tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:156313 Arthur D. Hlavaty Arthur D. Hlavaty 2016-12-08T11:11:07Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:156313:1824273 2016-12-08T11:11:07Z 2016-12-08T11:11:07Z public 0 Gambling is the one vice I never had, but I enjoyed <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38103674">this account</a> of a woman beating men at their own games.<br /><br />Thanx to <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/">Metafilter</a><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=supergee&ditemid=1824273" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:156313:1400202 2015-03-08T13:56:18Z 2015-03-08T13:56:18Z public 0 The conservatives used to tell us that whatever victimless crimes we were not sufficiently opposed to were Bad Things because Organized Crime would use the profits to subsidize Worse Things. There were problems with that, such as the assumption that the worse things were not self-supporting and disagreements as to which were the worse things. (One libertarian said that if he wanted to subsidize prostitution, he would hire a prostitute.) But the conservatives were not entirely mistaken. Here's a <a href="http://www.salon.com/2015/03/07/we_are_hostage_to_his_fortune_sheldon_anderson_benjamin_netanyahu_and_americas_dark_money_conspiracy_partner/">gambling kingpin</a> who wants to use his ill-gotten gains to get us into another disastrous Middle Eastern war.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=supergee&ditemid=1400202" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments