Justice

[peterbirks]

Well, they can say what they like about this administration, but it's pleasing to see that they are taking a firm hand when it comes to law enforcement, and that attempted murder in the UK by a foreign national is now a deportable offence.

Firm, but fair.


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Pauly wrote something interesting about John Kalmer on his Tao of Poker site. Apparently John 'Skalie' Kalmer had not had a good run; his bankroll had been depleted so badly that he was on the verge of giving it up after a few years attempting to make it as a professional. But then came the run in the WSOP main event, and several hundred thousand pounds.

That set me thinking. How many 'other' Johns were there in that WSOP, who, if they failed to cash, would be jacking it in, and going back to the day job (if the day job would have them). We don't know. But if one of them made it to the final table, it would be fair to assume that he was not alone.

This game is littered with unpublicised failure. Blogs go silent, players "aren't seen again". The successes are rightly feted, and the failures understandably don't want to publicise the fact, but there must be an awfully large number of people who didn't make the cut.

Comments

[simong-uk.livejournal.com]

I thought the same a few weeks back Pete. I wrote about it here http://www.gutshot.com/gscontent/view.php?id=1213&k=20 without reaching much of a conclusion I should add...

The "women in the corridor" both gave a poker reporter a verbal volley for "being part of poker which is ruining my family" so the cracks are starting to appear...

Justice

[(Anonymous)]

"String 'em up, I say!"

It may well be that capital punishment will come back into fashion in the future. Larry Niven, if you remember, imagined even minor criminals being fed into the organ banks.

It seems a bit anomalous that human life is widely regarded as so valuable at a time when it's in such vast oversupply.

But this is just speculation, it remains to be seen...

-- Jonathan