The good news is, I’ve gotten several media calls today. The bad news? None of them have been about Overkill. They’ve all been about Internet gambling. The media’s eating this stuff up.

I’ve expounded a bit on the arrest of David Carruthers over at the Cato blog.

I’m also quoted at length in this ABC News article on the case. My witty riposte ends the piece:

But Balko argues that the laws enacted and speculated about are being made on political points which are a stretch and in some cases are downright absurd.

“The people who are pushing this ban in Congress . . . try to argue these sites prey on children, which is totally ridiculous,” he said. “If your kid has access to your checking account or credit card and is making transfers to off-shore accounts across the world, Internet gambling is the least of your worries.”

Ba-dum, chuk.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 18th, 2006 at 6:03 pm by Radley Balko and is filed under Gambling, Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.