The Honest Courtesan

Our texts sound like a clan [sic] rally.  –  a cop, of course

Here’a a seasonal “Silly Symphonies” cartoon from 1929; the links above it were provided by Franklin Harris, Nun Ya, IncarcerNation (x3), Tracy Quan, and Reason, in that order.

• R.I.P. Michael Gray.
• “Smart” appliances aren’t.
• Cops are a menace to society.
• Cop attacks woman for having a daughter.
• The poison fruit of the “strict liability” tree.
• Another great moment in artificial stupidity.
• They never stop demonstrating exactly what they are.

From the Archives

• Unhinged mob-rule lunacy will spread like rot until struck down by a court.
• This is just LA County; every single jurisdiction in the US has similar rates.
• Such convoluted language to distance other cops from a typical specimen.
• “Cop murders wife/girlfriend & claims it was suicide” is a recurring theme.
• Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
• Is there anything narrower and meaner than the mind of a prison official?
• I’m glad we both can cuddle one who reminds us of the friend we’ve lost.
• Bureaucrats call the victim of their illegal surveillance a “public nuisance”.
• Mastercard performs elaborate concern kabuki; Visa burbles about “risk”.
• Prohibitionist “sex robot” fantasies have shifted to something that exists.
• The inevitable result of giving sexual predators total power over women.
• Violence against a marginalized group never stays limited to that group.
• Realistic porn cartoons are not the worst use for “deepfake” technology.
• The government does to caged people what it wants to do to all people.
• How many women died due to inaction by this murderer’s cop buddies?
• The inevitable result of letting sociopathic thugs cage innocent people.
• Airports are among cops’ favorite places to lurk in order to rob people.
• Sorry, crypto-moralists, but “addictive” is not a synonym for “yummy”.
• Cops are sexual predators who specifically target traumatized women.
• It’s rare for screws who murder prisoners to suffer any consequences.
• A bizarrely-anachronistic article that reads like something from 2012.
• Cops, Lovecraft, Herschel Savage, Suzanne Somers, and much more.
• Kids today don’t value privacy because they’ve never really known it.
• This will keep getting worse until these maniacs are forcibly stopped.
• When a pimp cop is caught, his bosses respond with stupid rhetoric.
• Cop deals with problems exactly as trained to; everyone is shocked.
• Amazon has now fully embraced fascist police-state collaboration.
• 75% of Floridians oppose its politicians’ attempts to ban abortion.
• If this is a “crime”, why is Paxton suing rather than prosecuting?
• How do I choose which gift to illustrate when there are several?
• How are they verifying the recipients’ ages before they open it?
• Another reminder that my work depends on reader support.
• In Rhode Island’s case, this would be re-decriminalization.
• Politicians will use any trick to gain control of the internet.
• A society can be judged by the way it treats its prisoners.
• Curated selections of tweets from 2023, 2024, and 2025.
• The more vague the law, the more authoritarians like it.
• Had he not been caught, this would’ve soon escalated.
• Cops, artificial stupidity, Ace Frehley, and much more.
• Surveillance beyond the wildest dreams of the Stasi.
• Last year’s links for Halloween, plus 2024 and 2023.
• Just another kind of cop, with typical cop behavior.
• This situation is not going to get better on its own.
• Abbott and Costello Meet Throwback Thursday.
• Cops, legends, Vincent Price, and much more.
• What is wrong with doctors who do this?
• Another fine example of McNeill’s Law.
• Working out a new mincemeat recipe.
• Curiosity offends the state, comrade.
• Haunted Throwback Thursday.
• Virgin Throwback Thursday.
• Much more of this, please.

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