Chris Christie Sports Gambling Case in New Jersey: Keep It Illegal | New Republic

Maybe they should just enable betting on things which arent as popular now. Things like "will congress do anything useful this session" - or - "will gov christie pay in some way for the accusation of the bridge gate". That way the state can make money and get civi engagement at the same time. 

But then the intention is different here - you are trying to profit thats the main aim of gambling. You are not "just rooting" for a particular side. Somehow gambling seems to be wrong in any arena. It doesn't serve the larger groups interest at all. 

The current case for gambling, framed in progressive terms and emphasizing economic benefits, misses the underlying issue with mass sports betting. Betting should stay illegal not because it poses a dangerous moral hazard to individuals but because it leads to a marked increase in match-fixing.
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119702/chris-christie-sports-gambling-case-new-jersey-keep-it-illegal

Lookie here

Why cant we make small projectors that can have 802.11ad connection to your main compute internet device. This way we can have way more screens and completely ignore the beauty of the world in front of us.

Comment: Matters of Privacy, by Margaret Talbot

From The New Yorker app

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What was often used to justify this paradox was obeisance to marital privacy. In a North Carolina case from 1868, State v. A. B. Rhodes, the State Supreme Court declined to enforce charges against a man who whipped his wife "with a switch about the size of one of his fingers (but not as large as a man's thumb)." It did so not because it was upholding the husband's right to chastise his wife "but because the evil of publicity would be greater than the evil involved in the trifles complained of; and because they ought to be left to family government."