I miss MysTTTal.

It's no fun reading interesting, clearly written blog posts absent of grammatical errors.

I miss Mystal too - I think he is a very funny writer.

That said, Lat's prose is much clearer and more elegant.

Moar bareback!

I don't miss MysTTTal at all. What a total clown that dude was. Anyway, how hot is Paris Hilton? Seriously, she's just gorgeous.

That's actually very funny

I have nothing against Mystal, but I really enjoy reading Lat's posts.

Please post more often Lat!

Where's the big man? Seriously, I miss the guy.

And Paris is only hot if you're a deaf man that likes anorexics. Of course, it's nothing a couple of earplugs and a few Big Macs wouldn't fix.

That is hot!

I love this woman's music.

What will the new sex tape will be called?

8 likes 'em large and can't wait for Dance Your Ass Off.

Dear Lat: Can you give us a hint as to how Elie's moob reduction surgery went? It's ok to use code, like one ass lobster claw means it went fine, two ass lobster claws means the doctor was so disgusted at seeing Elie's naked body that he puked and walked out of the OR.

8, I honestly used to think the same...until the sex tape. She is really gorgeous and super sexy in that tape. I just like skinny and horny, I guess.

8 = Effeminate weirdo

MysTTTal would have found a way to interpret this as RACIST

MOAR BAREBACK

"His Honor and Her Hotness" - Lat for win!

paris hilton is a cunt and i wish she meets her end soon.

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2009-07-09/news/ex-ceo-s-porn-star-wife-shocks-st-stephen-s-and-white-case/1

You know, that was actually pretty clever on Paris's part. Despite being a vapid, uneducated skank whom I wouldn't touch while wearing a spacesuit, she is apparently capable of being modestly charming and interesting on occasion. That's pretty funny.

i feel sorry for the losers who think paris hilton is hot. clearly you're a socially awkward law geek who has never experienced an actual hot girl. she's only hot to people who can't get laid by 9s and 10s even if paying for it Spitzer-style.

21, you, sir, are a fool. I'm sure you scored lots of law firm 9's and 10's, but in the real world, where law firm 10's are actually 6's, Paris is hot.

No no, let me guess. You used to score mad girls while you were a frat kid at Cornell. You slayed all the "10's" on campus. Hahahaha!

21 = Sebastian from NYC Prep.

22,

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QHnJvKAYn4c/SHLQhiGywRI/AAAAAAAAA8E/868MtX7uf5w/s400/paris87_e_742644eb773fdd467f65edf0ab1be8d2.jpg

i stand corrected. yeah, she's hot. yup. what the hell was i thinking?

-21

If reading a Paris Hilton article every day will prevent more layoffs, I'm all for it.

24, girls don't look great when they're not done up. It's not news. She's still has great features. If you look at Christie Turlington without makeup, she doesn't look glossy and pristine. Her features are still prefect though. It's like you've never woken up next to a woman before. Jeez.

24 - You seem like the type that would only be concerned about her face. It's the curves stupid!

24 is an idiot. If that's as bad as Paris is ever going to look, I'll take it, thanks. The girl is smoking hot, period.

And people can insult her intelligence all they want. Fact is, she is making millions marketing her image; she clearly has some smarts.

The roaring 80s would have been even better with Paris.

You are all racists. You waste no time in stating how Lat (the good minority) is superior to Elie. Elie's mistakes generate countless critical comments while Lat's many mistakes rarely get mentioned. Simply because the obnoxious, arrogant fruit has Yale and WLRK on his resume, you all bow before him as if he is the second coming of Christ.

29, there you are, Elie! I was wondering when we'd get a prickly, utterly spurious accusation of racism.

Shut up 29. We'll take what we can get. Anything's better than Elie.

30, you can say that racism isn't involved, but you can't say that my description of what takes place on this blog/tabloid regarding commenters' critique of Elie vs. Lat is inaccurate.

