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Scott's often questioned the actual value of his little sister, Caitlin, going to Gonzaga. He argues that similar educations can be found elsewhere for a fraction of the Gonzaga price tag.

But Scott, can you put a price on Caitlin's experience as a "Bomb Squad" dancer for the university? Certainly this experience can't be found at a lowly UW or WWU. Can you really quantify the emotions she invokes from Zag fans when she gyrates on floor during half-time performances?

"I can't believe my parents pay for this shit," Scott says. "We can send her down to Las Vegas to do the same thing and they'd pay her."

We'll let the audience be the judge of that. Look for Caitlin in the video below. She's third from the right, second row back when the performance begins.

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Gramps will tell you about how they parade in masses through downtown Palm Springs. Make all the stereotypical jokes about San Francisco you want, but here's the fact of the matter: Seattle is second only to San Francisco in the percentage of residents identifying themselves as gay, lesbian or bisexual, a new study reports. So start naming Seattle in your jokes, slurs or pride, depending on your alternative lifestyles stance

The study reports that 12.9 percent of Seattlites -- nearly 58,000 people, or the total population of Renton -- identify themselves as gay, lesbian or bisexual.

An important note The Seattle Times makes is that "the findings may have more to do with people becoming more comfortable about disclosing their sexual orientation in government surveys." The study's findings are drawn from newly released U.S. census data. This must be the explanation for another conclusion from the study: The reported number of gay-couple increased by 50 percent in Washington state between 2000 and 2005.

You might be surprised by these numbers. I'm not. Everyone knows Capitol Hill is an alternative lifestyle Mecca, but those of us who've been north to Bellingham (where an alternative lifestyle is working 9 to 5) or down to Olympia (where gay bars outnumber their counterparts) know that the Pacific Northwest is substantially gay and growing. And so it shouldn't surprise anyone that the Emerald City has a significant population of men who like to wear emeralds.

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OJ Simpson is looking to make a killing with his new book, "If I Did It," to be released Nov. 30. To promote the book, OJ sat down for an interview to discuss the book's topic: How he would have committed the 1994 slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman, "if he did it." Call it a publicity stunt. Call it a sick way to publicly confess to murder.

The two-part interview will air on Fox Nov. 27 and 29 in a special titled "OJ Simpson: If I Did It, Here's How It Happened." According to Fox, "OJ Simpson, in his own words, tells for the first time how he would have committed the murders if he were the one responsible for the crimes." Will OJ have to wear black, bloody gloves and drive off in a white Bronco for the public to get the picture?
OJ certainly needs the money. He has yet to pay any of the $33.5 million judgment against him from a 1997 civil case, according to the AP.
Even if he's actually innocent, it's completely disturbing to go about writing an entire book dedicated to how you would kill your deceased wife. And yet, America will tune in and the man will get paid.

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Today I walked into a transformed Starbucks and was notified by the red and green decor that the holiday season has begun.

Tinsel lines the counters. Signs advertise gingerbread lattes and mint mochas as must-have beverages. I’m greeted at the register by a cheerful woman wearing a Santa hat. Whoa. Aren’t we skipping a holiday, namely Black Friday?

I'll give you the same 411 I gave last year. Normally, you have to wait until Thanksgiving to see the ads for Black Friday, but some daring Internet sites are give us the goods beforehand (to some legal scrutiny). Go to bf2005.com, gottadeal.com and blackfridayads.com to see the Black Friday ads for all major retail outlets. (Somewhere in Montana, Scott is drooling uncontrollably.)