The Honest Courtesan

“AI” allows you to get to a bad idea faster.

I had until recently completely forgotten about this song from The Electric Company, which I can remember my little brother singing around the house.  The links above the video were provided by Shiv Ramdas, Jesse Walker, Tracy Quan, Asawin Suebsaeng, Glenn Kessler, and IncarcerNation, in that order.

• Much more of this, please.
• Did life on Earth begin twice?
• Why does Venus have no moon?
• No, your reason is not an exception.
• Another great moment in artificial stupidity.
• Crime: failure to appear. Penalty: summary execution of girlfriend.

From the Archives

• Politicians will pay for “self-care” for cops “traumatized” by raping whores.
• Do they think foot-dragging & stupid cop-talk makes him seem less guilty?
• If you’re a fan of “sex offender” registration, meet one of your bedfellows.
• Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
• When will the mainstream media admit that pigs in schools are a menace?
• Amazon also eagerly hands data from internet-connected devices to cops.
• If “official” busybodies can spy on you via your car, so can unofficial ones.
• “Child porn” is here used as pretext for mass surveillance on a vast scale.
• The word “Orwellian” is overused, but in this case it is absolutely spot on.
• “Cop murders wife/girlfriend & claims it was suicide” is a common theme.
• Anyone whose brain isn’t rotted by prohibitionism could’ve predicted this.
• There is nothing “shocking” about a cop abusing a minor or anyone else.
• If prohibitionists want to “rescue” whores, why keep us from other jobs?
• Partisans don’t give a damn about sex workers, despite contrary claims.
• “Banned Books Week” used to be little more than an academic exercise.
• Politicians no longer care about whether their diktats are Constitutional.
• It’s rare to see a modern judge explicitly rule in favor of self-ownership.
• Texas’ ruling psychopaths want to kill women and ruin doctors’ careers.
• Picture what you’d think of as “sex trafficking”, then compare it to this.
• Idaho paper approves of sheriff appointing himself chief library censor.
• Still think realistic porn cartoons are the worst use for this technology?
• Euphemism for “Cop gets a teenage girl drunk so he could molest her”.
• Uthmeier doesn’t care if he has no legal grounds to harass companies.
• When sex work is marginalized, sex workers are targeted for violence.
• Making a hobby of accusing strangers of felonies might be dangerous.
• Cops will never stop these evil scams without facing criminal charges.
• Retrospective of my blogging from September 2013, 2014, and 2015.
• “Drugs” are a popular pretext for petty vindictiveness in US prisons.
• Cops, cheese, artificial stupidity, Kris Kristofferson, and much more.
• Why are people shocked when men paid to behave violently, do so?
• Your irregular reminder that this blog depends on you for support.
• This will never stop until it is treated as what it is: armed robbery.
• Note that cases of actual coercion don’t look much like the myths.
• This will continue until the evil US immigration policy is reformed.
• Cop and preacher is like the molester equivalent of a full house.
• All too often, evil arrives cloaked in the mantle of expediency.
• Cops, flying, Michael Gambon, Alice Cooper, and much more.
• Even the distancing “former” is the same as for rapist cops.
• The US has achieved banana republic levels of corruption.
• Literally making mincemeat out of small green tomatoes.
• Just another of those nonexistent false rape accusations.
• Cops, music, Viv Prince, Jane Goodall, and much more.
• Expect use of this term to continue expanding wildly.
• “Youth leader” = “youth pastor”, with all that entails.
• A selection from my novella, “Until the End of Days”.
• The stupider the belief, the harder it is to debunk.
• Oh look, Maggie is right again, what a surprise.
• Meet Hercules, the newest resident of Sunset.
• Prohibitionism is a dangerous mental illness.
• Prohibition inevitably leads to exploitation.
• The True Story of Throwback Thursday.
• Throwback Thursday vs. the Mummy.
• The first fire in my atrium stove.
• The Evil of Throwback Thursday.
• Trying to replace my old boots.

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