The Honest Courtesan

You are now enrolling newborns in a lottery to test a hypothesis.
–  Stig Børsen Hansen

Patrick Stewart gave so many amazing, iconic performances I’m marking his passing in the same way I did that of James Earl Jones and Paul Reubens: by featuring an obscure performance (called to my attention by T. Greg Doucette) you may be unfamiliar with.  The links above it were provided by Nun Ya (x2); Ryan Marino; Mike Masnick; Mike Siegel; Clarissa, Jason Kuznicki, and Ryan Cooper; and Nun Ya again, in that order.

• As one does.
• Miracle wheat.
• Headline of the month.
• Another great moment in artificial stupidity.
• The world’s oldest known joke is about farting.
• R.I.P. Patrick Stewart, Walter Koenig and Eric Bauza.
• Cops never stop demonstrating exactly what they are.

From the Archives

• Cops, artificial stupidity, Greg Hildebrandt, Quincy Jones, and much more.
• The state uses bogus excuses to permanently cram people into dungeons.
• Why does it take the US press so long to recognize governmental abuses?
• Anyone whose brain isn’t rotted by prohibitionism could’ve predicted this.
• Local media reflexively parrots copaganda despite its evident foolishness.
• It always starts with a politically-unpopular group, but never stops there.
• If prohibitionists want to “rescue” whores, why keep us from other jobs?
• The Nordic Model is as rooted in reality as her other beliefs re sex work.
• Cops, artificial stupidity, Ken Mattingly, Frank Borman, and much more.
• The entire “troubled teen” industry needs to be sued out of existence.
• One of the people the government empowers to police your sexuality.
• Imaginary “sex traffickers” forced to give up Wile E. Coyote schemes.
• Crypto-moralists believe anything unpleasant must be “good for you”.
• Texas doesn’t care how many women die because of its terrible laws.
• Neither court rulings nor public protest deter the “bathroom bill” fad.
• The government needs to be buried in lawsuits before this will stop.
• Why are people shocked when men paid to behave violently, do so?
• Cops, artificial stupidity, Donna Jean Godchaux, and much more.
• If you think this will go away when Trump does, you are a fool.
• Another reminder that my writing depends on reader support.
• All too often, evil arrives cloaked in the mantle of expediency.
• Barring a counterweapon, the internet will soon be unusable.
• “Youth leader”, “youth pastor”…just another preachy pervert.
• Cops use universal warrantless surveillance to frame people.
• The first actual association between “trafficking” and pizza.
• Pregnant women are uniquely vulnerable to State violence.
• Just another of those nonexistent false rape accusations.
• Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
• Grady Judd is an utterly loathsome excuse for a human.
• It’s good to see sane people speaking up about this.
• Liz Brown’s deep dive on the Backpage persecution.
• Groceries for Halloween is like socks for Christmas.
• My three previous columns for Guy Fawkes Day.
• As you can see, my fountain is finally working!
• Police departments attract predatory garbage.
• Your “leaders” refer to this as “correction”.
• It only starts with demonized minorities.
• Decriminalization is only the first step.
• In which Jonathan begins to decline.
• Actual facts cannot stop copaganda.
• Exactly how I like my birthdays.
• Throwback Created Thursday.
• “The Power of the Powerless”.
• Throwback Thursday 3000.
• Throwback Thursday 1970.
• The Cthulhu chia pet.
• Fascism in action.

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