It’s kinda nice when I can keep things moving along for a change. We’ve got the trim for the bookcases; I’m waiting for the proof of The Essential Maggie McNeill, Volume I; I’ve made my travel arrangements for this weekend; and I’m starting to figure out my schedule for February (about which I’ll say more later). And in addition to all that I managed to read a novel and listen to a rather strange but very entertaining radio serial from 1972 named The Fourth Tower of Inverness, which Chekhov gave me for Christmas (he also gave me the sequel, Moon Over Morocco). Normally it would be difficult for me to sit and listen to such a long series, but I’ve driven to or from Sunset five times since receiving it, and the car has a CD player, so ta-da! If you’ve ever heard the series you’ll understand when I tell you I kinda wish I had listened to at least some of it stoned, but I’ll have a chance with the sequel (which I’m told is not dissimilar). Learning to relax and let go of stuff that stresses me out has been a long, slow, laborious process, but I’m getting there, and it’s lovely when people give me gifts that help.
Posts Tagged ‘nostalgia’
Diary #498
Posted in Diary, tagged imaginative fiction, nostalgia, Presents, psychology, Sunset, The Essential Maggie McNeill on January 14, 2020| 1 Comment »
Diary #490
Posted in Diary, Philosophy, tagged blogging, nostalgia, psychology on November 19, 2019| 1 Comment »
It’s funny; when I sat down to write this I thought I’d say this week was quiet. But then reflecting back, I realized it actually hadn’t been; I went to a concert with Daedalus and a play with Chekhov, took a bingo-loving friend to the bingo hall for her birthday, attended a small but lovely party at Lady Vi’s on Saturday, then went to Allena Gabosch’s book launch on Sunday. So it wasn’t actually that quiet; it just somehow felt quiet. In my youth, my life was full of adventures; when I became a librarian and settled down with Jack I started to miss that, and the universe responded to that mild nostalgia with my Year of Disaster soon afterward. This is not to say that I no longer like having adventures; I’m just a lot more circumspect about the kind of adventure, and the kind I like are the kind where most of the important factors are firmly under my control (and yes, that’s one of the many reasons I dislike flying). And when things are relatively quiet, I enjoy them for as long as that lasts rather than looking forward to the next excitement.
Links #477
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Tyranny, tagged animals, cops, imaginative fiction, Montana, nostalgia, Oregon, prisons, racism, Texas, United Kingdom, video, Washington (state) on August 25, 2019| 1 Comment »
This was not a good idea. – Jamie Bisceglia
If you’re British and over 40, or an American of that age who loved Captain Kangaroo, you probably remember the adventures of Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings. I recently remembered them and discovered this YouTube channel, and if you’ve never seen them before I think you’ll enjoy them. And if you’re American and remember them too, you may remember that the song was slightly different when they aired here. The links above the video are from Emma Evans, Skye, Dave Krueger, Mike Siegel (x2), and Tim Cushing, in that order.
- As one does.
- Map of US gulags.
- Just protecting and serving.
- I’m amazed this dude isn’t a cop.
- A perfect example of 21st-century “environmentalism”.
- Cops show you what they are every day; why don’t you listen?
From the Archives
- The only positive point here is that local politicians condemned the hatred.
- Prohibition turns bodies into “crime scenes” which cops can violate at will.
- Texas replacing WA & AZ as the worst producer of “sex trafficking” idiocy.
- Is it normal to feel like a failure when you’re behind your peers in school?
- This whole “letting go and enjoying the ride” thing is pretty novel for me.
- The media won’t recognize Julie Bindel as a broken-down one-trick pony.
- “Sex trafficking” panic will be over soon, but the damage has been done.
- Liz Brown on the government persecution of Michael Lacey & Jim Larkin.
- If the Democrats cared about human rights, this would be their position.
- When forced, undesired sexual contact with strangers is “team building”.
- The State wants us to refer to these evil thugs as “correctional officers”.
- Texas dreams up some of the sleaziest anti-abortion tricks of any state.
- I’ve never seen anything galvanize support for sex workers like FOSTA.
- Australia appears much more committed to human rights than Europe.
- More scumbags profiting from whores by promoting lies that harm us.
- Sex workers who are also performing artists are ambassadors for us.
- Why must decrim supporters promote myths, lies & insulting tropes?
- It’s good to see young “feminist” writers taking interest in this issue.
