{"id":287,"date":"2009-06-04T15:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T19:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2009\/6\/4\/Gambling-and-hope"},"modified":"2009-06-04T15:38:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T19:38:00","slug":"gambling-and-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/gambling-and-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambling and hope"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andy Holtmann<\/strong> of Raving Consulting<\/strong> has a splendid essay on this very topic and the fine line that casinos must walk<\/a> when playing to people's hopes. It carries particular weight as it's authored by someone who's taken a mighty wallop from the collapse of the housing market — i.e., the sort of customer casinos need to understand when they get frustrated that people aren't spending more. Abrasive slogans like "Shut up and play" aren't going to cut it.<\/p>\n

Speaking of excellent writing, Eugene Robinson<\/strong> of the Washington Post<\/em> waxed eloquent recently on the subject of the nationalization of General Motors<\/strong>. Penned by an obvious car enthusiast (and longtime GM customer), Robinson's think piece is full of wonderful bon mot<\/em>s like, "The roster of Chevrolet<\/strong>, GMC<\/strong>, Buick<\/strong> and Cadillac<\/strong> may still leave GM with too many brands; I'd have axed Buick, too, and my opinion should count since I'm now one of the company's owners." (Well, at least we're rid of the Hummer<\/strong>.) My thanks to the reader who brought this to my attention — where would I be without you guys?<\/p>\n

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The infamous Pontiac Aztek<\/em>.<\/p>\n

On the subject of GM, I hold no opinion. However, I did notice that scarcely was the ink dry on the bankruptcy filings than a very slick and expensive-looking commercial explaining the 'new, improved' GM was airing on network TV. It certainly wasn't the sort of thing one whips up on iMovie<\/strong> overnight. Your tax dollars — and mine — at work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andy Holtmann of Raving Consulting has a splendid essay on this very topic and the fine line that casinos must walk when playing to people's hopes. It carries particular weight as it's authored by someone who's taken a mighty wallop … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,44,14,53,100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287"}],"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=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}