The Honest Courtesan

The power of telling people you pray is incredible.  –  Josh Hawley (sort of)

Since I featured an Avengers-themed music video last week, I figured I’d do it again with one my over-40 readers may remember.  The links above it were provided by Phoenix Calida; Greg Lukianoff & Franklin Harris; The Onion; IncarcerNation (x3); and Franklin Harris again, in that order.

• I’m sure you feel safer now.
• R.I.P. Jim Shooter and Michael Madsen.
• The best satire cleaves close to the truth.
• Cops murder man for selling produce while black.
• “Crime”: dark window tint. Penalty: summary execution.
• Too bad they don’t expend all their ammo on each other.
• Hey Alabama, the 1970s called and want their hysteria back.

From the Archives

• There are a few judges willing to block “monkey see, monkey do” parades.
• Was this the person who sent me the proof of Ashley Madison’s con game?
• The state’s sympathy for “trafficking victims” includes only “perfect” ones.
• Crypto-moralists want people to fear even moderate alcohol consumption.
• I’m sure they helpfully yelled “Stop faking!” at him whenever he coughed.
• Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
• Another of the people the government empowers to police your sexuality.
• These clowns claim to be qualified to interfere in doctor-patient relations.
• While sex work is marginalized, sex workers will be targeted for violence.
• Politicians are avid devotees of cutting off their noses to spite their faces.
• A weird exception to the rule that the Japanese are sane about sex work.
• If prohibitionists want to “rescue” whores, why shut us out of other jobs?
• It’s only been 4 years since the UK lost in court the last time it tried this.
• Passive voice & obfuscation are used to divert blame for sexual assaults.
• 41% of cops admit to beating their wives; some don’t stop with beating.
• My 1st profession is now as much a target for authoritarians as my 2nd.
• Japanese politicians infantilize all adults rather than just young women.
• Mexican cops are more concerned about sex workers than US cops are.
• New tyrannies are often tested first on whores, but never stop with us.
• Clueless wonders attempt to ape antics they see on copaganda shows.
• It’s not like 2011 is ancient history, or Florida far away from Georgia.
• Cops will continue to do this until there are criminal penalties for it.
• Politicians recognize bank blacklisting when it affects their cronies.
• Politicians send violent thugs to disrupt your life because sadfeelz.
• Kansas courts aren’t allowing politicians to circumvent the voters.
• This kind of surveillance has already been found unconstitutional.
• This surveillance is only “mandatory” for adults ignorant of VPNs.
• Cops, religion, Spencer Milligan, Shelley Duvall, and much more.
• An attempt to push back the swelling tide of adult infantilization.
• There is no part of this reeking pile of shit that fails to be stupid.
• Naturally, because it’s cops’ job to cause harm, not reduce it.
• Cops, Sri Lanka, Doctor Who, Larry Storch, and much more.
• There’s a reason I’ve repeatedly called this cult “dangerous”.
• Even the distancing “former” is the same as for rapist cops.
• My twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth anniversary columns.
• The first installment of my Throwback Thursday feature.
• Cops, crypto-moralism, Balkanization, and much more.
• I was in this Hulu documentary about Ashley Madison.
• An important victory in the fight for sex worker rights.
• US sex laws are nothing but PR campaigns for cops.
• Unfortunately, this is all we could expect right now.
• Another sign that the moral panic is largely over.
• Nosy authoritarians hoist with their own petard.
• Your “leaders” want you to call this “correction”.
• Last summer’s road trip went pretty smoothly.
• All prohibitionism is the same, part umpteen.
• Words fail me in the face of such barbarity.
• A cop posing as a masseur is still a cop.
• How Cicero and Louie keep their cool.
• An awning for the paddock ramp.
• Installing the atrium chimney.
• Throwback Thursday Girl.
• Far too little, far too late.
• Rapist cops of the week.
• My recipe for crumpets.

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