill has already failed in over a dozen states.
• There’s no police-statery Texas courts won’t hand-wave through.
• Irish versions of the “gypsy whores” myth always seem quaint.
• Another politician with a minuscule particle of human decency.
• Sounds like somebody needs therapy, but it ain’t the clients.
• People’s lives are just stakes in a game to these sociopaths.
• Once again, vanillas reveal themselves as the true perverts.
• Cops watch racist “virtual reality” porn and call it “training”.
• Cops, Skynet, Debussy, Douglas Trumbull, and much more.
• Moral panics become increasingly extreme until implosion.
• Cops, covers, Kirk Douglas, Orson Bean, and much more.
• Dominique “Body Fluids” Sepowitz’s latest bogus “study”.
• “Community concerns” is a euphemism for “busybodies”.
• The third installment of my six-part review of Blake’s 7.
• All that’s left of the once-popular “gypsy whores” myth.
• Is a “small group leader” the same as a “youth pastor”?
• Fascism in action, badly covered by a yellow journalist.
• Copmala will never let go of her hatred of sex workers.
• People are still terrified of the magical power of words.
• Prohibitionists care only about “messages”, not facts.
• Another of those nonexistent false rape accusations.
• Cops still love their “crackdowns” against gay men.
• Dozens of rapists rewarded with paid vacations.
• There is nothing as contagious as a bad idea.
• Eros Guide, Erotic Monkey, and David Azzato.
• Another week that’s chock full of rapist cops.
• The worst US tyranny is always bipartisan.
• Analyzing the damage inflicted by FOSTA.
• Recent highlights from my Twitter feed.
• Authoritarian is as authoritarian does.
• You just can’t keep a bad law down.
• I now have so many things to sell!
• There are no gaps in this roof.
• Rapist cop of the week.
• Vanishing gumbo.

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