 | | Reason.tv: Why It's Time to Legalize Poker - David "Doc" Sands on Gambling, Pot, and Freedom
Just a few years out of college and David "Doc" Sands has already racked up nearly $2.5 million winning poker tournaments, and this January he became the world's top-ranked online tournament player.
Sands sat down with Reason.tv's Ted Balaker to discuss Sand's love of poker and individual liberty, the parallels between marijuana and gambling policy, and the hypocrisy embedded in America's gambling laws. Says Sands, "At the same time they're facilitating lotteries, they're telling us that online poker is a game of chance that we shouldn't be allowed to play."
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Cartoon Truth: Animated Recreations may be the next big thing for the news biz.
Hong Kong billionaire Jimmy Lai has a plan to save the news, and it doesn't involve paying freelancers $2 to write stories about whatever people are Googling on any given day. Instead, he's sticking with an approach publishers have used for centuries: Go heavy on crime. Go heavy on sex. Go heavy on celebrity scandals. And as Contributing Editor Greg Beato explains in our October issue, Lai is using animated recreations to do it.
http://reason.com/archives/2010/09/28/cartoon-truth
Confirmation Theater: Senate hearings on Supreme Court nominees keep the public as ignorant as possible.
Striking a balance between the state's police power and the rights of the accused is among the Supreme Court's most important tasks. Yet as Senior Editor Radley Balko writes in our October issue, criminal justice was virtually absent from the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, just as it was from the hearings for Justice Sonia Sotomayor. As Balko argues, the confirmation process has morphed into political theater designed to obscure the views of prospective Supreme Court justices, not to reveal them. Worse, the Beltway conventional wisdom says this is exactly the way it ought to be.
http://reason.com/archives/2010/09/28/confirmation-theater
Hit & Run, Reason's Staff Blog
D.C. Regulators Not Please With Pub Owner Whose Customers Don't Buy Enough Food
What's the difference between a restaurant and a tavern? For The Saloon, a pub located in D.C.'s newly bustling U Street corridor, it could be the difference between staying in its current location and finding a new home. As the Washington City Paper reports, The Saloon, one of my favorite low-key places to grab a burger and a beer (the no-TV-policy and the no-standing rule means it's never too loud or too crowded), is under fire from local regulators for not meeting the requirements associated with its restaurant-class liquor license...
Read the rest here.
Posted by Peter Suderman
http://reason.com/blog/2010/09/28/dc-regulators-not-pleased-with
Daily Brickbat
The Price of Fame
The Ohio Department of Public Safety has apologized to former American Idol contestant Crystal Bowersox after finding confidential state databases had been improperly used to look for information on the singer. Employees of five local law enforcement agencies, a municipal court and the Bureau of Motor Vehicles all searched for information after Bowersox, who is from Ohio, shot to fame on a the TV show.
http://reason.com/brickbat
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