Aristo-con games . . .

ACCORDING TO THE GLOBE & MAIL, Connie's gonna sue: "Conrad Black gets okay to sue for libel". Jacquie McNish and Cigdem Iltan report that

Conrad Black has won court approval to sue prominent U.S. politicians and business people such as Henry Kissinger and Richard Breeden under Canada’s strict libel laws.

A panel of three judges with the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled Friday that Lord Black is entitled to proceed in Ontario courts with libel lawsuits against nine former Hollinger International Inc. officers and directors who accused him of running a “corporate kleptocracy” at the Chicago-based newspaper company.

Careful, Connie, you might get more than you wished for . . . 

Stay right where you are Lord Tubby

The US Supreme Court thinks you have a pretty good life in a Florida federal jail.

Black had asked to be released on bail pending his appeal. But justice John Paul Stevens denied the request.

"It is ordered that the application of Conrad M Black for bail pending appeal is denied," Stevens said in an order released by the court.

The supreme court probably will hear arguments until late this year and a decision is unlikely before late winter.

Ah, but the fruit on the trees matches the jumpsuit so well.

Don't drop the soap, Conrad. That won't be Mark Steyn up your ass.

Hat tip reader Cat.

Barbara Amiel considers the plight of people who spend under $2,000 on a handbag

Amiel : "If ostensibly privileged defendants like us can be baselessly smeared, wrongly deprived, falsely accused, shamelessly persecuted . . . what happens to the vulnerable, the powerless, the working-class people whose savings have been eaten up trying to defend themselves?"

This marks, to my knowledge, the first time that such a consideration has ever crossed the rightwing mind of Baroness Black of Crossharbour, but it's fitting, I guess, given that her title is named after a public transit subway stop in London.

Here's another good question, Barbara : What happens to the national reputation of a prime minister who crosses your husband's ambition to join the British peerage if your husband owns the National Post?

Cross-posted at Creekside