The Honest Courtesan

Habang natutulog ka, kinakain ko ang hininga mo.  –  Batibat

Somehow, I’ve never seen this early Tim Burton short, narrated by Vincent Price; I can’t think of a better choice for the Sunday before Halloween! The links above it were provided by Phoenix Calida, Ryan Marino, The Onion, Popehat, Jesse Walker, Stephen Lemons, and C.J. Ciaramella, in that order.

• Cop is a cop is a cop is a cop.
• This week in artificial stupidity.
• The Onion, in a seasonal mood.
• Don’t call them even if you’re a cop.
• Another legend with very deep roots.
• Cops attack deaf man because he was there.
• Need I really say, “Not because Burger King got your order wrong”?

From the Archives

• Unhinged mob-rule lunacy will spread like rot until struck down by a court.
• Such convoluted language to distance other cops from a typical specimen.
• Remember how I pointed out that the government couldn’t win this fairly?
• Politicians keep promising the impossible & the stupid keep believing ’em.
• Bureaucrats call the victim of their illegal surveillance a “public nuisance”.
• A rare case of a government actor actually being punished for his crimes.
• Mastercard performs elaborate concern kabuki; Visa burbles about “risk”.
• Anything that demonstrates the absurdity of internet censorship is good.
• Cops can’t be bothered to investigate the disappearance of sex workers.
• Realistic porn cartoons are not the worst use for “deepfake” technology.
• Any information you give to the State can and will be used against you.
• “Things on cars = ‘sex trafficking’” expands to include things near cars.
• How many women died due to inaction by this murderer’s cop buddies?
• Airports are among cops’ favorite places to lurk in order to rob people.
• Sorry, crypto-moralists, but “addictive” is not a synonym for “yummy”.
• Cops are sexual predators who specifically target traumatized women.
• I wish more people understood the power of legal precedent this well.
• Cops, Lovecraft, Herschel Savage, Suzanne Somers, and much more.
• Amazon eagerly hands data from internet-connected devices to cops.
• Kids today don’t value privacy because they’ve never really known it.
• Why is sex work still persecuted when drug bans are being loosened?
• It’s good to see this lurid narrative turned against cops for a change.
• The first “King of the Hill” claim I’ve seen in almost three years.
• How do I choose which gift to illustrate when there are several?
• How are they verifying the recipients’ ages before they open it?
• Retrospectives of my blogging from October 2012 and 2013.
• In Rhode Island’s case, this would be re-decriminalization.
• Many “sex trafficking” fetishists are also fixated on hentai.
• The more vague the law, the more authoritarians like it.
• Philadelphia has many different ways to rob its citizens.
• If only there were a concise term for “forced into sex”.
• Last year’s links for Halloween, plus 2022 and 2021.
• Cops, supervillains, ghost cookies, and much more.
• The stupider the belief, the harder it is to debunk.
• Me, welding a steel rafter onto the roof structure.
• A whore-snitching app that skips the middlerat.
• Another collection of spooky fun for Halloween.
• Abbott and Costello Meet Throwback Thursday.
• Not a specific McNeill’s Law case, but adjacent.
• More wackadoo beliefs about magic weenies.
• A new gas-powered tankless water heater.
• Not an especially satisfactory resolution.
• This is some seriously warped behavior.
• The State refuses to call this what it is.
• Curiosity offends the state, comrade.
• Cops, art, Daleks, and much more.
• Putting up the winter shutters.
• Rapist cops of the week.
• Frogs, meet scorpion.
• Oh, what a surprise.
• Stop faking!

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