Back awhile I received a memo from the Publisher, detoured through the Editor’s Xerox machine. It was, I allow, full of kind words for my “Gimlet Eye” on poker playing (May 11). Yet the Publisher expressed a reservation. After all, he wrote, “there is nothing terribly conservative about poker.”
Well, at first reflex, I disagreed. Liberals don’t play poker much. Money should better be anted up for some Cause of the Month Club. It’s capitalist exploitation, using brains and luck to short-change your fellow man. Poker suggests machismo and liberals don’t need to prove their masculinity, having a special gland of some sort. They also throw like girls and avoid drinking in bars.
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