The Washington Post reported Sunday on a unique fundraising program that is raising steady bucks for a number of nonprofits through a form of gambling that was actually approved by the supreme court as "not" gambling (the element of chance is absent). It's called bingo but it's done through machines that are slot-like in that the action happens on a screen and cash is the ultimate prize. More interesting to me is how little money is made for the nonprofit -- about 10-20% if I am calculating correctly.

You know, the only thing wrong with tainted money is there tain't enough of it. And really, as many of these groups recognize, 10-20% of $1.00 is more than $0.