tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post7013621375585163554..comments2024-03-29T10:10:40.315-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/29/24: Attorney Ed Genson, friend of the guiltyNeil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-37115660284530683052020-04-16T13:09:47.485-05:002020-04-16T13:09:47.485-05:00Mobbed-up shysters were yet another reason why a g...Mobbed-up shysters were yet another reason why a great many people would roll their eyes and smirk at you when you told them you were from Chicago. But his kind of lawyer, and the criminals he got off, are fading away and becoming just another part of my town's sordid history. Changing times and shifting demographics have provided folks with other reasons to sneer and smirk at Chicago, and Chicagoans, but this is neither the time nor the place for all that. <br /><br />I'm a Chicago boy, so I'm a life-long cynic, and even perversely proud of Chicago's "rep." My birthplace was often called "The City That Works", and that last word has always had multiple meanings. When you're a nice Jewish boychik from the 1950s West Side, and you're not a mope, and you pass the bar exam and your old man is a bailiff and a precinct captain, Chicago is gonna work for you, too. One hand will wash the other. Move along, pal, nothing to see here.Grizz 65https://www.blogger.com/profile/02892702223228764894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-29676432654521205902020-04-16T10:28:18.103-05:002020-04-16T10:28:18.103-05:00One can only hope that like Marley in "The Ch...One can only hope that like Marley in "The Christmas Carol" that Ed Genson is spending his time in the hereafter weighed down with a chain of cashboxes filled with the money he got for saving criminals from justice. People like him were accurately described in the book of Proverbs as an abomination for protecting the wicked.Zonkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17924587109596922187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-83381895490491437372020-04-16T09:46:07.452-05:002020-04-16T09:46:07.452-05:00"At what point do you write that death finall..."At what point do you write that death finally came for him, filing a motion he could not quash?" Brings to mind a metaphor from "Aubade," Phillip Larkins great poem about an early morning contemplation of death: "The anesthetic from which none come around."<br /><br />Tom Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-33718470181062883072020-04-16T09:42:39.857-05:002020-04-16T09:42:39.857-05:00Once I consulted an attorney about something or ot...Once I consulted an attorney about something or other, and after our business was done, we chatted a bit about our respective careers. He mentioned that he had started out as a criminal defense attorney.<br /><br />"Why didn't you stick with criminal law?" I asked.<br /><br />"Well, the problem with criminal law is that you represent people who are...who are..."<br /><br />I suggested, "Criminals?"<br /><br />He nodded. "And if they can't obey society's rules on how to behave, why would they obey any rules about paying my fee?"Bitter Scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04645909858616987997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-64266092166140091062020-04-16T08:20:24.919-05:002020-04-16T08:20:24.919-05:00I have no respect, let alone any use for Andrea Zo...I have no respect, let alone any use for Andrea Zopp!<br />When she prosecuted Mel Reynolds, she locked up one of his victims for days at 26th & Cal to force her to testify against him. <br />It doesn't matter how disgusting a creep Reynolds was & apparently still is, you don't lock up victims to force them to testify!Clark St.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09634234069783123180noreply@blogger.com