This nonsense happened a few days ago, while I was largely off grid — at my youngest son’s half-, in Eugene. As I’ve mentioned before — he is pretty elite, and has qualified for the world championships in the half-iron, in Nice France this Fall.
This was a tune-up, to see how his splits are shaping up for that race — as he makes prep, to head to the south of France and train there — getting a racer bike hard-boxed and shipped, etc. Getting a house to sleep a rotating crew of 10 (for family and friends!) — for the whole month of September (outside Nice but) right on the rail line, for “side quests” to Paris, Vence, Eze and certainly Monaco… and on and on.
It will be an extended family vacay, if nothing else. [But he will do quite well — he literally knows no other way.]
Anyway — the graphic relates to MY weekend, not Martin’s. The part about Martin Shkreli, then: apparently claims he lives in SF now. This is (apparently) due to the fact that the mother of his only child lives there. Whatevs. The gossip page in SF has more, but (as you will read in blue below) I too wouldn’t want to promote fraudulent claims. So under the pull-quote — I will simply place a link. Read at your own risk [his “news / gossip” is the third item — in the link below]:
…The Waggle could not verify anything Shkreli claimed above (we are dealing with a convicted fraudster here), so if you happen to know anything about this, please drop us a line.
Fatherhood, for what it’s worth, does seem to have [slightly] tamed Shkreli: The Waggle had an amiable chat with the “Pharma Bro,” with only one mention of “boning babes….”
As I say — here’s a link to the gossip/twaddle if you are interested.
That is all the trivia I’ve got today, but I am out of pocket for each of the next three Fridays to Tuesdays… so keep it spinning in good karma. I know you will.
Out.
नमस्ते
Powerline Lies... 
I know this comment is off-topic for this post, but I felt the need this morning to comment on William Otis’s latest post, because there truly are some cuckoo-bananas assertions in there. If RatR allowed comments, I’d put this there. But they don’t, so here I am.
First of all: Credit where credit is due: Otis recognizes the indictment of James Comey for his “8647” seashell photo for the crazy-nutso pile of BS it clearly is. (I wish I could say the same about his evaluation of the SPLC indictment, but: baby steps.) But before he even gets to that, he spends most of his energy disparaging the left for their alleged craziness.
His first example of the left’s lunacy comes from a post written by a man named Caden Olson, a man you’ve never heard of, a man I’ve never heard of, a man Otis had never heard of until he needed examples for his post. Let me just say this. Caden Olson has fifteen subscribers. Fifteen. If that’s your lead example, you’ve already lost. We’re talking about the Department of Justice indicting a private citizen for the sole reason the the president doesn’t like him. That’s whole universes of magnitude worse than a no-name blogger spinning a silly conspiracy theory. Trying to equate the two is like comparing a T-rex to a bumblebee.
To be fair, there are all kinds of loony conspiracy theories floating around on the left, but none of them are propogated by elected officials or Democratically controlled government entities.
Then Otis makes his wildest assertion yet:
Emphasis mine. This is so bonkers, I’m amazed the pixels stuck to the screen. No Republicans? Really? Apparently, Otis has never heard of Alex Jones or Jewish space lasers or Democratic weather manipulation or Haitan immigrants eating dogs or QAnon or the Deep State or Pizzagate or the Great Replacement Theory or birtherisim or the kookiest conspiracy theory of all: the 2020 election was stolen, which 70 percent of Republicans believe, egged on by the leader of their party, the current president of the United States, who has shared so many nonsense conspiracy theories on his failing social media platform, even Art Bell would would be like, “Hey, take it easy, man.”
For some reason, those conspiracy theories don’t count. Maybe Otis believes all of those theories are all real. Who knows?
Again, sorry to be off-topic. Feel free to push to a post, if you’re so inclined. Either way, I hope this comment finds you well.
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Thanks man — yours is a new post, now!
And at least as to YOU — never worry about off-topic.
I wanna’ hear whatever is on your mind.
Chime in, by all means…
Namaste
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