"Who died and made Spencer Aronfeld King Dick of Wang Mountain"?
That's ATL on the case of the accidentally circumcised penis, prominently featured in the Herald today.
I love the pic of Spencer holding the little tyke, though I preferred the outtake where Spence is actually breastfeeding the kid.
Now that's client care I can really get behind!
All kidding aside, given that the hospital has basically conceded liability, this looks like a good case.
But what is the measure of damages, and how do you calculate them?
I also like the way Spencer sidesteps his own views on circumcision:
Aronfeld, who spoke on the topic of circumcision at the annual conference of the National Center for Victims of Crime in New Orleans on Tuesday, said he is trying to not to express his own opinion on the procedure.
But he added: ``So many people are opposed to circumcision,'' he said. ``I think there's a groundswell here.''
In commemoration of the firm’s 40th anniversary and an outstanding year, the firm gave each of its 150 shareholders and of counsel attorneys platinum coins at its annual meeting in Orlando last month.
Bestowing pricey coins has become a tradition at GrayRobinson.
Attorneys received one-ounce gold coins worth $1,100 last year. For the firm’s 25th anniversary in 1995, attorneys received a block of silver worth $2,000. This year the platinum coins are worth $1,500.
Some attorneys engraved the silver and framed the gold coins. Others have cashed them in.
Sorry kids, this is lame.
Obviously an old fart partner dreamed this up a long time ago, his sycophants said this is a marvelous idea(!), and now twenty years later some poor administrator is stuck wasting valuable time finding trinkets to hand out at partner meetings.
Mr. Limbaugh spent some time profiling Judge Vinson, a senior judge on the Federal District Court in Pensacola, who had just announced he would allow a legal challenge to the new health care law to advance to a full hearing. The conservative radio host informed his listeners that the judge was an avid hunter and amateur taxidermist who once killed three brown bears and mounted their heads over his courtroom door to “instill the fear of God into the accused.”
“This,” Mr. Limbaugh said, “would not be good news” for liberal supporters of the health law.
But, in fact, Judge Vinson has never shot anything other than a water moccasin (last Saturday, at his weekend cabin), is not a taxidermist and, as president of the American Camellia Society, is far more familiar with Camellia reticulata than with Ursus arctos.
Apparently, Mr. Limbaugh had fallen prey to an Internet hoax.
No!
False information on the intertubes??
I've appeared a handful of times before Judge Vinson.
Like many judges north of the border, he is a bit quirky, independent, and runs his courtroom in a strict yet collegial manner. He asks plenty of questions and tells you exactly what's on his mind. He tends to write short, common-sense orders.
He's always been fair, and he seems to have a strong sense of justice from my limited experience with him.
In other words, he's not exactly Rush's kind of judge.
Today's Glenn Garvin op-ed epitomizes everything that is wrong with his columns:
1. It is at least three media cycles too late.
2. It is riddled with factual and logical errors; and
3. See first two points above.
As usual, Glenn rises to the defense of the rich white man (hey, I'm ok with that), and writes that Rushbo got a raw deal because other NFL owners -- like JLo and Fergie -- are just as bad or worse:
Among Fergie's more infamous songs recorded with the Black Eyed Peas is one called My Humps, which goes: I'ma get get get get you drunk/Get you love drunk off my hump -- well, you get the drift.
Yep Glenn, Rush and Fergie are pretty much exactly the same thing -- did you used to work in marketing?
Garvin also drops this whopper:
What got Limbaugh in trouble were purportedly racist comments that mostly turned out to be Internet fabrications.
I see -- "internet fabrications," something totally different from "Glenn Garvin fabrications."
It's true there were several statements attributed to Rush that were not properly sourced. Rush himself denies them in a column published by the WSJ four days ago (see Glenn? -- you'relate).
Contrary to what the National Review and Rush's knee-jerk defenders claim, these quotes are not all fabricated. Most of them, in fact, are well-documented (his quote about Donovan McNabb, etc.). Several of them, however, are unverifiable. They come from secondary sources (books and magazine articles about Rush) and supposedly date back to very early in Limbaugh's career. It's not as if there are transcripts of everything Rush has said on air since the 70s, so who knows whether they're true.
That's ok, though, because there are dozens of quotes that Rush has not denied that are just as bad:
The bottom line here is that free market capitalism -- the treasured, fetishistic object of Rush's wet dreams -- spoke and determined that it probably is better to have JLo or Fergie own a piece of a team than Rush:
From a pop culture marketing and public relations perspective, Limbaugh is positively toxic. Of course, Limbaugh's free to push his AM brand of loathing, and within that world he sells lots of ads. But why on earth would sane businessmen who have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in a mainstream entertainment franchise want to be associated with Limbaugh's paranoia and divisiveness? Guess what? They don't want anything to do with the guy.
Thanks Glenn -- you just wasted a chunk of my time on a stupid nonissue and forced us all to revisit a story that everyone pretty much moved on from days ago.
On a happier NFL note, my fantasy team crushed -- crushed -- the Well Hung Jury. All hail Aaron Rodgers!!
