Arelia Margarita Taveras, former NJ lawyer, is suing the Atlantic City casinos for $20 million, claiming the casinos failed to notice her gambling addiction. The former lawyer has filed a $20 million racketeering lawsuit in federal court against six Atlantic City casinos and one in Las Vegas, claiming they had a duty to notice her compulsive gambling problem and cut her off. "They knew I was going for days without eating or sleeping. I would pass out at the tables. They had a duty of care to me. Nobody in their right mind would gamble for four or five straight days without sleeping."

If you caught this story over the weekend, you've no doubt heard Arelia Margarita being raked over the coals over this lawsuit. She's under attack from every columnist and talk radio boob in the world who are claiming she's just scamming the casinos for something that's entirely her fault. But I'm on her side in this. Mostly because I've never been a big fan of the whole "personal responsibility" thing. In Arelia Margarita Taveras' America, no one loses, there are only winners. Call me an idealist, but I think that's a good thing. If she wins this suit, I'll never have to control my impulses again. I'll never have to be accountable for my actions again. I can drink JD like a marathoner guzzling water and sue the bar to get my money back. I can use my kids college fund to make it rain at the Foxy Lady and expect the strippers to return the cash, times 20. Make YouPorn pay me back for lost wages and productivity. And who's harmed by that? No one that's who. Plus if bookies have to reimburse their clients maybe El Pres can afford to actually start paying me?