Gossip is an unavoidable evil at school, work, or wherever, but when the HR department gossips, it elevates into malice.

By gaming we lose both our time and treasure:
two things most precious to the life of man.

Don’t forget:
Ruts aren’t that much different . . .
from graves.

Casino gambling is colorful and dramatic and theatrical.

The town will never be the same. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, mommy and daddy dropped the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots.

In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played - today it's like checking into an airport. And if you order room service, you're lucky if you get it by Thursday.

Today it's all gone.

I was born and raised in Louisiana - a small town called Ferriday, north of Baton Rouge.