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so this made me proud to be a GW graduate: a GW professor was quoted in an article about people in Mississippi trying to close down strip clubs, supposedly because they would make property values drop and would cause crime. However, the GW guy calls them out:

Ronald Weitzer, a sociologist at George Washington University and author of the book "Sex for Sale," said crime and quality-of-life concerns often are smokescreens to moral agendas.

"Research based on carefully matched areas and businesses finds that crime is much more prevalent in the immediate vicinity of regular bars and gas stations," Weitzer said in an e-mail message this week.

Well done, Prof. Weitzer. It reminds me of the time when the Indigo Girls were going to play at my high school, and hundreds of members of the enormous local Southern Baptist church called the school and said they shouldn't play because they use profanity. Not because they're lesbians, of course. And they only curse in one song, and promised not to play that song. I mean, if you're going to be intolerant, at least do it in the open. Have some balls. Some closeminded balls.