The last 10 years has seen some improbable events: a celebrity entrepreneur becomes president; a president’s son forgets to retrieve his incriminating laptop from a repair shop; and a white guy who can’t jump dominates the NBA. Although improbable, none of these events is unnatural. All have some basis in logic and evidence. Each, for the sane at least, is less a source of alarm than of wonder.
Not so for the PIEs – the Perversely Improbable Events. Ten years ago, had someone taken the bet, anyone predicting the events that followed could have bought Epstein’s island with his winnings. Jeffrey Epstein, of course, no longer lives there. In a wildly improbable sequence of events in 2019, his prison guards allegedly feel asleep while the cameras malfunctioned, allowing the convicted pedophile to hang himself in his jail cell with his secret client list intact. Who’d a thunk it?