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Remembering the Bad Old Days of Football Handicapping

Posted by on Jan 28, 2022 in Blog, Las Vegas, Sports Betting | 0 comments

 

 

You’d swear this is a SNL skit, but it’s not. It’s real. This show used to run every Saturday morning nationally across the country.

Here’s a hysterical 9-minute video clip (below) that typifies the sewer that once was—and to some extent still is—the darkest depths of “sports handicapping services.”

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Railroaded by the Defense Industry

Posted by on Jan 27, 2022 in Blog, Las Vegas, Politics, What's Left | 0 comments

 

 

While the United States taxpayer was strangled with wasteful trillion-dollar wars in the Middle East, China has been building bullet trains that go 370 mph. Next time year hear some right-wing war hawk blabbering about “America’s weak defense,” remember the consequences.  We’re building tanks, while they’re building bridges, highways, and new airports.

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The Prayer Line Has Been Disconnected

Posted by on Jan 26, 2022 in Blog | 3 comments

 

 

We’re often told terrible events on earth are part of “God’s plan.” That’s to say, the murdering of infants and torturing of innocents is somehow “excusable” in this sick intergalactic passion play, so long as it’s directed by the wise old man slumbering on a white cloud as part of some grand design. Sorry, but no.  I want no part of this twisted sick fantasy, nor do I want to be cast as an extra in some maniacal epic of pain and destruction.

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The Craptocurrency Crash

Posted by on Jan 24, 2022 in Blog, Politics, What's Left | 1 comment

 

 

 

Crypto is now worth trillions of dollars.  All of that value is premised not on some fundamental utility, but rather on the idea that there will always be someone else who will come along and pay you more than you spent on your crypto.  This is going to end badly.

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10 Years of NFL Predictions and Picks: My Updated Record

Posted by on Jan 23, 2022 in Blog, Personal, Sports Betting | 1 comment

 

 

 

On the 10-year anniversary of posting NFL picks on my website, this is the perfect time to look back and update my overall win-loss and financial record.  I started posting NFL predictions and picks back in 2012, so this month will conclude ten full seasons.  In the past decade, I’ve made approximately 1,400 picks and gambled well over a million dollars. 

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Remembering a Kind Man: Louie Anderson

Posted by on Jan 22, 2022 in Blog, Las Vegas, Music and Concert Reviews | 5 comments

 

 

 

REMEMBERING A KIND MAN: LOUIE ANDERSON (1953-2022)

This story of something that happened in the middle of the comedian’s stand up act reveals just exactly who Louie Anderson was — both as a performer and a person

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