The Honest Courtesan

To the…people who called DEC, there’s a special place in hell for you.  –  Mark Longo

It wasn’t easy to choose a sendoff for Quincy Jones, but I think the blues title for In the Heat of the Night, sung by Ray Charles, is the right choice.  The links above the video were provided by Franklin Harris, Mike Masnick, Jesse Walker, Franklin Harris again, Greg Lukianoff, Jesse Walker again, and J.D. Tuccille, in that order.

• A new waltz by Chopin.
• This week in artificial stupidity.
• Election week in artificial stupidity.
• R.I.P. Greg Hildebrandt and Quincy Jones.
• The state of our national discourse right now.
• The phrase “lost city” always gets my attention.
• Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.

From the Archives

• How long will airlines accept liability for government-brand racial profiling?
• Monsters worldwide claim “right” to persecute & torture sexual minorities.
• Anyone whose brain isn’t rotted by prohibitionism could’ve predicted this.
• Prison bureaucrats are as narrow-minded and pointlessly cruel as screws.
• Local media reflexively parrots copaganda despite its evident foolishness.
• It always starts with a politically-unpopular group, but never stops there.
• If prohibitionists want to “rescue” whores, why keep us from other jobs?
• Predictable result of giving violent, aggressive men power over women.
• Cops, artificial stupidity, Ken Mattingly, Frank Borman, and much more.
• What kind of garbage vomits slurs against the victims of a serial rapist?
• Propaganda for Establishment wet dream of total financial surveillance.
• Israel’s plan to force sex workers into low-paid menial “women’s work”.
• It’s unusual to see the word “trafficking” used for government actions.
• 60% of US prostitution charges result from a crime vs the sex worker.
• Deranged men may get violent when we won’t indulge their fantasies.
• The entire “troubled teen” industry needs to be sued out of existence.
• It’s a relief when courts choose to rule that the obviously-true is true.
• Imaginary “sex traffickers” forced to give up Wile E. Coyote schemes.
• A panic attack rooted in the “fentanyl” and “sex trafficking” hysterias.
• Crypto-moralists believe anything unpleasant must be “good for you”.
• The government needs to be buried in lawsuits before this will stop.
• There’s nothing in this article that one can’t get from sex workers.
• Some cops don’t stop with mere beating, or with just their wives.
• Is it too much to ask that politicians actually ban these arrests?
• All too often, evil arrives cloaked in the mantle of expediency.
• I wonder if the Illinois lawsuit had anything to do with this?
• The “cops bearing gifts” PR scam is not limited to the US.
• Just another of those nonexistent false rape accusations.
• Just another kind of federal cop, with behavior to match.
• Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
• Yet another rescue industry fraud has been unmasked.
• This happens all over the US, but Florida is the worst.
• Why end-to-end encryption is an absolute necessity.
• It’s good to see sane people speaking up about this.
• The New Yorker is ON this only 9 years behind me!
• Cops, David Bowie, Kevin Conroy, and much more.
• As you can see, my fountain is finally working!
• Police departments attract predatory garbage.
• Cops, irony, Dean Stockwell, and much more.
• Rapist cops of the week for 2021, and 2022.
• Wheat-free recipes I developed for Lorelei.
• Your “leaders” refer to this as “correction”.
• My two previous posts for Armistice Day.
• Not a youth pastor! How unprecedented!
• One can’t build a roof while it’s hailing.
• Rapist cops aren’t limited to the US.
• A thumb drive for cell phones.
• Presented without comment.
• Throwback Thursday 1970.
• The Cthulhu chia pet.
• The gift of Blake’s 7.

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