Earlier this week on January 23, Dunning wrote:
Mike was kind enough to write in and provide us with the full email which was in response to a completely different topic:
John Lofland's guest commentary this morning asked, "How literally/seriously should we take anything that Bob Dunning says?" I think we see that the answer is we ought to treat everything he says with a grain of salt because it is clear at least to this blogger, that we're not getting the full story.
---Doug Paul Davis reporting
THOSE BAYING LEGAL BEAGLES … last week I mentioned in this space the persistent rumor that legal types are examining the various blogs in town for possible causes of action, an observation that struck a chord with my friend Mike at aol.com … writes Mike: "You hit the nail on the head better than you could know when you said there are lawyers trolling the area for suits, and I don't mean Brooks Brothers." … amen, Mike, you're the one hitting nails on the head …So it turns out Mike at aol.com writes me to clarify that his email to Dunning was "cherry-picked" and distorted.
Adds Mike: "There is nothing that turns those guys on but a great mystery to open that journey down the long and winding road to truth (and discovery), and the pot o' gold at the end of the rainbow. All it takes is someone who got wrecked and hankers after a king-size settlement to get the ball rolling." …
An interesting observation, indeed, given that various bloggers in town continue to pump out actionable libel and defamation nearly every day of the week, perhaps under the mistaken impression that "anonymous" blogs are no-holds-barred free-for-alls where the usual rules of law are suspended … they aren't, which is a lesson some of them will no doubt learn in the near future …
Mike was kind enough to write in and provide us with the full email which was in response to a completely different topic:
howdy there-Mike's comment was most likely in reference to the exchange in Dunning's January 11, 2007 column:
you know I think you hit the nail on the head better than you could (yet) know when you said there are lawyers trolling the area for suits...& I don't mean Brooks Brothers...
there is nothing that turns those guys on but a great mystery to open 'that journey down the long and winding road to truth' (called discovery), and the pot'o'gold at the end of a rainbow.
all it takes is someone who got wrecked and hankers after a King-size settlement...
...as in Rodney _________________...
to get the ball rolling, as it is. but innocent town folk may ask, why should we get the Bill. And therein lies the justice of the American way:
each and severally.
those who shirk their duties, or do the legal opposite, should pay.
anyway, have a nice holiday...
Writes Larry at sbcglobal.net: "Bob — Your analysis of the Target vs. Downtown debate is so truthful, so logical and so sensible I can already guess next Sunday's Enterprise headline: CAVE sues Dunning and Enterprise."But, of course Dunning used the words of Mike to give it an entirely new and unintended meaning.
Don't laugh, Larry … there are Bay Area lawyers scouring Yolo County caves for clients even as we speak...
John Lofland's guest commentary this morning asked, "How literally/seriously should we take anything that Bob Dunning says?" I think we see that the answer is we ought to treat everything he says with a grain of salt because it is clear at least to this blogger, that we're not getting the full story.
---Doug Paul Davis reporting
