Emphasis Preaching Journal

In an essay in his Rumors enewsletter, Ralph Milton reflects on a visit he, his wife, and his sister-in-law paid to Las Vegas, during a travel layover.

We wandered through several casinos. None of them were crowded. But there were people playing the slots -- playing mechanically, with utterly blank faces, not in pain but also not happy. It seemed to me that if they could think of anything else to do, they would do it, but in the meantime they kept cranking those slots.