no

Will the 'cuse win 2 games in the big east tourney?

no

and he's out

how do you live blog something that lasted less than 2 minutes?

An arrogant prick to the end!

If if only lasts two minutes, does he still have to pay for the whole hour?

There is a God!

Thank God you live blogged this, Lat.

Well, at least he has more character than WJ Clinton.

http://www.wnbc.com/politics/15570166/detail.html

"While at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, a prestigious New York law firm, she billed as many as 3,300 hours a year -- more than nine hours a day, including weekends."

Hmmmm . . .

I should have liveblogged me reading lat's liveblog

"she billed as many as 3,300 hours a year"

So, while still a hypocrite, Spitzy is no longer morally culpable for avoiding her like the plague.

I'm available for Silda Spitzer's use in gaining revenge on Eliot ...

Spitzer lamented his actions but is working to put this event behind him and looks forward to the day that he can enjoy illegal sex unencombered by any limitations imposed by his status as Governor. "Fells good to get it off my chest" Spitzer commented.

Nice job Lat. Did the conference last long enough for you to get meal money? Maybe you can simulcast with SEN. Someday you and she should run a blind taste test, play "guess the blogger" with readers.

If if only lasts two minutes, does he still have to pay for the whole hour?

Yes- typically a 1hr minimum charge or so I hear...

12:04(2) - It's not a fair test, only one of them uses good grammar (hint, it's not the one who claims she uses good grammar).

Lat also never asks us to provide comments to justify his existence.

What did you expect 11:48, that he would apologize to the shitsacks he prosecuted. His joining them doesn't change their status. Besides, being a payee instead of a payor has a slightly higher moral status (though we don't know yet whether he was both).

Agreed 12:07. At the moment, most could probably differentiate between the two on vocabulary and subject-matter interests grounds, if nothing else, though those differences will narrow as SEN gets older. Then it would be a hard choice.

Harvard + Skadden = ?

12:11 - SEN, stop trying to claim that you nly needs more time.

I'm sure his wife appreciates learning that he preferred not to use a condom when shagging prostitutes. Charming.

This man is too stupid to be governor.

Ask any married woman whether she'd like to spend Valentine's Day with her husband at a fancy hotel in another city and have sex without a condom.

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12:11 - that should read "youse nly needs more time." And you don't need "stop trying." "Stop claiming" would have worked just as well and been less cumbersome. See, there is a need for a Junior Grammarian.

Hmmm. First lady, cheated on but sticking around, met husband while at elite law school, former (successful) corporate lawyer, lot of children-related public interest?

Sounds qualified enough for me!

SILDA FOR NY GOVERNOR NOW!!!

Another classy democrat

LAT, please put the SEN issue to a poll. I feel like you are ignoring your readers and there is wide agreement that she's bad for the blog. If I'm in the minority then at least the poll will reflect that. I'll take the loss with humility and grace.

Don't disenfranchise us like the Democrats do to Floridians.

wearing a condom is like taking a shower while wearing a raincoat

12:35 - I doubt that Lat cares what anyone cares. He likes his Friday's off.

12:36 - Yeah. Tell that to Mrs. Spitzer when she gets the clap.

Lat - you liveblogged a two-minute, three-paragraph speech?

If this wasn't a clever dig at the concept of "liveblogging", then it's one of the lamest posts in this blog's less-than-illustrious history.

What should we call the Lt. Governor's seeing-eye dog? The First Pooch?

I think NY should pass a law against hypocrisy. Maybe the fed gov should also

I go forward with the belief, as others have said, that as human beings, our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Who doesn't like Fridays off. I might even like my Fridays without ATL.

Talk about hypocrites. The last time a majority state had a governor leave shortly after being elected we got Arnold.

Check this out
http://www.sacbee.com/110/story/772916.html

Lat has no need of having a vote. His only concern is site traffic, which determines advertising revenue. Frankly, if you hate SEN enough to visit more than you otherwise would and comment on her posts, Lat should let her post more often. You also can't possibly be disenfranchised because you can always vote by refusing to visit on days when SEN is posting.

This man is too stupid to be governor.

Ask any married woman whether she'd like to spend Valentine's Day with her husband at a fancy hotel in another city and have sex without a condom.

Posted by: Anonymous | March 12, 2008 12:18 PM

Is you implication that the wife would say yes? Have you ever been married?

