The Return of A3G:
David Lat, aka Article III Groupie, has left the U.S. Attorney's Office in New Jersey and is on his way to DC. Just a few minutes ago, Underneath Their Robes returned and A3G put up a new post announcing that the blog is back online. Comments are open, too, if you want to drop a note. Thanks to Michael Cernovich for the info.
I'm sure he'll go off and get paid $300,000 to have someone ghost-write his autobiography, which will sell a few thousand copies. Such is modern day America. But his UTR website will NEVER be the same. He had a good thing going and he ruined it by being selfish, unable to be satisfied by and through anonymous credit.
Face it: Mr. Lat's site has lent more than a little glamour and pizazz to a profession most normal people consider very dry and dull indeed. Aren't you grateful he put a little color back in our cheeks with his daily offbeat tales of people like us who aren't so ordinary after all?
He's our collective Auntie Mame. Whatever the site becomes, I for one am glad it's back.
Furthermore, it's dollars to doughnuts all the people endlessly nattering on about how dreadful it is he's a dude will *keep on reading his blog anyway*. WON'T YOU. heh.
Viva la A3G!
Who cares if it's a guy writing that john roberts is handsome? Are you so uncomfortable with the existence of homosexuality that knowing a man, writing in a woman's voice, is expressing those sentiments ruins a blog?
Grow up.
Really? The folks welcoming Lat/A3G back include, as one person aptly noted, "a veritable who's who of the legal blogging community." I agree that someone is "gravely and unfortunately mistaken," although I suspect we'd disagree over whom that someone is.
paa. "Are you so uncomfortable with the existence of homosexuality that knowing a man, writing in a woman's voice, is expressing those sentiments ruins a blog?
Grow up."
These bizarre type comments should just go unaddressed but they are so blatantly illogical that it's hard not to take the bait.
What on earth does it have to do with homophobia to feel that an "outed" persona no longer works? If a person cannot distinguish between a work of fiction in which an author speaks in the voice of a character, and a real time legal blog whose raison d'etre was the intriguing (to some) concept of a bodacious babe with legal smarts charming her way through the corriders of legal power and getting fed legal tidbits to which the readers would not otherwise have access, that's unfortunate.
I might also add, to paa, "Are you so uncomfortable with the existence of homosexuality" that the suggestion that if those are Lat's sentiments, he express them now in his own voice offends you?
But the comments here, especially after Lat outed himself, talked a lot about how disturbing it was that a man could be saying that judges are "hotties."
Perhaps you could read the FIRST comment to this post, which expresses distate about "A 30 year old guy salivating over CJ Roberts."
It is hard to me to see that as anything but homophobia. These commenters are uncomfortable with a man saying another man is handsome. It's not that lat is outed, it's that he's a man, saying other men are hot.
That's different than the "wow, what a hottie he is underneath his robes, leer, leer, now let me go out and buy some new clothes" approach. It's one thing in the abstract, but any male or female lawyer over a certain very young age who owned up to being that "voice" wouldn't get a whole lot of respect, imho.
If the tone of conversation makes you uncomfortable, stick to reading SCOTUSblog. To each his own!
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"Life's a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death." ~Auntie Mame.