The Honest Courtesan

Get on the fucking ground…I will fucking tase you. – cop to “missing child”

Even with all of her songs to choose from, this felt to me like the most appropriate tribute to one of the world’s most beloved human beings.  The links above it were provided by Radley Balko; Mistress Matisse; T. Greg Doucette; Ryan Cooper and Scott Long; Nun Ya (x2); and IncarcerNation, in that order.

• At the Mountains of Madness.
• Aboard the SS Queen of Ulthar.
• No, your reason is not an exception.
• R.I.P. Dolly Parton and King Harald V.
• Dust storms are back, now with added fungus!
• They keep demonstrating exactly what they are.
• What part of “never” is so difficult to understand?

From the Archives

• Google has made violating its users’ consent a standard business practice.
• Ignoramus censors don’t understand why people ignore their stupid laws.
• It’s been a while since we’ve heard from the “Campaign Against Toasters”.
• Cop deals with disagreement in typical cop fashion; the press is shocked.
• Pigs may only excuse sexual assault as a “search” if the victim is female.
• Young women are using “sex trafficking” as an excuse for violent crimes.
• Feigned sympathy for “trafficking victims” applies only to “perfect” ones.
• Had he not been caught at this stage, he’d have soon moved on to rape.
• Amateurs repeatedly botch what sex workers have done for many years.
• Keep plunging that ice pick in; the bad thoughts will go away eventually.
• Politicians embrace “magic fentanyl” myth; will the media finally drop it?
• Totally-predictable results of bad laws are happening right on schedule.
• Some believe they can live forever by eliminating all pleasure from life.
• The government will say anything to ensure Lacey dies in a filthy cage.
• Politicians really believe they can control people’s thoughts via threats.
• A newspaper publisher dies on her feet, at least figuratively speaking.
• The fascist owners of most of these allow cops to root in them at will.
• Unembellished “sex trafficking from a store” scary tales are now rare.
• The sick lust to know everything about everybody has consequences.
• This will continue until there are federal criminal charges for doing it.
• Americans flush incalculable resources down the “culture war” toilet.
• That word appears, but 15 paragraphs in and blunted by qualifiers.
• Retrospectives of my blogging from August 2013, 2014, and 2015.
• This will continue until the evil US immigration policy is reformed.
• Cops, artificial stupidity, Morgus, Phil Donahue, and much more.
• Tyrannies often start with sex workers, but never stop with us.
• The cop establishment is trying hard to hide this one’s crimes.
• Cops, faux environmentalism, Arleen Sorkin, and much more.
• In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
• An especially vile Gestapo weapon: fake “child porn” charges.
• Bootlickers say child porn is OK if the criminal is a good shot.
• Some cops don’t limit themselves to one type of creepiness.
• You’d think “youth pastor” would be a big red flag by now.
• Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
• Politicians can always mine tragedy to justify more evil.
• A new film adaptation of Chester Brown’s Paying For It.
• How long before Google becomes completely useless?
• Prohibitionists always end up with egg on their faces.
• This sleazebag tried to frame a woman for his crime.
• Cops, useful idiots, cultural shifts, and much more.
• Con artists use moral panics to fleece the gullible.
• Modern monogamy is becoming increasingly sick.
• Privacy as we once knew it is a thing of the past.
• It was obvious this would turn out to be sordid.
• The best year for fruit since I bought Sunset.
• It only starts with demonized minorities.
• The US Constitutional order is no more.
• Rapist cops don’t only target women.
• Throwback Thursday’s Hungry Dead.
• Fracchia vs Throwback Thursday.
• Don’t fret, it’s for your “security”.
• Ghost of Throwback Thursday.
• Redoing the atrium lighting.
• Another round of Durabak.
• Much more of this, please.
• Good weather for slugs.

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