Stomach-talk and the devil

I said here that I didn’t know much about ventriloquism, but it turns out that, according to an older definition, I’m actually an expert. The Online Etymology Dictionary says of ventriloquy: 1584, from L.L. ventriloquus, from L. venter (gen. ventris) “belly” + loqui “speak.” Patterned on Gk. engastrimythos, lit. “speaking in the belly,” which was…

Harsh sentences in drag-queen blowjob case

The judge accepted the truly terrible story of the young man involved: that he’d been tempted out the disco by a (female) gogo dancer who, to his understandable disappointment, delivered him into the clutches of three drag-queens, also hired by the disco. The four then took him into the bathroom, handcuffed him, and gave him…