Lionel works in "the very hairiest end of debt collection" and goes to jail regularly for extortion and burglary.
Lionel has something "to do with the very hairiest end of debt collection" and usually goes to prison on charges of "Extortion With Menaces and Receiving Stolen Property".
The youngest of the seven mostly criminal and largely dysfunctional children his mother bore by the age of 19, Lionel works at "the very hairiest end of debt collection".
Bankruptcy professors are known for their exciting social lives, and thus the previous weekend found me flipping through the annual reports of several bond funds to see what was happening in the "spicy" end of debt investing.
Frustrated with the "pity fest" of the Live 8 jamboree and of celebrities crowning themselves saviours of Africa, a crew from the London-based Chew on It Productions set off to Ghana to find out what those at the receiving end of "debt relief" made of it all.
"I'm certainly at the higher end of debt of anyone that I know," Chacon says, "and to a certain degree it affects what I can do".
But for the tea party--the House radicals and their fellow travelers--the end of Debt Ceiling Crisis of 2011 may loom as the great opportunity lost.
