The Honest Courtesan

The gang list is absolutely asinine.  –  Tracey Mason

In observance of May Eve, here’s another Lovecraft video from the creators I featured last week; the humor in this one is both drier and darker, and does not entirely override the horror concept at the core of the story.  The links above it were provided by Walter Olson, Mike Siegel, Lucy Steigerwald, Greg Lukianoff, Cop Crisis (x2), and Radley Balko, in that order.

• R.I.P. Barry Humphries.
• A “space program in a box”.
• Fascism is permeating the arts.
• The puritans won’t like this at all.
• My sincere wish is that he never be caught.
• Your tax dollars at work, keeping America safe.
• I suspect US culture war fans would be confused.

From the Archives

• How long will the US ignore the costs of its sick worship of state violence?
• Houston isn’t satisfied with waiting for useful idiots to grant them access.
• I’m sure you amateurs are happy to be censored “for THE CHILDREN™!”
• Didn’t you expect the pandemic to be used as an excuse for censorship?
• The power to declare something “non-essential” is the power to ban it.
• Believing what politicians say is like trying to build a castle on a cloud.
• The rescue industry desperately seeks new things to call “trafficking”.
• The number of excuses government uses for robbery keeps growing.
• Transphobes are trying to reach their goals by criminalizing doctors.
• At least a few politicians’ moral compasses aren’t entirely defective.
• Every politician in Pasco should be jailed & the cop shop shut down.
• This nonsense bill failed in > a dozen states before passing in Utah.
• At least Florida’s anti-trans crusade isn’t as psychopathic as Texas’.
• We did warn y’all that this wouldn’t stop with actual sex workers.
• Another sexual predator specifically targets traumatized women.
• Predatory cops think it’s fun to ruin the lives of racial minorities.
• Cops, puritanism, animation, Andrew Woolfolk, and much more.
• Seems like a significant fraction of child porn is spread by cops.
• Cops, lawheads, plague, parody, Dolly Parton, and much more.
• Cops, skates, straight people, Michael Collins, and much more.
• Is there anything the government won’t label “sex trafficking”?
• Retrospectives of my blogging from April 2011 and April 2012.
• Previous columns for May Day and May Eve (Walpurgisnacht).
• In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
• Sex workers must help each other, because few others will.
• Pregnant women are uniquely vulnerable to state coercion.
• Another sleaze turns old news into an ad for his business.
• Op-eds like this have become very common since FOSTA.
• Washington state politicians demonstrate their hypocrisy.
• It’s been a while since we’ve talked about stage names.
• Unfortunately, this is not strictly a Chinese pathology.
• How I reconcile loosey-goosey fictional chronologies.
• There won’t be any shortcut to stopping Clearview.
• Does this fit your idea of what “sex trafficking” is?
• Compare to the ugly behavior of France & the US.
• Speaking at a convention in Port Orchard, WA.
• Spring has finally arrived, albeit a month late.
• Connecting the whole atrium roof framework.
• Your “leaders” refer to this as “correction”.
• Cassandra wishes to share this with you.
• Slowly chipping away at a terrible law.
• Another curated selection of tweets.
• My pullets at eight weeks old.
• Rapist cop of the week.
• R.I.P. Tempest Storm.

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