The Gazette
Gambling is a ‘profit deal’
Steve Martin plays the intellectually challenged character Navin Johnson in the 1979 movie, "The Jerk." Navin's lack of weight-guessing ability at the fair is losing money for the owner. Informed of this, Navin responds, "I get it, this is a profit deal!"
The same insight came to me 32 years earlier. Dad had been invited to teach a USC summer…
