Just Add Congress

Want to make the baseball steroid scandal even better? Just add Congress. Sure you can lie to the public, the media, the fans. But lying to Congress is a crime. A crime which Roger Clemens now stands accused indicted of.

Sure when Congress held those steroid hearing it was a show and everybody, players and Congress-critters did their grandstanding, but in the end, you swear to tell the truth, and it looks like Clemens didn't.

Couldn't have come at a better time. Let's hope this circus takes attention away from the Cordoba House. If we have to burn baseball to keep religious freedom in America. I'm ok with that.

Presidential Poker

Today's interesting little story: Presidential Poker. Turns out the current occupant of the White House is a pretty good player. Historically, both Eisenhower and Nixon were very good players. Turns out that Nixon even funded his first run for Congress with the money he won playing in WWII. As always, skill are value neutral. Its all in how you use them.

Required West Wing clip:

Bet It Out

Get your Superbowl prop bets right here. How Many Times will CBS show Kim Kardashian on TV during the Game? (Over/under is 2 1/2) What color will be the gatorade bath be? (Yellow pays 2/1) How long will it take Carrie Underwood to sing the National Anthem? (Over/under is 1 min, 42 sec.)

Scenes I Love: The Judge's Game

The movie Rounders came out winter of 1998. I saw it when I was home from college. When I got back to school, everyone else had seen it, and the first thing we did was start up our own home game. It really is amazing what this movie does. It makes you want to play.

Boy My Arms are Tired

Notes from Vegas:

Do you know what the World Series of Poker sounds like? Thousands and thousands of players all playing with their chips. A vast clicking sound.

California is making me soft with regards to cigarette smoke.

Working girls are kind of hard to spot.

Turns out I can survive three days without the Internet.

Seats at the buffet at the Bellagio are closed at 10:00 and they take the food away at 10:45. So you may worry about getting your 30 bucks worth of food. Don't worry, its turns out its more than possible to eat 60 dollars worth of crab legs in the first 10 minuets.

I'm already Gone

So will be out and about for the next couple of days, so posting will be sparse(r)

The Healing Power of Vegas

And you thought it was just a place to have fun:

A wheelchair-bound Los Angeles woman, who has repeatedly filed lawsuits over access for the disabled, got up and ran after police arrested her for fraud, authorities said Thursday.

Laura Lee Medley, 35, had sued in at least four California cities over injuries she claimed she sustained while trying to navigate her wheelchair before she was suspected of fraud.

Medley, who claimed to be paralyzed from a drunk driving accident, was tracked to Las Vegas where police there took her into custody and then, when she complained of medical issues, to a local hospital, Long Beach prosecutor Belinda Mayes said.

"She gets to the hospital and while she's waiting for an examination, she gets up from the chair and runs," Mayes said. "Somebody remarked, 'That's where the great miracle occurred.' "

I would say that the waters of Las Vegas having the healing mojo, but Las Vegas doesn't have any water.