COLLECTIVE MADNESS
“Soft despotism is a term coined by Alexis de Tocqueville describing the state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. Soft despotism is different from despotism (also called 'hard despotism') in the sense that it is not obvious to the people."
There may be more depressing places to visit but for my taste this ranks up there with Nizhny Novgorod in February.
ReplyDeleteShould you be feeling particularly masochistic on your next visit to Nizhny Novgorod do try the always lovely Monarch Hotel. I have never had the pleasure of spending the night in Harrisburg.
ReplyDeleteThe play of table games during January at Pennsylvania casinos generated tax revenue of more than $8.6 million, according to figures posted today on the Gaming Control Board’s web site, www.gamingcontrolboard.pa.gov .
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Pennsylvania taxes gross table games revenue at 16% (14% to the Commonwealth’s General Fund and 2% to local share fund) which resulted in $8,609,347 of tax revenue.
One time the advance elements of an invading army made it all the way to Harrisburg, but they had to turn around when General Meade showed up at a crossroads town further south, name of Gettysburg. Worst battle of the war, but some still blame Lincoln.
ReplyDeleteI have a work associate who runs our facility in Harrisburg. He has ran facilities all over the country and says the Harrisburg area produces people with the best work ethic of anywhere he has been.
ReplyDeleteNothing seems right in Harrisburg. Not even the videos play right.
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Now it works. Look like the shits, alright.
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