Conrad Black, left [Photo: canada.com], is suing an author for allegedly defaming Black's wife.
Danny Williams, right [Photo: Greg Locke], is threatening to sue people for defamation.What's the difference?
Well, much like the grumpy-looking visages, there isn't much of a difference actually. At least on this point.
Except, maybe that Black's lawsuit demonstrates both a breathtaking command of obscure words that mean really bad things and an almost fetishistic penchant for hyphens.
Danny Williams likes short sentence. Crisp ones. Half sentences. Fragments really. Sometimes half-thoughts.
The purpose is both cases is the same: people with money, power and a penchant for free speech seek to chill free speech for others through the use of the courts.
Bonus points on this snow storm Tuesday for anyone who could read about Black's law suit and didn't have to look up harridan and slattern.