Posted by Nolan Dalla on Aug 24, 2013 in Blog, Las Vegas, Sports Betting |

Friday night, the LVH Casino hosted a football handicapping seminar. Over a thousand people showed up, hoping to get advice and selections from some of the best sports handicappers in the business.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Aug 24, 2013 in Blog, Sports Betting |

What things should you look at when studying NFL season win totals and making futures wagers?
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Aug 23, 2013 in Blog, Essays |

“I still have a lot of catching up to do.”
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Aug 22, 2013 in Blog, Music and Concert Reviews |

Check out Jimmy Fallon’s very best impersonations of classic rock icons. My favorite is the Jim Morrison impression, which Fallon absolutely nails.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Aug 21, 2013 in Blog, Sports Betting |

One of the more interesting options for football bettors is season win totals. This is the number of regular-season games each team is expected to win (16-game season).
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Aug 20, 2013 in Blog, Movie Reviews, Politics |

The Butler opens with an important disclosure: “Inspired by a True Story”
Which begs a few questions — what’s true and what’s not?
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Aug 19, 2013 in Blog, Las Vegas, Rants and Raves, Restaurant Reviews |

“One Drunk Puppy” seems like a strange name for a wine tasting event. The proceeds raised from selling thousands of tickets for a room that comfortably holds about 150 goes to support a charity for homeless dogs here in Las Vegas. Hence the odd name. We love wine and who among us doesn’t like dogs — so this was a “must-attend” event.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Aug 16, 2013 in Blog, Essays, Politics |

Opponents of changing marriage laws in the United States claim that extending these rights to same-sex couples “threatens the institution of marriage.”
But evidence shows that gays are hardly matrimony’s primary menace. In fact, it’s the straights, the so-called traditionalists who have evaded, mocked, and in increasing numbers abandoned the most sacred marriage vow, “I wed thee….’til death do us part.”
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Aug 16, 2013 in Blog, Book Reviews, Politics |

I’m attracted to historical biographies. Perhaps it’s an inherent sense of curiosity combined with the obligation to spend at least some measure of time reading the works of dedicated authors who in rare instances spent not merely years, but decades conducting extensive research and ultimately giving new life to people and subjects we thought we already knew well, but may have misunderstood.
Such is definitely the case with one of my favorite books, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winner for non-fiction.
Such is also the case for any of the four other Robert A. Caro books on Lyndon B. Johnson, clearly the most thorough research and writing exercise ever conducted on a U.S President by one man. Such is also the case with John Adams by David McCullough, arguably our most noted historian. I could go on and on.
Such is also the case with “Mao: The Untold Story,” written by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Aug 15, 2013 in Blog, Politics |

Involuntarily, the People’s Republic of China provides pundits with the most perplexing historical, political, economic, social, environmental, and ethical quandary of modern times.
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