Samuel Johnson said that a second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.<\/p>\n
The lottery, in the same vein, is the triumph of hope, and greed and deceptive marketing and spectacle and coloured balls and your lizard-brain and state profiteering and corporate profiteering and that sad little newsagency with the faded Woman\u2019s Day<\/em> promotional posters behind the barred windows that still has a little hand-drawn sign on the door proclaiming that they sold the first-division-winning-ticket in 1986, over experience.<\/p>\n Your experience and that of roughly 8\u201380 million other people each and every time the numbers are drawn.<\/p>\n File under:<\/i> law of averages | but think about what you could do with all that money<\/p>\n