awhatsname

sugartitties

Also, "There was talk of Jeremy Piven playing me in a movie." Have sadder words EVER been said?

sugartitties

awhatsname

clariss

I think he probably just got confident and lazy

RatATatKat

vibe-rater

AndIAmTellingYou

Blucheez

YourGoldKeith

FitnessMadeSimple

BalknChain

angrykeyboarder

As in all mercantile matters, the market ought guide itself: your basic consumer is far more exacting and discriminating than any bureaucrat.

And your basic consumer is very aware that not all transactions of currency-for-goods-or-services are equal.

This is where Spitzer made his fatal error.

He never seems to have imagined or guessed at the "upper limit" of the particular game he was buying into.

There are are great many very, very wealthy married men who frequent prostitutes often, but who also know that a divorce would cost them a pretty penny.

In other words, they are very careful about how they fool around. They know how the game is played. They know how to move money around in ways that don't attract unwanted attention, from the IRS or a spouse.

But poor Spitzer was a newbie. Scrambling and over-eager. He thought the high price he was paying for his women was in itself assurance that he was in a world where such play was protected.

Are people who use Zagat Survey arrogant?

Maybe. Or perhaps they can't imagine that there's a higher standard.

Hamud Ibn Hamud

But it does beg the larger question - should there be industry standards for diamond-rating our nation's whore supply? Should ISO perhaps, or maybe FASB get involved? I know an esteemed public servant who is looking for a job, he might be the perfect choice for presiding over such an august ratings panel.

PattyCake

Reggie Cameron

Final

Please.

If there were no other reason to mistrust this particular pimp's "smart shopping," it would be this.

Capitalism is, if anything, brutal.

There is, for example, a *significant* difference between a stay in a hospital that costs $1000 per night, and one that costs $4000.

That said, not *all* $4000-per-night hospitals are the same.

Some $4000-per-night hospitals are $4000-per-night hospitals in name only.

To get your money's worth takes some research and maybe even calling-in a few markers around town.

It's on this brass-tacks level where Spitzer betrayed himself.

He thought himself a "high roller," a genuine player. Although, in the big world of men who frequent pricey prostitutes, there are thousands of men who could easily have bought and sold Spitzer a million times over.

Spitzer was too giddy about how far he'd come up in the world, too dizzy about the fact that he could afford a $5K-per-night hooker, that he never bothered to do his basic "Consumer Reports" cost/benefit research about the world of hiring $5K-per-night hookers.

Such is the frequent fate of the arriviste: an attraction to the dazzle, without any thought to the dazzle's context.

Hamud Ibn Hamud

contradicto

LeGagneur

It's very loud.

MykalBloom

missdelite

dollars_and_sense

Goober_Pea

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