Unluck of the Bad Draw, from Stefan Jovanovich
This story [Los Angeles restaurant owner Nancy Silverton of La Brea Bakery fame put her savings in a fund entrusted to Bernard Madoff, LA TIMES ] offers the best explanation for why some of us out here on the Left Coast find the whole business is terribly sad and yet very much like a car crash on the 405 — horrible but part of the unluck of a bad draw.
What neither affects nor surprises this former busboy is knowing of people in show business who are paying upwards of $1 million for tickets to have special seats at the Inauguration while others are losing their houses. The dance goes on.
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