| Saturday, April 06, 2002 - 09:30 pm This segment continues the portion of the Representation Crisis message that discusses the abusive treatment Ronin received at the LAT Forum. Any message, or part of a message, that discusses a topic other than this will be moved to the proper topic. The original Representation Crisis topic can be read here: http://www.rentwars.com/discus/messages/5/157.html
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| Monday, April 08, 2002 - 11:28 pm How is that racist? They questioned the Italian name. They even mentioned that your first name was used by Robert DeNiro.
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| Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 02:23 am Ronin-- I am not from New York but from the midwest in a very rural area. I know little to nothing of what goes on within your city with the exception of the big news items that manage to get national coverage. I have not even been aware until just within the last week as to what New Yorkers face as far as housing. This is not so surprising, though, I don't think. You wouldn't be much interested in what our local problems are either. We have vastly different issues and housing is mainly a local concern. There are vastly different factors in each region and locality that are going to cause different effects on housing and other local concerns. I find your description of the LAT forum members to be so unlike what I know of the forum's membership. I have been a member of the forum for a over a year now. You have implied that LAT Forum members may have even sent you email viruses. The LAT forum members do not do these types of things. I tend to suspect that the emails coincided with your experience in the LAT forum but did not originate there. I am sure that the work you do has garnered you plenty of detractors and unless you have proof to the contrary, it is quite unfair to be attributing such vicious and adolescent behavior to some unnamed LAT Forum members. This is just not sort of behavior that is typical of any individual who posts in a public forum and uses not only his real-life name but that of his employer. There were a few who did not understand who you were and what you were about. They literally jumped to the wrong conclusions by suggesting that you were some sort of spammer and this snowballed out of control. In your defense, you did send an introductory note but you assumed that the LAT forum was as familiar with the rent situation in NYC as you are. That was a mistake. You are intimately involved with your rent situation and have made it your life's work. I don't know diddly about the inner machinations in NYC and neither do the vast majority of others in the forum. We are all firmly rooted in various regions of this country and have our own local problems and concerns that we are each in our own way as intimately involved in as you are in yours. You don't have the time or inclination to be intimately involved with my local affairs any more than I have for the intimate affairs in NYC. I think you are still under the mistaken assumption that there is a majority in the forum from NYC. I don't believe that is the case at all. From those that post, there are only a few who come from New York. The vast majority of posters represent the other 49 states. You are certainly entitled to your opinion and I am sure that nothing I say will change it. I am also certain that it plays better to the public for the LAT forum to be some type of sinister organization of bad paralegals out to take you down. That does have a much more dramatic effect than what I know the forum to actually be. I apologize again for your experience there but I am quite disturbed with your unfounded allegation that the LAT forum is likely responsible for attempts to take you down with email viruses. Further, that you would even suggest here in this forum-- your thought of reporting to these people's employers in order to cause them grief at their places of employment-- this leaves me with some serious concern as to your personal ethics and true underlying motives.
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| Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 01:21 pm To the people in the LAT forum. I am an average New Yorker. I use the subway and buses to get about. In NYC you can also wind up walking a lot. It is pleasant and sometimes even easier than taking the subway. On any given day my path will cross with a minimum of nine homeless individuals, all races, all sexes. I didn't really think about it until this post. I decide to start counting all those homeless and destitute people that I come across on any given day. We are not living in a third world country. This is a wealthy abundant nation. Most of us come in contact with these suffering people so often we block them out. The idea "that could be me" is so threatening that we put it in the back of our minds along with the one blue sock that got lost at the laundry. Sometimes you give change, or the food you took home from that great resturant in a doggy bag. Sometimes it's a scary experience and you back away. During the Guiliani Administration homelessness rose by a whopping 17%. I happen to think that the stench of the unwashed homeless elderly man who was snoozing on the corner seat of the #1 train last night is The True Scent of Guiliani. This may be what you are not seeing when you read the posts from NYC. I suppose the homeless in the Midwest are out of sight, like under a bridge or in a makeshift camping ground well off the highway?
