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Posted At : November 3, 2008 09:40 AM | Posted By : D McKee
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That's the conclusion of Steve Friess, who reads the cards on the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. The clincher, in Friess' analysis, is that John McCain has promised to bend to the wishes of Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) with regards to the UIGEA. And Kyl has never been more consistent than in his efforts to outlaw Internet gambling, against which he's waged a protracted war.
Speaking of Friess, he's been to "The Weirdest House in Vegas" and filed multimedia coverage. I've seen the three-houses-merged-into-one Xanadu that is the home of Dr. Lonnie Hammergren and Friess' headline is no exaggeration. An accompanying New York Times piece captures the essence of the place, which is much like what might have happened had Charles Foster Kane moved into a quiet suburban neighborhood and let his outsized sense of fantasy run amok.
"For a reported $100 million, Cirque [du Soleil] has bought itself its first bona fide bomb." That's among the nicer things the Las Vegas Sun's Larry Brown has to say about "charmless mook" Criss Angel and his CdS vehicle, Believe. Even before opening night, CdS was in full damage-control mode. An eyewitness tells me the favored spin is that Angel is no mere magician. No, he is an artiste. No wonder full-of-himself Cirque founder Guy Laliberté runs and hides from reporters when his cohort is peddling such self-serving guff.
Personally, I thought from the get-go Believe was going to tank, for reasons upon which I'll expound later. There's only so much pastel-colored whimsy this town can handle. In any event, it sure sounds like the after-party was better than the show.
Finish line in sight. All right, I blew it. What I thought would be the most edifying presidential campaign in a generation has been one of the worst. (Better than '04 but still pretty bad.) It's made Bush vs. Gore look like My Dinner with André. At the state and local level here in Nevada, it's been worse still -- the scummiest scrumdown I can recall.
When a Freedom's Watch ad actually elevates the tone of discourse, you know we've sunk to lower-than-imaginable levels. The Sheldon Adelson-sponsored "operating room" spot (which I've linked on a previous occasion) was considerably more imaginative than anything put out by Rep. Jon Porter's own campaign, not least because it employed a seemingly novel concept: humor.
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