for anyone facing a long jail term. Just get your mom to claim you’re autistic and they’ll probably let you off. That’s what Sam Bankman-Fried’s mother is arguing, in an effort for him not to be sent to prison for embezzling millions of dollars to fund his lavish lifestyle and dodgy crypto scheme. His mother says he “has a number of mannerisms that are associated with high-functioning people with ASD”. Oh, so he’s a high functioning genius, he must be protected at all costs. If this guy is so smart, how did he get mixed up in this criminal enterprise? Maybe the New York Governor could raise the dollar cut off point for these types of crimes to 8 billion. You have to steal about a thousand bucks in California before they’ll send you to jail. We can do better than that. Come on New York! Seriously, enough with these people. Commit the crime, do the time, pal. Since his parents allegedly got some of that cash, maybe they should be in there with him as well. His mom can bake cookies for everyone.
You’ll own nothing and be autistic.
Last night I watched a by election in the UK. The candidates were a motley crew, none so more motley than the Monster Raving Loony Party. There were about half a dozen of them dressed in weird ass costumes walking around the hall as they counted the votes. The one guy who may have been the candidate had an enormous top hat about 3 feet tall. The Loonies got about 200 votes all up, but the eventual winner was George Galloway, an aggressive Scotsman outsider who had appealed to the Muslim population in the area. When he stepped up to deliver what he probably was hoping to be his Churchillian acceptance speech, he was photobombed by the Loony Party. The gravitas of the moment was destroyed like a punctured hot air balloon. He’s gonna hate the optics of that I just know.
It’s hard to tell who’s the most insane here
Last night I was watching the Australian ABC news and there was a story about the volcano eruption on White Island in 2019 when 20 people who were on an excursion that day, had been killed when it blew it’s top. The newsreader told us that a New Zealand court had just awarded 10 million dollars in “reparations” to the victims and their families. I may be incorrect but I don’t think a volcano erupting involves any moral issues. Whoever writes this illiterate news copy obviously doesn’t know what compensation is. The next time a neighbor’s tree falls on your house you could try asking for “reparations”. It might just work, people are so stupid now.
The kitchen countertops are gray at Tay Tay’s. Who gives a shit?
Speaking of stupid, (what else do we talk about here?) Page Six of the New York Post has a story about Taylor Swift’s 11,000-square-foot estate in Rhode Island. In the summer she hosts parties with her friends. There are lots of pictures of Taylor and her GFs lounging about in the sun, baking cakes and generally enjoying the place with some of their boyfriends. Taylor didn’t seem to have one though. Makes you wonder. My favorite picture was of one of these girls holding a large Fourth of July cake. The caption read. “The kitchen counter tops are gray” They’re having a laugh aren’t they?
Finally we have a new drummer in the band, his name is Rick, and I’m going to post a recent video here today. This isn’t available anywhere else, so it’s an exclusive for readers of this page. You can share the link though, so please do.
Happy Friday.