The Honest Courtesan

A dragon lives forever, but not so little boys.  –  Peter Yarrow

I really couldn’t have chosen a better song for this memorial.  The links above it were provided by Mike Stabile; Tim Cushing; IncarcerNation; Franklin Harris and Carol Fenton; Jesse Walker; and IncarcerNation again, in that order.

• Paging Inigo Montoya.
• This week in artificial stupidity.
• Was this “protecting” or “serving”?
• R.I.P. Peter Yarrow and Anita Bryant.
• I’ve seen politicians make sillier claims.
• Try not to be nearby when someone else calls them.

From the Archives

• If there’s one thing the US needs, it’s more sadistic rapists in the military.
• This disgusting trash is loaded with copsucking & emotional manipulation.
• Government should have too little power for the rulers’ identity to matter.
• It’s never called “trafficking” when government or corporate cronies do it.
• Ballard’s partners are trying to salvage as much of the scam as possible.
• Keep plunging that ice pick in; the bad thoughts will go away eventually.
• The bipartisan war on the internet moves another step toward idiocracy.
• Nothing infuriates violent, self-important busybodies more than privacy.
• Why bother with license plate readers when fools will pay to be tracked?
• Even journalists reporting on this insist on referring to it as “correction”.
• Are most people really surprised to find out that cops are habitual liars?
• Politicians are terrified of losing ways to destroy peaceful citizens’ lives.
• Cops really don’t care how many false positives these systems shit out.
• “Progressives” want everyone forced to work for bosses and managers.
• SCOTUS says it’s OK for prohibitionist laws to specifically target Blacks.
• He pronounced the wrong magic words in the magic Spell of Forfeiture.
• Some believe they can live forever by eliminating all pleasure from life.
• The machine of authoritarianism is vast, complex, and has many parts.
• How many women died due to inaction by this murderer’s cop buddies?
• Beijing ramps up its campaign to silence Chinese people outside China.
• The UK’s long internet censorship campaign turns mindlessly carceral.
• SCOTUS says it’s OK for prohibitionists to intentionally let women die.
• The real humanitarians fight against racist “anti-trafficking” schemes.
• This will continue while fools teach children obedience to “authority”.
• Trust is not something that can merely be given; it must be earned.
• Why are people shocked when men paid to behave violently, do so?
• If these fanatics focused on cops & preachers, they’d actually help.
• Cops, Jeff Beck, Walter Cunningham, Fay Weldon, and much more.
• Your irregular reminder that this blog depends on reader support.
• PayPal needs to be buried in similar lawsuits before this will stop.
• Universal criminality provides many avenues for State violence.
• The war on trans people has expanded to include drag queens.
• A sadly typical outcome when a high-ranking cop is the rapist.
• Mississippi demonstrates exactly what it thinks of its subjects.
• Maybe politicians shouldn’t put words in bureaucrats’ mouths.
• In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
• Cops, magnets, short videos, Cindy Morgan, and much more.
• Texas cops raid migrant-owned businesses; what a surprise.
• “Children’s minister” blames porn and Satan for his crimes.
• I’m surprised Florida took so long to join the nitwit parade.
• Cops think they can just make up their own pharmacology.
• Cops, nerds, puritanism, Ronnie Spector, and much more.
• Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
• It would be difficult to bury this lede any further down.
• “Criminality” is a status defined entirely by the State.
• Behold the fruit of the “human trafficking” narrative.
• Perhaps Alabama’s state bird should be the ostrich.
• Apparently, magic insta-fentanyl only affects cops.
• Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?
• Probably not the outcome prosecutors expected.
• The word “ghoulish” leaps immediately to mind.
• Tim Ballard’s downfall is increasingly satisfying.
• The War on Whores, now showing on YouTube.
• Even roses need a little time off to recharge.
• Sleeping with cops isn’t safe for men, either.
• Prohibitionism is a dangerous mental illness.
• Anti-sexworker bigotry harms all women.
• A new tag specifically for rapist screws.
• Throwback Thursday Created Woman.
• Burble burble RED AND BLUE drool.
• The ceiling of my new bathroom.
• It was just a big “whoopsie”.
• What an exhausting week!
• This was a water filter.

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