You don’t fucking hate them enough. – “Officer” Michael Kennedy
I’ve always counted Warner Brothers’ Merrie Melodies as the first music videos (short films intended to market a song), but I recently discovered this video, which pushes the mark back almost as far as it can go, to barely after the advent of sound movies. This is a sequence from King of Jazz (1930), a two-strip technicolor feature which is apparently a compilation of such videos; this is an abridged arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, and I’ve recently added the disc to my Amazon wishlist because I’d love to see the whole thing. The links above the video were provided by Shiv Ramdas; Nun Ya; IncarcerNation; Radley Balko; Popehat; C.J. Ciaramella; Jesse Walker and Franklin Harris, in that order.
- As one does.
- I hate it when this happens.
- Another case of driving while black.
- The puritans are really out of control.
- Another great moment in artificial stupidity.
- Another cop demonstrating exactly what he is.
- R.I.P. Marjane Satrapi and Anthony Stuart Head.
From the Archives
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- HuffPost asked several well-known sex workers about the the Trump trial.
- Pornhub has repeatedly & commendably refused to facilitate state spying.
- How long will Western society allow cops to terrorize traumatized women?
- Prison bureaucrats quash information about the conditions in their cages.
- Every Friday 13th, I ask those who aren’t sex workers to stand up for us.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Prentis Hancock, Clifton Jones, and much more.
- If cops weren’t allowed to rob people, there’d been nothing to embezzle.
- Maine is once again attempting to impose Swedish-style criminalization.
- Government reform policies, like other political promises, are worthless.
- Some believe they can live forever by eliminating all pleasure from life.
- The only way to stop these maniacs is to hit them where it hurts most.
- Cops, Rube Goldberg, Pat Robertson, Barry Newman, and much more.
- Politicians so mindlessly censorious they imagined they could win this.
- Give aggressive thugs power over kids; what could possibly go wrong?
- The State tortures thousands of people for crossing an imaginary line.
- Don’t teach kids about sex; fill their heads with anti-sex propaganda.
- Musk steals every American’s data to feed his surveillance machine.
- Why are people shocked when men paid to behave violently, so so?
- Just when you thought this kangaroo court couldn’t sink any lower…
- As I keep saying: these algorithms are not “intelligent” in any way.
- If one virus can be cured this way, there is hope for others as well.
- Amateurs could learn so much about safer sex from professionals.
- Censors now pretend thoughts they don’t like constitute a “crime”.
- It’s rare these days to see a judge side with justice against power.
- Prosecutors have backed away from labeling this “sex trafficking”.
- Other California cops are learning from drone-happy Chula Vista.
- There’s psychopathy and there’s pure evil, and then there’s this.
- Any country which does this has no business calling itself “free”.
- Too many people still believe in the innate goodness of religion.
- Crypto-moralists will declare any widely-enjoyed food “unsafe”.
- The people the government empowers to police your sexuality.
- For a warden to be charged, there must be much more to this.
- Hordes of useful idiots want this kind of repression in the US.
- Another shameless reminder that I depend on your support.
- Oh look, it’s what I was saying FOUR FUCKING YEARS AGO.
- Kansas politicians want to circumvent the will of the voters.
- Government will always use any excuse to expand tyranny.
- Texas cops are trying to pretend this isn’t hate-motivated.
- A society can be judged by the way it treats its prisoners.
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- Another of “rescue” conman Tim Ballard’s many frauds.
- Throwback Thursday vs. the Creature from Blood Cove.
- Is an “associate pastor” anything like a “youth pastor”?
- Life now for the subjects of a surveillance state.
- Your “leaders” want this to happen more often.
- Cops, punctuation, kung fu, and much more.
- I’m glad to see FIRE getting involved in this.
- The worst sinus allergy I’ve ever endured.
- Cops are a menace to women of all ages.
- On the occasion of Grace’s 66th birthday.
- A welcome visit from two dear friends.
- Throwback Thursday vs Frankenstein.
- Introducing Throwback Thursdays.
- How to be a stupid, greedy whore.
- A simple stile does the job.
- The vestibule shapes up.
- Your “leaders” at work.
- Gere Curam Mei Finis.
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