The Weekly Whatever: Congressional Frazzledrip Edition
Quote of the week:
“The reason the market is doing what it’s doing is people are sitting at home getting their checks from the government, okay, and this fair share is a bullshit concept. It’s just a way of attacking wealthy people.”
–Leon Cooperman, hedge fund manager, who isn’t happy about the whole GameStop thing.
Newly elected Republican representative Marjorie Taylor Greene suggests that California wildfires were started by PG&E using solar powered space lasers, as part of a plot by Jerry Brown to destroy the coal industry. (She previously suggested that Ruth Bader Ginsberg was secretly replaced by a body double. Here’s a list of other crazy stuff she believes.)
Please remove dongs from your bookshelves before being interviewed by the BBC.
Update: Interview with the guy who got his dick locked away by a hacker.
Monkeys also fall victim to the sunk cost fallacy.
Facebook made $32 billion destroying democracy last year.
The great Grape Nuts famine of 2021.
Scientists solve the mystery of cubic wombat poop.
Woman strangles sister’s boyfriend after injecting him with meth, then her sister marries her father. The Aristocrats!