Beginning on Wednesday, Hawaii lawmakers will start mulling what they think we need. Whatev.
What we really want is to legalize some form of gambling in Hawaii.
Oh, we can tsk-tsk here and tsk-tsk there. But most of us love to gamble—financially, emotionally, pridefully. We bet on golf holes, on birth announcements (“who had 7 pounds, 2 ounces ?”), on Merrie Monarch performances. We drool, like Pavlov’s dog, when we hear the “Wheel … of … Fortune ” chant a minute after Joe Moore’s sign-off.
There’s a reason the Omni de-boarding area at Harry Reid International Airport has rows of wheelchairs, like an Indy start. Retired local folks will find a way to Vegas to play the double-bonus poker machines.
