The Honest Courtesan

Phenylephrine…is not effective as a nasal decongestant.  –  FDA

I noticed this little video just before Halloween, but this was the first time I had room for it.  The links above it were provided by Eric Sprankle, Mark Bennett, IncarcerNation (x4), and Popehat, in that order.

• R.I.P. Tony Todd.
• Guys: condoms protect you, too.
• “Never” really does mean “never”.
• What part of “never” is so hard to grasp?
• Pilot assaulted & arrested for picking someone up at airport.
• Cop beats up little old cancer patient to show him who’s boss.
• The FDA finally gets around to labeling a placebo as a placebo.

From the Archives

• Extra-amusing given that Northern Ireland lives under the Swedish model.
• Everyone who spread “sex trafficking” hysteria contributed to this atrocity.
• Need I really say, “Not because someone borrowed a book from a library”?
• Arizona screws are devoted to yelling “Stop faking!” at the sick and dying.
• Politicians don’t even try to make their new laws Constitutional any more.
• Military leaders of a century ago tried to exploit soldiers’ frustrated libido.
• Politicians, ambulance-chasers want heckler’s veto for the whole internet.
• Cop cultists deny reality no matter how much police violence is revealed.
• Cannabis can’t magically plant art in the barren soil of pedestrian brains.
• Keep plunging that ice pick in; the bad thoughts will go away eventually.
• 41% of cops admit to beating their wives; some don’t stop with beating.
• Burying government in lawsuits is the only way to slow its depredations.
• Reporter used the distancing “former”; headline writer didn’t cooperate.
• Contrast with cops using similar tactics with no more concern for ethics.
• The state is too concerned with “punishing” this girl to actually help her.
• Did you notice the big paywall screen demanding you pay to remove it?
• UK reporters discussed this more in weeks than US ones have in years.
• It does not help victims of government to infantilize them as “children”.
• The racism of European “anti-trafficking” is getting harder to disguise.
• Prohibitionists want inexperienced sex workers harmed or even killed.
• When will the federal government finally read the writing on the wall?
• “Search” is the most common government euphemism for “molest”.
• Let’s hope many more challenges to these medieval laws succeed.
• Note that cases of actual coercion don’t look much like the myths.
• Any data in government hands will inevitably be misused by cops.
• Cops, Heckle & Jeckle, primordial catastrophe, and much more.
• Seems like a significant fraction of child porn is spread by cops.
• Every four years, Ipswich claims it will “eradicate” street work.
• My brain doesn’t get its full relaxation until after my birthday.
• Cops, The Beatles, Leslie Phillips, Gallagher, and much more.
• They should never have been made public in the first place.
• Even the distancing “former” is the same as for rapist cops.
• It’s unusual for reporters not to excuse this as a “mistake”.
• Country life isn’t without its peculiar issues and problems.
• Another high-profile pogrom of an Asian-owned business.
• They’re talking about ordinary-sounding escort agencies.
• Nothing infuriates violent busybodies more than privacy.
• This kind of behavior is just another sexual power trip.
• It’s getting harder to tell the preachers from the cops.
• Your government wants this to happen more often.
• A short video tour of the house addition I built.
• Did they really think they’d get away with this?
• Cops, vampires, James Bond, and much more.
• The horrifying recrudescence of censorship.
• How to get a nude picture of my genitalia.
• It’s good when they feed on each other.
• Decriminalization is just the beginning.
• Your “leaders” call this “correction”.
• The mortar bed of my new shower.
• My office starts to take shape.
• Tales of Throwback Thursday.
• A tactic pioneered by China.
• Well, this is certainly novel.
• More birthday presents!

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