I give Spitzer credit for taking responsibility for his actions. He didn't deny it like Bill ("never, not once") Clinton, or claim he was tricked like Larry ("I am not gay!") Craig, or make a martyr of himself like Jim ("I am a gay American," and pay no attention to the fact that I illegally put my lover on the payroll) McGreevey.

RIP Eliot Spitzer
Here lies the "Sheriff of Wall Street" -- he stole from the rich and gave to the poor little hookers.

1:01 - you assume Lat has no self-respect. Maybe you're right. He does run this blog.

Can I we get some PARDONS OUT HERE?!?!

Can we get a vote on BAN FOR SEN!?!?

1:06 -- Yes, darling. What do you *think* we did to celebrate Valentine's Day!? My husband is the best!

I second 1:01. If you don't like reading SEN's posts, then don't visit on those days. I for one don't think she's that bad. I'd like to see all of the people that complain about her try to blog on ATL for one hour, much less an entire day. Anyone can bitch in a comments section, but what she does takes time, effort, and (if she ever reads these comments) a sense of humor.

Man, dat Spitzer is an idiot. This is how I ran my biz, see. Client calls me and wants prices of my girls. I say somethin like: Amber is $200/hour and Jen is $500/hour. The 'trick' is, they're both the same girl. If the guy picks Jen, I send the girl and tell her her name, and that's it. If he picks Amber, I send the same girl but at a lower price. Maybe I send the girl with different clothes/perfume, but it's all same in the end. Free advice: never go with the higher priced girl.

1:51,
My God, women are clueless. The whole *point* of a hooker is that guys want a little variety from time to time. It doesn't matter whether Silda would have obliged; the point is that Spitz wanted some fresh (to him at least) meat.

Both Spitzer and Paterson went to HLS--Does it really matter what the H stand for?

Did anyone else notice that Ted Wells (co-chair of Paul, Weiss litigation) came out ahead of Spitzer at the news conference?

Spitzer has retained Paul, Weiss as counsel, and Paul, Weiss will save him...we've not seen the last of Spitzer, not by a long shot.

2:10--

And if that's the case, those guys shouldn't get married. There is no requirement that a guy get married. He can go without taking a vow of fidelity and screw every woman he meets without reproach and get all the variety he desires.

But - if he gets married, he gives up that opportunity for variety. It is a choice he makes and we should not expect less of a man's word that he will stay faithful.

Unless you are saying that men can't be taken at their word and are all worthless liars. Is that what you are saying?

Wow 5:06, absolutely great job completely misrepresenting everything I said. Do you see me defending anything Spitzer did? No-- my point is that guys who use whores don't do it because their wife isn't putting out, they do it out of a desire for variety or adventure. I'm not making a moral judgment about that, I'm simply saying that 1:51's argument that he should have just invited his wife for a romantic getaway is so naive it's hilarious.

Wow, let's address the 3000 lb. elephant in the corner. Marriage is a convention created by women to force men to commit to their hard-wired view of relationships, monogomy. Men are hard wired - biopsychosocially predestined to seek other women. The "best husbands" are merely the men who are best able to resist their most human urges.

Married luv govs in my state had unsafe extramarital sex while their State Trooper detail looked away all the time; it was no big deal.

GOOD RIDDANCE!

PROSECUTE AND DISBAR THAT DISASTER.

5:18,

As much as I'd like to believe that, it's kind of hard to swallow the suggestion that a social convention developed during a time when women had fewer rights than a good donkey was heavily influenced by female interests. It's much more likely that marriage was a tool for the assertion of male possession and control over women than a female-led conspiracy to force men into unwanted committments; on the other hand, of course, it wasn't until fairly recently that male adultery was looked down upon in any particularly serious way, so men had the best of both worlds for a long time until society started expecting us to take those vows about love and monogamy and stuff seriously.

5:18,

Not really. My husband wanted to get married. I was happy just to keep dating. If anyone was "forced to commit", it was me.

Maybe if you crack open a history book you'll find that marriage is a convention created by men to ensure that any offspring was, in fact, their own. Thanks for trying to lay the blame on women, though. Can men accept responsibility for ANYTHING anymore?

It is unbelievable that those of you who attended four years of college and three years of law school do not understand history in any manner. Marriage was an institution created primarily to insure (or, attempt to insure) that offspring from the male was indeed HIS offspring (recall, this is well before the days os DNA testing on daytime TV). It was absolutely not an institution created by women, who, at the time, had no political power whatsoever, and were property first of their father and then of their husband. The ignorance displayed daily on this blog is utterly shocking! No wonder lawyers are so generally disrespected, if the posts here are any indication of the intellect of lawyers, you are a bunch of morons!

