The Honest Courtesan

It’s absolutely unconscionable.  –  Russ Oliver

From the dark recesses of Maggie’s brain: one of my childhood favorite Heckle & Jeckle cartoons, which I still remembered pretty well despite not having seen it in nearly 50 years.  The links above it were provided by Mike Siegel, He’s Just Adam, Mike Masnick, Franklin Harris, Jesse Walker, Radley Balko, and IncarcerNation, in that order.

• As one does.
• SWAT hand signals.
• At the Mountains of Madness.
• Evidence of a primordial catastrophe.
• This happens more often than you might think.
• Cops treat animals the way they want to treat you.
• Crime: public intoxication. Penalty: summary execution.

From the Archives

• Everyone who spread “sex trafficking” hysteria contributed to this atrocity.
• Extra-amusing given that Northern Ireland lives under the Swedish model.
• Arizona screws are devoted to yelling “Stop faking!” at the sick and dying.
• Using “violence against women” cant to increase violence against women.
• Military leaders of a century ago tried to exploit soldiers’ frustrated libido.
• Cop cultists deny reality no matter how much police violence is revealed.
• Cannabis can’t magically plant art in the barren soil of pedestrian brains.
• Keep plunging that ice pick in; the bad thoughts will go away eventually.
• Burying government in lawsuits is the only way to slow its depredations.
• Cops had no interest in catching him until he started killing non-whores.
• Two hardline prohibitionists at the top do not bode well for sex workers.
• The state is too concerned with “punishing” this girl to actually help her.
• Did you notice the big paywall screen demanding you pay to remove it?
• UK reporters discussed this more in weeks than US ones have in years.
• Is Hollywood finally starting to back off from “sex trafficking” hysteria?
• Politicians won’t stop until they can censor the internet as they please.
• Prohibitionists don’t care who suffers to advance their twisted agenda.
• The racism of European “anti-trafficking” is getting harder to disguise.
• Prohibitionists want inexperienced sex workers harmed or even killed.
• “Police explorer” programs are grooming schemes for predatory cops.
• When will the federal government finally read the writing on the wall?
• Hungarian politicians are as potty-obsessed as their US counterparts.
• “Search” is the most common government euphemism for “molest”.
• Note that cases of actual coercion don’t look much like the myths.
• Let’s hope many more challenges to these medieval laws succeed.
• Amazon’s fascist collaboration with cops just keeps getting worse.
• Any data in government hands will inevitably be misused by cops.
• Useful idiots never see where “hate speech” laws inevitably lead.
• Every four years, Ipswich claims it will “eradicate” street work.
• Both “teams” love ugly, racist, agency-negating whore stigma.
• On the dogma that sex without “enthusiastic consent” is rape.
• Cops, The Beatles, Leslie Phillips, Gallagher, and much more.
• Censors’ fixation on Pornhub spreads to Thailand and India.
• They should never have been made public in the first place.
• It’s unusual for reporters not to excuse this as a “mistake”.
• More blaming of bad behavior on an imaginary “addiction”.
• Male sex workers’ clients are never predominantly female.
• Country life isn’t without its peculiar issues and problems.
• Seattle cops have a positive fetish for illegal surveillance.
• They’re talking about ordinary-sounding escort agencies.
• This kind of behavior is just another sexual power trip.
• It’s getting harder to tell the preachers from the cops.
• Your government wants this to happen more often.
• Cops, Clue, exploding whales, and much more.
• Did they really think they’d get away with this?
• Cops, vampires, James Bond, and much more.
• More presents from a lovely birthday season.
• A review of an episode of Deep Space Nine.
• The horrifying recrudescence of censorship.
• How to get a nude picture of my genitalia.
• It’s good when they feed on each other.
• Decriminalization is just the beginning.
• The mortar bed of my new shower.
• A ramp down into the paddock.
• My office starts to take shape.
• A tactic pioneered by China.
• A short collection of tweets.
• Well, this is certainly novel.
• Rapist cops of the week.
• More birthday presents!

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