- Cops, stupidity, Florida, pigs, passwords, Angie Baby & much more.
- A fascinating look at male actor/sex workers in 19th century China.
- Remember when commies were bad for having militarized borders?
- More entries in the “sex trafficking” scare story invasion of Twitter.
- The “official” end of Operation Choke Point, but expect it to return.
- Welfare recipients are another guinea pig for invasive surveillance.
- When “diversion” programs are subject to prosecutorial discretion.
- Criticism of “anti-trafficking” propaganda from inside their ranks.
- More interested in promoting an agenda than protecting society.
- “Sex trafficking” means whatever “authorities” want it to mean.
- “Safe harbor” laws only protect “perfect victims”, not real ones.
- Liz Brown ridicules the “solar eclipse sex trafficking” nonsense.
- How can I make up to a provider I didn’t treat well in the past?
- Seems the same as an earlier news item, but worth revisiting.
- In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- The attackers were probably looking for someone to beat up.
- Pakistan surpasses the US in at least one area of civil rights.
- Looks like LA still isn’t done beating this very dead horse.
- Slowly but surely, things are coming together at Sunset.
- Brooke Magnanti on the re-opening of Laura Lee’s case.
- They’re literally recycling “gypsy whore” tall tales now.
- Racist anti-migrant bullshit reveals a deeper sickness.
- The heinous crime of “illegally subdividing a building”.
- The stories of three residents of Casa Xochiquetzal.
- Cops & clergy are the worst sexual abusers of kids.
- On the meaningless tech buzzword “disrupt”.
- Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
- I hope she gets every damned penny.
- This is what feminists call “equality”.
- Seeing the total eclipse with Lorelei.
- Cops, rage, Florida and much more.
- Did anyone not know this already?
- All prohibitionism is the same.
Links #462
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Tyranny, tagged animals, California, comics, cops, France, games, I can't breathe, imaginative fiction, nostalgia, video, Wisconsin on May 12, 2019| 1 Comment »
I can’t breathe. – Derek Williams
I’ve shared a lot of Sesame Street shorts in this space over the years, but for some reason I had completely forgotten about this one, which was one of my favorites as a child. The links above it were provided by Jesse Walker, Tim Cushing, Zuri Davis, Charles Hill, Eric Sprankle, and Wendy Lyon, in that order.
- Garfield horror.
- Just protecting and serving.
- But for video, delayed edition.
- Those who’ve played it already knew this.
- The beginnings of dark ages are fascinating.
- In Biblical times, this would’ve been seen as a sign from God.
From the Archives
- Kaytlin’s sex work past isn’t germane to this; reporter goes there anyhow.
- Stop pretending Tom Dart’s actions are other than a power & money grab.
- FOSTA may have been a serious miscalculation on the government’s part.
- Don’t want people spreading stupid rumors? Stop spreading ’em yourself.
- People kept out of the formal economy survive via the informal economy.
- I’m glad silly protectionist whores couldn’t wreck decrim in New Zealand.
- Destroying men’s ability to support their families is latest anti-whore fad.
- “Rescuers” are so invested in their own fantasies they’ll believe anything.
- How many kids need to be sacrificed to this obscenity before it’s enough?
- Why are people surprised when cops push for the “right” to rape whores?
- UK cops have never found more than a tiny # of “sex trafficking” cases.
- Nevada is now one of the most vile fonts of anti-whore vomit in the US.
- Can I regain the spiritual dimension of sex I used to have with my wife?
- Coalitions of fundamentalist anti-sex groups are in no way “surprising”.
- This will be much more common due to the ramped-up war on whores.
- Sullying a sex worker by surrounding her words with prohibitionist lies.
- Another cowboy raid staged for the entertainment of rich US moralists.
- Sex workers can only help men before they turn into deranged “incels”.
- NBC News publishes an article which openly calls for decriminalization.
- In the contemporary US, people can be fired from jobs for blasphemy.
- Seattle cops aren’t the only ones with a fetish for creepy surveillance.
- Seattle “officials” still adore prohibition of things other than cannabis.
- I’m delighted to see “creepy clown” hysteria still has a bit of life in it.
- Why have you remained a sex worker for so much longer than most?
- If this is a “brothel”, then a room with a foosball table is a “stadium”.
- It’s no longer taboo for reporters to come out in support of decrim.
