"In December 1970 Dirk sued Stig and Nasty, Barry sued Dirk, Nasty sued Stig and Barry, and Stig sued himself accidentally. It was the end of a golden era, and the beginning of another one for lawyers everywhere."    -- The Rutles' sad, litigious last days, described in the mockumentary, All You Need is Cash CP reports:

Former Martin chief of staff Terrie O'Leary and the Earnscliffe Strategy Group, also associated with the Martin camp, each gave notice to Warren Kinsella that they intend to sue him for libel for comments he made about polling contracts they were involved in a decade ago... In recent testimony to a Commons committee, Kinsella, a former Liberal staffer and staunch Chretien supporter, suggested Martin and his staff meddled in opinion polling contracts awarded by the Finance Department when Martin was minister in the 1990s. But Kinsella then posted some of his comments to the committee on his website and that, say lawyers for O'Leary and Earnscliffe, crossed the line.

Meanwhile, Kinsella is suing, or threatening to sue, PMO spokesman Scott Reid for describing his testimony about Earnscliffe as "lies." The Martin government, for its part, is suing eight individuals and eleven companies with connections to the Liberal party to recover $41-million in public funds. Not to be outdone, Alfonso Gagliano is suing the Martin government for wrongful dismissal, as are former Crown corporation chiefs Marc LeFrancois, Jean Pelletier, and Michel Vennat. (What about Andre Ouellet? -- ed. No, he resigned.) Jean Chretien, last, is suing to have Judge Gomery removed from the inquiry that bears his name. Have I missed anyone? Is there anyone in what remains of the Liberal government who is not suing another person connected with that government? I can refer them to some surprisingly affordable legal counsel.