The Honest Courtesan

I can’t switch off a feeling that I was stupid in the first place … I trusted [a cop].  –  “Sonia”

The work of a prolific TV composer may be much better known than its composer; that’s certainly the case with Gerald Fried, who compositions included the theme to Gilligan’s Island, most of the score for Roots, and a number of scores for Star Trek, including this one you’ll probably recognize.  The links above the video were provided by Franklin Harris, Mike Siegel, Cop Crisis (x4), and Lenore Skenazy, in that order.

• R.I.P. Gerald Fried.
• A new twist on “I can’t breathe”.
• No, your reason is not an exception.
• Another cop demonstrating exactly what he is.
• I wonder how many tickets he inflicted on others.
• Civilized people see shooting a man in the back as cowardice.
• The systems some people want operating cars at highway speed.

From the Archives

• Never underestimate the human capacity to obsess about the nonexistent.
• Imagine how many others like this are still out there, raping & murdering.
• Prior to 2018, it wasn’t even safe for a politician to support human rights.
• Government invents a new excuse for violently intruding on private lives.
• Even if Clearview is brought down, the djinni is already out of the bottle.
• Australian politicians want to demolish the internet as much as US ones.
• Accept no source as absolute authority, especially when they demand it.
• Just letting sex workers see clients in private never occurs to the Dutch.
• “At least one person noted that the UK was at risk of looking like idiots”.
• The only thing cops seem to love as much as raping kids is kiddie porn.
• Court declares that cops are too stupid and evil to understand morality.
• Oh, oh, my goodness me, who could ever have predicted this outcome?
• Remember this when cops start bloviating about “dangerous criminals”.
• A cop shares his sick masturbatory fantasies about Asian sex workers.
• Why local laws banning surveillance technology are feel-good bullshit.
• A rare case of “authorities” actually charging a serial rapist of escorts.
• Nobody will be safe until this odious practice is ruled unconstitutional.
• Crypto-moralists add nationalism to “health” in their war on pleasure.
• This is at least the fifth iteration we’ve seen of this same inane stunt.
• Why does California want to destroy or drive out a lucrative industry?
• Though pimps are uncommon, many of those who do exist are cops.
• Previous HIV cures were accomplished by bone marrow transplant.
• “Give me your huddled masses, so I can torture and deport them“.
• One day, “professional ‘survivor’” will no longer be a lucrative job.
• Even reporters of these abuses insist on calling them “correction”.
• Anti-trans hysteria has shifted from toilets to high-school sports.
• Two previous columns for International Sex Worker Rights Day.
• Headed toward the end of the hysteria, albeit 3 or 4 years late.
• Cops, absurdism, Blondie, Hieronymus Bosch, and much more.
• A nursing home director explores a deceased patient’s secret.
• It’s been too long since I thanked all of you for your support.
• When government is in charge, things can always get worse.
• AirBnB regrets joining the hotel industry’s eager copsucking.
• Retrospectives of my blogging for February 2011 and 2012.
• Conditioning kids to accept constant, intrusive surveillance.
• The alternative press doesn’t mindlessly parrot copaganda.
• California’s annual anti-whore pogrom is worse than ever.
• The “things on cars” branch of “sex trafficking” scarelore.
• Still think this djinni can be crammed back into its bottle?
• Cops, government, books, sleep farting, and much more.
• Internet companies rushing toward self-lobotomization.
• I won’t be surprised if his sentence is shorter than this.
• What it’s like to be arrested in a “sex trafficking” sting.
• Cops, David Bowie, P. J. O’Rourke, and much more.
• 2011’s fantasy scenario is today’s hysterical reality.
• Taking advantage of freakishly springlike weather.
• Congress won’t stop until it controls the internet.
• Thai sex worker activists are made of awesome.
• A pandemic can’t stop dedicated opportunists.
• Until SCOTUS acts, this will only get worse.
• My two previous columns for Mardi Gras.
• A small but important victory in Canada.
• What is wrong with doctors who do this?
• How Annie became part of the family.
• Quite a good week despite my brain.
• Another curated selection of tweets.
• If a “study” sounds benign to you…
• I’m sure you feel safer now.
• Rapist cops of the week.
• A quadrennial occasion.
• “The least bad option”.

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