- Another example of the War on Whores as the new War on Drugs.
- The stupidity and evil of politicians is sometimes mind-boggling.
- The term for nonconsensual sex isn’t “sleeping with”, it’s “rape”.
- Fascism is much more effective at repression than communism.
- Cops, thoughtcrime, Jesus, jumping machines and much more.
- An excellent article by stalwart friend of whores Mark Draughn.
- Pretended “secondary effects” aren’t usually silly nebulosities.
- Indian court rules that acts which aren’t illegal, aren’t illegal.
- Long time readers may remember “Fake Internet Girlfriend”.
- The global south is far ahead of the US in sex worker rights.
- A simple primer on interacting with sex workers on Twitter.
- Another racist anti-whore pogrom in “progressive” Seattle.
- More racist infantilization of Nigerian sex workers in Italy.
- Eternal life would be a horror literally beyond imagining.
- Prohibitionists just can’t stop beating this dead horse.
- An excerpt from Brooke Magnanti’s The Turning Tide.
- Surveillance beyond the wildest dreams of the Stasi.
- Cops, Australia, prohibition, Prince and much more.
- Once in a very great while, the bad guys still lose.
- US prisons are hotbeds of rape in every form.
- “Evil” is not a noun; it is an adjective.
- Lorelei & I at The Secret Garden.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- My sexuality is money.
Links #457
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Tyranny, tagged advertising, California, cops, Illinois, imaginative fiction, Kansas, Never Call the Cops, nostalgia, video, Virginia on April 7, 2019| 2 Comments »
I thought they was going to shoot me, and my brother, and everybody else. – Samari Boswell
Last week Emma Evans tweeted an article about breakfast cereal marketing of the ’80s, which in turn reminded me of one of my favorite breakfast cereals of the previous decades; here is a collection of all the commercials (starting in 1974). I had all of the magnets, too. The links above the video were provided by Scott Greenfield, Walter Olson, Scott Greenfield again, Kevin Wilson, Peter Roman, and Popehat, in that order.
- Just protecting and serving.
- The resurrection of a dead cuisine.
- Cops shoot man for closing his door.
- Much, MUCH, MUCH more of this, please.
- Tell me again how cops in school is a good idea.
- Murder instigator gets 20 years; murderer not even charged.
From the Archives
- Puritans hate that some women are comfortable paying our bills with sex.
- Even bootlicking Time seems to grasp that something bad has happened.
- Judge lectures young sex workers about cop-created danger of sex work.
- When the loon behind “mandatory porn filter” bills did a massive pratfall.
- Laura Lee on the possible wider effects of her Swedish model challenge.
- Raising pullets was like having a box of tiny clowns in my laundry room.
- Seeing this one power taken from cops is a small but important victory.
- A deeper look at the sleazy lies politicians use to destroy women’s jobs.
- “Sex trafficking” is such a convenient weapon against adult businesses.
- Delicious schadenfreude: prohibitionists’ lies coming back to bite them.
- It’s especially important that women make anti-prohibition arguments.
- New self-aggrandizing name for pro-censorship nuts Morality in Media.
- If only amateurs realized that this is the norm, not a deviation from it.
- Hysterical phone calls don’t correlate meaningfully with actual events.
- Gentrification is a common motivation for persecution of sex workers.
- Facts magically become evil when somebody says “THE CHILDREN!!!”
- Pigs claim they have to stick their snouts into people’s personal lives.
- Americans want anyone who ever did wrong to be punished forever.
- SCOTUS recently reaffirmed the unconstitutionality of loyalty oaths.
- NCMEC is among the most dangerous of the anti-sex organizations.
- Headline blames girls because busybodies want them unemployed.
- Cops telling “sex slave” fantasies are just dangerous time-wasters.
- Looks like at least one dangerous censor-moron is on his way out.
- “Competition” from fancy fleshlights? Really, ladies, calm down.
- If I weren’t already sterile, I’d get myself sterilized immediately.
- When sex is involved, a poison pen letter is considered “proof”.
- Cops, cuteness, mirrors, Babylon 5, Joe Satriani & much more.
- The Democratic party did half the work of creating this lunacy.
- Even if PROUD supports this, I’m still skeptical of the subtext.
- There’re so many reasons sex worker licensing is a bad idea.
- The coven in which I feel safe and loved grows a little larger.
