from the does-the-vampire-squid-have-a-lawyer? dept Perhaps Matt Taibbi’s most famous bit of writing ever was his takedown of Goldman Sachs in Rolling Stone (and then in a book that followed) that opened with the highly evocative metaphor: The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money. Even now, if you ask anyone about Taibbi’s writing, the phrase “great vampire squid”* is probably the most likely response. * For what it’s worth, contrary to the what you might think given the name, vampire squids are (1) not actually squids, (2) not bloodsucking as they’re actually described as gentle scavengers, and (3) pretty small. So, a question: how do you think that Matt Taibbi (who claims to be a giant free speech supporter) would react if Goldman Sachs had sued him back then claiming that they were not, literally, a cephalopod?…