Missing the Paigow (et al.) [sniff]

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by pony_trekker
Too ambivalent such that I know you haven't had a sip of the kool aid.

If by kool aid you mean money, I've had that taste. I lucked into a big one a few years back from the plaintiff's side. I understand the addictive "casino" aspect of it.

If you mean that silly nonsense about being Clarence Darrow or agents of social change and righteous crusaders against Evil Business, Inc., that is just a fiction for the public, isn't it? I mean, (in Rob Cordrry voice) "commmmme onnnnn...." Nobody actually believes that shiite.

[Diane_Keaton]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield

If I had my druthers were I forced to remain a lawyer, I'd probably be a crim defense lawyer again (if only it paid what I need...). ... I think everybody deserves a few scandals, arrests, etc... I don't like the moralizing and zero tolerance attitude that goes along with suing people. We all make mistakes. I feel bad holding people accountable.

You say everybody deserves a few arrests -- do you mean everybody who's been arrested and/or on their way to trial deserves good, affordable counsel, or are you suggesting something different? And I assume your distaste for "zero tolerance" attitudes is reserved for crimes like drug possession and getting in drunken fights in bars and you don't mind a "zero tolerance" approach to crimes like raping children, right?

And what about crimes involving innocent young puppies?

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Nobody actually believes that shiite.

Alas, they do. And the opposite ("tort reform" anyone?) as well.

True, some of those who mouth the platitudes are snickering up their sleeves, but not all of them are. (Again, on both sides.)

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
If by kool aid you mean money, I've had that taste. I lucked into a big one a few years back from the plaintiff's side. I understand the addictive "casino" aspect of it.

If you mean that silly nonsense about being Clarence Darrow or agents of social change and righteous crusaders against Evil Business, Inc., that is just a fiction for the public, isn't it? I mean, (in Rob Cordrry voice) "commmmme onnnnn...." Nobody actually believes that shiite.

I try and delegate or run from any patent defense work. I love representing Plaintiff, although usually not contingency. and bob, the fun of P-work is coming up with a vision of the case the defendant wouldn't possibly agree with. but I would agree to an extension.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by dtb
So, I'm back in the office. What a bummer.

What did I miss? It sure as hell wasn't work, I know that much.

Me?

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
You say everybody deserves a few arrests -- do you mean everybody who's been arrested and/or on their way to trial deserves good, affordable counsel, or are you suggesting something different? And I assume your distaste for "zero tolerance" attitudes is reserved for crimes like drug possession and getting in drunken fights in bars and you don't mind a "zero tolerance" approach to crimes like raping children, right?

And what about crimes involving innocent young puppies?

With the exception of violent crime involving humans or animals, everybody deserves one or two "do-overs." Bernie Ebbers deserves five years - not 25. His was a clearly political and very "zero tolerance" minded sentence. Did he not deserve a downward departure for all the money he made for people in WorldCom's run up? Why wasn't that cash netted against the amount on which his sentence was based? Seems equitable, no? I lost money because of people like Bernie, but I knew those investments were risky. I could bark about how Gary Winnick should go to jail, but in the end, I have no one to blame but myself.

Whatever happened to assumption of risk?

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
I've been told that Iceland chicks are the very sluttiest of the slutty. So that should fit with the general theme, whenever Less goes.

Icelandic men also win World's Strongest Man frequently.

(first almost complete non-sequiter of 2006! Yay!)

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Not Bob
Alas, they do. And the opposite ("tort reform" anyone?) as well.

True, some of those who mouth the platitudes are snickering up their sleeves, but not all of them are. (Again, on both sides.)

Some folks need goofy things to "believe in." I believe in God. I believe my wife loves me. I believe I'll have another.

I believe this is business. If ditch digging paid as well, ditch digging I would do. I felt awful seeing criminals sentenced, but civil litigants? They're investments, nothing more, nothing less.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I try and delegate or run from any patent defense work. I love representing Plaintiff, although usually not contingency. and bob, the fun of P-work is coming up with a vision of the case the defendant wouldn't possibly agree with. but I would agree to an extension.

Dude, I can't handle another "try and."

"Try TO..."

"Try TO..."

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Dude, I can't handle another "try and."

"Try TO..."

"Try TO..."

If you want to have a timmy war with me this year- fine. I believe to the others it will seem a bit 3 stoogish, but with only 2. You are, however, the only one here i can go toe to toe with in timmyism- and it is your choice- guardez!

[greatwhitenorthchick]

I was getting a spray-on tan and everything was going fine when the girl spraying me said absently "oh, so you're not a natural redhead?" It just struck me as amusing because even though I'm standing there naked, usually in these situations no one *ever* acknowledges that fact. So then we made out and I got brown spray-on goo all over her.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Dude, I can't handle another "try and."

"Try TO..."

"Try TO..."

I read this was trying to figure out whether Terrell Owens supports tort reform or not.

Reading comprehension is apparently out for 2006.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I was getting a spray-on tan and everything was going fine when the girl spraying me said absently "oh, so you're not a natural redhead?" It just struck me as amusing because even though I'm standing there naked, usually in these situations no one *ever* acknowledges that fact. So then we made out and I got brown spray-on goo all over her.

You don't dye to match?

[Diane_Keaton]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
With the exception of violent crime involving humans or animals, everybody deserves one or two "do-overs."

You don't really believe "everybody" who commits a non-violent crime deserves one or two do-overs. Imagine the free-for-all if everyone was allowed, once in their life, to scott-free confiscate the contents of someone else's home or bank account. And credit card scams, or con artists of the elderly? No problem - as long as the scammers do it just once (or twice).



As for your man, Ebbers, that's an easy out, as he epitomized the "Aw Shucks" defense. But did you know he used to make fun of short people? And $10 bucks he didn't like newborn puppies either.

[Diane_Keaton]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I was getting a spray-on tan and everything was going fine when the girl spraying me said absently "oh, so you're not a natural redhead?"

The drapes don't always match the curtains. I dated a blonde (um...guy) for 5 years and it took me 4 of them to get used to the fact that he had red pubes** and leg hair, while everything else was blonde (including the eyebrows).

**Helping me accept the reds was the huge, perfectly formed gigantor sticking out of them.