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RIRepublican on our prostitution situation.
Andrea Ritchie calls criminalization of prostitutes in Rhode Island “the wrong solution to the wrong problem.”
Low-wage workers are even more fucked than previously suspected.
Blackwater’s contract in Iraq was extended, despite widespread allegations of murder and rape of Iraqi children, and despite the fact that the company was banned from operating by the Iraqi government.
Uncut Rainbow is an amazing relic of gay internet porn history, down to the slow loading times. The vintsge section has a lot of fun stuff.
Speaking of the nineties, here’s a little bit of musical nostalgia: Liquido’s Narkotic, a song that–despite its title–I thought was about Michael Caine for many, many years.
Barry Scott, a local-ish oldies DJ, was apparently beat up by cops in Provincetown (which, for those of you on the west coast, is not Providence) earlier this summer. I casn’t even tell you how many songs I first heard on his “Lost 45′s” program back in the nineties.
There’s a petition circulating, asking for the British government to issue a formal apology about Alan Turing, who cracked the German code during World War II but who was chemically castrated just a few years later for having a homosexual relationship. Pretty interesting story.
The Huffington Post on the G-Spot and its association with the upper palate.
The Utne Reader on a less muscular patriotism.
James Tracy, headmaster of the elite Cushing Academy in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, is an idiot.
A Dutch teenager’s photo blog was one of the nicer things I ran across this week.
If you ever wanted Bill O’Reilly or Perez Hilton to look like President Obama, but on canvas, you’ll love this.
No Shit Dept.: Cell Phones Linked To Brain Tumors
Finally, before this week I had never before heard of the Boston Molasses Flood, which killed 21 people in 1919. Now I have.
