Busy, busy day

I'm away from the office for a few days, and it seems like everything goes nuts in the world of casinos. Here's a few stories that I consider important but, because I'm posting from the Library of Congress under some heavy time constraints, can't link to. Go to google news to read about them; if you're reading this a few weeks from now, you are SOL. Sorry.

1. Donald Trump now has a board game. I know that Trump-The Game was a product of the 1980s or early 1990s, but I guess he's board again.

2. A California Indian Nation might build a casino near Disneyland. I've always said (and I specifically said it in Suburban Xanadu, look it up) that Disneyland is a casino resort for kids. Now both kids and adults can go to one place for nonstop entertainment.

3. Steve Wynn and Sheldon Adelson are dueling over parking again.

4. Search engines sued for online gambling ads

5. A huge casino is planned in the East Bay (near San Francisco).

If you read this next paragraph, you will probably gain an interesting, but most likely unuseful, bit of information. On the doors to the John Adams building of the Library of Congress, there are carved reliefs of a number of mythical gods of knowledge; I don't have the whole list but it is probably online somewhere if you are curious. Anyway, one of them is Thoth, the ibis-headed Egyptian (also represented by a baboon-faced dog or a dog-faced baboon) who according to Socrates (citing even more ancient Egyptian sources) invented gambling.

That's just a useless piece of trivia for you to digest, or another brick in the temple of enlightenment.



Source: Casino [ptz]