There is absolutely no scenario in which it is acceptable for a prosecutor to accuse a defendant of witchcraft in a twenty-first-century court.
This was the obvious choice to honor the passing of Roberta Flack. The link above the video were provided by Jesse Walker (x2); Lucy Steigerwald; Dan Savage and Jesse Walker again; Popehat; and Nun Ya, in that order.
- Elvis is everywhere.
- One down, 18,000 to go.
- What America has become.
- R.I.P. Roberta Flack and Jerry Butler.
- I keep telling y’all we’re entering a new dark age.
- The BBC Radiophonic Workshop is now open to you.
From the Archives
- Useful idiots think these tyrannies are OK when used vs those they dislike.
- There’s no legitimate reason for a vending machine to have this capability.
- The state feigns shock when men abuse power it gives them over women.
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- Outsourcing one’s judgment to politicians & bureaucrats is a terrible idea.
- The hysteria is imploding so hard, it’s falling all the way back to its roots.
- Laws enabling nuisance lawsuits will multiply until ruled unconstitutional.
- Authoritarians don’t care if your kind of sex work is (temporarily) “legal”.
- Hey, female cops; how’s that collaboration with the police state working?
- No rape charges; her remains were too far gone for evidence to survive.
- When timid hacks support sex worker rights, we’re past the watershed.
- Shotspotter is a boondoggle designed to create false evidence for cops.
- Even rapist cops sometimes get their desserts when the victim is a kid.
- Picture what you’d think of as “sex trafficking”, then compare it to this.
- Alabama has at long last got the “fetal personhood” it claimed to want.
- The headline is a bit misleading; he was found guilty of manslaughter.
- A good article about why the madonna/whore duality is pure bullshit.
- Retrospectives of my blogging for February 2012, 2013, and 2014.
- Persecution of sex workers invariably affects other women as well.
- Maybe this will teach fools what a danger biometric ID actually is.
- Oklahoma is another state which seems to simply hate women.
- The article is pretty vague, but it seems to be about child porn.
- The war on trans people has expanded to include drag queens.
- It’s rare to see these schemes called what they are: extortion.
- Cops, birds, Sally Kellerman, Sandy Nelson, and much more.
- Where “disgraced” is used to mean “accurately represented”.
- Crumbs thrown to the peasants from their masters’ tables.
- Criticism of these medieval laws is, fortunately, increasing.
- Nevada model proselytizing can always be safely ignored.
- Nebraska’s float in the “monkey see, monkey do” parade.
- Useful idiots think the leopards will never eat their faces.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Roger Corman, and much more.
- By now, the title “youth pastor” should be a big red flag.
- The most Orwellian case of censorship so far this year.
- Presentation is not exactly my strong point as a cook.
- Your “leaders” say this trash is fit to “correct” others.
- The 5th installment of my 6-part review of Blake’s 7.
- My two previous posts for Sex Worker Rights Day.
- This idiotic culture war has an actual body count.
- Another cop demonstrating exactly what he is.
- Another box of baby dinosaurs in my lavatory.
- The fourth leap year since I started this blog.
- Just another typical and representative cop.
- Texas has officially lost its collective mind.
- Inspector Pony looks into a piglet-tipping.
- Worth reading, but only cum grano salis.
- Cops, British rap, and much more.
- Rapist cops of the week, 2022.
- This just keeps getting better.
- Fallback Friday.
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