The Smile of a Grifter

R. Allen Stanford in a 2009 file photo taken soon after federal financial fraud charges were brought against him. A jury convicted him on 13 of 14 counts Tuesday.

He looks pretty cocky, don’t you think?  He looks authoritarian, confident, a little arrogant, and perhaps a little bit “grandfatherly” for those folks who yearn for surrogate father figures.  At the time, he may have thought he was going to beat the rap against him but my guess is that he had to have had his doubts about being able to dodge prison time.  Most people wouldn’t suspect it to look at his face.  Hindsight being 20/20 and with the developments today, everyone would say “Oh no… I could tell he was a snake… yada, yada, yada” but the reality is that he carried out a large scale fraud for a very long period of time because people only saw what they WANTED to see in him which is what I described in the first two sentences.

You know what a Narcissus is when there is no available Echo?  He or she is just some moronic dickhead that likes to stare at his or her own reflection.  I like to pretend to be an Echo when I find a Narcissus and just when they think they’ve got me where they want me, I like to throw a stone in their reflection pool and see what their reaction is – much to my own delight, it usually just pisses ‘em off.

Where's a nice big stone?