This is the fourth leap year since I’ve started the blog; since it doesn’t come around often, I once again looked back at the last one for guidance and was reminded that in that column, I answered some questions I’d asked in 2016 and wrote, “Will I be around to answer these same questions on February […]
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Four Times Four
Posted in Biography, Perception, Tyranny, tagged blogging, hysteria, psychology, Sunset on February 29, 2024| 1 Comment »
Back Issue #122
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged blogging on August 28, 2023| Leave a Comment »
To refer to decent, respectful treatment as a “privilege” is to imply that nobody actually deserves it, when in reality everybody does. – “The Privilege Paradigm” Someone who should be disqualified from office on grounds of stupidity. The disturbing trend of cops arresting retired madams on drug charges. High school wants virginity test entrance requirement, because whores. Politicians: censorship isn’t censorship ’cause the […]
Back Issue #126
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged blogging on December 29, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Many of the persistent myths about sex work are exactly the opposite of the truth. – “Catastrophic Consequences” Girl runs off with boyfriend; prohibitionist dreams up infant snuff sex ring. Cops, FBI, TSA, Dali, Snowden, drugs, bureaucracy, cheese and atheists. For those who still pretend government’s different from organized crime. In Sweden, whores are considered “unfit […]
Back Issue #127
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged blogging on January 26, 2024| Leave a Comment »
One distinguishing characteristic of the truly awful sex work story is its use of inane, annoying and dysphemistic language to pretend that sex work is “dirty”, “seedy”, titillating, lurid or otherwise fundamentally different from other kind of work. – “Case Study” Another pompous ignoramus pretends sex work ignores all economic laws. Pallets of inanimate “women […]
Back Issue #123
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged blogging on September 29, 2023| Leave a Comment »
An insect sealed in amber is so well-protected it can exist changelessly for tens of millions of years…dead, of course, but one can’t have everything. – “Utopia” The German Prostitution Model: Reducing Violence Against Sex Workers. Even with broad definitions, UNODC can’t find many “trafficking victims”. It’s never called “trafficking” when politically-connected companies do it. […]
Dracula vs. Throwback Thursday
Posted in History, Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Words, tagged blogging, hysteria, language, Not Worth the Paper, Overdue, politicians, psychology, yellow journalism on February 22, 2024| Leave a Comment »
I’m…reliably informed by “sex trafficking experts” that “mature” means “underage”, “downtown” means “suburbs”, and “no drama” means the escort and her “pimp” will entertain you with a performance of the climactic scene of Othello. – “Not Worth the Paper” A phrase used to mean everything means nothing at all, and a phrase that means nothing […]
Jesse James Meets Throwback Thursday
Posted in Miscellaneous, Perception, Tyranny, tagged blogging, consensual crime, holidays, hysteria, politicians, propaganda, Real Men, robots, The Pygmalion Fallacy on December 14, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Is there a single male prohibitionist who doesn’t enjoy whatever he crusades to deny to others? – “Real Men Support Sex Worker Rights (#600)” The obscene vileness that Americans call a “presidential election”…is something like an immense super-geyser from Hell that spews infectious disease-laden diarrhea over the entire planet. – “New Year’s Eve 2016” The […]
More Often Nowadays
Posted in Diary, tagged activism, blogging, psychology on May 13, 2024| Leave a Comment »
When I first started this blog 14 years ago, I generally wrote each column after breakfast and just posted them when I was done. Even after I started scheduling them in the summer of ’11 I rarely had trouble coming up with a topic to write about; in fact, I had so many I would […]
Links #685
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged artificial stupidity, censorship, Colorado, cops, Delaware, Little Tin Gods, Never Call the Cops, New Zealand, Not for Any Reason Whatsoever, Oklahoma, racism, restaurants, video, Wisconsin on August 20, 2023| Leave a Comment »
We can lock him up, take his kid, put his dog in the impound. – Raiford Box As my memorial for Robbie Robertson, I chose this example of kind of antiwar song I think most effective: one about the human costs of war. The links above it were provided by Radley Balko; Scott Greenfield; Popehat; […]
Back Issue #119
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged blogging on May 29, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Dysphemisms…[are] one of the moralists’ chief weapons in transforming a fact of life into a “menace”, a statement into a “shocking revelation”, a thing they dislike into something “seedy” or discussion of a taboo subject into a “conspiracy”. – “Dysphemisms Galore” If prohibitionists want to “rescue” whores, why keep us from other jobs? Articles are more […]
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