March 7th, 2012
Galley Friend Joel Engel has finally put up his own blog shingle over at JoelEngel.com and I highly, highly recommend you adding him to your regular rotation. Sample awesome:
You’re a lawyer. A guy in his early 20s walks into your office and says he wants to file a lawsuit. You say, Okay, tell me. And what he tells you is how pissed off he is about having to shell out so much for refreshments at the movie theater.
You of course agree with him that candy and soda can be had a lot cheaper at Wal-Mart. But instead of thinking, Geez, get this whack job out of here before he wants me to change his diaper, or even politely suggesting that he might be better off not going to that theater if he doesn’t like its prices–or, for that matter, not buying food from the refreshment stand– you say, Huh, I think that’s a class action suit. So you file it.
“He got tired of being taken advantage of,” said [Joshua] Thompson’s lawyer, Kerry Morgan of Wyandotte. “It’s hard to justify prices that are three- and four-times higher than anywhere else.” Yeah, some things are hard to justify.
Milk Duds: a civil rights issue.
In addition to being a wit, Joel is a great writer and an amazing reporter and his next book–the true-crime L.A. ’56–is the book I’m most looking forward to this year.
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