The Honest Courtesan

You have New York City saying…the guy who defends himself against the mugger…deserves life in prison.  –  Amy Swearer

This is another of those songs which was once well-known (enough to appear in TV commercials), but probably isn’t anymore.  Whether you’re familiar with it or not, enjoy.  The links above it were provided by Mike Siegel; Jesse Walker; Rick Horowitz (x2); Dan Savage and Clarissa; and Ally Fogg, in that order.

• I’m sure you feel safer now.
• Restaurateurs learning from cops.
• Cops murder man for getting in accident.
• Couple threatened for shopping while black.
• R.I.P. Sheldon Harnick and John Goodenough.
• I’ll take “Things That Never Happened” for $500, Alex.

From the Archives

• No public library is safe from censorship by politicians who hold the purse.
• Most porn performers have to supplement film income with outside work.
• To the state, false face scanning positives aren’t a bug; they’re a feature.
• SCOTUS expands one of the greatest legal abominations ever conceived.
• Contrast the speed with which states pass laws increasing cops’ powers.
• Yet another rescue industry “hero” is revealed as an opportunistic fraud.
• A government allowed to censor one thing can also censor other things.
• Removing excuses cops use to persecute people is always a good thing.
• Cops arbitrarily group unrelated arrests & call it a “sex trafficking sting”.
• The State’s insulting idea of compensation for a mass public gang rape.
• Is there any non-troglodyte who still denies police violence is epidemic?
• FOSTA just keeps splashing egg all over the feds’ stupid, violent faces.
• Why are most people surprised to find out that cops are habitual liars?
• Authoritarians love their wanking fantasies of mind-reading machines.
• If only there were a concise word for smuggling humans to sell them.
• How many mass graves before people stop believing religion is good?
• Some conservatives are starting to see the danger of police violence.
• They’ve discovered their moral compasses at least 20 years too late.
• The ACLU has finally noticed financial discrimination vs sex workers.
• It only took the courts five years to recognize the obvious this time.
• Even if this wasn’t a commercial transaction, it’s certainly adjacent.
• Another study proves what sex workers have been saying all along.
• The US government is now claiming sex workers are actually spies.
• The “missing” children were actually abducted by the government.
• They won’t stop until privacy of any kind is absolutely impossible.
• Even the government itself recognizes what a disaster FOSTA is.
• These charges followed the accusations by almost three years.
• Prohibitionists’ real goal is to completely ban online sex work.
• Cops, futurism, dead people, Cab Calloway, and much more.
• Because obviously prohibition doesn’t ruin enough lives yet.
• A resurgence of the 20th-century “whore as criminal” myth.
• Conditioning kids to accept constant, intrusive surveillance.
• Retrospectives of my blogging from June 2011 and 2012.
• Anything can be “trafficking” if you use your imagination.
• A few statistics to further dispel the myth of heroic cops.
• Cops, heat, appliances, John McAfee, and much more.
• There are many ways for governments to steal things.
• The ugliest part of a peak moral panic: lynch mobs.
• A politician claims that spying isn’t actually spying.
• So many rapist cops, so many underage victims.
• A retrospective of my blogging from June 2011.
• Taking that nasty old roof off of the wellhouse.
• The construction of my first guest cottage.
• Still another abomination from Alabama.
• Another barely-into-summer heat wave.
• No woman is safe from predatory cops.
• I’m pretty tired of climbing on rooves.
• A tiny visitor to the construction site.
• No, your reason is not an exception.
• Another curated selection of tweets.
• 22 vultures coming in for the kill.
• Cops, jazz, and much more.
• Rapist cops of the week.
• The arrival of Cicero.

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