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| Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 04:42 pm To anonymous- Let's just let that drop. Whether it was racist or anti-Italian it was definitely unprofessional and inappropriate. To Yarrow- Thank you for adding that graphic color to this debate. I think the problem may be that they don't make the connection between homelessness and unfair laws! To aka- Wow! That's a mouthfull! Thanks again for responding. I don't assume everyone at LAT was from New York, I assumed that they were all paralegals. It was my feeling that a national group of paralegals could give a good perspective on the use of paralegals to help the representation crisis. Nationally there are paralegal licenses and other non-lawyer state certification to assist in legal matters. Here in New York there is no such formal process for paralegals to assist. It is mainly attorney discretion that determines what a paralegal can and can't do. As a result, New York has the group of represented landlords represented by non-attorneys who violate every standard of ethical conduct (but this is exactly mirroring the disgraceful bar of landlord attorneys that does the same thing), while the masses of unrepresented tenants can't get anyone to appear in court to even translate the legal jargon! As for my motives, all I did was post an invitation for LAT members to participate in a discussion. What's sinister about that? As for my motives in pointing out the vulnerability of the LAT membership, please consider this- we are legal professionals who are supposed to be able to consider the exposures of various acts in contract or tort. Part of this process is hypothetical reasoning. As I pointed out, despite the LAT censorship, we are able to carry on this debate because I provide my own forum accessible worldwide. Here you are free to criticise and debate freely, my response to such criticism is arguments of logic and truth, not censorship. Also as legal professionals most of us are aware of the concept of libel and other defamation torts. We are aware of the doctrine of respondiat superior and other employer liability statutes. I was attacked and merely pointed out that you guys live in glass houses after I was "mugged" in the LAT Forum with the assistance of the LAT administrator. My forum was viciously attacked by the LAT forum posters using their firm "stationary" speaking in their firm's "voice" making their firm directly liable for any libel therein. One of the attacks questioned how a legitimate forum would allow posters to speak anonymously or use nick names and first names. I note that all of the LAT posters here have followed suit (although they have sent their contact info to me via email). I question how a legitimate forum would not allow anonymity! Especially given the current environment where 50 NYTimes workers were fired over an email that wasn't, as far as I can tell, illegal or unduly offensive (there are scores of similar examples). Here we have directly actionable libel, published nationwide, with a reckless disregard for the truth, bearing the imprimature of a deep pocket. Can we say irresponsibly reckless, unprofessional behavior? One of the out of state paralegals you mentioned went so far as to accuse Rent Wars and myself of cheating tenants. But on what basis did this lie lay? He went further and said, as I recall, that he hadn't read the website. This means that he knowingly accused us of something while demonstrating his accusation was baseless. That means that his libel was published nationwide to a large group of my peers. An action against his firm is viable, profitable, and well deserved. Lastly, they are in reach of the New York long arm statute so we would fight it out in my backyard. Best of all, nobody is as easy to collect against than a law firm- their license depends upon honoring judgments. I have three years to bring suit. Any LAT participants in that category should be very concerned about the consequences of their poor choices. They caused harm, they deserve the punitive and compensatory damages and other fallout their tortious acts warrant. Some of the other statements were more ignorant, embarassingly incompetent, and petty than actionable. These are the ones that you could simply bring to the attention of the employers. But have I done so? Would I bother? Of course not. But should those of you who come to read my forum be "protected" from hearing the dangers of participating an irresponsible forum like the LAT? I don't think so, because the good guys like you need to be made aware of this. The LAT people don't want you to know the risks you run in their forum, or any forum using firm stationary (which serves no professional purpose for a paralegal- lawyers do so because they represent their partnership and share in the decision making of the firm). Moreover, this LAT Forum selectively censors members who express opinions the forum administrators don't like. Which makes them liable for any libel they publish! (nice ring to that sentence- eh). So the penalty for censorship will one day most likely take monetary form. One other fallout to censorship. Let's assume that the idiot paralegal who published libel against me had a chance to consider the fact that Rent Wars is a non-profit television show and website freely available to all. And that idea churned in his little tiny pea-brain until finally he said, "Duh, if Rent Wars doesn't charge tenants anything to access information, duh, then they can't be stealing from tenants because there is no money transferred. Duh! Maybe I should apologize!" Now, due to the LAT censorship, his apology would never reach me. Apologies and retraction are the sort of things that can help dimwitted libelous paralegals, and the firms that hire them, from suffering the pains of poor judgment and reckless conduct. As for conspiracy theories, I'm batting a thousand so far- take a read of the website. But let's hold on to that thought for later. I'll discuss it further when I have more time. I realize that you may not have gotten the email that I sent out that I mentioned earlier. I'll consider posting it here. But briefly put, the Slumlords would not benefit from causing a communications disruption at this time. Only the LAT Forum would benefit from squelching this debate. In addition to the emailed virus, there was a coordinated attack to knock our website out of commission which was stepped up after my last posting. I'll spare the details. Rent Wars has far fewer enemies than you would imagine. Over 6 million tenants suffer abuse in this city. Tenants are everywhere, and most like to lend a quiet helping hand to something that helps protect them. And again, tenants are everywhere. Thanks again for participating. Ronin
