The Honest Courtesan

It’s an obvious attempt not to go to jail.  –  genius cop, about paralyzed man

Since I recently featured the video for what may be my favorite Blondie song, I figured I’d also share this one, which was my favorite Blondie song in high school; I especially liked blaring it on the car stereo while driving.  The links above it were provided by Marc Randazza; Justin Amash; Warren Bell; Andrew Fleischman; Popehat; Jesse Walker and Franklin Harris; and Kevin Wilson, in that order.

• As one does.
• R.I.P. Pope Francis.
• This looks like an omen.
• I’m sure you feel safer now.
• Death by imperial proclamation.
• R.I.P. Brad Holland and Wink Martindale.
• Horror and humor are adjacent and sometimes identical.

From the Archives

• Using sleazy means to violate people’s civil rights with the typical excuses.
• Overseas pharmacies will sell to US customers without asking permission.
• How long will the US ignore the costs of its sick worship of state violence?
• Houston isn’t satisfied with waiting for useful idiots to grant them access.
• Politicians no longer care about making their new diktats Constitutional.
• “Journalists” lionize a sexual predator who gets off on destroying lives.
• The first exoneration of a victim of “sex trafficking” hysteria has come.
• This will never stop until there are criminal charges for cops who do it.
• This will never stop while violent thugs have total power over women.
• They try to make it sound like the rapist was doing his victim a favor.
• Your periodic reminder that a child-shaped toaster is still a toaster.
• At least Florida’s anti-trans crusade isn’t as psychopathic as Texas’.
• Cops, space travel, Lovecraft, Barry Humphries, and much more.
• Cops are sexual predators who often target traumatized women.
• Retrospectives of my blogging from April 2012, 2013, and 2014.
• Cops, puritanism, animation, Andrew Woolfolk, and much more.
• Seems like a significant fraction of child porn is spread by cops.
• Government uses a shell game to avoid making actual reforms.
• This clown wants to criminalize amateur promiscuity as well.
• Never forget that “filter” is merely a euphemism for “censor”.
• Because obviously prohibition doesn’t ruin enough lives yet.
• Cops, black humor, chemistry, Bob Heil, and much more.
• A psychopathic rapist-murderer cop is still unconvicted.
• Cop violence is never limited to members of the public.
• It’s getting harder to tell the preachers from the cops.
• Surveillance beyond the wildest dreams of the Stasi.
• There won’t be any shortcut to stopping Clearview.
• Don’t think this was an unintended consequence.
• The reporter appears to have misspelled “care”.
• Spring has finally arrived, albeit a month late.
• Connecting the whole atrium roof framework.
• Your “leaders” refer to this as “correction”.
• Cops are a menace to women of all ages.
• Yet another curated selection of tweets.
• Burble burble BLUE STATE burble drool.
• Another curated selection of tweets.
• You just can’t keep a bad law down.
• Your “leaders” call this “correction”.
• Wacky warmish weather at Sunset.
• Throwback’s Great Aunt Thursday.
• Phrenology for tech worshipers.
• The goose that didn’t live long.
• Many rapist cops of the week.

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