Interesting revelations about former drug czar and morality advocate William Bennett, courtesy of Washington Monthly. Seems he’s got quite a taste for $500 a pull slot machines, and he’s racked up roughly $8 million in losses over the past 10 years. I suppose he could write off the losses as “research expenses” for his new book, “The Card Counter’s Book of Virtues.”

“There’s a term in the trade for this kind of gambler,” says a casino source who has witnessed Bennett at the high-limit slots in the wee hours. “We call them losers.”