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| Thursday, April 11, 2002 - 01:13 am Ronin-- I just went back through the archives and read the exchanges between the forum members and you. Your initial post was okay, an invitation to visit your website along with a link to same, and a brief explanation as to the discussion that was going on in your forum. Apparently, one of the members made a comment, not as you remembered it however, that he thought posters were supposed to use their own names rather than post anonymously. You signed as "Ronin." He misunderstood that to be a username and he signed off as "Paladin." From there the misunderstanding escalated. One poster who had been up all night had quickly visited your link and saw the role-playing methods you use on you website and jumped to some more misconceptions by suggesting that you ran a game site. To your credit, you questioned politely some of the misunderstandings, one being a comment made as to paralegals not being able to represent clients and UPL. (This comment was made by the one who was operating on no sleep-- she even asked others to clarify because she was tired and not comprehending well.) I personally was quite busy in the office working, and I did not catch the drift of things until towards the end of the day and you had become exasperated with the small sector who honed in on your presence and totally misrepresented your site due to their inability to take the time needed to browse and determine the content. You made some scathing blanket remarks aimed at all the LAT forum members by questioning their ability to investigate ("Go Daddy") Later you insulted, generally, the members' ability to read, etc. There was at least one post back to you where language was used that I considered quite inappropriate and things just went to hell after that. I did not find anything, though, that was libelous. The intent just isn't there. Of course, nowadays, lawsuits are a dime a dozen and it seems that there is always a hungry lawyer willing to take on the most benign issues and literally turn them into a federal case. I am a little puzzled, in fact, as to just exactly what was said that you consider libel. As I said, I just checked those archives and negative comments went tit for tat between you and a couple of the members. Did you manage to save any of those posts to a hard drive or are you basing your impressions on memory? Unfortunately, I am assuming the LAT administrator sent you packing-- most likely because you were the new unknown commodity on the block that the rest were all pointing fingers at. I will concede, you were treated poorly and unfairly in retrospect-- but for someone who is taking on slum lords, your skin is a bit thin, Ronin--  As you have pointed out, the LAT forum is censored. I post to many uncensored forums and in so doing I choose to post under usernames in those places and am more bold in things that I will say. The LAT Forum definitely has its limitations, Ronin. The magazine keeps things on a very tight rein. I use the forum as an information resource and it has saved me endless hours of tedious work when I use it in that manner by accessing the knowledge base of others in the forum. I tolerate the censorship because through the forum, I have real meat-space people who I can fax, call, etc. if need be--to get my work done quickly. As I have said, having the members there for a resource to short-cut problems at work is invaluable and worth the limitations imposed by LAT forum rules. That forum is not like the majority of forums in cyberspace such as this one here that you sponsor. It serves a valuable purpose for the majority of us working paralegals who are members. Remove the censorship and the forum's value as a resource for our profession is lost. It has faults but works for us. I have learned to hold my tongue in there because often times, things are said that I could take issue with but it just isn't worth it. Usually all it takes for a TOS warning, is for someone to tell the others to knock it off (this usually happens when a few posters will banter back and forth, light heartedly) Some of this is tolerated but not much at all. There are people of all stripes in there. Although we may all share the same profession, that is often where our similarities end. I have simply learned to accept the place with its rules and limitations and value it for the advantage that it provides in instant networking. As to your purpose here at rent wars, I will reiterate what I said to you initially in my original post, I think that paralegals can be successfully incorporated as representatives for tenants just as they already are in some administrative settings. I don't know if you did get any response from New York paralegals or not. I know there are a few who actively post in the forum. Perhaps you need to get at them in other ways. I am sure that there are plenty area paralegal organizations that are quite active that would probably be more than willing to work on this issue with you. It definitely would expand their career opportunities and all of us are for that. Since you sort of dead-ended (well definitely dead-ended) in the forum, I would start looking at the paralegal organizations that are active in NYC. YARROW: This housing crisis of yours, though interesting, isn't something that really affects me personally in the least. We do not have the same issues here in my region in the midwest that you big city people have. Paralegal representation in landlord/ tenant affairs is not something that we would ever consider in