The Mayor plans up to 16,000 video gambling machines in Chicago. That gives your political cartoonists a chance to cast him in a fresh new light -- Wild Bill Hickok. Why...? Because Hickok, like most of his frontier compadres, was a lifelong draw-poker player. He even died playing the game, holding the Dead Man's Hand of Aces & 8's.
I'm not sure if the Mayor plays, but poker is in the American bloodstream. Draw-poker machines around town would simply be living out our own myths and legends. In contrast to the Old World where roulette was king, in the New World draw-poker was the crown prince. Whereas in roulette you get to play only one number, in draw poker you get to swap cards right in the middle of the game. The very same spirit of almost every American who swapped the hand they were dealt back East to try a fresh gamble out West.
So anyone who wants to stop our Mayor's bid is first going to have to stifle our nation's instinct...!
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Free at last...free at last....thank God, free at last! I can now admit I have been a closet Doris Day fan for years. The NY Times Sunday feature on Doris & Oscar has freed me to say this in public. Doris was the finest studio singer & film entertainer of her time.
Look, lets just get it all out there. She was the only star to whom I ever wrote a fan letter. Did she answer and what did she say...? That's still in the closet...!
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