The Honest Courtesan

I can’t breathe, please help me.  –  Johnny Hollman

This machine (suggested by (Mike Siegel) isn’t as good as his last one; IMHO it requires too much active input from a human during the run.  However, it’s still amusing.  The links above the video were provided by Jesse Walker, Eric Sprankle, Franklin Harris, Clarissa, Lucy Steigerwald, The Onion, and Phoenix Calida, in that order.

• Metaphor alert.
• “Invasion of the…”
• R.I.P. David McCallum.
• A hitherto unknown language.
• Your “leaders” call this “justice”.
• I wonder if they’ll also sell them to cops’ wives?
• “Crime”: minor auto accident. Penalty: summary execution.

From the Archives

• Fascists want to destroy young people’s lives before they even get started.
• My 1st profession has become as much an authoritarian target as my 2nd.
• The government’s evil clown show has been renewed for another season.
• Trumpists are completely taking control of the “sex trafficking” narrative.
• Non-wealthy victims of this illegal surveillance still had their lives ruined.
• If prohibitionists want to “rescue” whores, why keep us from other jobs?
• Clearview’s still trying to rehabilitate its reputation among useful idiots.
• Even prohibitionists like Holmes can tell which way the wind is blowing.
• Surely you didn’t think this would only be used to punish sex workers?
• When the topic is sex, Philippine reporters can’t write like sane adults.
• Oh noes, they contaminated public places with their eeeevul sex rays!
• The Church should define ways for priests to meet their sexual needs.
• Americans will believe basically any scaremongering about teenagers.
• Inability to pass a law doesn’t stop politicians from getting their way.
• I’ve never understood why some men are so attached to this notion.
• It’s good to see psychologists debunking hysteria over “pedophilia”.
• Worst of all, Western governments are looking at this as a model.
• Cops, archaeology, Shel Silverstein, Henry Silva, and much more.
• A report by Hacking/Hustling on shadowbans and similar policies.
• Americans pretend “politician hires whores” is other than a yawn.
• I’ll be optimistic when she clearly repudiates the Swedish model.
• Just another study showing the same results as every other one.
• A retrospective of my blogging from September 2011 and 2012.
• British screws also love yelling “Stop faking!” at caged people.
• Don’t try to imagine this in the US; you’ll overload your brain.
• The South Carolina Supreme Court declares itself illegitimate.
• Why do massage parlors bring puritans out of the woodwork?
• Elizabeth Nolan Brown on the Blocked and Reported podcast.
• Cops, prohibition, Mac Davis, Helen Reddy, and much more.
• Looks like Michael Hobbes has joined the debunkers’ club.
• An in-depth look at the arguments in the anti-FOSTA suit.
• Censorship has now become almost universally popular.
• In true horror cinema, there is little to no “explanation”.
• Can you imagine this happening in the puritanical US?
• Prohibitionism is an inherently violent belief system.
• A natural 21st-century development for the brand.
• Every damned time I think I’m done with rooves…
• Thai sex worker activists are made of awesome.
• It’s always nice when they feed on each other.
• It’s too bad most arrests aren’t of other cops.
• At long last, we have an operational hot tub!
• Politicians’ potty obsession has gone federal.
• Censorship has once again become popular.
• Cops, Redwall, Star Wars, and much more.
• Concentrating my appointments together.
• Rapist cops of the week, 2021 and 2022.
• Building a shower in my new bathroom.
• The Indian high court’s ruling in action.
• Rethinking the floor-leveling project.
• Switching to our new power system.
• Another curated selection of tweets.
• They should’ve done this years ago.
• A prosecutor is just a kind of cop.
• The “security” system that isn’t.

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