The Honest Courtesan

Assault…is discipline when you’re a juvenile.  – “Officer” Blake Willer

This is among the best examples of Donna Jean Godchaux’s work with the Grateful Dead, so how could there be a more appropriate sendoff for her?  The links above it were provided by Ryan Marino, C.J. Ciaramella, Radley Balko, Ryan Marino again, IncarcerNation, Carol Fenton, and The Onion, in that order.

• Let them eat cop.
• R.I.P. Donna Jean Godchaux.
• Cops teach man how to abuse his son.
• When natural stupidity meets artificial stupidity.
• What part of “never” is so difficult to understand?
• Was this “protecting” or “serving”? It’s hard to tell.
• The Onion is at its best when doing horror or sci-fi.

From the Archives

• Monsters worldwide claim “right” to persecute & torture sexual minorities.
• Cops, artificial stupidity, Greg Hildebrandt, Quincy Jones, and much more.
• Why does it take the US press so long to recognize governmental abuses?
• Anyone whose brain isn’t rotted by prohibitionism could’ve predicted this.
• Prison bureaucrats are as narrow-minded and pointlessly cruel as screws.
• Local media reflexively parrots copaganda despite its evident foolishness.
• It always starts with a politically-unpopular group, but never stops there.
• If prohibitionists want to “rescue” whores, why keep us from other jobs?
• The Nordic Model is as rooted in reality as her other beliefs re sex work.
• Predictable result of giving violent, aggressive men power over women.
• Cops, artificial stupidity, Ken Mattingly, Frank Borman, and much more.
• What kind of garbage vomits slurs against the victims of a serial rapist?
• Propaganda for Establishment wet dream of total financial surveillance.
• It’s unusual to see the word “trafficking” used for government actions.
• 60% of US prostitution charges result from a crime vs the sex worker.
• The entire “troubled teen” industry needs to be sued out of existence.
• One of the people the government empowers to police your sexuality.
• It’s a relief when courts choose to rule that the obviously-true is true.
• Imaginary “sex traffickers” forced to give up Wile E. Coyote schemes.
• A panic attack rooted in the “fentanyl” and “sex trafficking” hysterias.
• Crypto-moralists believe anything unpleasant must be “good for you”.
• Texas doesn’t care how many women die because of its terrible laws.
• Neither court rulings nor public protest deter the “bathroom bill” fad.
• The government needs to be buried in lawsuits before this will stop.
• Why are people shocked when men paid to behave violently, do so?
• Another reminder that my writing depends on reader support.
• All too often, evil arrives cloaked in the mantle of expediency.
• “Youth leader”, “youth pastor”…just another preachy pervert.
• The first actual association between “trafficking” and pizza.
• Pregnant women are uniquely vulnerable to State violence.
• Just another of those nonexistent false rape accusations.
• Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
• It’s good to see sane people speaking up about this.
• Liz Brown’s deep dive on the Backpage persecution.
• The New Yorker is ON this only 9 years behind me!
• Cops, David Bowie, Kevin Conroy, and much more.
• My two previous columns for Guy Fawkes Day.
• As you can see, my fountain is finally working!
• Police departments attract predatory garbage.
• Wheat-free recipes I developed for Lorelei.
• Your “leaders” refer to this as “correction”.
• Not a youth pastor! How unprecedented!
• Decriminalization is only the first step.
• Actual facts cannot stop copaganda.
• Exactly how I like my birthdays.
• A thumb drive for cell phones.
• Throwback Created Thursday.
• “The Power of the Powerless”.
• Throwback Thursday 1970.
• Rapist cops of the week.
• The Cthulhu chia pet.

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