This quote came after a shocking first-person description of what it’s like to work at a casino, mostly ripping off the Social Security and pensions of elderly folks with gambling problems:

“In this politically correct decade, the most horrific politically correct term ever created is the one that the gambling industry has made into an everyday word: Gaming. There is no game here. You pay and you lose; that is the game.”

–Addiction Treatment, Van Wormer & Davis, p. 7

[First published on Nathen’s Miraculous Escape, October 20, 2010.]