The Honest Courtesan

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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