Have you ever been to the airport in Las Vegas? It is the weirdest place. It is a casino with airplanes. Everywhere throughout the airport are banks and banks of gambling machines beeping and flashing and twirling. Got an hour layover between flights? Gamble, gamble, gamble.
The prevalence of gambling in this country is just astounding. It's everywhere. Drop by the customer service desk at Safeway. It's a mini-casino. Get your lottery tickets. Get your latest scratch ticket games. Gamble, gamble, gamble.
Now out in the heartland, Kansas has gone the final mile. Not content to tolerate vice and skim the profits in the guise of tax collections, the state has decided to go the way of Bugsy Malone and get into the gambling business directly. What was once the the domain of organized crime and your local bookie is now the domain of the government of the sovereign state of Kansas. Incredible!
Even more incredible is that nobody in Kansas can make a persuasive argument that the vice business should not be the public's business. If that isn't decadence, what is?
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