Guess which creepy billionaire had to own this: Rare Billy the Kid photograph sold for $2.3 million

[Generic Other]

What sort of statement is he making?

I say it's wishful thinking and a smattering of Freudian slippage. He thinks he's a legend with a killer instinct. Burst his bubble and he's really an out-of-shape balding dude with a fistful of dollars and a vivid fantasy life, more the railroad/cattle baron type than notorious gunman and robber.


http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/26/us-auction-billykid-photo-idUSTRE75O1HX20110626

[girl gone mad]

1. This is who tea partiers turn to for economic leadership?

Hey, Koch moron, you can get a nice print down at Kinkos for five bucks.

[MADem]

2. Well, that Billy the Kid was one ugly little punk, so I'd have to say

that transaction was a case of ugly for ugly. Like seeks like, and all that...

[Generic Other]

3. They are all just wee little buckos dreaming about being cowboys

and toting six-guns because their wee wees are too small. Oh well.

And you are right. Billy the Kid should not be a mogul's role model. Especially if he is an emasculated old windbag.

[ZombieHorde]

4. The article says he likes to collect artifacts from America's historic west.

For someone like that, a picture of Billy the Kid would be a great treasure.

Just seems like typical nerdy behavior to me. Reading anything into this is probably folly.

[Riftaxe]

9. My god, what if he allows these historical artifacts to be publicly

viewed! God darn it, this is how museums get started. We have to stop this cold hearted bastard now!

Stamp out fascism, burn down a museum today! (for this once I am going to omit the sarcasm tag, surely it is not necessary...)

[Angry Dragon]

5. He is William Kock ........ not one of the two that buy and sell

politicians ..... my understanding is he has very little to do with charles and david the evil ones

At least he buys history and does not try to shape it

[Generic Other]

6. OMG you mean there's a non-evil one?

I still think he's kind of creepy.

Next you will tell me he buys union memorabilia!

[iemitsu]

7. yeah, weird.

a non-evil one. the other two bought him out for not being enough of a bastard.

[Drale]

8. And the difference between a dirty Conservative and us liberals

is that if one of us had that picture we would donate it to a museum.