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Posted by on Jun 21, 2013 in Blog, General Poker, Las Vegas, Politics, World Series of Poker | 9 comments

The World Series of Poker According to Sheldon Adelson

 

sheldon-adelson

 

I wonder what Sheldon Adelson would do if — in some alternative universe — he was assigned to cover the World Series of Poker.

Imagine the billionaire casino mogul and crackpot conservative standing out on the tournament floor covering the poker action.  How would he report on what’s going on?  What would be written?

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Posted by on Sep 24, 2012 in Blog, Essays, Travel | 0 comments

“I See Dead People” — My Review of ‘Psychic’ Sylvia Browne’s Flim-Flam Act

Sylvia Browne Fraud

Someone should have warned me about Sylvia Browne’s utterly shameless and abominable one-woman stage act.

I suspected it would be mind-bogglingly awful.

What I couldn’t possibly have predicted was — her show would actually be worse than I expected.

Where to begin?

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Posted by on Sep 21, 2012 in Blog, Music and Concert Reviews | 2 comments

Who Would Pay Money to See This Quack?

Fraud Sylvia Browne

 

On the list of the world’s most hideous people, this piece of shit is very near the top.

Her name is Sylvia Browne, and for those of you fortunate enough to have never heard of her, she’s a self-described “spiritual teacher and psychic.”

And in a related news story — I’m the Pope.

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