Ethics

My Exhausting Day

By Ed Brayton

Thursday was a very, very long day. Up at 4 am to catch a 6 am flight, I got about 2 1/2 hours of sleep, then maybe another hour on the plane and a short nap in the afternoon. We did the interview for the documentary from about 3:30 to 7:30, far longer than I expected. We tried to do the interview outdoors, but it was just too noisy and the light was fading, so we had to come back and do it in my room here.

The interview itself went quite well. We talked about the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, how and why it was passed. We talked about the Wire Act and what the courts have ruled about it in regard to internet gambling. We talked about some of the different state laws on gambling and how the courts have handled them, including the question of whether poker was a game of skill or a game of chance.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on February 13, 2009 (boomark / email).