The Heretik: Heaven Help Us: You’re right, I would imagine book could be on Libby’s mind if his income is gone. For now. He has children. Don’t know for certain, but seems now, chidren would be on his mind greatly. Knowing a bit about the book pub industry… believe me Heretik, they are a-coming after him with all flags burning. There are department heads in publishing who are devoted solely to snaring folks just like him. He would not have to seek them.

Rudi: You’re accurate. Ought to have put the word ‘Prison’ in the first sentence with quote marks. In the body of the piece I made sure to call it rightly ‘jail.’ You wrote a good pithy description re difference between the two. There was originally a para in this piece about how some in media were touting her jail term as though the big women from lockup were going to ..a la B movies…do her in, that they had prison rock and jail-time mixed up. I wanted to differentiate for those who might not know. But the piece kept getting longer and longer… People will read your comment here though, and it will be much clearer for us all. Thank you.

dr.e.

Nonetheless, as an adjunct to her celebrity status cultivation plan, a couple of weeks “of doing time” is going to just skyrocket her fame and actually give her a little dose of real “street-cred”. She may even get a chance to cultivate some more connections to score her coke. As Martha Stewart discovered, it is actually a “celebrity rejuvenating” experience.

On the Libby side, Doctor, have you found a man/woman “on the street” that really can recite the Libby issue to you? He is a non-event to all but inside the Beltway and the Blogosphere. And within those two “recirculated air” compartments, it is way more about politics than jurisprudence.