In case you haven't been following it, Jonah's reporting at Seattlecrime.com on the child prostitution fight* is a must-read.

His latest series riffs on Village Voice Media's own claim that they're simply "First Amendment extremists." The free-speech extremists are reportedly linked to court cases involving a registered sex offender, a 17-year-old girl, and a 15-year-old girl.

* Short version: It's Mayor Mike McGinn and the SPD vs. Seattle Weekly and parent company Village Voice Media, which ran ads on Backpage.com linked to several local cases involving minors.