Four-twenty for a Globe and Mail?

The paper keeps getting thinner but today the Korean Extortionist hit me up for $4.20. The brain trust on Front Street is seriously infatuated with all things 420.

And not only does the paper keep getting thinner; what's left is less and less the product of staff writers. Instead, we get more and more freelancers. When that's an erudite writer and experienced news guy like David Shribman, it's somewhat tolerable.

When it's a hysterical know-nothing, obviously flogging their own brand, like Sarah Kendzior, I think my Korean friend owes me at least a partial refund.

SEC bigs obviously read this blog

How else to explain that only a week or two after I call out Musk over his "going private" ruminations, the normally inert SEC has launched a full-bore investigation of Musk's errant tweet?

Now, I fully acknowledge that any investment advice I've ever ladled out is not worth shit.

I've been advising folks to short Amazon since it hit $200.

I've been advising folks to short Apple for four or five years...

Ya, I know... folks who used to have a couple millions in the bank are regulars at the food bank now because they thought I knew what I was talking about.

I thought I did too.

Sorry.


But sometimes I'm on the right track.

That "420" reference was the tip-off for me... Ya, OK Elon, you're just fucking with us now...

Two months later the Securities and Exchange Commission investigative team comes to the same conclusion...


Remember, you read it here first.

Musk trolls markets with 420 tweet

Hey, Musk's gonna take Tesla private! Yessiree!.. and he already has the financing in place!

Suuuuuure he does. Tesla is burning through (borrowed) money at the rate of five million dollars per day, give or take, and somebody wants to pony up $420 a share to take that black hole private?!

Colour me skeptical.

You also have to wonder about that number, but think about it. When you're as smart as Elon is, and you're making stuff up, you don't just make up random numbers; you pick numbers that resonate.

420 just has way more resonance than 410 or 430. Could the Age of Aquarius be just around the corner?


I think Elon's been smoking unicorn turds again

Happy 420!

Not sure where this 420 stuff originated.

Originally I couldn't figure out why the pot-heads were celebrating Hitler's birthday. Just doesn't add up. Pot-heads... Hitler?

Lets twist one up and celebrate the Fuhrer?

Then they told me it was also Bob Marley's birthday.

OK, that makes a bit more sense.

Not that pot and making sense necessarily go together all the time...

But for the think tank here at Falling Downs we're a little more comfortable with some birthdays than with others.

At Falling Downs we like to celebrate 420 more than once a year. As you know, 4:20 comes around every 24 hours.

And whether you fire one up once a year or once a day, don't forget to celebrate the folks who have brought the weed of wisdom into the mainstream.

Kipling.

Wally Tucker.

Marc Emery.

Willie Nelson.

Now turn off your computer and go twist one up...