Cleanup on Aisle Six

I wrote a somewhat groggy and intemperate post last night concerning the problems with charitable gambling, the oxymoronic and morally problematic funding mechanism that our benevolent government has chosen for the Vaseline Dome. On reflection, I think something else needs to be said. Fortunately, the estimable First Ringer cuts to the chase:

All the finger-pointing in the world doesn’t help hide the reality that the responsibility for flawed legislation needs to rest with the political leadership that authored it....

Yes, Mark Dayton owns it. But so does Julie Rosen. And John Kriesel. And Morrie Lanning. It was a truly bipartisan thing and now we have the results. Back to you, FR:

For a funding mechanism that was originally billed to deliver $35 million in revenue per year, and continuously revised down to $17 million and then $1.7, the process of assigning blame should have been viewed as inevitable.

Enjoy the inevitability. But don't forget these folks:

My Harvin jersey needs to be subsidized, too

One last thing -- in my post last night, I said that we were getting about 10 cents on the dollar from the original estimate. That's not right. It's actually less than five cents on the dollar.