Anyone who feels the need to proclaim that Paris is not hot has serious issues. It's probably your mom's fault.

32, honestly, I haven't really noticed Lat's posting sloppy things. That's just me. I don't actually study this blog (unless at work at 12:30 on a Sat).

I have, however, noticed numerous sloppy posts by Elie. Moreover, I find his obsession with race issues, often in cases where the connection is totally attenuated, needlessly inflammatory and, frankly, incredibly anti-intellectual in its unsophistication. I think the guy sucks.

But, to your race point, I actually didn't know that Elie was black until recently. Honestly, with a name like Elie Mystal, he sounded Israeli. And guess what? I still thought he sucked.

Please, dear Baby Jesus, prophisized to us by a Pope who should never be compared to Hitler, tell us that Mystal has found a different job.

I never want to wish anyone ill, but I sincerely hope he has found something else to support his family.

35, OMG, I totally forgot about the Pope/Nazi statements that Elie made. Oooph, that was totally egregious and would not have been acceptable by another serious blog.

The existence/content of this post would definitely get trashed if it were posted by Elie.

All you people who hope Elie found another job: BITE YOUR COLLECTIVE TONGUE. Elie is a race baiter and he's clearly an affirmative action baby with no competence other than his skin color. Do you want him making your burgers? Checking your bags at the airport? Driving your taxi? Or, G-d forbid, being hired by the Obama administration to be the Czar of education? This is the safest place on earth for Elie. Pray that he has a life long career on ATL.

26,

to qualify as hot, a girl must look hot without make-up or surgery. otherwise ANY girl could be hot. would you say Sarah Palin was intelligent if you only looked at her edited statements? if you judge girls based on artificial enhancements you aren't appreciating who they really are so much you are their ability to disguise themselves. women shouldn't have to hide themselves.

i only wake up next to one girl and she looks amazing in the morning. i wish more girls would be as comfortable as she is without makeup.

34, I'm not defending the quality of Elie's work; nor am I commenting on your motives for criticizing Elie's work. I'm simply saying there exists a double standard amongst the commenters on this blog regarding how they critique the work of Elie and how they critique the work of Lat and Kash. I recommend that you actually study the blog. Lat does screw up quite a bit. Furthermore, over the past few days, while he's been filling in for Elie, Lat has made several anti-intellectual, unsophisticated posts (with minimal formalistic errors mind you). And, by the way, who decides what is anti-intellectual and unsophisticated? Does the existence of typos and grammatical errors in a post make said post anti-intellectual and unsophisticated? Form over substance that would seem. I think Elie brings a certain levity and wit to his posts that Lat seems to clearly lack.

Now Obama’s constitutionally-suspect “science czar” is supporting mass sterilizations through public water systems and gov’t forced abortions. True story:

http://zombietime.com/john_holdren/

But this is nothing new. Check out this quote from one of the Left's heroes:

“We want fewer and better children…and we cannot make the social life and the world-peace we are determined to make, with the ill-bred, ill-trained swarms of inferior citizens that you inflict on us.”

That ghastly message appeared in the introduction to Margaret Sanger’s 1922 book, The Pivot of Civilization.

In a little-noticed incident, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently announced that she is “really in awe” of Sanger. “The 20th-century reproductive-rights movement, really embodied in the life and leadership of Margaret Sanger, was one of the most transformational in the entire history of the human race,” Clinton declaimed upon receiving an award from the organization that Sanger founded, Planned Parenthood.

More:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZGE5NWQwOGVhNTQyYjQ1YWY0ZjE5NzBkNGVmYzI5OGI=

AND, in 1992, Roe v. Wade co-counsel Ron Weddington urged the Clinton White House to rush to get an abortion pill into the hands of American women. He argued that it will help to “start immediately to eliminate the barely educated, unhealthy and poor segment of our country.”