HISTORY OF MARRIAGE IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION

Marriage, as we know it in our Western civilization today, has a long history with roots in several very different ancient cultures, of which the Roman, Hebrew, and Germanic are the most important. Western marriage has further been shaped by the doctrines and policies of the medieval Christian church, the demands of the Protestant Reformation, and the social impact of the Industrial Revolution.

When we look at the marriage customs of our ancestors, we discover several striking facts. For example, for the most of Western history, marriage was not a mere personal matter concerning only husband and wife, but rather the business of their two families which brought them together. Most marriages, therefore, were arranged. Moreover, the wife usually had much fewer rights than her husband and was expected to be subservient to him. To a considerable extent, marriage was also an economic arrangement. There was little room for romantic love, and even simple affection was not considered essential. Procreation and cooperation were the main marital duties.

On the other hand, it may surprise many modern couples to learn that in earlier times divorce was often easily granted. Here again, men usually had the advantage when they could simply dismiss their wives, but in many instances women could also sue for divorce. In ancient Rome couples could even divorce each other by mutual agreement, a possibility that has not yet returned to all European countries. Another notable historical fact is the nearly universal stress on the necessity of marriage and the resulting pressure on single persons to get married. This pressure was partially lifted only under the influence of Christianity which, at least for some time, found a special virtue in celibacy. Christian doctrines have, of course, also had their effects on marriage itself, and some of these will be discussed below.

Marriage in Ancient Greece and Rome

In ancient Greece marriage was seen as a fundamental social institution. Indeed, the great lawgiver Solon once contemplated making marriage compulsory, and in Athens under Pericles bachelors were excluded from certain important public positions. Sparta, while encouraging sexual relationships between men, nevertheless insisted on their marrying and producing children. Single and childless men were treated with scorn.

However, while marriage was deemed important, it was usually treated as a practical matter without much romantic significance. A father arranged the most advantageous marriage for his son and then had a contract signed before witnesses. Shortly thereafter a wedding celebration was held and the young couple (who might never have met before) was escorted to bed. All marriages were monogamous. As a rule, the bridegroom was in his thirties and the bride was a teenager. In addition to this disparity in ages there also existed an inequality in education and political rights. Women were considered inferior to men and remained confined to the home. Their main function as wives was to produce children and to manage the household while their husbands tended to public affairs. For their erotic needs, men often turned to prostitutes and concubines. As Demosthenes, the orator, explained it: "We have prostitutes for our pleasure, concubines for our health, and wives to bear us lawful offspring." Many men also cultivated intense emotional and sexual relationships with male adolescents (paiderastia). The legal inequality of the sexes was further reflected in the divorce regulations. It was always easier for a husband to divorce his wife than vice versa. However, since a divorced woman could take her dowry back with her, men normally asked for a divorce only in cases of female adultery and infertility.

As Demosthenes, the orator, explained it: "We have prostitutes for our pleasure, concubines for our health, and wives to bear us lawful offspring."

Amazing how little things have changed!?!?!

The New York Times has identified "Kristen" as Ashley Alexandra Dupré (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/nyregion/12cnd-kristen.html?_r=1&oref=slogin) and provided this link to her MySpace page (http://www.myspace.com/ninavenetta).

We Demand The Appointment Of A Special Prosecutor:
To Investigate Eliot Spitzer's Long Reign of Abuse of Prosecutorial Discretion and his Failures To Pursue Organized Crime Involving his Associates.

The mainstream media has a fetish with organized crime, but only when it comes to Italian Americans and Unions. The mainstream news reporters are deaf, dumb, and blind when it organized crime when it is controlled and practised by attorneys, white men in business suits with hedge funds, mega corporations, and their corrupt executives as clients. This Neo-Mafia of law firms and corrupt public officials in Law Enforcement and the Judiciary maintains a fascade of "respectability" which all of their "brethren of the bar" must kiss else suffer extreme professional consequences. Ordinary lawyers, as well as some public servants, have had their careers turned upside down when they have attempted to expose corruption in the justice system.

There is only one stand out surprise, one supreme significance, related to Eliot Spitzer's admitted connections with the Prostitution Ring.

