Imagine being arrested, tortured and imprisoned for years without ever having been charged with a crime. It sounds like something out of a nightmare, something that happens in secret dungeons in foreign countries where some evil dictator rules, but the setting of this nightmare is not some distant country.
Poker has become one of our nation's most enjoyed past times over the last few years. Thanks to Binion's Horseshoe and the World Series of Poker, not to mention ESPN, poker is the latest national craze. I understand why; I have always played poker. I knew what the World Series of Poker was before probably most of those you my age.
As I sat in the TMB auditorium Monday, I was haunted with flashbacks from high school and taking the ACT. For weeks, nightmares of my college applications coming back stamped with DENIED across them had me actually studying. I remember waking up early only to go sit in a room with 200 other students who were just as excited as me to be there and trying to remember anything and everything any teacher had ever taught us.