Dec 11, 2008 6:32pm
How You Know the Economy’s Really Bad
EmailThe Manhattan strip joint Scores is closing, the AP reports.
The cheesy Valhalla for Wall Street fratboys opened in 1991 and survived FBI raids and Rudy Giuliani (then thought of as puritanical.)
The owners are blaming the shuttering on the weak economy.
– jpt
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Posted by: JR | December 11, 2008, 6:47 pm 6:47 pm
it must not be that bad, Jake. most people are more concerned with conspiracy theories. we’ll know when the economy is bad when the right wing starts complaining and quits peddling theories. if we could tax conspiracy theories our economic woes would be over.
Posted by: Paul Wall | December 11, 2008, 6:57 pm 6:57 pm
I see we are really going after classy stores today. well done
Posted by: Question | December 11, 2008, 7:05 pm 7:05 pm
A lot of the strip joints are being bought out. They get offers that are too good to turn down. From where all this money comes, I have to wonder. What will the truckers going down the Interstates do for entertainment, now? And how will those gals find work, now? How about we let them perform on the sidewalk, with a tin cup for tips?
Posted by: Shockolit | December 11, 2008, 7:36 pm 7:36 pm
What, you mean they can’t get a piece of the bailout pie?? They must know someone — or a whole lotta someones — who “owes them.”
Posted by: Laughing Cynic | December 11, 2008, 9:03 pm 9:03 pm
Paul Wall -
Great suggestion! The tax could even be progressive, e.g., the more hateful and demonstrably untrue the conspiracy theory is, the higher the tax could be.
Given the intense productivity of the right win conspiracy machine, we could retire the defecit in five years.
Posted by: Brooklyn Democrat | December 12, 2008, 11:22 am 11:22 am
Paul Wall,
Good suggestion. I was just thinking that suppose the FCC imposed a tax on all news (radio, tv, blogs, print, web, etc.) for each time a falsity was reported by a ‘professional journalist’?
Posted by: Common Sense | December 12, 2008, 7:11 pm 7:11 pm
I like that one, Common Sense. And I think it should be 2 years retro-active, you know, to raise more money.
People ought to be in the mood to talk about some of that stuff in about, say, t6 months to a year when reality returns to their campaign-fevered brains.
Posted by: midwestlady | December 14, 2008, 2:29 pm 2:29 pm