Poker is suddenly everywhere. Poker tournaments on television, books on improving your poker, people blogging about poker. It seems like every white male ages 18-35 is suddenly a poker freak. I’ve never gotten into cards much, although I did manage to win about $60 at blackjack on my one and only visit to an Indian casino back in Green Bay. I think I’d like poker, though. It has an interesting mixture of luck, strategy and psychology that I think I’d find appealing. The guy with whom I clerked had a regular game going. Maybe he’d let me in sometime. I’d just have to make sure the nurse holding my cards doesn’t have any revealing “tells” that would give my hand away.
Another hostage in Iraq killed. You have to wonder how many more contractors will die before companies decide that it’s just not worth it and pull out. I think the Defense Department made a big mistake when they contracted out most of the rebuilding of Iraq. It may have been cheaper, but you have civilians living and working in what is essentially still a combat zone. Most of them have no security training and are easy targets for roving militants. But I guess that train has already left the station.
