They've been running ads in the UW Daily too.

Maybe they shouldn't have opened up across the street from a school?

Which part of the first amendment is Giggles exercising? It certainly isn't the right to petition for a REDRESS of grievances. WHAMMY! Wait... why's that guy with the cane coming on to get me?

I'm really disappointed to not see a picture of the Seattle PI's picture of the Stranger on this post.

Don't they want to be shut down so they have the basis of a lawsuit, that will undoubtedly be settled after some discount lawyering?

Jiggles has been responsible for 40 jobs?

First off--that's, what, 39 more than Giggles?

Second--Jiggles is just being coy. I'm certain there's been more than 40 jobs there since they've opened...

Yet no mention of Cat City's new home?

It's ridiculous to close an adult club because it's near a school. What the fuck are you so afraid of? Strippers don't perform in the street, ferchrissakes. Kids wouldn't even notice.

@7 agreed, and the sign is pretty tucked-away and non-obvious, you can barely tell it's a strip club, they don't even have the cliche silhouette of a naked lady

@7,8: Obviously they're worried because only perverts go to strip clubs, and they don't want perverts wandering around in front of schools with boners. Don't you know by now that there's no differentiating; perverts who ogle adult women also probably molest children.

@ 9 despite what they believ,e after a couple of diet cokes and a good pee a boner doesn't last very long..definitely not all the way to the school up the street.

Just put a special tax on them with all proceeds going to the school for like computers, books, and you know, poles in the gym and stuff.

The universe is imploding in an alternate universe, isn't it?

i'm still figuring out how this guy is going to extort the city. that's got to be his game.

Puritans are afraid of people having a good time.

Staying meta for a moment, my favorite part of the P.I. story has got to be paragraph 8:

The argument that targeting strip clubs attacks the First Amendment is often used. But the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that cities and states can ban nude dancing and regulate adult-oriented businesses, but can't prohibit them from operating. Federal courts generally protect such businesses unless communities can prove "harmful secondary effects" -- increased crime, blight or diminished property values, USA Today reported.

WTF? What the hell does USA Today have to do with... ANYTHING?!?!?

"Since when are they the quotable, go-to legal authority on these matters?" me wondered out loud.

Then, out of curiousity, I googled "strip clubs & first amendment" and guess what comes up in the #2 spot? Yup, no surprises here! And paragraph two of that USA Today article from 2008:

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that cities and states can ban nude dancing and regulate adult-oriented businesses, but can't prohibit them from operating. Federal courts generally protect such businesses unless communities can prove "harmful secondary effects" — increased crime, blight or diminished property values.

Oh, P.I. staff... you're not even trying anymore are you?

The real danger to children are all the fucking guns the kids are getting their hands on. But for that problem, they do nothing, nada, zilch, zero. But a strip club down the street and they get their thongs in a bundle. What a stupid society we live in!

This reminds me what I've always said about child porn; jobs, jobs, jobs!