I READ THE FUCKING BOOKS! – Axis of Awesome A busy week leads to a short links column! This week’s video is from Endza, and the links above it from Dan Savage, Carol Fenton, Radley Balko and Clarkhat (in that order). How the cops got so powerful. An even worse idea than calling the cops. Politician says same-sex marriage causes rioting. A […]
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Links #252
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Tyranny, tagged animals, censorship, cops, imaginative fiction, Maryland, politicians, United Kingdom, Utah, video on May 3, 2015| 1 Comment »
In the News (#510)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged activism, advertising, agency denial, Arizona, bogus studies, Bottleneck, Broken Record, Business As Usual, Canada, Colorado, cops, Cuckoo Advertising, dirty, diversion programs, Do As I Say, end demand, FBI, genitalia, Gorged With Meaning, halfway whores, hysteria, Ireland, Italy, law, Monsters, Nevada, pimps, politicians, prohibitionist myths, rape, sex work is work, Shift in the Wind, Something Rotten In Sweden, sporting events, statistics, streetwalkers, stripping, Stupor Bowl, Swedish model, The Course of a Disease, The Mote and the Beam, Theatrics, Traffic Jam, transgender, United Kingdom, violence vs. sex workers, Washington (state) on February 4, 2015| 14 Comments »
This Government only won an election, not the right to become our Mammy. – Ian O’Doherty Another Reason Not To Do Cowgirl This isn’t actually the reason I dislike cowgirl, but it makes a good excuse: “Woman on top” is the most dangerous sex position, according to a new scientific study…”cowgirl”…is responsible for half of […]
That Was the Week That Was (#438)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged adolescence, Against Their Will, agency denial, animals, Another Fine Mess, Arizona, asset seizure, Bad Girls, bogus studies, Broken Record, brothels, Canada, Catholicism, cops, Craigslist, Dirty Laundry, escort review sites, Facebook, fantasy, Florida, genitalia, Germany, hysteria, Imaginary Crises, imaginative fiction, India, internet, Ireland, Korea, language, law, Law of the Instrument, LGBT rights, Like a Horse and Carriage, Louisiana, Lower Education, Maggie in the Media, Mexico, Minnesota, neofeminism, Never Call the Cops, New Mexico, New Zealand, Ohio, Paint By Numbers, Perquisites, politicians, prohibitionist myths, psychology, rape, rescue industry, Scapegoats, So What Else Is New?, Sold Out, Spain, sporting events, stage names, streetwalkers, Swedish model, Switzerland, The Clueless Leading the Hysterical, The Widening Gyre, Uncommon Sense, Under Every Bed, United Kingdom, Whither Canada?, yellow journalism on September 20, 2014| 7 Comments »
I was…struck by how the…treatment for these women mostly consisted of convincing them that they were victims. – Jessica Gutiérrez Bad Girls I suspect missing information: …sex worker…Aarti Yadav…was arrested…[for] the murder of a constable, Dilip Borole…”Yadav owed him money and Borole had been insisting that she [repay him]…Yadav offered him a drink laced with […]
A Mound of Filth
Posted in Perception, Tyranny, tagged A Mound of Filth, agency denial, Arizona, Backpage, censorship, cops, cult of the child, dirty, fascism, hysteria, internet, law, Louisiana, politicians, prohibitionist myths, psychology, rescue industry, streetwalkers, stripping, tabula rasa, violence vs. sex workers, Washington (state), yellow journalism on June 26, 2014| 15 Comments »
Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth. – D.H. Lawrence I grew up in an area of south Louisiana whose primary industry (in those days) was sugar […]
Facts in the Case of Monica Jones
Posted in Current Events, Tyranny, tagged activism, Arizona, bogus studies, cops, diversion programs, evidence, Facts in the Case of Monica Jones, Lack of Evidence, law, prisons, transgender, universal criminality on April 22, 2014| 13 Comments »
If they come for me in the morning, they’re coming for you that night. – Monica Jones Eleven months ago Monica Jones, a transgender sex worker, activist and social work student at Arizona State, was arrested for “manifestation of prostitution”, Arizona’s label for the tyrannical laws which allow cops virtually everywhere in the United States […]
