6th March 2008. It makes me increasingly sad every time I try and buy a newspaper at a newsagent in this state, to line up behind a long line of mostly pensioners buying lotto, scratch tickets, and lottery tickets, peddled by the dream merchants and endorsed by the state. The glossy signs behind the counter are very full of words like ‘win’, ‘fortune’, and ‘luck’, but nary a sign of ‘lose’, ‘next to no chance’,or ‘ever been had’.
‘Luck never gives it only lends’