- The censors who want the internet destroyed are at it again.
- Is it just me, or are you less patient than you used to be?
- How can a newlywed woman increase her sexual desire?
- Cops, amateurs, Jesus Christ Superstar and much more.
- This is over three years old, but it’s too good to pass up.
- Corporations are becoming the favored tool of censors.
- Five years in prison for talking to someone online.
- The panic industry’s latest dumb “teen fad” panic.
- More on the oppression of Ukrainian sex workers.
- The next generation of sex worker security apps.
- Once again, actual figures disprove the hysteria.
- Massage parlor pogroms are coming to Canada.
- 23 “sex trafficking” idiocies in one short article.
- Sex is an exchange, whether you like it or not.
- My dear friend Savannah Sly in Teen Vogue.
- The 7th murdered transwoman of 2018.
- Toward the end of privacy, everywhere.
- Now they notice. Good going, Gay, Inc!
- An argument I’ve often made myself.
- Miranda Kane on annoying clients.
- Do as cops say, not as they do.
- Is this dumbass for real?
- Population 36,000.
Links #451
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Tyranny, tagged cops, drugs, Facebook, fascism, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Never Call the Cops, nostalgia, psychology, rape, video on February 24, 2019| 4 Comments »
Facebook might call the cops on you because a bot thought you seemed sad. – Elizabeth Nolan Brown
Here’s another of those strange, wonderful Sesame Street videos; I’m honestly not sure how this one escaped being shared here before, but oh well. The links above it were provided by Emma Evans, Dave Krueger, Radley Balko, Mistress Matisse, Elizabeth N. Brown, and Angela Keaton, in that order.
- Family values.
- A real cop’s cop.
- Fascism in action.
- Too bad nobody opened fire.
- Don’t let Facebook call them, either.
- Man murdered for sleeping while black.
From the Archives
- All the most enlightened countries have US-type anti-whore “crackdowns”.
- Danger of a “tolerated” system: cops can suddenly decide to be intolerant.
- Indian feminists support sex workers & prohibitionists are minority cranks.
- It took 4 people to produce this one turd, perhaps human-centipede style.
- Cops are upset that the hysteria they helped create has inspired copycats.
- Is “the dangerous cycle of prostitution” a Harley bought by whore money?
- It’s good to see this not only getting attention, but being called what is is.
- Things are changing when stuffy Time publishes a not-too-terrible article.
- Too bad all prohibitionism isn’t focused on harassing nonexistent women.
- “Visitors to a country trade with locals” is neither “misconduct” nor news.
- No surprise to those who have actually studied the history of censorship.
- Another ridiculous “study” based solely in the researchers’ sex fantasies.
- One day, our culture will grow up enough that this won’t be noteworthy.
- I can’t guess how much taxpayer money ended up in my bank account.
- A theatrical production by whores designed to debunk prohibitionist BS.
- Good news for the defendants, but the actual challenge is just starting.
- This is the norm in anything that involves prosecuting sexual offenses.
- A step toward eliminating arbitrary state oppression of “sex offenders”.
- A screw wants sympathy for her sadfeelz about the men she locks up.
- Mormon politician fantasizes that sex workers “force” cops to rape us.
- Cops are starting to admit that this is about nothing other than profit.
- It’s good to see a sexwork-positive article in the stodgy Rolling Stone.
- Authoritarians should’ve thought of this before letting that djinni out.
- Will Asstoon ever get professional help for his delusions of grandeur?
- Liz Brown is becoming our most powerful voice against sex hysteria.
- Like terrorists forcing hostages to read denunciations at gunpoint.
- Sex worker subverts a pompous judge’s attempt to get rid of her.
- A sleep mask, a feather duster and a scalp tingler as “sex toys”.
- This will happen as long as anti-whore laws & procedures exist.
- Texas uses universities to spread “sex trafficking” propaganda.
- Retrospectives of my blogging for February 2014 and 2015.
- On the absurdity of currently-fashionable calls to ban porn.
- “Sex addiction” is still being used to excuse bad behavior.
- Cops, tyranny, alcohol, crypto-moralism and much more.
- If you actually believe this, you are part of the problem.
- Expect this to spread to the US within just a few years.
- An interesting look at brothel archaeology in Australia.
- Cops, emojis, lost continents, villains and much more.
- It’s easy for cops to make life miserable for someone.