my state-- not for the time being at least. Our housing issues don't mirror yours. Most of the time, we have empty apartment buildings because we just don't have the people packed into small areas like you do in NYC. We have wide open spaces and the only homeless we have, we never see. They're usually transients that travel in the empty box cars during the summer weather. Interestingly, we have several apartment buildings in the area that are income-based. For the most part, there are frequent vacancies in these apartments because there are often times that not enough qualified people (those with low income) are in need of the housing. Those who have higher income are penalized by having to pay outlandish percentages of their income and choose to forego staying in low rent places for that reason. The reasoning goes-- if one is going to have to pay the big bucks for rent, why stay in low income housing? Housing is plentiful around here and most choose the nicer apartments in the nicer neighborhoods. Everyone knows practically everyone else here in my community. When folks fall on hard times, there is always a church or organization that has funds to help. We also help our own. We have spaghetti dinners and fish dinners in the local community room to raise funds for those stricken with cancer or the family whose home just burned to the ground. We all own cars and it rarely takes more than 5 minutes to drive from one end of town to the other. We rarely wait in line for anything. Most of us commute to work within a few minutes. Our life here is so different from what life is like for you in metropolitan areas. I live about 45 minutes away from a larger city (275,000). If I want better shopping, more entertainment, I can always hop in the car and go there. I am about 3 hours from Minneapolis/ St. Paul and rarely go there because everything I need is within an hour and a half from here. RONIN: You weren't treated very well in the forum but as I said, that forum has a limited scope and purpose-- perhaps had you come in at another time, a slower time-- such as it gets during the Christmas holidays, people wouldn't have been so quick to jump to the wrong conclusion. Someone may have had the time to actually check your site out and the fiasco wouldn't have occured. I have my doubts that you've been libeled and I am fairly certain that if you were attacked by email viruses, it wasn't LAT forum member-- it might have been one of those landlords or maybe even a landlord lackey. You have your six million tenants rooting for you but I would bet there has to be just a few of those landlords that aren't too thrilled with you wising up their tenants. Those slum lords usually are sitting pretty cushy somewhere at the expense of their tenants. They want to be able to rake in the rent without having to pay out the expenses to keep up the properties. You and your rentwars operation are making things a bit difficult to do that. There are plenty of adolescents out here in cyberland who just love to vandalize. I have not seen them in the LAT forum-- most likely because of the censorship. As you saw for yourself, the censors in the forum act first and ask questions later or not at all.
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| Thursday, April 11, 2002 - 10:33 am incompetent ignorant pathetic meanspirited keystone kop moronic halfwits embarassing - ronin about lat paralegals they banned you and it speaks volumes about them but shrinking violet you are not
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| Thursday, April 11, 2002 - 01:12 pm Hehehe, no comment.... To aka: Regarding the cyberattacks- time will tell for sure, but all of the attacks were bent on silencing me. The LAT actions were bent on silencing me. As I mentioned, there is something very wrong with the LAT forum. I really suspect that they are as suspicious as the group we caught last year: http://www.rentwars.com/springsup/falserads.htm (stay tuned, the followup story is due out shortly! It's going to be a big splash) The same Modus Operandi.... A slick magazine, nice sounding rhetoric, immediate hostility to Rent Wars and the concept of free speech and dissent. If what I suspect about LAT is true, then there may be more parallels than I've made public. Re libel- I would recommend that you take another look at the defamation tort and then reread your digests. Look for things that harm reputation, making fun of the animation or name wouldn't count (they're just silly pettiness). Now, consider that the LAT administrator did not mitigate by letting me refute the libel, instead the administrator increased the harm, I was banned. (Sorry aka, I can't reprint the libel for you, it would reduce damages!!! But you can find it yourself, besides the other side will have access to discovery) Consider that these emails were widely broadcast to legal email servers that backup efficiently. Not only can my proof come from my archives, but it can be subpoenaed from all over the country as well. If I owned James Publishing I would be contacting my Media Perils insurance carrier and trying to figure out a way to mitigate immediately. As for lawyers suing over nothing these days, defamation has been around forever. The LAT forum is part of a publishing empire which should know better, especially as a publisher of legal matters. When someone recklessly hurts another they must answer in tort. This is America. For a taste of a system without tort protections experience mainland China where such rights don't exist, or experience a preview at the LAT forum.... The potential lawsuit would hardly be a stretch for an attorney, it is based on a well settled cause of action. Anyway aka, thanks for debating in such a skilled and reasoned manner. It is heartening that so many of the LAT paralegals are not in agreement with the LAT administrator's actions. Ronin
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| Thursday, April 11, 2002 - 07:12 pm a definite sign of villainous intent: "immediate hostility to rent wars"
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| Thursday, April 11, 2002 - 10:18 pm I'm confused, you are giving them advanced warning for what reason?