There is no surprise that Eliot Spitzer was a corrupt prosecutor and attorney general.
The corrupt nature of Eliot Spitzer was reported before his election to Governor (http://www.bankruptcymisconduct.com/site/content/view/12/30/) of New York by bankruptcyMisconduct.com in a November 2006 press release which revealed a specific example of his abuse of prosecutorial discretion when protecting his associates in the Neo-Mafia.

Some may find it a surprise that the Feds who uncovered Spitzer's crimes did not quietly bury them again.
We do not find it surprising that there exist proud public servants who honor their sworn oaths to the Constitution of the United States and ignore implicit and explicit threats to themselves, their careers, and their families as they tenaciously expose and eliminate corruption.

Some may find it a surprise that Eliot Spitzer had the chutzpah (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chutzpah) to withold his resignation, holding the people of the State Of New York hostage as he selfishly sought a no-prosecution deal.
But readers of bankruptcyMisconduct.com are learning that Mr. Spitzer's expectation that as a former DOJ employee he should hold immunity from Federal investigation and prosecution was reasonable and appropriate in light of such de facto policy established by the highest levels of our DOJ.

Some may find it a surprise that a man who held extraordinary wealth, who pursued and then attained great fame, would then deem himself above the law and above morality.
That Eliot achieved his fame through as a prosecutor at the Federal and highest State levels strike some as ironic. At the same time, other ordinary citizens with an awareness of the pervasiveness of government corruption, merely see it as the explanation.

Some may find it a surprise, or at least offensive, that Eliot Spitzer would pay a hooker more money for 8 hours of services than he allowed a struggling single mother of four on public assistance to receive over the course of a year to cloth, feed, and educate young citizens.
Eliot Spitzer simply believes that the sexual services he receives from a 19 year old prostitute over the course of a few hours are far more valuable than the efforts of a single mother raising her children.

There is no surprise that Spitzer had close friends who ran hedge funds, and used the name of at least one of them, George Fox of Titan Advisors, LLC (http://www.titanadvisors.com/about/firm_history.php), as cover when booking a hotel.
There is no better "pro" to lie for you than a hedge fund manager: the capo of unregulated money funds for the super-rich (http://www.amazon.com/Rich-Super-Rich-Study-Power-Money/dp/0818400692) and the Neo-Mafia.

There is no surprise that hedge funds would be connected with corruption of government officials.

The great surprise which the media, pundits, and politicians should be talking about:

Eliot Spitzer was in bed with organized crime ... and thus
All Official Conduct Of Spitzer Is Suspect And Must Be Investigated

No rational person could imagine that one day, Eliot Spitzer decided to login into a prostitution website, or that Eliot walked
blindly into some whore house:

"Hi, I would like your services. One problem: I am Eliot Spitzer and would be recognized by anyone who sees me in your prostitution ring so please just informally assure me that your peeps will keep this private"

Yeah, right. Consider who the man was, his experience, and the actions he performed as a prosecutor. This man was a Federal prosecutor, was New York's Attorney General, the most senior law enforcement officer of the State of New York, this man undertook bold and radical prosecutions never before seen, Governor of the State of New York. Eliot Spitzer himself prosecuted organized crime including prostitution rings (http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--spitzer-themoneyt0311mar11,0,1095909.story%20)

None of us can believe that Spitzer just decided one day to check out the Emperors Club. We know better. None of us can honestly believe that Spitzer could think he would not be immediately recognized and blackmailed, unless... Spitzer was dealing with an organized crime family that he trusted.

We already know that Eliot Spitzer had an "intimate relationship" and trust with this one Prostitution Ring, only an ostrich could not see that Spitzer would have connections with relations of this Prostitution Ring, that the prositution ring was merely one branch of the Neo-Mafia.

A Special Prosecutor Must Be Appointed To Investigate Spitzer's Legacy Of Protectionism of his Organized Crime Relations

Eliot Spitzer has a Prostitution Ring (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/nyregion/10cnd-spitzer.html) all over his face.

Eliot Spitzer has the crimes of Worldcom (http://www.bankruptcymisconduct.com/site/component/option,com_docman/task,doc_details/gid,4/Itemid,48/) all over his face.

Eliot Spitzer provided safe harbor to a Bankruptcy Ring.

Eliot Spitzer provided safe harbor to the Asbestos Ring (http://www.bankruptcymisconduct.com/site/content/view/51/77/) .

