No Faith in the Moral Standards of the Players as a Group

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

Yes. Here we all understand that we are each lawyers with different specialties who have all gone to law school, and that we are each capable of reading an opinion and drawing a conclusion. If you have a factual analysis that relates to your specialty (as RT often does), it is welcomed. You offer up your experience as some sort of shorthand for why your opinion should be valued. And if you were sitting in front of me and you did that, I would tell you to your face to get the fuck outta here with that bullshit.

That's a nice line, but that's not what I did. Rewind the tape. You mischaracterized what Berman ruled. When I pointed out what he specifically said and why you had mischaracterized it, you called it a technicality. I told you that because I sometimes practice employment law, the distinction between "Goodell does not get to serve as arbitrator ever" and "Goodell did not afford Brady due process in specific ways" is not just a technicality to me. I agree that if I had said, "I'm an employment lawyer, so I'm right on this," that would have been pretty obnoxious. But that's not actually what I did, and so having you put those words in my mouth is pretty irritating. Hank trolls all the time, and he mostly seems to understand what he's doing. But when you're a jackass, you don't seem to have the same self-awareness.

Both of us have said bad things about each other. I said you didn't actually read Berman's decision and I called you a jackass, things that reveal what I find important and that probably didn't bother you in the slightest. You repeatedly suggested that I like to give oral pleasure to other men, something I've never done but also something that doesn't really seem to me as pejorative as it must strike you, but whatever -- different strokes, ami right? Even where you're pissing me off being a jackass, I still enjoy the exchange because I think I might learn something from it. I just wish you could read one of my posts with the same thought in mind.