WELL-EARNED RETIREMENT In March, twin sisters Louise and Martine Fokkens, 70, announced their joint retirement after more than 50 years each on the job as Amsterdam prostitutes. (In February, the minimum age for prostitutes in the Netherlands was raised to 21, but there is no maximum.) The twins estimated they had 355,000 client-visits between them, and Martine noted that she … [Read more...] about Well Earned Retirement and Norwegian Wood and Accidental Incest
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Electric Chastity Belts and The Latest Human Rights and Our Litigious Society
ELECTRIC CHASTITY BELT To counter the now-well-publicized culture of rape in India, three engineers in Chennai said in March that they are about to send to the market women’s anti-rape lingerie, which will provide both a stun-gun-sized blast of electricity against an aggressor and a messaging system sending GPS location to family members and the police about an attack in … [Read more...] about Electric Chastity Belts and The Latest Human Rights and Our Litigious Society
Family Values and Porn DVDs and What Jesus Would Wear
WAIT... WHAT? A startup company in Austin, Texas, also serving San Francisco, promises to take its customers' incoming U.S. mail three times a week, photograph it and deliver it back to the customers via mobile phone app, for $4.99 a month. The company, Outbox, provides some value-added services, removing the customer from junk-mail lists and paying bills. Still, Outbox's … [Read more...] about Family Values and Porn DVDs and What Jesus Would Wear
House Speaker Joe Souki Wants To Legalize Marijuana While Maui Police Fail To Enforce Stupid Law Banning Signs On Street During Martin Luther King Jr Day March
DUDE! SPEAKER JOE WANTS WANTS TO LEGALIZE IT! The big takeaway from new/old state House Speaker Joe Souki’s prepared remarks upon taking office on Jan. 16 was that the state needed to “enhance our revenue stream.” “We must put together a mix of strategies that will generate more state revenues–equitably,” he said. While he spent most of his speech talking about tax credits … [Read more...] about House Speaker Joe Souki Wants To Legalize Marijuana While Maui Police Fail To Enforce Stupid Law Banning Signs On Street During Martin Luther King Jr Day March
County of Maui Prohibits Sign Carrying During Martin Luther King Jr March While It Helps Create Police Tasering Excessive Force Case Law And Governor Neil Abercrombie Appoints Justin Woodson To Kahului Seat in State House
YOU CAN MARCH, BUT NOT CARRY SIGNS Look carefully at the photo of Martin Luther King, Jr. Taken in 1963, it shows King’s march on Washington. He and his supporters were calling for an end to segregated schools, buses and hiring; an end to poll taxes and voting suppression. They wanted an end to all the civil rights abuses that, to some extent, still plague this country. … [Read more...] about County of Maui Prohibits Sign Carrying During Martin Luther King Jr March While It Helps Create Police Tasering Excessive Force Case Law And Governor Neil Abercrombie Appoints Justin Woodson To Kahului Seat in State House