The Honest Courtesan

Most kids can’t drive, and they’re still out here stealing cars.  –  genius cop

When I first saw the news of Melba Montgomery’s passing, her name didn’t ring a bell.  But when I listened to a few of her hits and recognized them from the local AM radio station of my childhood, I thought, “Oh, her.”  The links above this video were provided by Popehat; Rick Horowitz; Nun Ya; Lucy Steigerwald & Jesse Walker; and T. Greg Doucette (x2), in that order.

• Mad emperor is mad.
• Much more of this, please.
• This week in artificial stupidity.
• R.I.P. David Lynch & Melba Montgomery.
• Cop murders teen for walking on roadside.
• Cops arrest little girl for playing in the snow.

From the Archives

• Any journalist “shocked” by typical cop behavior needs to find another job.
• Clearview’s so proud of its homeless identification ability, they patented it.
• Someone tell Florida that “sex trafficking” is no longer a brain-pause spell.
• Another internet-wrecking censorship attempt from self-important clowns.
• I’m sure they occasionally yelled “Stop faking!” at him as he wasted away.
• I was fated to be threatened with state violence regardless of career path.
• Prohibitionists believe blatant lying is acceptable to advance their agenda.
• Does any sane person still believe this is about anything other than profit?
• How nice of him to “volunteer” for a position that gave access to children.
• Politicians don’t even try to make their new laws Constitutional any more.
• Is there anything narrower and meaner than the mind of a prison official?
• Laws enabling nuisance lawsuits will multiply until ruled unconstitutional.
• Hey, female cops; how’s that collaboration with the police state working?
• Politicians want to punish people for failing to do the literally impossible.
• Cops will keep this up until people stop pretending adults dislike sweets.
• Useful idiots keep giving government excuses for Orwellian surveillance.
• Why do building supply stores carry products unsuited to the local area?
• We may be seeing the beginning of the end of these medieval practices.
• Nothing infuriates violent, self-important busybodies more than privacy.
• How often must I say, “Don’t let non-doctors inject filth into your body“?
• I guess they figure calling rape “sex trafficking” will net a larger payout.
• Sex work is a major part of the Thai economy, but don’t tell politicians.
• Alabama labels all escort ads “sex trafficking” & arrests all the women.
• If there’s a camera, cops will conscript it for use as a surveillance tool.
• Even the use of the distancing “former” is the same as for rapist cops.
• Hysterics claim typing words into an algorithm constitutes “violence”.
• Another good little article on interacting with sex workers on Twitter.
• Alabama is still violently spewing early-teens “sex trafficking” idiocy.
• In which “sex with minors” is used to mean “raping young children”.
• Retrospectives of my blogging from January 2012, 2013, and 2014.
• Cops, Lisa Marie Presley, Adam Rich, Carole Cook, and much more.
• “Conversion therapy” has never been banned anywhere in the US.
• Cops, robots, Peter Schickele, Norman Jewison, and much more.
• Calling politicians on their hypocrisy is an interesting strategy.
• Politicians are always happy to indulge cops’ violent fantasies.
• Government at every level crusades against Christian charity.
• Cops, Lovecraft, Yvette Mimieux, Meat Loaf, and much more.
• Utah has the latest “monkey see, monkey do” bathroom bill.
• Some rapist cops are indiscriminate in their choice of victim.
• Preventing a cascade of predatory “sex trafficking” lawsuits.
• Building a dystopian panopticon, one useful idiot at a time.
• SCOTUS refuses to slay this monster of its own creation.
• My new propane water heater is connected and running.
• A microcosm of the whole “sex trafficking” moral panic.
• This guy needs to be put away before he murders her.
• This will continue for as long as the voters allow it to.
• The first installment of a six-part review of Blake’s 7.
• Prohibitionism is an inherently violent belief system.
• A curated selection of tweets from January 2024.
• Another step toward total financial surveillance.
• Another cop demonstrating exactly what he is.
• Prohibitionism is a dangerous mental illness.
• They’ll use any excuse to protect their own.
• Throwback Thursday Must Be Destroyed.
• The enshittification of hardware stores.
• Sealing a roof gap against the rain.
• Rapist-cop enablers of the decade.
• More curated selections of tweets.
• The results of a tolerance break.
• Much more of this, please.
• Rapist cop of the week.

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