The idea that [cops] have a protectable right to personal privacy while conducting a search of someone’s home is nothing short of absurd. – David Carey
Wow, there sure were a lot of celebrity deaths in the past couple of weeks; I think the most obits I’ve had in one Links column before was three or four; it was certainly less than six. But none of them were musicians, so here’s a parody of one modern ritual surounding the other end of the human experience. The links above it were provided by Stephen Lemons and Franklin Harris; Dan Savage and Radley Balko; Jesse Walker and Scott Greenfield; C.J. Ciaramella; and Scott Long, in that order.
- R.I.P. Cormac McCarthy and John Romita.
- R.I.P. Glenda Jackson and Daniel Ellsberg.
- R.I.P. Treat Williams and Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri.
- Cops are incapable of separating fantasy from reality.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
From the Archives
- Drawing silly lines between different “types” of pragmatic sexual behavior.
- Cops, futurism, immortality, Steppenwolf, John Paragon, and much more.
- While sex work is marginalized, sex workers will be targeted for violence.
- Media stenographers are always happy to indulge cops’ violent fantasies.
- It’s good to see a lockdown house getting some well-deserved pushback.
- Burying government in lawsuits is the only way to slow its depredations.
- Where “rescued” = “arrested” & “safety shelter” = “deportation prison”.
- More queer sex workers are remembering Pride commemorates a riot.
- Cops aren’t only not protectors of women; they are an active menace.
- Domiciling a sex work site in a violent prohibitionist regime is foolish.
- Rulers of majority-black city target black people with police violence.
- Western media are still largely ignoring China’s atrocities in Xinjiang.
- Your regular reminder that rapist screws are not confined to the US.
- The Japanese are much more sensible about sex than Americans.
- Corporations have become the favored tool of censors worldwide.
- OUR’s increasingly-bizarre antics even embarrass prohibitionists.
- Seems like a significant fraction of child porn is spread by cops.
- Government bureaucracy at work, “correcting” people to death.
- The word for corporate/government “partnerships” is “fascism”.
- “Thai prostitutes…[refuse to pretend to be] victimized women…”
- Cops, tattoos, monkeys, Ian Holm, Vera Lynn, and much more.
- The people the government empowers to police your sexuality.
- All sex workers victimized by cops should sue if at all possible.
- Violence against trans people is getting mainstream attention.
- Over half of Americans now live in states with legal cannabis.
- Government as domestic abuser is a very useful metaphor.
- “Sex trafficking” is a convenient excuse for any tyranny.
- My answer to the titular question: “I certainly hope not”.
- A Reason interview with Reason alumnus Radley Balko.
- Computers are useful tools, but rotten “authorities”.
- Why “policies” not anchored in law are no solution.
- My two previous columns for the summer solstice.
- Louisiana eliminates an excuse for caging people.
- “Pastor” + “assistant principal” = “youth pastor”.
- My first Who night with Lorelei in over a year.
- The latest chapter in this nasty, twisted saga.
- The only winners are the ambulance-chasers.
- Photos showing the progress on my addition.
- Meanwhile, the West obsesses about porn.
- Beginning the roof structure of my annex.
- Puritanism is throttling the entire world.
- Another sign we’re past the watershed.
- Cops, robots, Picasso, and much more.
- Journalism is slowly dying of gullibility.
- The foundation of Chekhov’s cottage.
- Maggie on the Scot Goes Popcast.
- All prohibitionism is the same.
- Here are FIRE’s first new ads.
- Up on a roof with my Hitachi.
- Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
- Just protecting and serving.
- Walls made from leftovers.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- Frog, meet scorpion.
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