And I'm always reluctant to put myself in the path of Providence, particularly when it looks to be toying with its subject. But I want February's court contest to be a decent matchup, and I sure don't want to see the bungling of the SLA legal team explained away by a lack of resources or, worse, see the taxpayers dinged to pick up the bill. Call Judge Ideman and BEG him to put you back in jail. You're worse off now than when you were in jail. When you are safely behind bars and the bail money is returned by the court, invest it.
Capitalism is grand.
Consider something like the Janus Olympus Fund or Fidelity's Japanese Small Companies Fund. Since you got out of the Los Angeles County jail, these two Morningstar 5-star funds have returned 37.52 and 113.92 percent, respectively. And you lost the sympathy advantage and the opportunity to do the Newsletter From Jail schtick. Again, aside from the intervention of Providence, I would not have believed someone could have squandered your advantages. I recognize that I have little chance at this point of getting a silk purse from a sow's ear, so I'm going to have to work with what I've got.