John Boston | Hey! I Just Won$167,000,000!Let’s Go On aCrime Spree!! |
The concept that we carry within us the seeds to our own self-destruction is certainly not a new concept. The novelist James Baldwin once noted the sentiment, as did “Star Trek The Next Generation” Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and countless way-back thinkers.
I’m sure all philosophers great to small would have smacked themselves on the forehead, offered a heavy sigh and the question, “How many retard sandwiches have YOU been eating?” had they met James Farthing.
The Kentuckian just won a $167 million state lotto. Since then? Jimbo’s been arrested four times for breaking and entering, along with theft, assault, drug possession, other charges and if it was a felony to break The Infield Fly Rule, I’d bet Jimmy did that, too.
The lotto is a strange creature. You can cite a number on any lotto jackpot and still. No one on the planet actually knows how much you’ll end up pocketing. Still. As far as a payday goes, unless you have to buy gasoline in California, the state that Gavin Newsom and the Democrats have run so swimmingly, that kind of money will last you for weeks on end and that includes you buying an $18 candy bar at the gas station concession stand. You just won 17% of a billion bucks. Unless next, you go out and marry unwisely, or donate it to The Campaign to Elect Eric Swalwell for California Governor, you’re set for life. So. Why would you death-wish it and get yourself........