Posted by Eugene Volokh: "You Don't Need to Be a Weatherman to Know How Long the Month Is":
[1]OpinionJournal's Best of the Web reports: [2]The Associated Press reports that "the snowy weather has taken a bit of a toll" on Connecticut's two casinos: Officials with Foxwoods Resort Casino said that the casino cleared $67 million from its slot machine customers in February while Mohegan Sun cleared $68 million. The slot revenues at both were down compared with last year. In February 2004, Mohegan Sun reported slot machine revenues of nearly $69 million while Foxwoods reported revenue of $68.5 million. That means revenues were down 2.2% at Foxwoods and 1.4% at Mohegan in February 2005 as compared with February 2004. But given that February 2005 was 3.4% shorter than February 2004, attributing this to the weather makes no sense. Given that I myself was born [3]bissextile myself, I find this especially amusing. References 1. http://opinionjournal.com/best 2. http://www.nbc30.com/money/4289624/detail.html 3. http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=bissextile _______________________________________________ Volokh mailing list Volokh@lists.powerblogs.com http://highsorcery.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volokh