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Hot Air Blows Through Vegas At YearlyKos

Simply delightful news to add to a delightful news day.  An unnamed Hot Air correspondent has infiltrated the YearlyKos convention which kicked off today in Las Vegas.

Highly entertaining and insightful dispatches thus far.

What an odd choice for this conference. Here’s a city built by capitalism for risk takers, a randy Randian town, an ecological improbability, a city in all bright neon instead of earth tones. What an utterly un-Kossy town.

But when you think about it, it makes sense. This oasis sprang up because a lot of gullible people exist in the world, people who can be enticed here by the prospect of Something for Nothing. That is the lie underlying socialist politics—that you can run a society by redistributing the goods from the successful risk-takers to those who have, for whatever reason, crapped out.

So it looks like these folks are here to discuss a change to the house rules—these folks want to squeeze the high-rollers even harder, and make it harder and harder for them to walk away from the table a winner. Why we think the high rollers will still play with worse odds and smaller payouts, well, I don’t expect they’ll have an answer to that. I do expect a lot of nifty ideas on how to spend all that extra wealth they’re going to squeeze out of the undeserving rich.

Plus it’s easy to make a convincing argument for global warming here in the desert.

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Hot Air Blows Through Vegas At YearlyKos

Simply delightful news to add to a delightful news day.  An unnamed Hot Air correspondent has infiltrated the YearlyKos convention which kicked off today in Las Vegas.

Highly entertaining and insightful dispatches thus far.

What an odd choice for this conference. Here’s a city built by capitalism for risk takers, a randy Randian town, an ecological improbability, a city in all bright neon instead of earth tones. What an utterly un-Kossy town.

But when you think about it, it makes sense. This oasis sprang up because a lot of gullible people exist in the world, people who can be enticed here by the prospect of Something for Nothing. That is the lie underlying socialist politics—that you can run a society by redistributing the goods from the successful risk-takers to those who have, for whatever reason, crapped out.

So it looks like these folks are here to discuss a change to the house rules—these folks want to squeeze the high-rollers even harder, and make it harder and harder for them to walk away from the table a winner. Why we think the high rollers will still play with worse odds and smaller payouts, well, I don’t expect they’ll have an answer to that. I do expect a lot of nifty ideas on how to spend all that extra wealth they’re going to squeeze out of the undeserving rich.

Plus it’s easy to make a convincing argument for global warming here in the desert.