Fox News is on the story.
Now this is odd. It seems the Ft Hood Shooter took to hanging at Starz strip club in the weeks before his rampage.
Allegedly brought beers he didn't drink, but gave away to the strippers. Paid fifty bucks a pop for lap dances.
[Fox's source is a lapdancer, well, it is Fox News.]
But he tipped reeeaaaally good.
Maybe the profilers already know this, but when a guy suddenly becomes a strip club regular and throws money on big tips, it's probably a sign that he's become unhinged.
I guess that's the social function of a strip club. To act as a safe haven for seriously unhinged people to hang out in a bizarrely fetishized environment and get a sense of ordinariness from it.
Women dancing on poles. Giving lapdances to paying customers. Transactions. Transactions.
And then there's the proximity of military bases to strip clubs. They're like an ecosystem in which one species co-evolves with another.
Guys with guns (and women too). Systematically provoked to rage. Military insanity, the rage of Achilles, the great Western Tradition.
Sex and violence and war and death. Transactions. Transactions.
Transactions . . . but, man, will you look at the size of that tip?