Eliot Spitzer provided safe harbor to a Bar Association Ring (http://www.nysba.org/) .

Eliot Spitzer was a corrupt public official owned by the Neo-Mafia.

Eliot Spitzer attacked the competitors and opponents of his Neo-Mafia brethren under Color Of Law.

Every action of Eliot Spitzer as a prosecutor is necessarily called into question.

Every failure to act by Eliot Spitzer is even more suspicious and must be investigated.

Corruption 101:

The single most powerful element of corruption by a government official is having the discretion to ignore misconduct or crime. The explicit commission of crime by a public official is too risky, there are too many eyes watching, the public generally won't allow a criminal to stay in office.
By illustration, let's consider an unfortunate example of some corrupt police officers (thankfully there are not many). These corrupt police officers don't sell cocaine, they merely allow it to happen and look the other way in the face of it.

Similarly, Corrupt prosecutors don't necessarily take direct part in organized crime, there merely allow it to occur. Another example of ostrich corruption could exist at the Securities And Exchange Commission. Corrupt SEC officials don't themselves fail to file required reports, or file fraudulent reports on behalf of a public company - they merely look the other way in the face of it.

Corruption evolves in many industries because most industries approach efficiency and it is difficult to amass the extreme fortunes held by people like Eliot Spitzer's family. But there is no shortage of people who have uncontrollable urges to attain such wealth. Thus clever minds (not necessarily brilliant) endowed with moralistic relativism figure out a way.

The Neo-Mafia has engineered the perfect business model to enable them to produced outsized profits than their otherwise un-extraordinary talents would allow in a free marketplace. They cheat. They engage in crime. The phrase "Crime doesn't pay" only holds when the Law Enforcement and Judicial segments of society are not related to the particular criminal element in question.

For example, the huge incomes of $2Million dollars per year for partners at bankruptcy law firms exceed rational explanation under a free market equilibrium, given they are only paid by the hour and place no capital at risk. We see fortunes emerge out of the strangest places, just as we see corruption when our heads are not thrust into the sand.

The Neo-Mafia gains control, also known as "ownership", of corrupt officials through a variety of mechansisms. Being related to them through any sort of affiliation, paying them money, providing future employment upon their exit from public service, having prior business relationships with them, or providing special services for them such as prostitution. When providing special services for corrupt politicians, the Neo-Mafia holds dirt on the officials which allow organized crime to engage in ever bolder and greater crimes against society like we see in the era of modern corporate malfeasance with Enron, Worldcom and the so called "sub-prime" credit crisis. Favorite forms of dirt which gives the Neo-Mafia the tightest control over public officials includes things like child pornography (http://www.ky3.com/news/local/13545207.html) , attempted pedophelia with a 5 year old girl (http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/14132485/detail.html) or the example of a boy pedophilia ring (http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2007/260307pedophilescandal.htm). Thus, the Neo-Mafia gets control over Law Enforcement and the Judiciary by catering to their sexual perversions and holding same over their heads. When such public officials are caught, sometimes as a result of their failures to accomodate the demands of the Neo-Mafia, their crimes are given scant attention by the mainstream media and elected officials. The truth is, all actions and inactions of such corrupt public officials need to be re-examined by a special prosecutor.

According to her Myspace page, "Kristin" was apparently abused, at some point was on drugs and homeless. She left a broken home and abuse at 17. Even though she was well paid, one cannot argue that her "consent" was not coerced through her hideous life circumstances.

Amen 6:06

You have been trolled. I am the greatest troll in the history of ATL. 40 minutes and 4 serious, long, and well-reasoned response. One of you even did some research. BWWWAAAHHHHAAAAAA I am the pupet master!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All kidding aside. I played you gals like a cheap accordian.

Oh come on 7:43, are we supposed to think that any time a girl from a bad childhood has sex, it's rape? Cause that's pretty much what you're saying, and it's ridiculous. At some point, causation becomes too attenuated. We don't let criminals off the hook because they come from broken homes, so why should we impose liability-- or moral condemnation-- on someone who has consensual sex with a person with an underprivileged past?

8:19,

I would have been impressed if you had been screwing some hot chick, but instead you were posting on an internet blog and bragging about it, which officially makes you lame. Sorry.

12:28 - all blogs are "internet" blogs

Read all about it http://spitzerspecialprosecutor.blogspot.com/