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| Friday, April 12, 2002 - 02:22 pm "This housing crisis of yours, though interesting, isn't something that really affects me personally in the least" "We have wide open spaces and the only homeless we have, we never see." That's what I figured.You might have not looked under any bridges lately. a/k/a Paralegal-Papa don't Preach. If the housing crisis (btw-it's not mine personally, if it were, it would be easily solved. Thousands of people are affected by the "crisis") really doesn't affect you, why spend so many words trying to convince this forum? I saw five homeless people, not including the guy I gave a dollar to on the subway, yesterday. So when are you going to hold the spaghetti and fish dinner for them? I could put you in touch with a church here in NYC that does eviction prevention and helps homeless individuals. You and your church could be part of the solution to the problem that you find interesting.
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| Friday, April 12, 2002 - 03:50 pm After the tax assessor arrests for billions of dollars in lost taxes to the city. The slumlords wouldn't want to launch attacks on Rent Wars while under the microscope. The feds broke the ring but Ronin has been saying for years that slumlords don't pay taxes and that they have a system of paying bribes that is traditional. Look at how long those corrupt tax assessors have gotten away with the scam. I think Ronin's right. The slumlords wanted to silence him before the front page indictments, not after. They are worried about the feds. Attacking his website while under the microscope would only hurt them.
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| Saturday, April 13, 2002 - 12:41 am Yarrow-- Pardon me for causing you to bristle but I do not live in NYC and I only have the same 24 hours in the day that you have-- I think I will confine my efforts to bettering the community and region in which I live, thank you. I don't have time to be taking care of your problems, too. I am only here in this forum because Ronin posted the URL to the LAT forum and issued an invitation for us to check this place out. Although I find what is going on in your city quite interesting, I don't have the opportunity, time, or inclination to crusade and stump for NYC housing issues. Every city and region in this country has its own peculiar problems and social concerns. It is a somewhat arrogant assumption that we all know what is going on in your city, and unless you have spent a period of time living where I live you shouldn't presume to know what goes on here either. One of Ronin's comments about the people in the forum where he was treated badly was that he thought the majority of people in there didn't have the slightest idea as to what was happening in NYC housing. He is right and I am attempting to explain that these problems rightly belong to NYC and should be the concern and focus of those who are personally impacted by it. We each live in our own region and have plenty of our own unique problems that directly impact our lives. I live thousands of miles away from your homeless people and I do not feel that I am responsible for them. I do feel responsible, though, for those people in my community who are down on their luck and that is where I choose to concentrate my efforts. The homeless people that you speak of are in your personal space and are your problem for the moment, Yarrow-- not mine. BTW-- I did not intend to offend you when I told you what it was like here and that we don't have the homeless problem that you have. You led me to think by your previous post that you wanted to know. I tried to tell you how different it is here where I live and you call me a liar and insult me by sarcastically throwing it back at me. It really is a whole different world out here in rural America, I am not lying about that in the least nor am I ignoring anything either. You probably need to get out of the city for awhile, Yarrow-- you sound like the big city problems are starting to wear on you. If you ever decide to come up to my neck of the woods, I'll even take you for a long walk by our bridges so you can take a look and see for yourself that no one is sleeping under them-- In fact, I really had to laugh about your comment on the bridges-- our bridges (all four of them) aren't the kind you can sleep under, unless you are a fish. Next time you should check your facts before you start assuming things.
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| Saturday, April 13, 2002 - 11:56 pm "you call me a liar and insult me by sarcastically throwing it back at me." Those wide open spaces must be doing something to your cognitive abilities. Maybe you got a little dizzy when you tried not to look under any bridges? No one here called anything except your bluff. Spaghetti and fish dinner? Who was this event held for? Maybe you want the Pillsbury Bake-Off site instead of a housing rights/legal forum? Maybe you got lost or something thinking about that spaghetti you were gonna cook up? Exactly what "efforts are you confining yourself to?" Please enlighten us oh, dweller of the wide open spaces. And why,oh why must you confine yourself? You sure spend a lot of words trying to convince us that there are no HOUSING PROBLEMS or legal representation issues in any city any where near you or any city that you even might of heard of once upon a time. Is this what you call a diversionary tactic? Now back to the real issues...
