When A Titty Bar Is Not A Strip Club

Ok, this is rich: Gold Club Owner: “I Am Not a Strip Club”

Call them adult entertainment. Call them nude dancing clubs. Just, whatever you do, don’t call them strip clubs.

“I am not a strip club,” declared Nexus Gold Club owner Ron Hunt in an impassioned speech before Ward 5 residents at Bethesda Baptist Church last night. Hunt prefers the term “gentlemen’s club” to describe Nexus, a glitzy nightclub that offered nude dancing until it was closed by the city last fall.

Alright, first, you’re speaking at a Baptist Church. Already, this is a tough sell. But dude, if the chicks take off their clothes for money, they’re strippers, and if they’re doing it in your club, you have a strip club. 

If you aren’t comfortable with that, then perhaps you should not be owning a strip club, or maybe the girls should leave their clothes on, but either way, stop bullshitting us. We support strip clubs and strippers; just don’t act like you’re something you’re not.

Smoking Drivers and Minor Marines

A couple of interesting stories:

Majority back moves to stop drivers smoking.

Almost two-thirds of British people believe there should be a ban on smoking while driving a car, a survey has revealed.

The Populus poll for the BBC’s Daily Politics show found a move to stop drivers lighting up behind the wheel – which has been urged by safety campaigners – would be backed by 62 per cent of people.

So, it’s a safety issue huh. Well, when women are just as willing to ban putting on makeup while driving as they are willing to ban smoking while driving (70 percent support the smoking ban), then we’ll talk. Until then, shut the fuck up.

Meanwhile, on the homefront, underage marines to be allowed to drink alcohol on base.

Under a new rule change made by the Marine Corps, service members as young as 18 are allowed to drink alcohol on Camp Pendleton and other Marine bases on special occasions, it was reported Friday.

Well, all of the people who state that “if people are old enough to fight for their country, they are old enough to drink” will be pleased. Of course, MADD is pissed.

Anti-Smoking Ninnies Primed

The TX Senate Health and Human Services Committee has delayed the smoking ban which passed the House.

In the wake of that:

Members of Smoke-Free Texas, a coalition of the American Cancer Society, American Lung Association, American Heart Association and Texas PTA that’s pushing for a statewide smoking ban, rallied outside the Capitol on Thursday to urge the Senate to approve a ban.

Give them credit for one thing, they are persistent, despite being in the wrong.

The plan seems to be that, if the bill comes to the floor, Sen. Ellis could offer an amendment which would substitue the weakened House version of HB 9 with his companion bill SB 368.

We discussed the debate on HB 9 previously, exposing it for what it was – a restaurant lobby bill – and SB 368 is nothing more than the original version of HB 9, before property rights defenders made a proper mockery of it.