- This is a huge move forward for a UK political party.
- A very nice tribute to Laura Lee from The Herald.
- The alternative press is listening to sex workers.
- I’m not sure what, if anything, to make of this.
- Everything is a sign of lurking “sex traffickers”!
- A good, objective look at sex work in Bangkok.
- As the days get longer, my brain gets scarier.
- “Human trafficking” is the new “23 skidoo”.
- What is meant by “upscale” in escort ads?
- Ireland succumbs to the Swedish disease.
- Well, at least golf requires skill & activity.
- One of her clients remembers Laura Lee.
- Brooke Magnanti remembers Laura Lee.
- “Human trafficking” can mean anything!
- It’s good to see that somebody gets it.
- Introducing a new appointment type.
- My previous columns for Mardi Gras.
- This ought to be interesting.
- Some weeks are just weird.
- 50 shades of clusterfuck.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- Stop faking!
Links #436
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Tyranny, tagged Antarctica, cops, Massachusetts, North Carolina, nostalgia, Oregon, psychology, racism, South Africa, universal criminality, video on November 12, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Welcome to the white man’s world. – “Officer” Gregg Bigda
Yet another truly weird video from classic Sesame Street. The links above it were provided by Jillian Keenan, Joe Setyon, Mistress Matisse, Radley Balko, Tim Cushing, and Scott Greenfield, in that order.
- Justifiable homicide.
- Just protecting and serving.
- How to piss off brickmakers.
- The criminalization of tragedy.
- Don’t try to BE a fucking cop, either.
- Crime: Crossing a street. Penalty: summary execution.
From the Archives
- Burke was the police chief who derailed the hunt for the Long Island Killer.
- Brian Bates is hostile to both sex workers and “sex trafficking” mythology.
- Given petty tyranny of US prison officials, I’m amazed any of ’em allow it.
- Cops, Sweden, Frankenclown, nutritionism, Silurian Park and much more.
- Amateurs are a menace to public health; license & heavily regulate them.
- Politicians can’t grasp that whores might be neither criminals nor victims.
- Often, the War on Whores is the War on Drugs rather than its successor.
- Bad laws disproportionately harm small businesses and poor individuals.
- I had a feeling he’d extend this fantasy nonsense to his Swiss shop, too.
- Want to write an article supporting sex workers? Actually talk to us first.
- It’s a shame this is what it took to bring down the “sex addiction” scam.
- Self-declared “expert” can’t grasp why “pimp” conviction rate is so low.
- Wanna ban a consensual activity? Find a problem case to shill for you.
- We keep telling you legalization isn’t much better than criminalization.
- Cops, government, politicians, glitter, Leonard Cohen and much more.
- There can never be too many articles on sex workers for the disabled.
- It’s good to see mainstream articles critical of the “john school” scam.
- It’s never called “trafficking” when the government or a crony does it.
- Taiwan becomes the first place in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage.
- It’s good to see a sex worker run for office, especially when she wins.
- We’re lucky to have such moral exemplars to “protect” and “lead” us.
- Remember, cops: raping whores is OK; it’s paying us fairly that isn’t.
- The best way to honor veterans is to stop making so many of them.
- It’s sad that conformists are unable to simply respect others’ rights.
- Another study shows what’s already been shown over & over again.
- Why attempts to prosecute porn as prostitution are doomed to fail.
- Please help sex workers recover from the two-month election lull.
- How could even cops believe that Fresno is a “hub” for anything?
- A rare victory for sex workers against “sex trafficking” hysteria.
- Could you introduce me to a sex worker I can correspond with?
- The War on Whores, like the War on Drugs, is a jobs program.
- Sex workers are and always have been the real “resistance”.
- Admit it; you knew Weiner would claim to be a “sex addict”.
- Rapist graduates from slandering his victims to suing them.
- New York bartenders are now competing with the strippers.
- The quadrennial madness that is a US presidential election.
- A cross between an adult-sized Talky Tina and a Fleshlight.
- This prohibitionist article is more of a mess than usual.
- “Strange accents” sums up what this is really about.
- The defense of choice for sex offenders, plus ADHD.
- Because “I was wrong” isn’t in the cop vocabulary.
- “Signs of trafficking” idiocy spreads to Dutch pigs.
- A possible move toward decriminalization in India.
- An excerpt from Andrea Werhun’s Modern Whore.
