The Honest Courtesan

You wake up one day and discover you’re dead.  –  Ned Johnson

Windsor McCay, the cartoonist who created the classic comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland, was also an early animator; I recently found this century-old example of his work.  The links above the video were provided by Mike Masnick, Jesse Walker, T. Greg Doucette, Scott Long, Ryan Marino, and Walter Olson, in that order.

• Government efficiency.
• Editors are not optional.
• No, your reason is not an exception.
• Imperial goons torture migrant at airport.
• This is pure fantasy by psychological illiterates.
• Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.

From the Archives

• Give aggressive men power over teen girls; what could possibly go wrong?
• Journalists keep obediently referring to senseless violence as “correction”.
• Want “safe” schools? Stop paying sexually-aggressive thugs to lurk there.
• In addition to being a “pastor”, he’s also a wannabe cop.  Quelle surprise.
• “Sex trafficking” fetishists share creepy fantasies about Ukranian women.
• Sometimes the difference between upper & lower house becomes visible.
• Politicians can’t resist using popular web services to expand surveillance.
• Stories about child-molesting cops are larded with obfuscatory language.
• The mainstream media won’t admit to their part in creating this disaster.
• A politician with even a vestigial sense of morality is a rare thing indeed.
• Teachers are supposed to be robots who have no lives outside of school.
• It’s past time cops stopped being allowed to cover up murders so easily.
• A decent article despite journalistic credulity about prohibitionist claims.
• Apparently, I was destined to be criminalized regardless of career path.
• Some censors are so mentally ill they feel threatened by tree sexuality.
• Sows love fantasy role-playing as sex workers in order to harm people.
• Only the organization is “nonprofit”; those who run it can make plenty.
• Even lurking in schools part-time is as much opportunity as cops need.
• The people who need “correction” are the ones who enable this horror.
• Airports are among cops’ favorite places to lurk in order to rob people.
• The zeal for censorship isn’t limited to the US or so-called “right wing”.
• Seemingly-consensual sex with a cop may actually be something else.
• No rumor is so stupid that some politician won’t believe and repeat it.
• Cops really don’t care if they ruin people’s lives with wild accusations.
• Censors are now pretending ideas they don’t like constitute a “crime”.
• Once in a while, there’s evidence of the way cops act toward women.
• Ambulance-chasers don’t care who gets hurt as long as they cash in.
• This will make little difference until cops’ power is severely curtailed.
• I used to like hoaxing on April Fools Day, until it stopped being fun.
• Savannah Sly & Tarah Wheeler, writing for the Brookings Institute.
• Tennessee’s float in the current “monkey see, monkey do” parade.
• At least some minds aren’t warped by the moronic “wing” fantasy.
• Retrospectives of my blogging from March 2012, 2013, and 2014.
• A roundup of efforts in various states to change prostitution laws.
• Bitcoin is a kind of folk devil for economically-illiterate politicians.
• This evil fascist scheme needs to be eradicated, root and branch.
• What Swedish criminalization proponents do: lie & harm women.
• This is the first time I’ve seen a woman falsely accused of rape.
• Rather than actually filing a lawsuit, ACLU prefers to dilly-dally.
• Cops, parodies, King Lear, Louis Gossett, Jr, and much more.
• Cops and other control freaks, C.W. McCall, and much more.
• Another authoritarian “monkey see, monkey do” parade.
• Why are amateurs so damned averse to using condoms?
• Cops, the undead, lemon pound cake, and much more.
• Can’t y’all settle on one term for preachy molesters?
• Another victory for US evangelical prohibitionists.
• There’s at least one principled librarian in Texas.
• Throwback Thursday and the Monster from Hell.
• Giving the henhouse its semi-annual cleaning.
• Curiosity offends the state, comrade.
• The pullets move into their playpen.
• Another curated selection of tweets.
• My two previous posts for Easter.
• On pigs, fences, and chainsaws.
• Fancy lighting for my atrium.
• Once a cop, always a cop.
• A “Tornado of Bad Ideas”.
• Rapist cops of the week.

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