Re: Michael Avenatti
 

He's a Gloria Allred with actual chops. Those two skill sets don't overlap much, but in this case, they've congealed into a formidable advocate/technician.

Re: Michael Avenatti
 

Ehh, people aren't propping him up because of that, they just like he talks big about Trump. Big verdicts sometimes just mean very guilty D's. We will see if/when he does something.

Re: You sell yourself as a man to save.
 

I like that, and like the author, I'll refrain from checking the veracity of it. Believing the next great American book could just be a pair of jeans away gives me hope.

(I met Wolfe once. After thanking him for providing me with considerable entertainment over the years, he started in on a conversation about cars, a subject on which I'm weak. He then pivoted to my wife, who's much easier on the eyes. I went back to the bar and wound up talking to Geraldo Rivera.

That was a strange room.)

Re: Michael Avenatti
 

You only acquire cases with very guilty Ds by demonstrating ability to "ring the bell" to referral sources. It's true some big PI guys are middling lawyers who got lucky. But this guy is enjoying a pretty solid snowball effect, and keeping it going. That usually indicates exceptional skills.

Re: Michael Avenatti
 

Disagree. Seen too many hacks who are the "crowd's choice."

Re: Michael Avenatti
 

I'm not sure the goal is to recover damages for Stormy. Dude also has a history as a political operative.

Re: Michael Avenatti
 

Yup. And he has a history too.

Fake Everything (Or Why I Gave Up Believing Anything and Learned to Just Surf Chance)
 

This classic needed a dust-off for the current age: http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicin...l.pmed.0020124

Applies to almost any data.

ETA: Doing Evil - Much Evil, or Why I Never Search While Logged in to Google, Have No Facebook Page, and Share All of My Computers: https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/17/1...o-data-privacy

Re: Fake Everything (Or Why I Gave Up Believing Anything and Learned to Just Surf Cha
 

No, applies to individual studies. Which is why scientific consensus is never based on one study.

Re: What ever happened to Tucker Max?
 

1. You should. Aside from Granache, it is as marvelous a grape as we have on the planet.

2. Concerning your comments about Martinis, I believe you are, intentionally or unintentionally, channeling Dorothy Parker. To paraphrase her: One martini, two at the most. Three I'm under the table, four, I'm under the host.

Re: Fake Everything (Or Why I Gave Up Believing Anything and Learned to Just Surf Cha
 

I'll skip to where you're going: I was not offering this to challenge climate change. Consensus there is unassailable. Stop reading into everything as an adversarial snipe.

And I meant "any type of data," Timmy, which should have been obvious.

Re: What ever happened to Tucker Max?
 

1. I stand corrected. I have enjoyed Meiomi.

2. I have a Dorothy Parker book somewhere in the shelves. Someone gifted it to me. Not read it yet, but obviously I'm a fan of her signature line, "If you can't anything nice about anyone, sit next to me" (also paraphrased).

Re: What ever happened to Tucker Max?
 

We i met Paigow she insisted on the bar at the Algonquin that had housed the round table. Ironweed was supposed to meet us. So you can see where P's conceits were, at least back then.

Re: Michael Avenatti
 

Do tell.

Re: Michael Avenatti
 

There's another video of him harassing someone on the street he assumed was foreign (but wasn't). I don't know anything that's not floating around the media.

Erwin Chemerinsky and Jones Day
 

must feel warm all over -
https://twitter.com/BrianWToth/statu...11264844816384

Re: What ever happened to Tucker Max?
 

You'll never score with Mrs. Coltrane with an attitude like that.

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

For Hank.

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

Read it. I could have written this years ago. Hopefully your posts will evolve, or stop?

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

Thanks for reading it. Baby steps.

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

Well sure. No one expects you to come fully around to seeing reality, frankly, on any topic. But we just are glad you shared this apology/ mea culpa. I've been hoping for as much, kine hara!

Whew
 

I was part of a trial team that lost a jury trial - $200+M verdict for the plaintiffs.

We should have never tried the case - should have won on SJ. Thankfully, the appellate court agreed and the state supreme court declined it.

Lawyers talking law!

Re: Whew
 

I did that to the tune of $800 m once, except it was a bench trial before a particularly dim judge. Trying cases is fun, but it was very frustrating to invest so much time on something to be decided by the dullest knife in the drawer.

Re: Whew
 

One-upper!

The one benefit from that trial was a whole lot of Marriott points.

Re: Whew
 

Congratulations!!

Of course, had you won on SJ the firm would not have had as good a year, right?

Re: What ever happened to Tucker Max?
 

“How you doin’? You know... I win all of my trials.

Buy you a nice meaty merlot?”

Re: Whew
 

No doubt. Someone had a great year.

Re: Whew
 

going out on a limb, the appeal went elsewhere?

Re: Whew
 

No. I did.






Wait a second. With me: lose trial. Without me: win appeal. Damnitall!!

Re: Whew
 

Mark Penn, Clintonista, on Mueller: http://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary...protect-us-all

Re: Whew
 

He's like Dick Morris all over again. Why does anyone find anything he says interesting?

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

Several threads ago there was a discussion between urbanites and suburbanites about the respective merits of the dwelling locales. As a defender of the suburban, I would note that the finest argument for the urban dwellers is: Last Sunday's New York Times Arts and Leisure section.


There were endless lists of what to do in the city this summer. Music festivals, theater, other performing arts. Sure, there were ads for Jones Beach Theater, etc., but from Coney Island to the Bronx, the city looks like the place to be if you don't have a close personal friend on Dune Road in the Hamptons.

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

I went to Santa Cruz on Saturday and San Francisco on Sunday, and I don't live in either one!

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

Is The Catalyst still a great music venue in Santa Cruz?

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

Haven't been there in a few years, but I think so. I was there for a wretched youth soccer game, and then we bought our weight in succulents and carnivorous plants.

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

Is the frozen concentrated orange juice in Trading Places a reference to a key event in the life of Richard M. Nixon? If so, how did I not know this? If not, never mind.

Re: Whew
 

I tried to read this stupid shit the other day. It's absolutely unreadable.

TM

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

If it's a wink and a nod, it's pretty clever. But based on his connection to fcoj, it looks like a coincidence.

I wish it were a Trading Places insider fact, though. I'm always up for those.
__________
10. Nixon ran a failed orange juice business.

In 1938, Nixon and several investors attempted to strike it rich making California orange juice, but Richard had no more luck than his father in the citrus business. The future president was not just the president of the Citra-Frost Company, which attempted to produce and sell frozen orange juice, but he even performed the menial work of cutting and squeezing oranges. Citra-Frost’s misguided attempt to freeze the juice itself, rather than the concentrate, doomed it to bankruptcy after just 18 months.

https://www.history.com/news/10-thin...-richard-nixon

TM

Re: Michael Avenatti
 

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

So I can be in NYC in 40 min and the only fuckers I have shitting on my doorstep shit little pellets.