- People sometimes ask why I’m not on Facebook.
- I speak at an anarchist conference in Oklahoma.
- A very interesting development in Ireland.
- My last two columns for Guy Fawkes Day.
- Rapist cops of the week, 2016 and 2017.
- This claim is so absurd it defies sanity.
- A raid on the Eros Guide call center.
- Birthday presents are awesome.
- Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Links #434
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Tyranny, tagged asset seizure, cops, drugs, Georgia, imaginative fiction, language, Missouri, Never Call the Cops, New Zealand, nostalgia, Ohio, racism, surveillance, Twitter, video on October 28, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Do you think I want to shoot an 11-year-old?…Don’t make me. – “Officer” Peter Casuccio
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I find the psychedelic videos from Sesame Street quite entertaining when I’m high; here’s another one, which was clearly inspired by Yellow Submarine. The links above it were provided by Mike Siegel, Tim Cushing, Jesse Walker, Zuri Davis, Scott Greenfield, and Jacob Sullum, in that order.
- Justice.
- How seasonal!
- Six! Six! Six books in one!
- Just protecting and serving.
- Don’t try to be a fucking cop, either.
- STOP CALLING THE FUCKING COPS!
From the Archives
- What “law enforcement” means in claiming it wants to “help” sex workers.
- It’s illegal to pay for sex in Sweden, unless you film it for everyone to see.
- Cops, fascism, surveillance, nightmares, spooky cartoons and much more.
- Moral panics only end after they start harming middle-class white women.
- Yet another pogrom in the pocket police-state that is Polk County, Florida.
- Just in case you think it’s only sex workers who will be harmed by SESTA.
- Watching “sex trafficking” hysteria spin out of control is deeply gratifying.
- Uber now wants its drivers to spy on sex workers & rat us out to the pigs.
- New sleazy government trick: use civil suits rather than criminal charges.
- Claiming this constitutes “slavery” is almost as stupid as calling the cops.
- I always feel dirty when prohibitionists share wanking fantasies in public.
- “Authorities” claiming North Dakota is a “sex trafficking hub” is hilarious.
- Self-deception, pearl-clutching & offensive ignorance, all under one roof!
- When a non-sexworker uses the term “decriminalization”, read carefully.
- This ridiculous fantasy is nauseating even by “sex trafficking” standards.
- Nothing they can do to this monster would approach what I’d do to him.
- When a law intended as political theater is defeated, politicians still win.
- Outcry against the grotesque “Operation Northern Spotlight” is growing.
- Spending as much time as possible in less-haunted parts of the house.
- “Operation Cross-Country” appears to be spreading to other countries.
- And some of you thought the clown thing was kind of off-topic for me.
- Fascist scum like this will be first against the wall after the politicians.
- Why do so many losers want porn movies to be condom commercials?
- Pearl-clutching is both funnier and sadder when a young man does it.
- “…but that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
- Politicians everywhere are obsessed with regulating women’s bodies.
- This was only necessary due to idiotic laws against sex businesses.
- “They lied, of course. That’s what police officers are trained to do.”
- I wonder what fraction of his rhetoric is directed toward “perverts”?
- Naturally, because it’s politicians’ job to cause harm, not reduce it.
- How can a client who was busted by cops help sex worker rights?
- A sex therapist debunks prohibitionist propaganda about clients.
- Really not much more repressive than the so-called “free world”.
- Despite this popular UK cop fantasy, none has ever been found.
- “Sex addiction” is now a defense even for violent sex offenders.
- Just in case you think being a “legal” sex worker protects you.
- Will you settle a dispute between me and another sex worker?
- “Futurists” should put their “predictions” further in the future.
- Indonesia is trying to criminalize all sex outside of marriage.
- Cops, Fats Domino, language, talking fish and much more.
- Cops call children abducted from sex workers “recovered”.
- Another sleazy scam artist raping aspiring sex workers.
- The beginning of the end for the “sex addiction” scam.
- That’s how extraordinarily dumb this sounds to me.
- The shorter phrase for this is “prudish busybodies”.
- It was inevitable they’d get around to transwomen.
- “Safe house” in this context means “jail”.
- “Sex trafficking” as the new “blood libel”.
- Rapist cops of the week, 2016 and 2017.
- Mississippi cops go ape shit over clowns.
- Developments in the Celeste Guap case.
