I'm a graduate student at New York University. I study American history, really slavery, capitalism, and how the antebellum state was a whole lot stronger than most historians make it out to be (if it was 'strong' enough to foster genocidal violence against most all Indians east of the Mississippi while maintaining a nation of millions in chains making the cotton that made New Orleans factors and New York shippers and London bankers rich, then well that seems pretty durn strong to me). I'm curious about how piracy and gambling reflect an 'underside' to good ol' legitimate free-market capitalism that gets played as an opposite when it's actually a foundation. And wonder whether or not the fact that most all the white middle class in America got played like simps by the tech crash has anything to do with the current fashionable interest in texas hold 'em and celebrity poker. Liar's Poker, indeed.