My Cynical Thought of the Morning
The tag line on the banner add for the New York State Lottery is "Educating Leaders of Tomorrow." While it is true that lottery proceeds help to fund the state's public schools, that's not why I play the lottery. I play in the vague hope that I might win the big payoff. That education benefits is a happy benefit. Maybe there are others out there who think less cynically about it than I do. Or maybe not.