- October 2013 and 2014 in retrospect.
- Liz Brown did this so I didn’t have to.
- Links for Halloween, 2016 and 2017.
- The real reason people get addicted.
- Another massive pogrom in Soho.
- In which I get a new smartphone.
- “This is not about sex trafficking“.
Links #431
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Tyranny, tagged animals, Canada, cops, domestic violence, drugs, Florida, Kentucky, Michigan, nostalgia, Oklahoma, politicians, racism, video on October 7, 2018| 1 Comment »
People are losing their lives, their freedom, their children, their marriages — all because of this one man. – Erika Helms
If you don’t habitually consume cannabis edibles as I do, you may not realize that a lot of factors affect their potency and onset rate, including recently-eaten foods, time of the month (for women) and even the brand of edibles. So even though I use only 10 mg on nights when I just want to relax and sleep, sometimes that 10 mg hits me a lot harder and faster than at other times. And when that happens, I’ve discovered that shows from my childhood can be extremely entertaining. Consider, for example, this extremely weird little song from Sesame Street; try watching it while high and you may see what I’m talking about. I don’t recall where I got the first link above the video, but the others were provided by Franklin Harris, Nattie Roman, Elizabeth N. Brown, Jesse Walker, and Mike Chase, in that order.
- Forget it, Jake, it’s Florida.
- Just protecting and serving.
- Probably not wise, but certainly apropos.
- Do I really need to say, “Don’t marry them either”?
- I wish US candidates were at least this substantial.
- Cop blames sleeping man for his own murder by cops.
From the Archives
- She “thought she was helping her friends” like I think I’m Maggie McNeill.
- Everyone harmed by “prostitution stings” needs to keep suing over them.
- We’re not hearing quite as much of this “highway” bullshit as we used to.
- A good little article despite a truly stupid statement in the third sentence.
- Anti-trans laws, religion & “feminism” are the theory; this is the practice.
- Philippine president carrying the “War on Drugs” to its logical conclusion.
- ESPLERP vs. Gascon reaches a court which might actually do something.
- Liz Brown takes a scalpel to King County’s stupid response to her article.
- Lingerie shopping with other whores; Lorelei introduces me to Hamilton.
- Authoritarians keep re-electing this lunatic despite the cost of his antics.
- More hysterics who can’t tell the difference between adults and children.
- The majority of sex businesses worldwide are controlled by sex workers.
- At least this report doesn’t pretend these robbers were real sex workers.
- Amateurs: a health menace who should be licensed & heavily regulated.
- Leeds is slightly more enlightened about sex work than much of the UK.
- Volunteers selflessly devote their time to watching porn so others can’t.
- An interesting article on getting funding for sex worker rights projects.
- How many kids must be sacrificed to this obscenity before it’s enough?
- Future people will marvel at our deeply weird obsession with virginity.
- Bad laws disproportionately harm small businesses and poor people.
- The Francophone world is in deep denial about compensated dating.
- Bigoted hotel staff in the US could have ratted her out to the pigs.
- A win for Backpage on one front and a huge setback on another.
- The Great Clown Panic of 2016 continues to spin out of control.
- Remember: these people have already served their sentences.
- I find it darkly amusing that amateurs are so shocked by this.
- As long as these laws exist, all women are vulnerable to cops.
- Isn’t the Swedish model at least better than criminalization?
- Deeply stupid reporter confuses BDSM with police violence.
- Prohibitionists want these guys to “protect” us from pimps.
- A grave isn’t a “final resting place”; it’s a garbage can.
- How “feminism”, Gay Inc & ACLU betray sex workers.
- Cops, fascism, language, Tom Petty and much more.
- Selfies, Poe, Hello Kitty, irony, cops and much more.
- Sometimes even a little bit of “authority” is enough.
- While the feds actively persecute some sex workers…
- Robot whore fantasy meets blow job cafe fantasy.
- Escort advertising is already illegal in Ireland.
- Possibly the most promising cure for HIV yet.
- Of course they didn’t accuse him of faking.
- Talking is now defined as “sex trafficking”.
- This isn’t “remarkable” or even “unusual”.
- Felicia Anna on the “My Red Light” scam.
- Rapist cops of the week, 2016 and 2017.
- I love it when they feed on each other.
- This is actually an excellent analogy.
- My creativity is a lot like my libido.
