Slog - Comments on Seattle Times: No Boners, Please, We're Skittish http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/seattle_times_no_bon The Seattle Times is on a roll: They've endorsed Reichert, McMorris, McGavick, and Johnson. And today they urged readers to vote "Yes" on the ridiculous "four foot rule," which will make Seattle a lap-dance-free zone. Their four-foot-rule endorsement is, at least, a touch more honest than their "Golly! We just like Mike!" McGavick endorsement. They refuse to admit the real reason they endorsed McGavick—and Reichert and McMorris, for that matter: Frank wants his estate tax cut. Period. But they do admit to wanting their real reason for backing the four-foot rule: They want to shut down Seattle's strip clubs: Something... Copyright 2008 Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:11:30 -0800 Sat, 28 Oct 2006 17:46:55 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Andrew I don't know what exactly the staff at the Times is getting out of these insane endorsements, but their credibility is now zero.

They don't even read their own damn paper.

Frak them!

]]> Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/seattle_times_no_bon#c482593 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/seattle_times_no_bon#c482593 Sex Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:25:04 -0800 Comment by Levislade I'm pretty sure the P-I endorsed this as well.

]]> Levislade http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/seattle_times_no_bon#c482600 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/seattle_times_no_bon#c482600 Sex Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:29:44 -0800 Comment by makarune They endorsed MCMORRIS?!?!?!?! Are you kidding me??

]]> makarune http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/seattle_times_no_bon#c482611 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/seattle_times_no_bon#c482611 Sex Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:49:35 -0800 Comment by charles I've got a raging clue.

]]> charles http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/seattle_times_no_bon#c482616 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/seattle_times_no_bon#c482616 Sex Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:51:40 -0800 Comment by The Red Times I wish the times was more metronatural.

]]> The Red Times http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/seattle_times_no_bon#c482624 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/seattle_times_no_bon#c482624 Sex Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:01:45 -0800 Comment by DOUG. Maybe the Sonics will take The Times to Oklahoma City.

]]> DOUG. http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/seattle_times_no_bon#c482634 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/seattle_times_no_bon#c482634 Sex Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:10:47 -0800 Comment by Catalina Vel-DuRay For a town that was founded on the availability of hookers, and was sustained for decades by the taxes paid by "seamstresses", and eventually beat out the corporately-prefered Tacoma as the "Queen City" because of our prostitutes, I find this pretty damn embarrassing.

Let the boys see some titties up close and personal. Let them have a lap dance if they want. And let them have a drink while doing it.

Lou Graham and John Pinnell are spining in their graves.

]]> Catalina Vel-DuRay http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/seattle_times_no_bon#c482644 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/seattle_times_no_bon#c482644 Sex Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:25:37 -0800 Comment by Sean The staff at the Times is clearly in need of an extra long, extra close lap dance. Perhaps The Stranger and club owners could spring for a few dancers to pay them a visit.

]]> Sean http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/seattle_times_no_bon#c482647 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/seattle_times_no_bon#c482647 Sex Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:31:07 -0800 Comment by Lark Hawk Holy crap, I want that cop's job! Man, I've heard of some great careers - video game tester, those guys who made robots and then battled them on TV, beer taster - but getting paid by the city to enjoy $10,000 worth of lap dances? Nothing comes close.

]]> Lark Hawk http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/seattle_times_no_bon#c482648 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/seattle_times_no_bon#c482648 Sex Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:31:51 -0800 Comment by Micky Speaking of lap dances, anyone here ever been to The Sands in Ballard? Is that place any good?

]]> Micky http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/seattle_times_no_bon#c482649 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/seattle_times_no_bon#c482649 Sex Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:33:12 -0800 Comment by Grant Cogswell Did the cop beat off or have sex before each time he got lap-dances so as not to ´react´ to the dances? Would a ´reaction´ be a kind of entrapment of the dancer? Was he paid for the time he had sex/beat off prior to the visits or was that on personal time? Maybe the cop was a woman in disguise or wore special equipment to conceal possible engorgement.

These are the kind of ridiculous and inappropriate questions that are begged by the government butting in where they have no fucking business. Electeds of Seattle: Do something for poor kids or address global warming or something, ya morons.

]]> Grant Cogswell http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/seattle_times_no_bon#c482982 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/seattle_times_no_bon#c482982 Sex Sat, 28 Oct 2006 11:30:09 -0800 Comment by catalina vel-duray To be fair, a good amount of the blame for this is to be laid at the feet of Seattle's Neo-Liberals.

I remember listening to a show on KUOW a few years back when Strippergate happened. They interviewed one of the reporters from the Stranger (maybe Eli?) who was taking a somewhat moderate, normal person's stand, when a shrieking harpie called in and went on a tangent about the strip clubs, and how can't she drive her daughter past one (the implied message being that a girl sees a strip club, a girl becomes a stripper) and ended the call with her shrieking that the reporter and the KUOW person should be ashamed of themselves.

Crap. Pure crap. She's probably one of those people who would bore you to death with storied about her trip to Amsterdam.

]]> catalina vel-duray http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/seattle_times_no_bon#c482993 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/seattle_times_no_bon#c482993 Sex Sat, 28 Oct 2006 13:29:29 -0800 Comment by Arturo Neo-liberals? Damn those free markets!

]]> Arturo http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/seattle_times_no_bon#c483054 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/seattle_times_no_bon#c483054 Sex Sat, 28 Oct 2006 17:20:12 -0800 Comment by rodrigo The Times should worry less about the difference between lap dancing and prostitution, and more about the difference between journalism and prostitution.

]]> rodrigo http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/seattle_times_no_bon#c483061 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/seattle_times_no_bon#c483061 Sex Sat, 28 Oct 2006 17:46:55 -0800