Bin Laden Is Dead
Can we focus on something important now, like explicitly legalizing online poker? To be honest, I find it hard to care about world politics and missions of vengeance when U.S. domestic policy is so embarrassingly hypocritical.
Speaking of embarrassing, I wrote a little piece about Mason Malmuth's recent behavior on his internet forum: http://www.freeassn.com/drupal/node/32
Yesterday was my birthday, so I took a day off from the live grind. I ate lots of vegan banana cream pie, too. Now it's up to Foxwoods for a two day session, back home for music practice, then down to Atlantic City for another two day session. Then it's time to make some poker videos over the weekend. It's not a bad life, but I could do without the travel. Some explicitly legal live poker in NYC would be nice. But I guess I'll have to settle for dead terrorist leaders on my birthday.
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May 3rd, 2011 - 00:20
As where I too hope to see online poker legalized, I can’t help but feel that your opening statement of, “Can we focus on something important now” as being a bit insensitive to those who lost loved one’s from the executed plans of this very terrorist. Poker is important to all of us here but to compare a situation that will eventually be legislated & more than likely to legalized to this event is somewhat suspect. I too don’t have much love for world politics & I agree that our domestic policies are in need of an overhaul but it was momentous(in my opinion) to see that Bin Laden got smoked in the manner that he did. And a belated Happy Birthday to you as well.
May 6th, 2011 - 03:47
Oh, I was being sarcastic. I think the description of April 15th as “Black Friday” is absurd. What happened was a miscarriage of justice and totally sucks, but in the grand scheme of things, its greatest significance will be the role it plays in the international discussion of internet regulation (or lack thereof).
I have to say, though, that I’m disgusted by the chanting of “USA! USA!” in response to the news of an execution. It’s barbaric and embarrassing. And it serves to highlight just why so much of the world hates us in the first place. It also neglects to recognize the fact that the destruction of the World Trade Center was an international tragedy, not an American one.