He wrote: “Government is also going to have to provide vasectomies, tubal ligations and abortions…There have been about 30 million abortions in this country since Roe v. Wade. Think of all the poverty, crime and misery…and then add 30 million unwanted babies to the scenario. We lost a lot of ground during the Reagan-Bush religious orgy. We don’t have a lot of time left.”

40 here. Lat does try to be funny, but just comes across like he has some stiff object up his ass. I'm guessing that if Lat backed up into a wall, he could suck a brick out with his anus. No wait, Lat's ass used to be tight, but it ain't so tight no more.

Uh-Oh. Do I sense potential sexual harassment by the judge? Glad to hear that Paris played along though.

If the plaintiff's attorney is a female, can she claim sexual harassment? Hostile work environment? Some type of favoritism toward pretty girls who flirt? Oh man, thank God I'm no longer the Sexual Harassment Panda.

BTW, I heart Paris Hilton. I even like her singing. "Nothing In This World" has a pretty nice beat. And the first time I heard "Stars Are Blind," I didn't know it was Paris and thought it was a real singer like Gwen Stefani or something.

Her new song should be "Justice isn't blind."

The great thing about Paris is she'll never let you write her off as a one-trick skank. She's clearly intelligent, she's loaded, and when she wants to she looks breathtaking. If that's not hot I don't know what is.

Where's the post about the Refco verdict?

Lat, a commenter on the S.D. Fl. blog said:

The Chief definitely did not say that this is is best case forever (despite what Paris may have heard)...he said "I don't want this to be my best case forever" (in other words, "let's finish this stupid case!")

Why you guys forever debate the strengths and limitations of each blogger, as if this were some Paris salon from Voltaire's time, is beyond me.

Anyone who writes a blog to make a living is, well, a level or two up from a common laborer (granted, the editors here probably have much better lives than the average attorney). Would you critique a secretary to this extent?

Basically, who cares.......

39 is retarded

Either her breasts were enhanced or that photo was. She used to have really small ones, but they look like ripe melons in that pic.

Lat is simply a better writer than Elie, no reasonably intelligent person could deny this. Lat also works on Saturdays. Lat is more consistent with his posts, eliminates political/moral/ethical overtones, and is not nearly the elitest Elie is.

Loves it, bitch

Stars Are Blind!

OMG best song eeeever.

40, the difference between anti-intellectual Lat and anti-intellectual Elie is Elie insinuates that the Pope is a Nazi and race baits to the point where it's a constant theme in his posts. One is simply making a joke with a wink and nod (e.g. divalicious judges) and one has hardlined ideological overtones. They're not equivalent sins. If you're going to have clear ideological biases to your posts and take a stand based on those biases, the least you could be is well-reasoned or thoughtful, not the inflammatory crap that Elie posts.

29-

Harvard and Debevoise is pretty fucking solid as well. I don't think Lat's stats are the reason why he's not being criticized like Elie. I think it is Elie's genreal suckiness.

Rumour is that Elie landed a new gig tending to Kash's ASSLOBSTERS.

52, that your subjective/normative characterization/comparison of the two editors' posts. I admit that I haven't spent the time creating a spread sheet compiling the themes, hypothesis and arguments in favor of said hypothesis of both editors; so I'll just admit that I cant dispute your point with any quantitative or qualitative data. Still, when it comes to commenters harping about grammatical errors and typos, Elie takes it in the arse far more frequently (disproportionately even, notwithstanding the number of errors Elie makes) than Lat.

49, unless you're employed by ATL or somehow privy to the inner workings of how they distribute work, you shouldn't comment about things like "Lat working on Saturdays". I personally have no direct knowledge concerning the logistics involved in publishing a blog. I will say, however, that Elie--a brat raised on Long Island by a well-to-do politician; a brat given every opportunity that was given to solidly middle class whites--should not be the beneficiary of affirmative action.

55, I admit that my statement is anecdotal and, in some sense, empirically unprovable. (I don't read every post on this board.) But don't you think it's odd that your critiquing my "subjective/normative characterization of the two editors' posts" then engaging in your own subjective/normative characterization of posters' reactions to those very posts? Can't we just agree that we have very different perceptions of the way Elie operates, the reaction thereto, and leave it at that?

