They want to put someone away, so they can say the case is solved. – Sandra Hemme
This week’s video was suggested by one of my generous gentlemen, who correctly surmised that I would enjoy it. The links above it were provided by Stephen Lemons; Mike Siegel; Dan Savage and Genya; Popehat, IncarcerNation (x2), and J.D. Tuccille, in that order.
- This week in artificial stupidity.
- Grace found this very amusing.
- R.I.P. Donald Sutherland and Martin Mull.
- Cop murders 7 dogs; cop shop blames their owner.
- So was this “protecting”, or “serving”? It’s hard to tell.
- Cops cage mentally-ill woman for murder cop committed.
- Crime: failing to fill out forms Penalty: summary execution.
From the Archives
- Everyone who spread “sex trafficking” hysteria contributed to this tragedy.
- No public library is safe from censorship by politicians who hold the purse.
- Vast sums of time, money & energy, flushed down the “culture war” toilet.
- Why do we need “permits” to exercise our speech rights in the first place?
- Both sides in the culture war have completely taken leave of their senses.
- SCOTUS expands one of the greatest legal abominations ever conceived.
- Contrast the speed with which states pass laws increasing cops’ powers.
- Yet another rescue industry “hero” is revealed as an opportunistic fraud.
- I doubt this is the kind of lawsuit Louisiana politicians wanted to attract.
- Cops simply ignore putative cop-control laws without criminal penalties.
- A government allowed to censor one thing can also censor other things.
- Cops arbitrarily group unrelated arrests & call it a “sex trafficking sting”.
- Canadian politicians ignore events in other parts of the Commonwealth.
- The State’s insulting idea of compensation for a mass public gang rape.
- Is there any non-troglodyte who still denies police violence is epidemic?
- Why are most people surprised to find out that cops are habitual liars?
- Authoritarians love their wanking fantasies of mind-reading machines.
- Cops, fantasies, Sheldon Harnick, John Goodenough, and much more.
- This silly tale is more pathetic now that the trope has largely died off.
- How many mass graves before people stop believing religion is good?
- The ACLU has finally noticed financial discrimination vs sex workers.
- It only took the courts five years to recognize the obvious this time.
- Even if this wasn’t a commercial transaction, it’s certainly adjacent.
- The “missing” children were actually abducted by the government.
- They won’t stop until privacy of any kind is absolutely impossible.
- Corporations have become the favored tool of censors worldwide.
- It’ll take a lot more such rulings before this political fad is buried.
- Reporter tries to bury the lede; headline writer won’t participate.
- Uber already encourages its drivers to spy on riders for the pigs.
- Even the government itself recognizes what a disaster FOSTA is.
- Prohibitionists’ real goal is to completely ban online sex work.
- Cops, futurism, dead people, Cab Calloway, and much more.
- Because obviously prohibition doesn’t ruin enough lives yet.
- Conditioning kids to accept constant, intrusive surveillance.
- Composing and performing a kind of music only I can hear.
- Retrospectives of my blogging from June 2012 and 2013.
- Anything can be “trafficking” if you use your imagination.
- Cops, heat, appliances, John McAfee, and much more.
- There are many ways for governments to steal things.
- The dystopian future of Minority Report has arrived.
- So many rapist cops, so many underage victims.
- Taking that nasty old roof off of the wellhouse.
- Still another abomination from Alabama.
- Another barely-into-summer heat wave.
- The annex bathroom is almost finished.
- No woman is safe from predatory cops.
- I’m pretty tired of climbing on rooves.
- No, your reason is not an exception.
- Another curated selection of tweets.
- Working on Sunset’s outbuildings.
- 22 vultures coming in for the kill.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- The arrival of Cicero.
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