On vacation

There will be considerably less blogohrrea this week, since I’m in the great state of Florida, learning how to snorkel. (If all goes well, I’ll fill you in on the details later.) At the moment, I’m in Jacksonville, overlooking the river and wondering, given the incredible and beautiful plethora of churches, if casino gaming could ever take hold here, as it has in Tampa … where I’ll be in a couple of days. Perhaps I will partake of the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa while I’m there, sample the buffet and check out the expansion while the wife plays some penny slots. The last time I checked, the feckless Lege seemed on course to let its last opportunity for gaming reform slip through its fingers. Come November’s election, the unlikely combination of the Seminole Tribe and Disney is likely to put through a ballot issue that places control of gaming expansion in the hands of the electorate, cutting the Lege out of the loop. When that happens, it’s Katie bar the door.