Maybe not so terrible

There is much weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth in the poker world today over the last-minute publication of UIGEA regulations. You can read such pessimistic assessments so many places that I need not point you to them. I wish to point you to the interesting opinion of I. Nelson Rose, who says, basically, that it's all much ado over nothing, that the regulations change little, and life will for the most part go on as before. See his analysis here. (Thanks to this note at Pokerati for the link.)