buy your own private dancer [$]

One might suspect the Seattle Times editorial board of being addicted to angry ‘blogger linkage. First, they endorsed [?] Mike [!] McGavick over Maria Cantwell and got all sorts of fun reactions from the internet ^{[horsesass, soundpolitics, slog]} ensued.

Today, they begrudgingly concede that the Constitution protects the rights of dancers to take their clothes off to have a good time. But that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t undermine those rights with goofy laws strict enough to put them out of business:

Something happens when such rules are on the books and enforced. Call them market forces. Dancers work as contractors. They pay club owners for the opportunity to generate lucrative tips up close and personal with customers via so-called private dances. Separate dancers from their sources of income and the clubs cannot recruit enough interpretive artists or attract enough First Amendment supporters to stay in business. [times]

It seems that the Times is only in favor of lap dances of the symbolic variety, particularly for candidates who want to protect the estates of wealthy publishers.