The Honest Courtesan

I’ve never seen [corruption] like this outside…of a TV show.
–  Mark Begnaud

I recently remembered another favorite from Sesame Street, and it’s even seasonally appropriate!  The links above the video were provided by Shiv Ramdas; Franklin Harris; Jesse Walker and Franklin Harris again; Mike Siegel; David Ley; T. Greg Doucette; and IncarcerNation, in that order.

• Impressively accurate for me.
• “Some believe” ≠ “100% confirmed”.
• R.I.P. Eva Marie Saint and Jim Bakker.
• “Smart” devices aren’t, part umpteen.
• Natural stupidity meets artificial stupidity.
• They keep demonstrating exactly what they are.
• Careless cops pick the wrong black man to try to frame.

From the Archives

• Nobody is going to give expensive cannabis edibles to your spawn for free.
• Thinking with the wrong head creates its own problems sans political help.
• How long will airlines accept liability for government-brand racial profiling?
• If you didn’t see where this was going, you haven’t been paying attention.
• When a crime resembling the myths really happens, a church is behind it.
• Nobody is safe until this odious practice is recognized as unconstitutional.
• As practical limits on surveillance vanish, legal limits are more important.
• Over 90% of all whores work illegally rather than submit to “registration”.
• Ordinary business arrangements get spun into “exploitation” and “crime”.
• The government is working to ensure these men die in their filthy cages.
• Looking-glass politicians say adding window to bathroom “adds privacy”.
• The impending dark age I have warned about for years has now arrived.
• Cop deals with disagreement exactly as paid to; all claim to be shocked.
• Another individual protection the Establishment is working to eliminate.
• Culture war is driven by idiots refusing to understand how things work.
• When it comes to surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
• “Drug” fantasies are just a pretext for petty torture and fascist profits.
• It took seven years for people to start fighting wannabe book censors.
• Politicians believe “election” grants them license to practice medicine.
• Surely you didn’t think this would stop with libraries and the internet?
• The phrase “conspiracy theory” does not mean “any bizarre fantasy”.
• Anybody still using Facebook products deserves everything they get.
• Many overseas pharmacies don’t care about politicians’ permission.
• Cops, Lovecraft, Captain Kangaroo, Diane Keaton, and much more.
• These abuses are finally getting the attention they’ve long needed.
• Your regular reminder that my writing depends upon your support.
• It is not the job of libraries to enforce parental censorship choices.
• A reminder that I depend on your support to keep this blog going.
• “Worship leader”.  How many variations on these titles are there?
• A program is not a “she”, and running a program is not “acting”.
• Every Friday the 13th, I ask non-sexworkers to stand up for us.
• As I’ve said many times, the urge to censor is a mental illness.
• The people the government empowers to police your sexuality.
• Politicians will never stop until privacy is completely abolished.
• In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
• I can’t feel sorry for cops hoist with their own twisted petard.
• Some rapist cops are indiscriminate in their choice of victim.
• Cops, Russell Batiste, Jr, gay furry hackers, and much more.
• “Serious domestic incident” seems to mean he raped his ex.
• Conditioning kids to accept constant, intrusive surveillance.
• Privacy as we once knew it will soon be a thing of the past.
• Cops, dark ages, Nazca lines, John Amos, and much more.
• Because this kind of prohibition will surely be different!
• Goats view fences as challenges rather than barriers.
• Politicians keep openly trying to destroy the internet.
• The open internet is becoming a thing of the past.
• Welcome to the “safe” future you keep voting for.
• I’ve been wanting one of these for quite a while.
• Oh look, sensible people were correct as usual.
• All cops will have these within a few years.
• Throwback Thursday Meets the Wolf Man.
• The Ascension of Throwback Thursday.
• Sometimes I really miss the Beatles.
• Your “leaders” call this “correction”.
• Victor Throwback Thursday.
• Water for the piggies.

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