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Legalized gambling was set up in cities like Las Vegas so that the depravity of betting on cards and dice could be contained in one or two cities. The plan was not unlike Prohibition would have been if the only places to drink were Akron and Erie. Confining gambling turned out to be difficult once it became a staple on Indian reservations and on flat bottom boats anchored just beyond the jurisdiction of the local authorities in many river towns...
...epicenter of Inauguration madness. Streets were closed. Newsstands were indistinguishable from vendors of Obama merchandise. Burger joints served “Eggnoguration”-flavored shakes. Given the extent of Obamamania, we had been surprised the night before when the restaurant we had gone to served no such drink as “The Obama.” Street vendors sold Obama condoms, but this overflowing eatery hadn’t thought to create a celebratory cocktail? Unacceptable. “If you come up with one, and it’s good, we?...
...matter what it is called Dolores Huerta has always represented a community of hardworking people. In her ongoing fight to improve living conditions and treatment for laborers, Huerta represents the family who spent days in the fields under the scorching sun with no place to use the restroom or drink clean water. She represents the mother who labored tirelessly to send her children to school and the child who saw the pain and suffering of the family. She represents the generations who fought hard so that one day their children and children’s children could...
Coach Tommy Amaker might moonlight for a certain energy drink company. With a 32-20 deficit glaring on the scoreboard at halftime, his players needed a major pick-me-up to reverse the tide of the game and construct a substantial comeback against a cruising Brown team. And in a few short minutes, Amaker gave them wings.To start the second half, junior guard Jeremy Lin first drove the ball in for a layup before accepting a pass from senior guard Drew Housman and launching a three pointer on Harvard’s next possession. Lin’s five points...
...with many works of great art, JSCUA was conceived when a website owned by the director of Airplane! gave me $2,000 for the right to computer-animate an old column of mine about going to a water-treatment facility in Orange County, California, to drink tap water filtered from sewage. NationalBanana.com intended to sell this to a cable channel, but it turns out that cable channels aren't in the business of supporting a series of avant-garde poop jokes. (See the top 10 Sundance hits of all time...