But if Abercrombie's experience discourages others with flimsy arguments for incorporation shopping, then some good has come from this.
Faced with this overwhelming logic, Rivlin offers only flimsy arguments for turning Social Security's fate over to her Commission: "Polls," she writes, "indicate that many (younger workers) do not believe they will ever collect a Social Security paycheck".
Yet it is a flimsy line of argument.
That is a shockingly flimsy argument — any data might be "relevant" to an investigation eventually, if by "eventually" you mean "sometime before the end of time".
But neither that eventuality nor the flimsy argument that there was nothing to be done for Solidarity explains Washington's behavior.
But the department's appellate brief also recycled the flimsy argument that the law had a plausible purpose in trying to maintain the federal status quo while states debated the issue of same-sex marriage.
The need for fiscal stimulus requires a rethink around debt and borrowing and the whole flimsy argument that underpinned austerity.
He gave the speech at a previously mothballed building site, constructing a series of flimsy arguments about the country's recovery and his performance as Chancellor.
In a sound ruling last week, a federal judge in Illinois rebuffed this flimsy argument.
What was surprising, and a bit distressing, was the flimsy arguments Republicans made for opposing her confirmation.
