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In a week when the Warriors turned to gold and Uber turned to, uh, something else, this also happened:
Somebody finally topped Richard Nixon’s “I am not a crook,” and all it took was some Internet porn. A Rhode Island lawmaker, Ramon Perez, shared with colleagues a handout showing his Web browser tabs that referenced pornographic content. That led him to take to the state’s House floor, where he insisted: “I am not a pervert.”
Short on cash? So is Martin Shkreli, according to his lawyer. The former Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO, on trial for fraud, wants his bail cut from $5 million to $2 million, freeing up $3 million to pay taxes and legal fees. His lawyer couldn’t explain, however, why the infamous “Pharma Bro” allegedly awarded a recent Princeton grad a $40,000 scholarship for solving a math problem.
You think your job’s tough? NBC reported that a New York deli clerk was pelted with avocados and bananas by two disgruntled customers, breaking his jaw.
Folks on ESPN’s “Around the Horn” show spent several minutes debating a tweet from Adrian Wojnarowski, the widely respected Yahoo basketball writer, which said that LeBron James would try to form a “super team” in Los Angeles in 2018. As Deadspin reported, though, there was one teensy problem: The tweet was from a fake account, not Wojnarowski’s. Because no one looked for that little blue check mark, ESPN was left red-faced.
People on Twitter also had a lot of fun with Amazon’s nearly $14 billion deal Friday to buy Whole Foods Market. Several tweets went something like: Jeff Bezos: Alexa, buy me something from Whole Foods. Alexa: Buying Whole Foods. Bezos: D’oh!