The Honest Courtesan

We’re not in Afghanistan or Gaza.  –  Bevis Schock

Even though I don’t do April Fools hoaxes any more, I still like a good parody, and I recently came across this one by Amy Winfrey, mocking her own hilarious Making Fiends series (if you’ve never seen it, you should remedy that today).  The links above the video were provided by Scott Greenfield, Walter Olson,  C.J. Ciaramella, The Onion, Mike Masnick, and IncarcerNation (x2), in that order.

• R.I.P. Louis Gossett, Jr.
• In the days of King Lear.
• Not a police state, no sirree!
• The Onion is best when it’s vicious.
• Welcoming the Joker to Gotham News.
• No, your reason is not a fucking exception.
• No, really, your reason is not a fucking exception.

From the Archives

• Everything about modern corporate work makes me happier I’m a whore.
• Journalists keep obediently referring to senseless violence as “correction”.
• Want “safe” schools? Stop paying sexually-aggressive thugs to lurk there.
•  “Social purity” campaigns have always been a wholly bipartisan crusade.
• “Sex trafficking” fetishists share creepy fantasies about Ukranian women.
• Sometimes the difference between upper & lower house becomes visible.
• If only there were a concise word for “systematically forced to have sex”.
• The mainstream media won’t admit to their part in creating this disaster.
• A politician with even a vestigial sense of morality is a rare thing indeed.
• A decent article despite journalistic credulity about prohibitionist claims.
• Cathy Reisenwitz on a power-hungry politician’s lies about the internet.
• Apparently, I was destined to be criminalized regardless of career path.
• Sows love fantasy role-playing as sex workers in order to harm people.
• Airports are among cops’ favorite places to lurk in order to rob people.
• The bipartisan war on the internet moves us a step closer to idiocracy.
• No rumor is so stupid that some politician won’t believe and repeat it.
• Cops really don’t care if they ruin people’s lives with wild accusations.
• Once in a while, there’s evidence of the way cops act toward women.
• Ambulance-chasers don’t care who gets hurt as long as they cash in.
• Why even not-quite-prohibitionist documentaries are not quite good.
• Savannah Sly and Tarah Wheeler, writing for the Brookings Institute.
• Three of my friends have thoughts on the massage parlor massacre.
• I used to like hoaxing on April Fools Day, until it stopped being fun.
• At least some minds aren’t warped by the moronic “wing” fantasy.
• A roundup of efforts in various states to change prostitution laws.
• Bitcoin is a kind of folk devil for economically-illiterate politicians.
• This evil fascist scheme needs to be eradicated, root and branch.
• What Swedish criminalization proponents do: lie & harm women.
• This is the first time I’ve seen a woman falsely accused of rape.
• Copsucking reporter claims to be critical of mass surveillance.
• Cops, pimples, punctuation, Beverly Cleary, and much more.
• It’s been a while since I’ve seen this topic addressed so well.
• Cops and other control freaks, C.W. McCall, and much more.
• It’s important that “out” sex workers not hide our nerdiness.
• There’s a reason I’ve repeatedly called this cult “dangerous”.
• Retrospectives of my blogging from March 2012 and 2013.
• I hope Pasco County, Florida is bankrupted by this lawsuit.
• Another authoritarian “monkey see, monkey do” parade.
• Cops, the undead, lemon pound cake, and much more.
• When I upgraded this blog to avoid an “improvement”.
• I haven’t seen this once-popular fantasy since 2018.
• Can’t y’all settle on one term for preachy molesters?
• Another victory for US evangelical prohibitionists.
• There’s at least one principled librarian in Texas.
• Prohibitionists claimed this would be a disaster.
• Giving the henhouse its semi-annual cleaning.
• Another curated selection of tweets.
• On pigs, fences, and chainsaws.
• Scratch a SWERF, find a TERF.
• Fancy lighting for my atrium.
• Rapist cops of the week.

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