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Egoism Individualism Sovereignty Splendor (These ideas are explicated in this sloppy manifesto) SplendorQuotes: Splendor is the interior experience of being so enthralled by the act of creating the values that contribute to and ultimately comprise your idealized perfect self that, while you are experiencing it, you are your idealized perfect self. Living is what you're doing when you're too enthralled to notice. Dying is what you're doing when all you can do is notice. Man is the only animal capable of comprehending what his life requires, and he is the only animal capable of failing to do what his life requires. Self-love is the joy and reverence you earn and deserve by the relentless pursuit of your deepest desire. Self-esteem is the high regard in which you presume to hold yourself in appreciation for the accomplishment of absolutely nothing. Greg Swann's writings Wild Cochise Gang: Our family pages and Christmas cards Read my free e-book about love, splendor and philosophy, The Unfallen My Myers-Briggs type is ESTJ: Administrator--Much in touch with the external environment. Very responsible. Pillar of strength. 8.7% of population. Take a free Myers-Briggs personality test. War with Iraq: The Cain Doctrine The 'wrest' of the story Taking a better grip Why the Bush Doctrine will prevail--and fail A Just and Libertarian war... Persephone's second coming... presence of the recent past Nick and Norm drive the point home A Costco family Christmas Hang tough The season's greetings Curing the incuriosity of the East A canticle for Kathleen Sullivan Colloquy with a goat Back-handing the sinister American left To Condi, with sweetness Reds Sacrificing Diana Defusing the Unabomber Let 'em eat steak Shyly's delight Anastasia in the light and shadow Archives Join the email update list 
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Saturday, May 22, 2004
BetterVegas: WSOP 2004 Also from the RJ: The championship event for the the World Series of Poker gets under way today at Binion's Horseshoe with an estimated 2,500 to 2,600 participants and a prize pool of more than $20 million, Harrah's Entertainment spokesman David Strow said Friday.Of those dozens of hundreds of entrants, over 300 will have been sent from PokerStars, like last year's winner Chris Moneymaker. The on-line sports books are taking proposition bets on this year's champion, if you're in the mood to gamble something less than $10,000... BetterVegas: Casting a wary eye on the 21st century... From today's Las Vegas Review-Journal: Nevada gambling regulators and industry executives are discussing rule changes that would allow a person to make a sports bet using a wireless device while sitting by a casino swimming pool or at a kiosk inside their local bar.I wrote about this and then some last fall. I will be utterly amazed if this goes anywhere. For one thing, it would require some form of cashless transactions, and Las Vegas hates cashless gaming transactions. For another, cell phones and other non-broadcast electronic devices are forbidden in sports books. The fear is that players will pull a Vallachi, bet on events that have concluded before the casino receives notice of the outcome. It would be impossible to police for phones away from the sports book. And finally, this would require casinos to spend money on technology invented sometime after the disco era. This they will never do. It's a great idea though. If an Indian casino were to establish itself as a super-strength WiFi hotspot, that could be very interesting... Sunday, May 16, 2004
BetterVegas: Make your reservations today... From today's Las Vegas Review-Journal: American Indians might just take back their continent. In a broad declaration of American Indian land rights, a federal judge recently held that the Cayuga Nation can buy up property in its former central New York homeland, declare it 'Indian country' and operate a casino immune from local building, zoning and tax laws. The first-of-its-type ruling enables the Indian nation to use real-estate purchases to gain control over land it once occupied. |
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