Kwanchai Lerttanapunyaporn / EyeEmIt's been a scintillating couple of weeks for the American strip mall industry. First came Robert Kraft and the Orchids of Asia, and now—mere hours after photos of Donald Trump watching the Super Bowl with the owner of said massage/brothel hybrid hit the Twitter-verse—news that city council members in American Canyon, California have unanimously voted to revoke the license of Bottoms Up Espresso, better known to local Morning Joes as “the place with the not-so-flat whites, bro.” The free (and uninhibited) market economy as we know it will never be the same.
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picture allianceA blackjack dealer has been charged with helping gamblers cheat, and it raises an interesting ethical question: Is he actually a hero?
Kidding. Sort of.
This case actually hits close to home for me. Literally. The now ex-dealer's alleged crimes took place at Connecticut's Mohegan Sun, a frequent haunt for me when it was just a dangerously short 75-minute drive from my apartment in Stamford. You could hop in the car with a couple of buddies after dinner, scoot on up there for a couple hours, and turn around and come home. And often we did just that after quickly being cleaned out. At the blackjack tables.
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