discussion comment
15 years ago
Have to agree with Walkerman and samsung1 - Dollhouse is the place. If you can stay an extra day in Jax I would go for it.
I've had an ok time at Sinsations and it has been hit or miss. Sinsations used to have a really hot redhead bartender (I think her name was Strawberry) that did good dances, but I haven't seen her in a while. Might be fun to check out Sinsations then move to Dollhouse if Sinsations disappoints - I've never had a bad time at Dollhouse
discussion comment
17 years ago
Too bad - I used to really enjoy some of the Columbus strip clubs when I lived there (7 years ago). There was a girl that worked at Private Dancer (and Toy Box before that) that I loved. Columbus could be a truly great scene if they just laid off and allowed full nude clubs with full contact lap dances.
What kind of wacko twisted cruller doesn't want to allow fully nude lap dances? There is nothing more beautiful in the world than a hot naked stripper in your lap!
review comment
11 years ago
Reviewer has only one review and has one club on hotlist... Suspicious as hell!
article comment
11 years ago
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founderslip a dollar in her g-string for me
Damn right it was Rick!
article comment
11 years ago
Unlike you, Tiredtraveller, I'm way more scared by Republicans than Democrats. Here's why:
Most of the fundamentally anti-freedom positions taken by Republicans are fundamentally driven by religion. Either sincerely held or pandering to religious constituents. You can't argue with religion. Those guys aren't going to change positions. Add to that the fact that the Republicans have been very disciplined and effective politically.
That may change with the TEA party. But teabaggers ARE true believers and true believers scare me. If the Republicans are, on average, more religious than Dems, the teabaggers have religion in spades. The only hope is that the group will implode due to minor differences among TEA party members and a general inability to compromise.
In contrast, Democrats have been very ineffective politically and many positions are more variable within the party. Contrary to Republican fantasies, it is not a monolithic leftist party. It is a bunch of folks that take a variety of positions ranging from genuinely leftist to centrist and sometimes even traditionally conservative. This incoherence is why they can't win political fights much of the time. There is no parlimentary discipline there.
But there is a good side -- things that become cause célèbre can really take off. Like gay marriage. Broad acceptance of gay marriage was inconceivable 10-15 years ago and now it is all but inevitable. I suspect reform of marijuana laws is next. I predict legal (but regulated) recreational weed in at least half the states within a decade, especially if Democrats have enough power to moderate some of the worst impulses of the Republicans. Democrats don't have enough party discipline to actually take a bold stand and make it happen. It will just evolve. Who knows when rational commercial sex laws will appear.
The "if government is the answer it must be a stupid question" position is, in my opinion, a really stupid position. You advocate regulation, presumably to prevent things like hookers giving BJs in front of elementary schools. I don't like the idea of folks routinely driving stoned out of their gourds. Who enforces that? Government.
We need a return to the 50's when government built infrastructure but combined with a "we'll stay out of your life unless you start violating other people's freedom". That won't come for free -- it will require taxes.
I'll add that some things -- like health care -- become slightly tricky under that model. The problem with health care is that we've ALWAYS given it away for free to some people, if they wanted and needed it. We just did it in a half-assed way (emergency treatment for the uninsured) and then hide the costs. The ACA won't work. But my hope is it will persist long enough that when it implodes it will be replaced by a system that does work. Contrary to the Republican position our current system is not the best in the world. In fact, it costs way more than "socialized" medicine in other developed countries. And if you don't think you were paying those prices before the ACA, in one way or another, all I can say is that you're wrong.
article comment
11 years ago
To be fair, the abortion/death penalty dichotomy is perfectly consistent if viewed through the lenses of different world views:
1. For an intellectually consistent liberal, the rights to life for a living person trumps the unborn -- "people" who aren't really people yet -- so abortion ok but executions aren't.
2. For an intellectually consistent conservative, the right to life can be forfeit if you do certain things (criminal acts). By definition, an unborn person cannot have committed a crime and so is innocent and cannot be executed by abortion. So abortion bad. The criminal, in contrast, has done something so they can be executed.
The reality is that modern conservatism is strongly driven by religion. Many Christian groups are, let's face it, anti-sex (except vanilla sex with a spouse). Then the anti-birth control and anti-abortion positions become understandable. Anti-gay rights positions are consistent with this as well. They are manifestations of an anti-sex agenda.
The liberal position is somewhat more complex and, arguably more hypocritical. Sice the sixties there has been a general pro-sexual freedom (at least between consenting adults where one doesn't pay the other). So birth control and abortion and gay rights are fine. Commercial sex is where the hypocrisy comes in. I suspect it is largely driven by a vestigial religious feeling. Even a died in the wool secularist grew up in a Christian society and absorbed the idea that sex is "icky" under certain circumstances. So commercial sex is bad. This position is then justified by public health and anti-human trafficking arguments, without realizing that both might be better dealt with if commercial sex were legal.
Add to this the fact that it is human to want your side to win:
www.salon.com/2013/12/23/free_speech_hypocrites_dixie_chicks_duck_dynasty_and_americas_pointless_shell_arguments/
The article is in the context of free speech, but the same impulses drive a variety of political positions.