Ha Ha

I can't help being amused. Churchill Downs built this big new casino, er, clubhouse, which is wired to the hilt and all ready for slots and video gaming, and they can't get the go ahead. Ha ha.

"No, I do not know what Schadenfreude is. Please tell me, because I'm dying to know."

-Homer Simpson

I don't like being happy about it, but I am. I think I'm a typical Louisvillian who is proud of the Downs and has a proprietary feeling about it. I want the track to succeed. I see it as more than just a business.
But Churchill management certainly does not see it that way. So screw them.

I'm befuddled by the lack of moral consistency, anyway. I always have been.
The state says it's okay to bet on horse racing and buy (state-monopolized) lottery tickets (and play bingo as long as you don't smoke), but all other forms of gambling are illegal.

And that will apparently remain the law, even though the governor and a sizeable faction of the representatives tried to adjust it to "a couple of other forms of gambling are okay, as long as it's done at a racetrack and some of the proceeds go to promoting horse racing."

I obviously have no problem at all with legalized gambling, but I also have no serious beef with people who believe it's immoral and should be against the law. I'm just confused by the state-sanctioned argument that a few arbitrary forms of gaming are okay and the rest are not.