{"id":2,"date":"2010-08-29T21:48:01","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T01:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-02-14T17:25:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T22:25:38","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About Sidebar"},"content":{"rendered":"

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…a lawsuit is really great fun. It brings some interest into life, with coming and going and raging over it.\u00a0 You will have a great deal to do…\u201d \u2013\u00a0 Honor\u00e9 de Balzac, The Country Parson and Albert Savaron<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

That’s how I first introduced this blog called Sidebar for Plaintiffs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was September, 2010. For the previous three years I’d been involved in a lawsuit against some people who thoroughly deserved being sued. On December 29, 2014 — seven eventful years after I filed the complaint — my lawyer and I settled the lawsuit for a satisfactory amount. Well, really, more than satisfactory.<\/p>\n

During those years, I used Sidebar to tell the story of my lawsuit, through which I hoped to give readers so much specific and personal information about the entire process, they could relax and participate in good spirits with their own lawsuits. Thus, the Balzac quote.<\/p>\n

When my lawsuit ended, Sidebar and I began to venture into wider territory. Into things that amuse me, horrify me, make me think, and wonder. Like animals.<\/a><\/p>\n

And about my book, How I Learned The Facts of Life: Living With The News.<\/em><\/p>\n

Now in Sidebar, I’ve been applying the great lessons I learned in separating facts from opinion and facts from fakes by, say, critiquing news stories that have more attitude than actual news.<\/a><\/p>\n

Some short versions of chapters from How I Learned The Facts of Life<\/em> also appear in Sidebar.<\/a><\/p>\n

By the way, your readership of Sidebar<\/strong> has been gratifying. In December 2024, the monthly hits totaled over 448,000, from pretty much every country in the world, even some tiny ones I’d never heard of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…a lawsuit is really great fun. It brings some interest into life, with coming and going and raging over it.\u00a0 You will have a great deal to do…\u201d \u2013\u00a0 Honor\u00e9 de Balzac, The Country Parson and Albert Savaron That’s how … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t