Legal Commentary

European Schadenfreude.
For a week or so, anyway. London's The Economist, America's tough but appreciative new Mom, ran this gem on October 1, which begins: One by one, European leaders have lined up to hail the triumph of welfare over Wall Street...

Schadenfreude.
Schadenfreude is, by definition, rather satisfying.  See this Above the Law post (here), which also contains a nifty Marine Corps reference ("Welcome to the suck.")

Schadenfreude at the Hampton Inn
New York Times: Waiting for Schadenfreude, by Judith Warner: [I]n the whole winner-take-all-era ushered in by the boom years of the late 1990s ... [t]he model for success narrowed. The goal posts marking success grew more out of reach...

Amazon: In the Zone.
And how nice for you. Americans do "small" pretty well; we've raised it to an art form in some circles and regions. But certainly we are more attractive when we enter the No Schadenfreude Zone...

sad guys on trading floors
you like schadenfreude, right? i know you like schadenfreude.fengi posted a link to sad guys on trading floors...a site that's exactly what it sounds like. it's pictures of unhappy-looking financial traders with snarky comments accompanying them...

Schadenfreude Pie
No link sausages today. Instead, I'm serving up slices of schadenfreude pie. I'll start out with the settlement of a malicious prosecution lawsuit... against the law firm, to the tune of $25 million...