Most Likely to Induce Vomiting: Lerach or Hillbillary?
So rare is it that I get a few quiet moments to have a bite to eat and read the newspaper. In fact, most days I ignore the printed newspaper because my daily addition to Bloglines renders the information in the newspaper meaningless. I usually already know everything about any interesting subject long before the […]
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So rare is it that I get a few quiet moments to have a bite to eat and read the newspaper. In fact, most days I ignore the printed newspaper because my daily addition to Bloglines renders the information in the newspaper meaningless. I usually already know everything about any interesting subject long before the newspaper arrives. With the kids at dinner with my wife, I took advantage of the unexpected peace and quiet and flipped through the paper. Immediatley an article about the legal troubles of one of the people I like the least in the entire world, Bill Lerach, caught my eye.
Now, normally, any article about Bill Lerach would make me immediately lose my appetite or, even worse, feel as if any previous meal might need to come back up. But this article, as have many recent Lerach articles have been lately. was different. Bill Lerach is one of the lowest life forms on earth: a class action plaintiff lawyer. Lerach has been known for years for filing mostly baseless securities class action lawsuits and shaking down public companies for hundreds of millions of dollars in the name of investors (he was appointed lead counsel for the shareholders of Enron). But Billy hasn’t always played straight and is in some really hot water, along with the law firm that he used to work for, for paying plaintiffs to get involved in these lawsuits. All of this makes me happy. Rarely am I ever pulling for prosecutors who are generally as useless to the general public as Lerach is to shareholders. However, I really, really, really, really want to see Lerach the subject of a perp walk.
So, as I was eating my dinner, reading about Lerach and not throwing up, I wondered who I disliked more, Lerach or Hillbillary. I thought I woudl start off this posting with “the only person I dislike more than Hillbillary is Bill Lerach.” But, I am not sure if that is true. Hillbillary and Lerach are both completely self-absorbed, useless lawyers who are dangerous for what is left of our democracy. Both of them actually think they are doing us all a favor but, in reality, they are just costing us money in order to advance their own ambissions. However, as much as I can stand what Bill Lerach stands for, I really can’t blame him for finding an opportunity and exploting it. Hillbillary, on the other hand, really is just of no use to society whatsoever yet seems to think that she deserves to be the president.
I can’t stand either of these morons but I actually hate Bill Lerach ever so slightly less than Hillbillary.
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