The Honest Courtesan

There’s globes everywhere.  Every movie, every TV show, news media…it doesn’t make sense.  –  Kandiss Taylor

It’s easy to commemorate a singer’s death when she only has one major it.  The links above the video were provided by Ricardo  Cortés, Dan Savage, Stephen Lemons, Cop Crisis, Prostasia, Amy Alkon, and Dave Krueger, in that order.

• Metaphor alert.
• R.I.P. Astrud Gilberto.
• Not even if you’re a kid.
• I’m sure you feel safer now.
• Cops abduct teen for liking a movie.
• Do not go gentle into that good night.
• One couldn’t ask for a finer example of Poe’s Law.

From the Archives

• China tortures people until they plead guilty to crimes they didn’t commit.
• Australian politicians just as invested in wrecking the internet as US ones.
• British Columbia is better on prohibition issues than its southern neighbor.
• Michigan is among the greediest, most unscrupulous states in this regard.
• Is there anything narrower and meaner than the mind of a prison official?
• Another move to hide migration control behind the “trafficking” narrative.
• Cops: When you’ve lost older white rural men, you might as well give up.
• Europeans prefer fantasies to admitting black women have adult agency.
• If prohibitionists want to “rescue” whores, why keep us from other jobs?
• Journalists are beginning to recognize what a huge backfire FOSTA was.
• Redbridge has a long history of harassing women, but this is a new low.
• Cops are responsible for more violence than any other US social group.
• Another dog’s-breakfast record review billed as a “sex trafficking sting”.
• Every school needs to rid itself of thugs who stalk and attack students.
• A celebrity accomplished what do-nothing “safe harbor” laws couldn’t.
• FWIW, the DEA mostly conducts old-fashioned Stasi-type surveillance.
• Amazon eagerly hands data from internet-connected devices to cops.
• Spanish court says govt has no power to suppress sex worker union.
• Another excellent article by stalwart friend of whores Mark Draughn.
• If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many is a video worth?
• Just a few choice selections of police brutality from the past week.
• Infantilizing young adults does not help the, regardless of motive.
• Chinese takes its misinformation campaign into the 21st century.
• Most “incels” are more of a danger to themselves than to others.
• When a “study” makes silly claims like this, look for the reasons.
• On the nerdy pleasure of seeing Star Trek actors in other shows.
• I don’t think petitions like this do any good, but they don’t hurt.
• I had one of the rare side-effects from the COVID vaccination.
• Racist persecution of massage parlors is popular in California.
• Why do customer service reps not provide customer service?
• Oh look, it’s what I was saying TWO FUCKING YEARS AGO.
• The Spanish case of the Swedish rot is especially virulent.
• Australian sex workers are challenging crypto-moralism.
• They’re going way beyond fake Facebook profiles now.
• It’s so convenient to outsource tyranny to computers.
• Will South Africa decriminalize province by province?
• But picket-fence gays say cops aren’t our enemies.
• Cops, flying dildoes, B.J. Thomas, and much more.
• Pigs now routinely use spy drones for surveillance.
• In the US, the victim would’ve been arrested.
• There is nothing as contagious as a bad idea.
• Cops, fish, loony music, and much more.
• Another perverse genital inspection law.
• Cops, dogs, Rasputin, and much more.
• I guess cops are never too old to rape.
• Rapist cops don’t only target women.
• Curiosity offends the state, comrade.
• “Youth pastors” are as bad as cops.
• Cleaning our tankless water heater.
• Getting my self-care back on track.
• Finally starting on the atrium roof.
• Hail causes sex trafficking!
• My atrium roof is finished.
• 52 posts in my backyard.
• Rapist cop of the week.
• Like father, like son.
• Stop faking!

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