Schadenfreude

W.C. Fields is supposed to have said that he dealt with temptation by giving in immediately.  You save a lot of time that way.  In the same spirit, I am not going to delay taking pleasure in the misfortune of Gabriel Schwartz, a Colorado delegate to the Republican National Convention in St. Paul.  On the night of Sarah Palin's acceptance speech, the 29-year-old personal injury lawyer from Denver met a hot babe in a Minneapolis bar.  They repaired to a room at a nearby luxury hotel, where she mixed drinks.  That is pretty much the last thing Mr. Schwartz remembers.  He woke up alone several hours later and discovered that he was missing

• his $30,000 watch
• his $20,000 ring
• his $5,000 necklace
• his $4,000 earrings
• his $1,000 belt
• his $1,000 wallet
• his $1,500 cell phone
• $500 cash

The well accessorized Mr. Schwartz had earlier been interviewed by Link TV on the convention floor.  You can view it by following the link in this post  from Talking Points Memo.  Warning: the Republican delegate and personal injury lawyer is probably even more repulsive than you anticipate.  The account of the St. Paul Pioneer Press is here.   I checked out the website of Mr. Schwartz's firm and learned that he is "moderately fluent" in Russian and Spanish and that he "graduated in the top 33 percent" of his law school class. 

I am going to make a call on Mr. Schwartz:  there is no chance he graduated in the top 30 percent of his class, and a considerable one that he was not in the top half.