Shook the Spot

PERNICIOUS, SOUL-CRUSHING TREND ALERT

Comparing circumstances of chance to . . . wait for it . . . Match Point! Here is Jim Fallows, explaining the demise of Legal Affairs magazine in an interview with the Yale Daily News . . .

"It's just like the movie 'Match Point'," said Fallows, a national correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly. "If any number of things had broken the right way rather than the wrong way, it would have worked. It was not at all a problem of how [Legal Affairs] was managed. It just ran out of time to get lucky."

So true! When the tennis ball of rising costs clipped the net of legal journalism, it could have landed on either side of the court . . . of public opinion? It's a wonder that more people haven't whipped out the Match Point analogy. 'Cause it really applies to most any situation. Which is one of the many reasons the movie blows, and why comparing a real-life situation to a tortured metaphor that is itself based on a real-life situation is the dumbest shit ever. FALLOWS! [Shotgun blast]

Is there a good Match Point analogy to be had in the Cheney shooting? "The innocent are sometime slain to make way for grander schemes. You, Whittington, were collateral damage."