- Another setback for due process.
- A short history of clown panics.
- Let’s play “count the idiocies”.
- THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
- From moving to fixing.
- R.I.P. Hugh Hefner.
Links #416
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Raped female dogs were not oppressed because rape was normative at dog parks. – Helen Wilson
It’s a shame that many adults didn’t pay enough attention to Sesame Street, else they’d have learned stuff like, “don’t mouth off on subjects about which you have insufficient information”. The links above the video were provided by Jesse Walker, Cathy Reisenwitz, Scott Greenfield (x2), Desiree Alliance, Amy Alkon, and Tim Cushing, in that order.
- R.I.P. Koko.
- The forever war.
- Dignity and respect.
- Not a police state, no sirree.
- Cops terrorize little boy for playing while black.
- What someone with no actual problems looks like.
- If he wanted prison that badly, he could’ve just confessed.
From the Archives
- Prohibition turns people into “crime scenes”, to be violated by cops at will.
- Portland’s bizarre attempt to draw “sex trafficking” attention from Seattle.
- NYPD’s newest sleazy tactic in its campaign to strangle whores’ business.
- Massage parlors are popular cop targets ’cause they’re low-hanging fruit.
- If you don’t want your business choked, you’ll have to fight for mine too.
- So nice when “sex trafficking” bullshit is called out in mainstream media.
- Only parts not profoundly ignorant are those that’re profoundly obvious.
- How “Walk Free Foundation” comes up with ridiculous “slavery” figures.
- “Cuckoo Clock” McCain wants to vomit her poison over the entire world.
- Who’d throw away valuable merchandise by giving it to penniless brats?
- Pig believes myths about what other pigs may do in entrapment scams.
- The sex ray intensity on these items must be well into the danger zone.
- Politicians realize cops’ scam is too obvious, pretend to be “concerned”.
- Should a sexually-traumatized man go to a whore to lose his virginity?
- Traveling without official permission is now called “human trafficking”.
- The people prohibitionists want in charge of “protecting” sex workers.
- Most people are so naive they don’t realize this is par for the course.
- “Residential farm” = “doing menial agricultural labor for their keep”.
- Another overly-broad and mindlessly-draconian “revenge porn” law.
- Seattle politicians’ pompous posturing reveals their deep hypocrisy.
- The “Facebook pimps” myth is one of the silliest of the whole panic.
- It’s disgusting to see so much money wasted on debunked bullshit.
- Cops openly admit being lazy fascists; the public just stays asleep.
- SCOTUS demolishes what little was left of the Fourth Amendment.
- Most jokes about sex workers told by amateurs aren’t at all funny.
- Every woman molested or raped by cops should file a federal suit.
- I’m not sure how working for free could be considered a “protest”.
- Cops claimed they didn’t know if this murder was hate-motivated.
- This looks like another case in which everyone involved is awful.
- Inflicting violence consensually vs inflicting it non-consensually.
- Cops pretend they need asset seizure to “go after drug cartels”.
- Irish iterations of the “gypsy whore” myth are the silliest ones.
- Because the US cares so very much about “trafficking victims”.
- What “legal but heavily regulated” actually looks like in action.
- RAPING a whore is OK; it’s only paying her that’s an issue.
- From respected news organization to propaganda organ.
- It’s nice to see the light bulb go on in someone’s head.
- “Sex trafficking” hysteria begins to spin out of control.
- Another country the US should be proud to resemble.
- Cops, rackets, partisanism, Batman and much more.
- You know that “negative secondary effects” bullshit?
- A couple of short interviews with Australian escorts.
- A ludicrous masturbatory fantasy from San Diego.
- My two previous columns for the summer solstice.
- Once in a while an insanely-broad law is defeated.
- Poor Nebraska; all panicked up & no place to go.
- Once again, actual figures disprove the hysteria.
- Cops, laws, toys, Picasso, 2001 and much more.
- Stupid people are still afraid of solar eclipses.
- Cops say having sex is “as serious as it gets”.
- The Swedish model eliminates prostitution!
- Rapist cops of the week, 2016 and 2017.
- Another cop, another prostitution sting.
- Definitely not a police state, no sirree.
- How do I draw attention to my blog?
- Dear useful idiots: I did tell you so.
- More good news about bad laws.
- Self-care and whale-watching.
- I finally get a passport again.
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