Bernie that is. You know who I am talking about. The Ponzi Artist. Should he be called an artist? After all there are con artists, right?
Who's to blame? The one who made off with the money or the gullibles that got made? The dupeworthy or the super duper?
History repeated itself with the announcement, make that expression of guilt from the one who used all his strong arm tactics to convince the world to watch people ride cycles on a hill. You know who I am talking about. The one and only Lance who made people wear yellow rubber bands. Was that supposed to make us feel good about our postal service? Which although has vans to deliver mail seems to be slower like they were on a cycle? That would be India circa 1980s..
Are those that got taken to the rubber to blame or the one who rode on rubber wheels?
I think frankly that for every scam there is a scamee waiting to be scammed. To take advantage of people's inevitable ability to get suckered is also equally human. How else did capitalism come about?
For that matter communism too. In the former man exploits man and in the latter they said it was the other way round.
Go figure!
Here is another essay on the subject of first names. As in birth names. Or names provided to an offspring at birth. While the developed world tends to shy away from the exotic like Refrigerator or Coca Cola for their new production there is a plethora of Jims and Johns and Bobs or Robs. Speaking of which I do not think there is a categoric decision point at the time of birth if a child will be hereafter called as Bob. I mean have not yet met a toddler called Bob or Rob for that matter. At some point though the parental instinct to mouth out multiple syllables runs out and they switch from calling the crawler Robert to simply Robbie to Rob. Now speaking of - it is strange that the name sounds like something you would not want Rob to do - i.e. Rob anyone. Then why call someone that? After all Rob Peter to Pay Paul is not exactly a maxim to live a young life? Is it? Perhaps Peter or Paul might want to have a say in it? Then there is this matter of going to the John. Why degrad...
isms are more or less alike..the difference is the umber of years it takes you to figure it out...so like fashion, they will come and go, and come back. As for con artists, they are proof that man can be creative..or else we might have been apes still..or fish!
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