From news items dates March 17 to March 25:

Douglas Nickerson, a former executive with General Casualty Insurance, was sentenced on March 25 to nearly 4 years in prison for embezzling more than $1 million to feed a gambling addiction.
The former treasurer of a Montana Little League team was sentenced to 30 days in jail for [...]

From stories dated Feb. 21 to Feb. 28:

A self-described compulsive gambler, Arthur Bittner, attempted to rob a Colorado bank on Feb. 25. He entered the bank with a shotgun and handed a note to the teller, but lost his nerve and fled without collecting anything. Police soon found Bittner, complete with the gun and the [...]

Compulsive gamblers going nuts is again our theme, because they continue going nuts, and because the cumulative effect of the stories of their ongoing nuts-going may prove beneficial someday. I don’t know. But it’s worse out there than you’d think:

A defense attorney for Ausaf “Omar” Siddiqui asked a judge on Dec. 23 to dismiss [...]

Merry Christmas, winners! We are all champions. We should love ourselves. We are taller than average, strong of heart, curious of intellect, not balding (so much), we jog almost once every week. We are the reason America rules over the moon. Did you know they use the US dollar in Panama in lieu of their [...]

Gambling is fun either as a lark or as a test of wits or as a dalliance with forces bigger and more brutal than you are, or sometimes as all three. Now and again the dallying gets to be hardcore. A chord gets struck; a patsy falls into a rut. And suddenly the limits are [...]