56,

Don't use quotation marks when you differentiate the language from which you are quoting. Also, if you start off your topic with my number, do not veer so severly from the topic that you render yourself retarded.

-49

39, I'm not saying girls are hot only when they're artificially enhanced or done up. I like girls who are hot without makeup. I just don't think you're being realistic about how "hot" girls are when they're not made up. Like I said, if Christy Turlington, the freaking hottest thing that God made on this planet, can look a bit grizzled when she's not looking to impress, any girl can look a bit grizzled. That's all.

43 and 51 - Totally agree! I love "Stars Are Blind" too.

Check out the video if you've never heard the song:

http://music.aol.com/video/stars-are-blind/paris-hilton/1657622

For my money, the best of the three main writers - I'm not counting Roxana, Marin, and Laurie (who are all great) - has to be KASH.

She is funnier than Lat, and less sloppy than Elie. On balance, KASH is the best.

(Also, she is the hottest.)

Let's face it, we are all weirdos for commenting and obsessing about this blog.

Funny post, David! Got here from your Twitter feed.

Briefed through of the comments to this article and will never stop being sadly surprised at the vapid, caustic responses from folks who are too cowardly to show their real names. And this on a blog dealing with the legal profession!

Keep up the good work, David.

@uMCLE (Twitter)

If Paris does that "move" like she did in her video, she could be my new BFF.

Laughing My Black Ass Off

The Sheriff

Re: #63, this is what Lat tweeted:

"David Lat loves this comment, calling him an 'obnoxious, arrogant fruit' - http://tinyurl.com/np4ow5 - and pleads guilty to 2 out of 3 charges."

http://twitter.com/davidlat

49's comment to 56:

Please lick my hairy nut sack... and keep doing so until you have something substantive to say.

Yes 57, I agree with you. Speaking of you (and only you), I would say that it seems that any dislike you have of Elie's work would be devoid of any racial bias. I'm just saying, as a person that frequents this blog and reads posts by both scribes, I would like for someone to explain to me why there is such a disproportionate negative reaction when it comes to Elie's mishaps.

"Ex parte contact". Paris gives the phrase a whole new meaning.

Past tense of tweet = twot

41- Habeas Corpus is a crock of shit, rendered so by crooked lawyers. If we are free from our bodies being detained until we are convicted of a crime, then why is is that a judge can have a person jailed for contempt for an unlimited time?

Because of the bullshit that is civil law. The law is so full of shit that not even the lawyers on this blog understand it. It is time for us commoners to carry out the advice of the Bard. Especially on idiots like 41.

67 - I'm not 57, but my thinking is that Elie's "mishaps" are (a) more frequent and (b) more egregious (e.g., confusing "it's" and "its," subject/verb agreement, etc.). There are on average about two such errors in every post by Elie (at least when the post first goes up; they are often corrected later).

That said, I do think commenters have no sense of proportion with respect to typos on this blog (by Elie or anyone else). It's a blog, for crying out loud, not a newspaper.

24,

That's still hot. You're a dueche. If you ever had a girlfriend you would have seen a woman without makeup. Can we see a picture of the fine woman you're currently engaged with?

72 -- agreed.

I mean, seriously, if Paris comes up to you and says "take me now," who the fuck is going to say no? I mean, really?

partners at quinn contracted herpes from paris hilton all the time. it was no big deal.

quinn stud (with herpes)

I love Paris Hilton. I used to loathe her, but she's turned out to be more clever than her appearance would lead one to believe.

I love her too, I want me some of that boom-boom boom

Paris Hilton would add more to the SCOTUS than Sotomayer

I simply find her nose far too much on the narrow side, and the tip of it hangs down to far below her nostrils. That's all.

Missed one, Wells Fargo sues itself:

http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/markets/al-lewis-wells-fargo-bank-sues/