The Honest Courtesan

For weeks, Democrats have pushed to require ICE agents to obtain the necessary judicial warrants ahead of any murders they plan to commit.  –  Hakeem Jeffries, sort of

Though most of y’all probably recognized the tune of the intro to last week’s video as “La Marseillaise”, you might not have recognized the melody of the main song as that of a jazz standard which was recorded many times in the 1950s, including this performance which appeared in Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy.  The links above it were provided by Ryan Marino, Dan Savage, Phoenix Calida, Jesse Walker, The Onion, and IncarcerNation (x2), in that order.

• Metaphor alert.
• R.I.P. Demond Wilson.
• The contrast is striking.
• Mysterious medieval dead-end tunnels.
• The best satire cleaves closely to the truth.
• What part of “never” is so hard to understand?
• “Knife-wielding” is a dysphemism for “unarmed”.

From the Archives

• Texas wants most girls saddled with a baby before graduating high school.
• Facial recognition “evidence” should be as inadmissible as polygraph tests.
• Vast sums of time, money & energy, flushed down the “culture war” toilet.
• Forced-birth fanatics want to extend their jihad outside their own borders.
• Amateurs are a public health menace who should be licensed & regulated.
• Prohibitionists want people to wrongly think the Swedish model is decrim.
• The increasingly-bizarre justifications for government’s crimes vs citizens.
• This article on the “super bowl sex trafficking” myth is no longer unusual.
• This tells you everything you need to know about politicians’ motivations.
• The government calls this “justice”; for journalists to parrot it is a choice.
• I’ve always wanted a place big enough to properly host overnight guests.
• Repellent even by the abysmally-low standards of local news copaganda.
• Why can’t amateurs grasp the difference between offering & demanding?
• Moral imbeciles can always be trusted to abuse any power they’re given.
• The government is beginning to grudgingly admit what everyone knows.
• Another way for governments to steal things that don’t belong to them.
• Who else uses “prostitution” as a label for behavior the regime dislikes?
• Hollywood follows rather than leads, so this is a sign of a cultural shift.
• AZ still pushes this mummified fantasy with police violence vs women.
• The censorious lunatic who tried to criminalize “sexting” is at it again.
• One of the people the government empowers to police your sexuality.
• Everyone harmed by “stings” and raids needs to keep suing the cops.
• US states compete to make adolescence most like a prison sentence.
• Forced-birth fanatics keep framing tyranny as “keeping women safe”.
• Cops, Dracula, imaginary books, Marianne Faithfull, and much more.
• Cops, Burt Bacharach, Lisa Loring, Cindy Williams, and much more.
• Politicians claim the solution to torture in prisons is MOAR PRISON.
• It’s never called “trafficking” when the government & cronies do it.
• Progressives keep cheering violence in the name of “public health”.
• “Porn addiction” is still being used as an excuse for violent crimes.
• The only way to keep data from being misused is not to collect it.
• Destigmatization of psychedelics is happening amazingly quickly.
• This abomination began as a way for cops to target sex workers.
• Americans aren’t going to like what it will take to stop this coup.
• The people the government empowers to police your sexuality.
• Cops, disappointment, Melanie, Chita Rivera, and much more.
• It usually starts with sex workers, but it never stops with us.
• There’s a reason I’ve repeatedly called this cult “dangerous”.
• A teleplay more relevant today than when it was filmed.
• Looks like it’s time for veils to come back into fashion.
• On the psychology behind cops’ entrapment schemes.
• Yet another opportunistic fraud has been unmasked.
• This would be terrible even if the cops weren’t lying.
• My highest subscription levels come with perks!
• Forgetting to take pictures until it’s too late.
• It’s never really about “protecting children”.
• Trump is the proverbial stopped clock.
• The Shadow of Throwback Thursday.
• This has been going on for years.
• The watchword is “Balkanization”.
• Anyone can now join BlueSky.
• Lady Throwback Thursday.
• Rapist cop of the week.
• Until the end of days.
• Lighting my atrium.

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