The Update

This is being written at the request of our own Prodigal Judas, PE.  In exchange for the promise of what hopes to be an interesting take on the Epstein/Clinton murdercide connection, I'm answering some questions he raised in an earlier thread.

1.  What happened to JoePa?

He's still an idiot and, assuming he can find the right orifice, appears to be on track to making idiot babies with everyone's favorite progressive muppet, KKRR.  Good luck enjoying a meal with that image going through your head.

2.  What happened to Elie Mystal?

You recall those nutjobs who wear aluminum foil hats to stop the government from reading their thoughts?  Elie's turned into whatever the version of that is for people who believe that everything down to tapwater is racist and out to get him.  Elie's gone further toward madness and fancies himself an armchair Colonel in his own imaginary war against raceism, bigotry, xenophobia, and all those other scary abstracts that are his omnipresent oppressors.  If he had the ability to stand and fire a weapon, he'd be one of the first to be red-flagged.

3.  David Lat.

He's now a recruiter (which confirms my impression formed by interacting with recruiters that they have about as much knowledge of the legal profession as our receptionist), but still drops turds on AtL occasionally.  His most recent offering is a link to a paywalled WSJ article (good to know some things never change) bemoaning the existence of non-equity partnership and some Shannon-esque noncommittal commentary on the subject.  What I found particularly terrible about the article (which discusses equity vs. non-equity partnership in Kirkland & Ellis) seems to suggest to all the wide-eyed budding ambulance chasers and consumer bankruptcy slaves reading AtL that $800,000 per year (apparently the average K&E non-equity partner pay) is a "decent" wage for an attorney.  The vast majority of his readership will be lucky to make 20% of that in their best year.  We all know better yet, without comments, nobody is there to let AtL's readership know that this is some world's smallest violin griping.

4.  Bonus - Shannon Unmasked

Shannon Achimalsdikjalo'sdk finally came out - as a middle-aged male Asian tax lawyer from Los Angeles named Steven Chung.  Chung would occasionally drop in at the Commune to ... say stuff.  Points for honestly, I guess, but he's still a second-rate Keith Lee.

Commenteriat, anything to add?