A different kind of strips, but still a winning combination!

Normally, when two or more businesses operate out of the same location, it would be expected that they share some commonality that makes putting them both there logical. Getting Kentucky Fried chicken is great, sure, but what if your kids want pizza and your stoned buddy wants Taco Bell? Voilà! The Kentucky Fried Chicken-Pizza Hut-Taco Bell. Genius.

Then there's that age-old problem of when you just want to play video games but your best buddy is in town and he wants to see some strippers, and not just on Cinemax. What do you do? Well, until last week, you could head over to Houston Dolls Cabaret at 313 Rankin Road. Contained inside were naked ladies and the Amusement Game Room, which seems sorta like a match made in heaven for a very specific demographic.

Unfortunately, the Harris County Sheriff's Office Vice Division shut the whole pleasure palace down last week because the ladies were performing more than lap dances and Galaga wasn't the only game being played in the game room. You don't say!

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McClintock has these guys to thank.

It's no secret that Daft Punk's "Get Lucky," featuring the vocal chops of Pharrell, is set to dominate the summer. Like Nelly Furtado's "Promiscuous" was to 2006, or like Katy Perry's "California Gurls" was to 2010, so, too, will Daft Punk's latest offering soon ring through our head in board meetings and family getaways, growing from infectious hit to infected affliction. It will be inescapable. It will be all-consuming. It will be a marking post of this decade.

Don't believe me? We have the court documents to prove it.

Now, this document -- an opinion issued on Wednesday out of the First District Court of Appeals of Texas -- looks as dry as you could hope to find at first read. Detailing an appeal of Bradley Ray McClintock, the court remanded the earlier findings against the defendant, noting that the marijuana seized in the initial search did not come pursuant to a warrant with probable cause. (Much like former Rice Director of Player Development Damon Stoudamire, come to think of it.)

And yet, as you begin reading into the background of the case, you'll see that the McClintock may not have been the only one smoking. On page 13, detailing the "[o]bserved activity" of McClintock, the opinion goes into the greatest, and catchiest, details you'll ever read:

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Little Jerry?

More than 50 people were arrested in Silsbee, a little town near Beaumont in Hardin County, for cock fighting. According to multiple reports, the cock fighting ring was centered on a property off Highway 92 north of the small town. Jeu Sanchez, 48, was arrested with the others and is the owner of the property where the fighting took place and is the alleged ring leader.

But, according to 12newsnow.com, Sanchez says he will not do it again and the only reason he did it in the first place was because he needed the money.

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Let's hand out free shotguns and see what happens. Nothing could possibly go wrong.

Over the weekend, the AP ran a story centered just outside the Loop, in a north Houston neighborhood called Oak Forest. Nestled against TC Jester Park and I-45, Oak Forest is one of Houston's older enclaves. And until recently, it had been one of the more placid.

However, a string of recent crimes -- characterized aptly as "driveway holdups" -- have turned the neighborhood skittish. According to certain residents, Houston police have warned residents not to go out at night. Goods have been jacked. Nerves have been frayed. Masked gunmen have run with impunity.

As one resident said, "If you don't have a gun, you're just a walking victim. You're just waiting for somebody to take advantage of you and your property."

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The ACLU report highlighted the life of Nick Smith, a 31-year-old out of Austin, whose marijuana arrest cost him $10,000, three months in prison, and his job.

In one of the largest reports surveying the current state of marijuana enforcement in the nation, the ACLU released a 183-page text on Thursday examining the racial disparities among marijuana-related arrests across America. While the report is a damning look at the failure of the War on Marijuana, and the War on Drugs as a whole, it seems that no state comes out looking worse than Texas.

Indeed, the data from the report was so scathing that it prompted the ACLU of Texas to send letters to 12 different counties in the state, "demand[ing] changes in law enforcement policies and practices."

According to the ACLU's report, Texas not only carries the second-highest number of marijuana-related arrests in the nation -- with possession-related crimes representing 53.5 percent of all drug-related arrests in the state -- it wastes over $250 million in continuing the misguided and wholly ineffectual War on Marijuana.

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I always feel like some Teddy's watching me...

Sometimes a fetish can just go too far. There's nothing wrong with two adults sharing a little 50 shades of naughty in the privacy of their own bedroom. Hell, if they want to dress up like, oh, I don't know, giant fuzzy bears and roll around inside their "den" of iniquity, it's a damn free country. Our forefathers died so people could dress in pleather and spank each other with wooden paddles, damnit!

But when one takes that fetish out of the bedroom and unleashes it on unsuspecting bank tellers, well, sir, I for one must object. I am assuming that was the motivation of the "Teddy Bear Bandit," as he has been dubbed by the FBI (check the sketch out...dang). Why else would an otherwise perfectly normal criminal dress in a furry costume to rob a bank?

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There is unrest in the forest...there is trouble behind the trees.

You know, juvenile delinquents these days are a real problem. First, their egging or toilet-papering your house. Next, they're setting bags of poo on fire on your porch. But the most egregious of their infractions include false fire alarms. They pull them in school and maybe even call them in to fire stations. It is the last week of school for most kids. Coincidence? We think not.

According to the Harris County Sheriff's Office, deputies responded to a house in the Lake Cypress Estates subdivision in northwest Harris County on Wednesday. They were told there was a fire and maybe even some shots fired. When they got there, no fire. I mean, come on! How disappointed those deputies must have been that they had to drive way out there and no fire. So frustrating.

Did I mention that they went inside to check for victims and found over 1,000 marijuana plants?

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Nearly a year after first opening its doors, A 2nd Cup is looking for a new home.

Erica Raggett always dreamed of opening a coffee shop. Every time she walked into one, she scouted the place -- sometimes aware, sometimes subconsciously. Whether as a Teach for America instructor in a north Houston middle school, or while she spent time in Philadelphia as a TFA administrator, or after a return to work as a YES Prep teacher in Houston, Raggett never wavered.

"I always loved coffee shops -- to go there to work, or to study, or just to spend time," Raggett, who helps run A 2nd Cup coffee shop, told Hair Balls earlier this week. Sitting next to her husband, Mark, Raggett was explaining her affinity for the independent shops that have begun to pepper Houston over the past few years.

But at the same time, Raggett couldn't just toss herself into something without knowing there was something larger to be gained. "I couldn't imagine working somewhere and not helping others," she said. And so the notion of the coffee shop sat, remaining but an idea while Raggett and her husband helped the students at YES with science and math.

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Two teens are in custody and another is still being sought by police after an incident Sunday night that involved a stolen van, a brandished rifle and one officer firing at a suspect.

The incident took place in the 16000 block of Clarke Springs in Fort Bend County. According to a report from police, HPD patrol officers attempted to pull over a van believed to be stolen. The driver refused to stop and eventually drove off the road and into an area behind 16031 Clark Springs.

Before the officer could exit his patrol vehicle, several suspects got out of the van and began to flee on foot. One of the suspects allegedly pointed a rifle in the direction of the police car, at which time the officer shot at the suspect but did not hit him. The suspect fled on foot.

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Even THIS guy thinks those cops were out of line.

Two white Jasper police officers have been fired after security camera footage -- from inside police headquarters -- showed them slamming a black woman's head against a countertop during an argument last month.

The lawyer for Keyarika Diggles told Yahoo News that the 25-year-old Diggles was brought to the jail for an unpaid $100 fine. The video, which has no sound, shows Diggles speaking on the phone, ostensibly to ask her mother to bring the money, when Officer Ricky Grissom cut off the call.

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