Restaurant Review: Aromi Italian Restaurant and Wine Bar (Summerlin-Las Vegas)
Read MoreMy review of Aromi, a new Italian restaurant in Summerlin (Las Vegas).
The Mating Game
Read MoreSam Harris’ “Making Sense” podcast is always an intriguing listen, but this latest episode is particularly enlightening.
Gore Vidal on Religion
“I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam — good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.”
— Gore Vidal
Fireworks Are Un-American
A thought for the day on this Fourth of July:
Can someone please explain to me what’s so “patriotic” about Americans buying the overwhelming majority of fireworks from Communist China, filling the air above our cities with smoke, creating fires in drought-ridden areas, causing stress for our veterans who are suffering from PTSD, and terrifying tens of millions of pets and other animals?
Fact: There’s NOTHING “patriotic” about fireworks.
READ MORE: For Independence Day Fireworks, Americans Depend on China
Read MoreOur Distorted Reality
How we view others depends on where we stand and what’s in the way.
Photograph of Pablo Picasso in the late 1960s.
Irishman Noel Furlong Passes Away, 1999 World Poker Champion
Read MoreNoel Furlong died today at age 83.
Born J.J. Furlong on Christmas Day 1937, he took his unusual nickname from the holiday and then lived each day like he was opening new presents.
2021 BARGE Regustration Open (Poker’s Funnest Annual Event)
Read MoreB.A.R.G.E. stands for “Big August Recreational Gambling Excursion,” a name sounding a bit pompous and pretty much like a weekend gambling junket, which I’m told is precisely what it once was when it first began 30 years ago. This year, three decades later, we’re all gathering again, the last week in July at the Westgate for the first time, and you’re invited! This is what poker should be — fun.
Stop thinking small and start thinking BIG
Read MoreI’m proud to be part of a greater and more progressive movement focused on much bigger and far more important issues.
Bravo! Socialist Wins Buffalo Mayor Primary Race
Read More‘First of many’: Socialist India Walton defeats four-term Buffalo mayor in primary upset
Hey Las Vegas, Clean Up Your Act!
Read MoreA FEW THOUGHTS ON HEALTH, SAFETY, AND CLEANLINESS ON THE LAS VEGAS STRIP
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