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Posted by on Apr 16, 2015 in Blog, General Poker | 5 comments

Brain Games: Does Playing Poker Help to Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease?

 

Brain-Games

 

David Sklansky, true to his reputation for thinking beyond the usual parameters of expectation, noted that if scientific research could somehow prove a direct link between playing poker and preventing Alzheimer’s (and other diseases of dementia and mental deterioration), such news might trigger another tidal wave of enthusiasm for the game.

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Posted by on Apr 14, 2015 in Blog, Politics | 7 comments

Was There Really Such as Thing as the 1915 Armenian “Genocide?”

 

armenian-genocide

 

This column created a firestorm when I first wrote and published it.  I lost friends and even received threats.  Nonetheless, I stand by the conclusions herein.  Until it can be shown an orchestrated and deliberate “genocide” occurred, I remain convinced the horrific episode known as the attempt to exterminate Armenians was one of many terrible outcomes of World War I and unbridled nationalism.

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