Links #192
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Tyranny, tagged adolescence, advertising, animals, Australia, blogging, Canada, cops, domestic violence, drugs, Florida, Georgia, imaginative fiction, Italy, lawheads, Maryland, Minnesota, Never Call the Cops, New Jersey, North Carolina, porn, South Carolina, teachers, Texas, video on March 9, 2014| 11 Comments »
It’s a little known fact that as Emily Wilding Davison threw herself under the King’s horse during the 1913 Derby her last words were, “I hope that sometime in the next 100 years, someone introduces a product that makes a woman’s labia pinker. That’s really what I’m doing all this for.” – Jake If you […]
That Was the Week That Was (#419)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Perception, Philosophy, The Dark Side, Tyranny, tagged A Tale That Grew in the Telling, Above the Law, acting, Acting and Activism, activism, adolescence, agency denial, All About the Men, Arizona, Backpage, Backwards into the Future, Birth of a Movement, Broken Record, Canada, Caring Professionals, censorship, China, comics, cops, dirty, disability, drugs, Georgia, hysteria, India, internet, Lack of Evidence, language, lawheads, LGBT rights, Little Boxes, Little Tin Gods, Madonna/whore, Magic Formulae, Maryland, Mexico, Minnesota, Moloch, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Philippines, politicians, porn, prisons, prohibitionist myths, rape, sex offender registry, Sex Rays (updates), Shame Shame, streetwalkers, stripping, Swedish model, The Mote and the Beam, The Pro-Rape Coalition, The Red Umbrella, The Widening Gyre, Thought Control, Under Every Bed, United Kingdom, violence vs. sex workers, virginity, Whither Canada?, yellow journalism on May 10, 2014| 18 Comments »
[Mary Anne] Franks couldn’t care less who is turned into a felony sex offender, as long as some variation of her pet law is enacted, the hated men go down along with the innocent, and she gets credit for it. – Scott Greenfield The Red Umbrella A [Filipino man]…fell to his death while trying to evade police […]
That Was the Week That Was (#418)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Perception, The Dark Side, Tyranny, tagged abortion, Above the Law, activism, Africa, agency denial, animals, Arizona, bad customers, brothels, Buried Truth, California, Canada, Case Study, cell phones, censorship, China, cops, Creepy Coppers, dehumanization, Don’t Take My Word For It, drugs, Dutch Threat, evidence, fantasy, Follow Your Bliss, France, Full of Themselves, Germany, Gullible's Travels, Held Together With Lies, Hollywood, hysteria, Illinois, internet, language, LGBT rights, Louisiana, Madonna/whore, male prostitutes, Marching Up Their Own Arses, massage, Most Uptight Nerd Ever, Netherlands, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Original Sin, porn, psychology, Race to the Bottom, rape, red-light districts, rescue industry, robots, Rough Trade, Scapegoats, screening, Small Choice, Stand-Up Guys, streetwalkers, stripping, sweatshops, The Public Eye, The Pygmalion Fallacy, The Widening Gyre, Three Steps Back, transgender, Uganda, Under Every Bed, video, violence vs. sex workers, Washington (state), Worse Than I Thought, yellow journalism on May 3, 2014| 18 Comments »
The only difference between an escort and, say, your sister is probably that an escort charges money. – Felix Clay Rough Trade Reporter casts violent rapist as a victim of prostitution: …The havoc prostitution can wreak on lives played out in a London [Ontario] courtroom…when [Nelson] Martinez…was sentenced for what was described as a “callous […]
Little Tin Gods
Posted in Current Events, Tyranny, tagged cops, Little Tin Gods, Louisiana, politicians on September 19, 2013| 20 Comments »
Pleasant it is for the Little Tin Gods, When great Jove nods; But Little Tin Gods make their little mistakes In missing the hour when great Jove wakes. – Rudyard Kipling Even if you clicked on “Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever” in Links #165, I doubt you took the time to look […]
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