Big Casino

The title is taken from one of my favorite Jimmy Eat World songs.

I was thinking about going to a nearby casino this weekend, just for the fun of it. I've never been to one, but I think it would be a fun experience (and maybe even a profitable one) as long as I am smart about it and not greedy. But the casino is in Alabama, were gambling is "illegal". Of course the only way the casino can exist is because it's on a Native American reservation. There are actually a couple of casinos in Alabama because of that loophole.

That got me thinking, and so I started drafting a letter to the Alabama representatives--

Dear Alabama Representatives:

I was wondering why we haven't taken ALL of the (wah-wah) Indians' land yet. I mean, how is it that a small area of land, commonly noted by their big casinos, became so untouchable, so holy? Didn't our ancestors just come in an snatch up the land from the people already here anyway? I'm not a history buff, so I'm not sure how the allotment of land was negotiated. But the question is, why can't we just commandeer those Indian reservations now, just like we did back in the good ole days? We didn't seem to have a problem doing it years ago, so what is our problem now? It seems you guys should have already suggested that, am I right?

Yours truly...

(Of course I speak in a facetious manner, so don't hate me.)