Long-time readers know that during the holiday season, regular features often move around, appearing on different days than they usually do. This is just a Throwback Thursday column, appearing early because after this week every day was spoken for by another feature; obviously I couldn’t give it a “Throwback Thursday” name, so I just used a Monkees reference instead.
I’m not sure which are more pathetic: the poor saps who think they’re going to get artificial, programmable whores in the next few years, or the sociopathic control freaks who want to use violence to stop them from diddling with dolls in private.
– “The Pygmalion Fallacy (#596)”
The real “message” sent by the very existence of prohibitionist laws [is]: we own you and millions of others, and we can dispose of you at a whim. – “Sending Messages”
Life is not merely a synonym for “biological existence”, and there are many things which have nothing to do with maintaining biochemical processes, yet are necessary for a life that isn’t low-level torture. – “No Need?”
Th[e anti-sexworker] jihad is no more “well-meaning” than the Drug War, alcohol Prohibition, Jim Crow or any other campaign of government violence against individuals and civil rights; it is a well-planned and well-funded program of terrorism designed to punish sexual behavior authoritarians have deemed deviant, and to break the spine of the greatest tool for the facilitation of free thought ever developed by the human race. – “Malice Aforethought“
Once I lost the ability to believe in childish fantasies, all of the childish fantasies – including the ones most adults still cling to – went down in flames.
– “I Believe in Father Christmas”
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