Randomly interesting, often unusual, pieces of news and opinion that can’t otherwise be categorized.
There’s nothing that makes people laugh like armed robbery, particularly if it’s perpetrated by someone who is easily caught. Sometimes, criminals make it particularly easy, like one Las Vegan who started filling out a job application before producing a weapon and announcing a hold-up.
Just because you shuffle off your mortal coil doesn’t mean you have to stop gambling. For that matter, it’s got a distinct advantage: you don’t have to pay off your markers. Of course, you can’t really collect your winnings, either, but the thrill of getting action down is really the important thing, isn’t it?
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gambling & culture, haphazard worldI like anthropomorphic animals as much as anyone. In fact, it was this image, and this image alone, that turned me on to this article: So has medicine in China really gone to the dogs? Read on and find out.
Don’t eat your friends? Read More »
haphazard worldPeople sometimes call me a casino expert, and I usually disavow any claim to the title, partially out of modesty, and partially because that would put me into some pretty shady company. Case in point: Richard Ellison, who just pled guilty to kidnapping two octogenerians, one of whom was his mother.
I don’t have much time to post today, but at least I didn’t have to herd buffalo in Maryland.
If the new pope wants to buy his own domain name and start a blog, he’s going to have to deal with a crafty web wizard who has just snapped up the name “BenedictXVI.com.” Good news, though: even if the pope doesn’t buy the domain, it won’t become another Texas Hold’Em site–but not for lack
The pope’s blogsite? Read More »
haphazard worldA while ago I talked about how the idea of a 10,000 room moon-themed casino hotel on an artificial island was pretty dumb. I think I’ve found something even more grandiose: a 300-island resort off the coast of Dubai.
I know that they say politics makes strange bedfellows, but this is still pretty unusual. A liberal Canadian political website whose domain name has expired has become an online casino, so to speak.
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gambling & culture, haphazard worldA longtime reader sent this one to me, and, since I seem to have a special weakness for strange animal stories (e.g., the police nemesis turkey, Philadelphia fried chicken restaurant deer, and the unforgettable mystery mammal), I’m going to share what I’ve learned about the pride of Alapaha, Georgia: Hogzilla.
An impressive beast Read More »
haphazard worldI found this headline strangely intruiging, as you might as well: Las Vegas SUN: Three convicted in ‘honey bun’ heist at Tunica casino. This made me think of the erstwhile HBO series OZ. I don’t think that Adebisi got sent up for anything like this, though. This seems like more like something Busmalis would have
The Honey Bun Gang Read More »
gambling & culture, haphazard worldThis is the most distgusting thing I’ve seen in a while. Usually, fruit and yogurt smoothies are relatively healthy alternatives to other soft drinks. As Americans have become more concerned with their eating habits, they have grown more popular. So the next step is for a completely unhealthy food manufacturer to co-opt smoothies and re-package
At first I thought this story would get a few laughs, but like so much else, it ended in tragedy…well, for the turkey. Not since the days of Thomas Granger has a turkey been so unjustly put to death.
Requiem for a turkey Read More »
haphazard worldAdelphia Communications is going to start offering triple-x hardcore porn to its Southern California video-on-demand customers. I’m not posting about this because of any personal interest in hardcore porn, or just because I want to get lots of hits from people searching for “casino hardcore porn” or similar terms. Rather, I want to salute the
I once thought that The Island of Dr. Moreau was nothing more than a cinematic masterpiece. Now, it seems, it may be a view not of the future, but the present, where scientists create human/animal hybrids with only their imaginations to stop them.
Chimeras gone wild! Read More »
haphazard worldRecently, North Korean television began a bold new initiative aimed at conquering a threat to national supremacy: bad hair.
I’ve been having a busy week, mostly because I’ve been getting the UNLV Global Gaming Abstract ready to go online. If you clicked the link and are disappointed, I don’t have it all online yet. This, and the lack of compelling gaming-related news, means that in lieu of a news story and sardonic analysis, I’ll
Did you know that some of your tax money (if you are a working US citizen or resident) is being spent on a Federal Emergency Management Agency website for kids? It is truly surreal.
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haphazard worldI don’t know quite what to make of this story, except for an admonition to my readers: if you are a male securities analyst, do not superimpose your face on the body of a woman being carried over the threshold on the cover of a major research report.
Just plain strange Read More »
haphazard world“I’ve been using the computer for so long, and command-Z works for undo in all the software programs. So whenever I find something in my life that I want to undo, I reach for the command-Z keys and I find it weird that it doesn’t work.” — Lisa Hoffman, graphic designer, who probably spends too
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haphazard worldChina is cracking down on porn, gambling, and “religious cult” sites, and I don’t have too much in the way of innovative analysis. Still, I thought this was a catchy headline: China Versus Porn: Round 2
An interesting headline Read More »
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