Michael Craig has the details on his blog about the arrest of Richard Lee, who recently placed 6th in the World Series of Poker main event. He was arrested in San Antonio for gambling after the police staked out his home for months. It's all part of the current War on Happiness.
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Few people are as reliably ridiculous as Worldnutdaily publisher Joseph Farah. If there is a hall of fame for asinine writing, Farah is a first ballot inductee.
The Cuban Rapper AL2 of the bad Los Aldeanos has been arrested by the Cuban Police, and released. Meanwhile, some of his personal effects including a computer were confiscated. Rappers are considered very dangerous by the Cuban government.
My labmate Bruno's newest paper, "A synthetic circuit for selectively arresting daughter cells to create aging populations" came out today in the journal Nucleic Acids Research (and it's open access!).
Good thing Texas has taken care of its problem with murderers, rapists, etc. and can now concentrate on excessive fun. It's not like Texas is in the bottom fifth in violent crimes or anythi... err oops:
http://www.census.gov/statab/ranks/rank21.html
I'm of the opinion this is not all what it seems on the surface.
Casinos have a vested interest in ensuring their business is conducted on casino property rather than private homes.
Salvador
Ed,
By the way, do you ever visit the casinos in Michigan? I got to see a beautiful lake in Michigan. I dropped by the Kewadin Manistique casino this past June by the lake shore during a vacation.
Sal