joel pink invents CHUTZPAH : “my client should serve less time for strangling victim because he’s got PTSD - from strangling the victim”

CHUTZPAH is a dish best served pink

I can’t help thinking that Joel Pink and Roy Cohn would have made one heck of a great Doubles Act, back in the days of Vaudeville.

Cohn would be Costello, staking out the most outrageous legal arguments in the most flamboyant and over the top manner possible.

Pink would play Abbott, also advancing the most outlandishly impossible legal arguments, but with as straight a face and a calm  and respectful manner as possible.

Both really really great actors : as hammy as two goys on a pig farm.

With Cohn few would question my characteristic of him as great Ham - but Pink - most would disagree.

But for me,  the best “tell” as to Pink’s true character is his frequent, even excessive use of an terse, emphatic “OK ?”to punctuate (for mere milli-seconds) the ongoing rush of his argument.

Others with this particular type of character failure may use “Right?” or “Yes?” or - in the UK - “Yeah?” but what binds them all is they do not seriously pause, to give the other party to the conversation time to actually raise objections that the rhetorical question appears to invite.

We all have friends who speak like this, nice enough people sure, but shall we say..er.. that they are not much troubled by self doubt.

And lack of internal self doubt is what always marks the true HAM...