The Honest Courtesan

They’re everywhere, literally everywhere.  –  “Madison”

As my memorial to Jimmy Buffett, I’m not going to share the ones everybody knows, but rather my own favorite of his songs.  The link above the video were provided by Mistress Matisse, Dan Savage, Carol Fenton, Lenore Skenazy, The Onion, Scott Greenfield, and Jesse Walker, in that order.

• As one does.
• R.I.P. Jimmy Buffett.
• The US in microcosm.
• I’m sure you feel safer now.
• Where’s Lassie when you need her?
• One down, about 10,000 more to go.
• “The House Is the Monster”: Roger Corman’s Poe Cycle.

From the Archives

• The rescue industry provides opportunities for the wealthy to play cowboy.
• Once a government takes more power, it never really relinquishes it again.
• Kids are not a kind of insurance policy against boredom in later adulthood.
• They’ve got what they wanted: positive attention from censorious asshats.
• Authoritarians believe their subjects are either very stupid or very gullible.
• This time Rolling Stone wasn’t alone in gulping down a load of codswallop.
• Opportunists will continue to harass businesses until FOSTA is overturned.
• Prohibition turns bodies into “crime scenes” which cops can violate at will.
• Crypto-moralists always claim the lust to ban is about “health” or “safety”.
• The reek from the dying rescue industry is now wafting over from Europe.
• America ignores the costs of its sick worship of state-sanctioned violence.
• When hiding migration control behind “trafficking” is especially apparent.
• By this standard, Johnny Cash is lucky he was never accused of murder.
• Is it just me, or does this sound like an attempt at reverse psychology?
• Vultures will continue to harass businesses until FOSTA is overturned.
• Swedish model regimes would’ve targeted the victim for surveillance.
• The State has changed the excuse from “morality” to “animal abuse”.
• A good argument for refusing to roll over and let yourself be robbed.
• Give sexual predators total power over women; what could happen?
• Maltese prohibitionists are strikingly loony, even for prohibitionists.
• The 1st amendment isn’t subject to veto by slacktivist busybodies.
• Expect the equation of human sexuality with pollution to increase.
• Modern fascism has spun a terrifyingly-extensive surveillance net.
• The dawn of a nightmarishly-dystopian surveil-and-snitch state.
• People like this are the norm in policing sex, and always will be.
• Cops, goats, the Moon, time mismanagement, and much more.
• I’ve never seen such an absurdly specific nutritionist claim.
• The government’s evil clown show continues in a new ring.
• Wells Fargo is among the worst perpetrators of this abuse.
• Another Vermont city achieves de facto decriminalization.
• Fentanyl is being inserted into every popular scare myth.
• Legalese for “get out of my courtroom, you opportunist”.
• Unsurprising for entities in the disinformation business.
• It’s nearly always cooler at Sunset than it is in Seattle.
• It’s getting harder to tell the preachers from the cops.
• Most people are moral cowards; proceed accordingly.
• A typical and representative “law enforcement hero”.
• Gee, I wonder why this happens so often in Ireland?
• Preparing the house roof to support the atrium roof.
• Of all construction tasks, I hate painting the most.
• Cops, headlines, psychopathy, and much more.
• Cops, Queen Elizabeth, Ozzy, and much more.
• The FOSTA challenge is proceeding again.
• Is professional BDSM legal in New York?
• No woman is safe from predatory cops.
• Another cop demonstrating what he is.
• The weather last year was very weird.
• I only hope this turns out to be true.
• “Youth pastors” are as bad as cops.
• A trial run of my semi-retirement.
• My new books in my own store.
• My first batch of jam in years.
• Skirting around the cottages.
• Monkey see, monkey do.
• Rapist cops of the week.

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