{"id":11087,"date":"2013-07-08T12:56:36","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T20:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=11087"},"modified":"2023-02-01T06:12:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T14:12:28","slug":"this-is-your-brain-on-b-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/this-is-your-brain-on-b-s\/","title":{"rendered":"This is your brain on B.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sheldon Adelson<\/strong> would have you believe that $100 million-$200 million in potential <strong>Las Vegas Sands<\/strong> revenue means nothing to him. And if you believe that, boy, do I have a bridge in <strong>Brooklyn<\/strong> to sell you. (He&#8217;s probably more apt to run you over in his motorized scooter if you drop a nickel on the carpet.) Fortunately,<!--more--><em>BloombergBusinessWeek<\/em>&#8216;s anchor isn&#8217;t buying any of Adelson&#8217;s baloney. He likens legalizing <strong>Internet<\/strong> gambling to legitimizing prostitution and hard drugs &#8212; valid ideas, both of them. And what does Adelson&#8217;s <strong>Korean War<\/strong> service have to do with the price of casino chips in <strong>China<\/strong>? <em>Warning<\/em>: Don&#8217;t watch if uncontrolled egomania is hazardous to your health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheldon Adelson would have you believe that $100 million-$200 million in potential Las Vegas Sands revenue means nothing to him. And if you believe that, boy, do I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. (He&#8217;s probably more apt &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/this-is-your-brain-on-b-s\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,62,12,108],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32278,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11087\/revisions\/32278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}