The Honest Courtesan

Tim Burton once did the exact same thing to my cousin.  –  The Bog Freak

Remember that new Chopin waltz discovered back in October?  Mike Siegel found a video of That Internet Pianist with the Creepy Stare playing it.  The links above it were provided by Tracy Quan, Ryan Marino, IncarcerNation (x2), The Onion, and Asawin Suebsaeng, in that order.

• R.I.P. Jules Feiffer.
• This week in artificial stupidity.
• Cops murder man for being Hispanic.
• Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever.
• The Onion is at its best when doing horror or sci-fi.
• Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.

From the Archives

• Better cops escape consequences than this ugly trope be reinforced again.
• Cop deals with disagreement in typical cop fashion & the press is shocked.
• Texas is completely uninterested in controlling its psychopathic politicians.
• Remember that legal protection we used to have against double jeopardy?
• All laws should sunset in 10 years unless specific action is taken to renew.
• This piece is so restrained it doesn’t even use the term “super gonorrhea”.
• Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
• The way local media parrots clearly-foolish copaganda is utterly pathetic.
• Laws enabling nuisance lawsuits will multiply until ruled unconstitutional.
• I wonder how many more fakeumentaries we’ll see before the implosion?
• Woman paid to cause non-consensual harm thinks sex work is shameful.
• Hey, female cops; how’s that collaboration with the police state working?
• Cops really don’t care how many false positives these systems shit out.
• Raping women & clumsy censorship attempts must run in cop families.
• Trans people have become another canary in the civil rights coal mine.
• Declare anything a “public health crisis” and it can be harassed at will.
• Politicians compete to make their new laws the most unconstitutional.
• “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time“.
• This’d be a real improvement if the release conditions were objective.
• Dr. David Ley schools his fellow therapists on the reality of sex work.
• Just as we said would happen before this terrible law was imposed.
• Give aggressive thugs power over teen girls; what could go wrong?
• If only there were a concise term for “having sex without consent”.
• Note that cases of actual coercion don’t look much like the myths.
• CGI women are replacing “sex robots” in prohibitionist fantasies.
• Cops, prohibition, Mary Weiss, Carl Weathers, and much more.
• This will keep happening, because too many people want it to.
• In which natural stupidity masquerades as artificial stupidity.
• A small obstacle to Amazon’s fascist collaboration with cops.
• Just another kind of federal cop, with behavior to match.
• Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
• Cops, Gina Lollobrigida, David Crosby, and much more.
• Rapist cops often specifically target vulnerable women.
• Rapist cops are rarely caught after only one victim.
• Cops, headlines, Don Wilson, and much more.
• They only start with relatively minor offenses.
• There is nothing as contagious as a bad idea.
• Until SCOTUS acts, this will only get worse.
• Caring for our elderly cat in her last days.
• There is nothing contradictory about this.
• Part 2 of my six-part review of Blake’s 7.
• It looks like Florida is aping Texas again.
• This is why we can’t have nice things.
• My two previous columns for Imbolc.
• The Horror of Throwback Thursday.
• The second leaf of my atrium roof.
• On movies I’ve never seen.
• Beginning the annex decor.
• Rapist cops of the week.
• The Omega Factor.

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