Won’t Someone Think Of The Children?

The proposed Scores strip club in Northern Liberties might not be dead yet. Dan Gross reports today:

Scores is battling on. The strip-club chain has filed an appeal in Common Pleas Court to the Zoning Board of Adjustment’s May decision to block the club from opening a local outlet at 450 N. 6th St. on the site of what had been the Bash and Suite 450 nightclubs. The club has the right zoning, but needs a special use certificate to become an adult cabaret.

In our mind, it’s quite simple. Strip clubs make money. Lots of money. Money that gets taxed by the city. Money that could go toward schools. Imagine, the more couch dances sold, the more kids who may actually learn to read.

Yep, just think. Every time you see Amber’s DDs little Tommy’s social studies textbook at his South Philly grade school just gets better and better. Stripping is learning.

Scores strip club keeps up fight [Daily News, third item]

Quickies: Keep Your Clothes On In NoLibs

• The Scores in Northern Liberties has been voted down by the zoning board, who said they were okay with a strip club, just not at that location. In other news, Delilah’s Den received the okay for an extension, so, y’know, next year’s Entertainer of the Year™ contest should be even bigger! Whoo! [Daily News]

• Okay, so Pennsylvania and Utah are the only states that make you buy alcohol in state stores (Nevermind; I had bad info. Whoops!); New Jersey and Oregon are the only ones that won’t let you pump your own gas. Well, the only state where you couldn’t get a tattoo was Oklahoma, until the government legalized it yesterday. AP story sez: “Previous attempts to lift the ban over the past decade were fought on health as well as moral grounds.” Expect the GOP to come up with a “federal tattoo amendment” in time for the November elections. [AP/Yahoo!]

• The search has intensified for the man alleged to have killed police officer Gary Skerski. Daily News letter writers, of course, are concerned about the Tuesday Daily News coverage, alleging some sort of “trivializing.” Erhm. [DN]

• Absentee ballots from a Neshaminy nursing home accidentally ended up at Patrick Murphy’s office. Murphy is the ex-military man who’s running as a Democrat for Congress. And they’re looking to see if this is against the law! “If they’re looking to prosecute somebody because their ride came late, I’d say that’s trying to hit a fly with a sledgehammer,” says the deputy chairman of the Democrats in Buxco. Please, Mr. Chairman, sledgehammers are a good way of getting rid of flies. [Bucks County Courier Times]

• Did USA Today just break a story on how the NSA has a huge database of all calls made seemingly everywhere by everyone in America? Impressive. Also, uhm, sigh. [USA Today]