Here is an interesting assessment of the Internet Gambling Ban passed by the Senate about a month ago (it had already been passed in the House earlier this year). In case you didn't know (and if you didn't know, then you probably should just stop reading right now because you are probably not going to be interested in this, LOL), Bill Frist attached the Online Gambling Ban legislation to a Homeland Security/Defense bill about port security. If the bill had come up on its own, it may not have passed. Since it was attached to a Homeland Security Bill, no one voted against it.
The legislation was basically sold as a moral thing (how shocking) and yet exemptions were made for gambling on horse races. Apparently one can become addicted to online poker but not online gambling on horse races (insert a big roll of the eyes here).
Anyways, as Slate points out, there may be some large unintended consequences of this poorly thought out legislation.
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