Contrary to popular belief, [civil rights] also protect undocumented immigrants. – Phillip Arroyo
There’s only one real choice to mark the passing of Shangri-Las lead singer Mary Weiss, so here it is in the form of a rather silly TV performance from 1964. The links above the video were provided by Mike Siegel; Phoenix Calida; David Ley; Jesse Walker and Mike Siegel again; IncarcerNation; Nun Ya; and Walter Olson, in that order.
- Prohibition in action.
- This cannot be reformed.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- R.I.P. Mary Weiss and Carl Weathers.
- Armed robbery would be far more typical.
- {Insert Ben Franklin quote about safety and liberty}
- Goverment is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
From the Archives
- Better cops escape consequences than this ugly trope be reinforced again.
- This piece is so restrained it doesn’t even use the term “super gonorrhea”.
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- This histrionic has-been has made a rotting moral panic her whole career.
- Laws enabling nuisance lawsuits will multiply until ruled unconstitutional.
- The way local media parrots clearly-foolish copaganda is utterly pathetic.
- I wonder how many more fakeumentaries we’ll see before the implosion?
- Woman paid to cause non-consensual harm thinks sex work is shameful.
- A man has been convicted of “crimes” against people who do not exist.
- Trans people have become another canary in the civil rights coal mine.
- “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time“.
- The Dutch scheme to Disnify De Wallen is no longer merely a scheme.
- Oh noes, they contaminated public places with their eeeevul sex rays!
- This’d be a real improvement if the release conditions were objective.
- Dr. David Ley schools his fellow therapists on the reality of sex work.
- Another cop scam to shore up the dying “sex trafficking” mythology.
- Just as we said would happen before this terrible law was imposed.
- Virginia screws sexually assault women like this on a regular basis.
- Give aggressive thugs power over teen girls; what could go wrong?
- Even I’m impressed with the speed this is happening in New York.
- Pathetic public promotions of misogynistic masturbatory material.
- CGI women are replacing “sex robots” in prohibitionist fantasies.
- Take a guess why this woman hates sex workers. Go on, guess.
- We haven’t seen a case of white van hysteria in almost a year.
- Cops, satire, Cloris Leachman, Cicely Tyson, and much more.
- Judge denies prosecutors’ wish to keep nonconsensual porn.
- Retrospectives of my blogging from January 2012 and 2013.
- Notice how often predatory cops’ victims are underage?
- Cops, Gina Lollobrigida, David Crosby, and much more.
- One of the greatest legal abominations ever conceived.
- Another obituary of Margo St. James from 48 Hills.
- Are most cops even capable of telling the truth?
- Cops, headlines, Don Wilson, and much more.
- There is nothing as contagious as a bad idea.
- The US has regularly done this for decades.
- Until SCOTUS acts, this will only get worse.
- Caring for our elderly cat in her last days.
- There is nothing contradictory about this.
- Part 2 of my six-part review of Blake’s 7.
- It looks like Florida is aping Texas again.
- This is why we can’t have nice things.
- My two previous columns for Imbolc.
- The arrival of our standby generator.
- The second leaf of my atrium roof.
- Job opportunities with Prostasia.
- Beginning the annex decor.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- The right kind of snow.
- The Omega Factor.
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