{"id":200214,"date":"2021-06-07T17:57:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T22:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/06\/07\/bat-boy-billionaire-to-ride-giant-space-dildo\/"},"modified":"2021-06-07T17:57:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T22:57:00","slug":"bat-boy-billionaire-to-ride-giant-space-dildo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/06\/07\/bat-boy-billionaire-to-ride-giant-space-dildo\/","title":{"rendered":"Bat Boy Billionaire to Ride Giant Space Dildo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 360px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/cMjYTIY.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/cMjYTIY.png\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Compensating for Something?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/nNA1wso.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/nNA1wso.png\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/i><\/div>\n<p>As you may have heard, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/06\/07\/1003924158\/jeff-bezos-is-going-to-space-for-a-few-minutes\">Amazon chief and Bat Boy look-alike Jeff Bezos plans to be on the first manned manned flight of his Blue Origin booster<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I guess he thinks that having more money than God qualifies him as a test pilot.<\/p>\n<p>You give an egomaniac enough money, and they think that they are Buckaroo Banzai:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">Jeff Bezos has already selected a hobby for his post-CEO life: space travel. <\/p>\n<p>Just two weeks after he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/02\/02\/963370968\/jeff-bezos-to-step-down-as-amazons-ceo\">steps down<\/a> as CEO of Amazon, Bezos will climb aboard a rocket made by his space exploration company Blue Origin. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you see the earth from space, it changes you. It changes your relationship with this planet, with humanity. It&#8217;s one earth,&#8221; Bezos said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CP0MSOqnYEo\/\">a video<\/a> posted to Instagram on Monday morning. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ever since I was five years old, I&#8217;ve dreamed of traveling to space.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I want to go into space, but this desire is <b>NOT<\/b> strong enough for me to share a space capsule with Jeff Bezos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compensating for Something? As you may have heard, Amazon chief and Bat Boy look-alike Jeff Bezos plans to be on the first manned manned flight of his Blue Origin booster. I guess he thinks that having more money than God qualifies him as a test pilot. You give an egomaniac enough money, and they think &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1279,969,1143,1037,1289],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-evil","category-inequality","category-space","category-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}