I didn’t know what “cocaine dancers” are but the Las Vegas Review-Journal says Palazzo’s nightclub, The Act, has them. (It seems to involve far more snorting than dancing.) Sheldon Adelson‘s peeps would like the “simulated drug use, bestiality and exotic human sex scenes staged nightly” to be eliminated in favor of something a little more family friendly. Judge Susan Scann is understandably leery of judicial activism or of ‘editing’ the show from the bench and Act attorney Pat Lundvall appears to be putting on an effective defense. And — whoops! — Las Vegas Sands no longer owns the retail mall in which The Act sits. Also, while bestiality is simulated, the virtue of a snake used at The Act remains intact. The one real zinger was an undercover report that described an evening at The Act as “nothing out of the ordinary more than you would see in a ‘Jubliee’ [sic] show or a Cirque du Soleil show, like ‘Zumanity’, for example.” Guy Laliberte, look to thy laurels!
As though casinos in the great state of Ohio weren’t having enough problems gaining traction, there’s a groundswell of opposition to the government’s ban on 620-plus Internet cafes that double as gambling parlors. Backers of the “storefront sweepstakes parlors” say they have far in excess of the number of signatures needed to get a repeal on next year’s ballot. Considering that the Legislature’s action was driven by a desire to shoo people toward Buckeye State casinos and racinos (i.e., meddling in the free market) I am not unsympathetic to the petition-collectors’ concerns.