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| Sunday, April 14, 2002 - 04:04 am "Those wide open spaces must be doing something to your cognitive abilities." Blah, blah, blah-- What's this? -- The ad hominem attack -- how very *impressive,* Yarrow-- Derailing the conversation by attacking the person is a common ploy used often by a lazy debater-- always used by those who can't think of anything of value to add to the conversation. Furthermore, it is you, sir, who is using *diversionary* tactics-- first with the ad hominem attacks and secondly with a bunch of silly and ignorant questions. By all means do get back onto the real issues, will you? You seemed to have developed quite an odd fixation on mine. LOL
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| Sunday, April 14, 2002 - 02:52 pm The topic of this thread is Is the LAT Forum legitimate?
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| Monday, April 15, 2002 - 12:16 am Is the LAT Forum legitimate? Yes, it is legitimate. It is a forum, and I have been a subscriber for at least a year-- so yes, the forum is *legitimate.* Ronin has intimated that perhaps the LAT Forum has a hidden agenda but he hasn't really expanded as to what precisely this agenda might be. I think perhaps a better title for this thread might be "Is the LAT Forum disingenuous?" Whether or not this is the case, I wouldn't know at this point. The magazine has seemed perfectly legitimate and above-board-- A hidden agenda, if there is one, is not obvious to me. I await further enlightenment on this from Ronin should he choose to so further enlighten. However, given that it also appears that Ronin may possibly be entertaining a lawsuit against James Publishing, I would surmise that any further explanation is most likely not to be forthcoming for that reason. I will certainly check back from time to time to see if Ronin does offer any further explanation. I will also certainly keep an open mind on this matter from here on and will be more aware as to what agenda LAT magazine *is* actually promoting. If the LAT magazine is shown to be operating deceptively, in a manner such as that other magazine that is mentioned on this website, I will be extremely disappointed and will not support it.
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| Tuesday, April 16, 2002 - 04:30 pm Hi everyone, Been very busy and don't have time to fully respond yet, but I will later this week. Ronin
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| Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 03:21 pm Ok. Finally a minute to respond. For the record Yarrow is female. The Times veriffied that in their last article. She is a long term supporter of the Rent Wars project in its many different incarnations. She is a regular at Rent Wars events. I agree that we should try to stay on the topic and avoid personal attacks (ad hominem means against the person). But in Yarrow's defense, given the magnitude of the abuse that she has suffered, to hear a person display what could be taken as lack of concern or lack of understanding can really upsetting. When she discusses the problems of the homeless seeking shelter on the subways, she is noting the closeness of her situation to theirs. One corrupt judge could make her homeless overnight (but not without a fight in her case) A little compassion for the tenants under attack wouldn't hurt any of us. On the other hand, the exchange between Aka and Yarrow is very supportive of their mutual theory that the LAT hostility may have been regionally based, and based on lack of understanding of the NYC situation. As for the legitimacy of the LAT forum, I am raising questions. All I ask is that you consider the situation. Aka is certainly doing that. If at the end of my investigation I find something of interest. You can be certain that I will share it here. I also think that the LAT forum members and administrator have to consider their actions, and the effect those actis have on the professionalism of their forum. Ronin
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| Sunday, April 28, 2002 - 03:03 pm You managed to say New York Times again? Wouldn't it be less work to just do a banner for Rent Wars? Here's an idea for one: Rent Wars It was in the New York Times!
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| Sunday, April 28, 2002 - 07:39 pm Psssft! Oh do deflate my ego you sarcastic dogs, you. I missed the earlier "villianous intent" remark earlier. I can't help it if I'm tickled pink that the New York Times "gets" Rent Wars and it's animated parody. They are definitely well ahead of the pack on this. But once the paper of record has spoken I think it is obvious that people should pay attention and realize that Rent Wars is far more than an animation and take it seriously. Naturally, I am gratified that a number of political figures and legal stars have already appeared and have agreed to appear on the show. So, after considering your suggestion, I have decided to do the banner (only joking). Ok, ok, I'll try not to mention the Times in every post..... But please be understanding if I lapse periodically. In my defense, it was relevant to the conversation.
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