The Honest Courtesan

We’re now employing people who are not equipped to tie their own shoelaces.

I can’t think of a more appropriate sendoff for Bob Weir than this one.  The links above it were provided by Popehat; Brooke Magnanti and Jesse Walker; The Onion; Phoenix Calida; IncarcerNation; and Walter Olson, in that order.

• Last week in artificial stupidity.
• R.I.P. Bob Weir and Erich von Däniken.
• The best satire cleaves close to the truth.
• “A complete disaster from beginning to end.“
• Another success for the police suicide assistance service.
• “An educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.“

From the Archives

• Beijing’s campaign to police Chinese people in the US must be shut down.
• When will the mainstream media admit that pigs in schools are a menace?
• Prohibition turns bodies into “crime scenes” which cops can violate at will.
• Government should have too little power for the rulers’ identity to matter.
• Here come automakers’ excuses for nonconsensual surveillance of marks.
• It’s never called “trafficking” when government or corporate cronies do it.
• Driving a modern car feels like being a passenger in an amusement ride.
• It’s time courts stopped letting cops get away with literal armed robbery.
• Hey, female cops; how’s that collaboration with the police state working?
• Ballard’s partners are trying to salvage as much of the scam as possible.
• Keep plunging that ice pick in; the bad thoughts will go away eventually.
• Cops should spend all of their time fantasy role-playing with each other.
• Why bother with license plate readers when fools will pay to be tracked?
• Politicians are terrified of losing ways to destroy peaceful citizens’ lives.
• Cops really don’t care how many false positives these systems shit out.
• SCOTUS says it’s OK for prohibitionist laws to specifically target Blacks.
• “Progressives” want everyone forced to work for bosses and managers.
• Some believe they can live forever by eliminating all pleasure from life.
• How many women died due to inaction by this murderer’s cop buddies?
• Beijing ramps up its campaign to silence Chinese people outside China.
• Cops & “church leaders” differ in that the latter aren’t typically armed.
• The UK’s long internet censorship campaign turns mindlessly carceral.
• SCOTUS says it’s OK for prohibitionists to intentionally let women die.
• The real humanitarians fight against racist “anti-trafficking” schemes.
• Cops, artificial stupidity, Peter Yarrow, Anita Bryant, and much more.
• This will continue while fools teach children obedience to “authority”.
• Trust is not something that can merely be given; it must be earned.
• If these fanatics focused on cops & preachers, they’d actually help.
• Cops, Jeff Beck, Walter Cunningham, Fay Weldon, and much more.
• Your irregular reminder that this blog depends on reader support.
• The sick American mind at work again, seeing sex where it isn’t.
• The legacy of To Catch a Predator just keeps on hurting people.
• Universal criminality provides many avenues for State violence.
• The war on trans people has expanded to include drag queens.
• A sadly typical outcome when a high-ranking cop is the rapist.
• Mississippi demonstrates exactly what it thinks of its subjects.
• Maybe politicians shouldn’t put words in bureaucrats’ mouths.
• Cops, magnets, short videos, Cindy Morgan, and much more.
• How dare adult men want consensual sex with adult women!
• “Children’s minister” blames porn and Satan for his crimes.
• Privacy as we once knew it will soon be a thing of the past.
• I’m surprised Florida took so long to join the nitwit parade.
• Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
• Why every company wants you to download its “app”.
• “Criminality” is a status defined entirely by the State.
• Behold the fruit of the “human trafficking” narrative.
• Perhaps Alabama’s state bird should be the ostrich.
• Apparently, magic insta-fentanyl only affects cops.
• Probably not the outcome prosecutors expected.
• The word “ghoulish” leaps immediately to mind.
• Tim Ballard’s downfall is increasingly satisfying.
• Even roses need a little time off to recharge.
• Sleeping with cops isn’t safe for men, either.
• Just another rapist cop following his bliss.
• Anti-sexworker bigotry harms all women.
• A new tag specifically for rapist screws.
• I’m sure Mr. Rodriguez feels safer now.
• Throwback Thursday Created Woman.
• Another curated selection of tweets.
• Burble burble RED AND BLUE drool.
• Much, much more of this, please.
• The ceiling of my new bathroom.
• Zuckerberg is out of his mind.
• It was just a big “whoopsie”.
• Hotel Throwback Thursday.
• This was a water filter.

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