[MadIvan]

All it takes to find anything you want in Las Vegas is a few shekels in the right palms, and not all that many at that.

That can be said about almost anywhere, really.

As Shostakovich put into one of his operas: "Life's a smoothly moving groove if you have only got the right connections."

Regards, Ivan

[strela]

I like Mark Twain's 1902 take on the subject just as much:

The low level which commercial morality has reached in America is deplorable. We have humble God fearing Christian men among us who will stoop to do things for a million dollars that they ought not to be willing to do for less than 2 millions.