Peter B Cohen

If he wants to play the "game" of saying "Green turns to Brown where there is rot involved" perhaps someone should remind him that there is a game where No Trumps is a stronger hand than any other type of Trump.

Actually, "Hope springs eternal" is by Alexander Pope in "An Essay on Man" written in 1733-34.

"Hope springs eternal in the human breast:
Man never is, but always to be blest:
The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come."

I wonder if he means for past offences or illegal actions yet to happen.

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” - Winston Churchill

If this had happened in Australia, the victim's evidence in Court would have been, "He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich".

"similar"? It IS a rainbow.

Is this picture real? The President's facial expression and his hair seem quite unreal.

Gaming analysts don’t expect the Las Vegas Strip to bounce back in 2025 A Wall Street analyst isn’t expecting a bounce back in leisure and foreign visitors to Las Vegas by the end of the year and worries softness on the Strip will spill over into the locals market.Chad Be...

A masterclass in avoiding the elephant in the room. "Strip softness", "lower visitation to the Strip", and "a confluence of headwinds including geopolitical/immigration tensions impacting visitation" (and more) leave it to the reader to presume the real reasons why.
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Apparently Western Australia, with no pokies outside the casino, has a higher gambling prevalence rate (69.6%) than New South Wales, which has about 85,000 pokies outside the casino (63.9%). Suggests that gambling prevalence rates should not be used as a proxy for gambling harm prevalence rates.

Bertrand Russell, at 89 years old, to Sir Oswald Mosley, a man most famous for founding, in 1932, the British Union of Fascists.

I'm all for civil discourse. But everyone can and should draw a line at who they will talk to.

Notice that Russell did not demean himself with incivility, either.

300 million deaths last year? Wow. A quick online search suggests it was about 600,000. I wonder which source is closer to the real number.

"fixing"...as in the 1919 World Series?

Mesmerising. Three incredible scientific achievements here: the understanding of our Moon, the ability to present it in an artistic form, and that I get to see it online at no cost to me.

Is pre-emptive confession even a thing?

"Duck Soup" parallels continue with the re-creation of the Department of War. (And the choice of Secretary of the Department, too).

Once again, the word "sanctioned" is used in a headline where it could mean two opposite things. Is the project approved or opposed by the US? "Sanctioned" could be either.

About 23 years too late. Nobody would have blinked if this had happened in the aftermath of 9/11. How times, and reputations, have changed.

The Marx Brothers Find out about the Marx Brothers, online since 1996

Please tell me Chico Marx will be the Secretary of the War Department
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The best evidence that more money needs to be directed towards maths education. How, exactly, can a price be reduced by more than 100%?

Cute comment, but not the full story. If she bet on herself to win but didn't win, tax would be paid by the betting company on the money she wagered and lost. So, she would be a two-time loser! More relevantly, gamblers who lose money are indirectly contributing tax revenue every time they do so.

This professor has an apt name: "These one-ingredient changes don't make these foods healthy," said Marion Nestle, professor emeritus of nutrition and public health at New York University.

Victoria's pokies spend (player loss) in pubs and clubs for FY25 was $3.145B. Up 3.8% compared with FY24. Not sure what it tells us, although mandatory carded play at Crown casino might have helped boost pub/club spend.

I've consulted an actuary who used to be a maths teacher, and we've come to the view that bringing the prices of drugs down 1000% means the US Federal Govt will now give consumers $100 for every $10 they used to spend on prescription medicine. Sounds like a good deal.

@australia.theguardian.com
That's not to say it would be easy for VGCCC to enforce. Finding out who to prosecute could be a difficult starting point (2/2)

Australian doctors call for clampdown on social media influencers allegedly glamorising poker machines Doctors’ warning comes after report reveals the social cost of gambling in Victoria had doubled to $14bn

@australia.theguardian.com This looks like it could be a breach of s3.5.34(1) of Victoria's Gambling Regulation Act ("...a person must not publish or cause to be published any gaming machine advertising...") (1/2)
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Is "none of the above" an acceptable answer?

I once had a Minister who we knew only read the first page of any brief he was given. So we put all the bad news on page 2.

What are "burecratic conceds"?

(1) What's the difference between a "non-working holiday" and a "working holiday"? (2) How does the US compare with other nations?

Luck is with Albo