Quote of the Day

“The critics would prefer the good old days, when the only way to satisfy the urge was to make the expensive journey to Sin City, Nev. Ever since legal gambling began proliferating, they’ve been crying wolf. But in stark contrast to the outcome of the fable, the wolf has failed to appear. The image we get from these advocates is that the more available legal gambling is the more destruction ensues. Given our latent puritanical distrust of harmless pleasures, that may sound eminently plausible, but it isn’t true.” — Steve Chapman of the Chicago Tribune on the latest barrage of anti-gambling propaganda from the Institute of American Values and others.