Obligatory symbolism: kayak = small business. Shark = lawyer or IRS.
An employee, who knows who he is, left to go to law school. I cautioned “you’ve got to be crazy”. Even worse, he wants to be a software patent/IP lawyer, an area I think stifles innovation and is just generally wrongly and unevenly applied. But I like him, so I even sent his school a recommendation letter. So it pains me to write this… it’s a terrible time to get a job as a lawyer.
And that is a GOOD THING. We have too many lawyers, acting too much like sharks that eat and don’t know why.
Layoffs of lawyers is GOOD. Law students claiming their education was a fraud is a GOOD thing. Lawyers rationalize stupid inane acts that everybody knows is wrong, except them, for a living. So LESS lawyers is good for the nation. Alas, not for them, but… their profession has earned our enmity, if just by how many of them are in Congress screwing us up.
What can they do now? We need more Computer Scientists. They would be surprised how much the If clauses in contracts are similar to If statements in software.
September 15th, 2010 at 9:36 am
Lawyers are generally scum. I’m sitting in a courtroom right now getting ready to watch one lawyer lose her dignity defending a wife beater.
September 15th, 2010 at 9:53 am
Judges suck too. This one has kept everyone waiting 25 minutes and counting. Only his time is important, I guess.what’s worse than your run of the mill lawyer? One with a little bit of authority.their egos barely fit in the courtroom.
September 15th, 2010 at 10:11 am
judges used to be lawyers, before they got even more arrogant and silly
September 15th, 2010 at 10:16 am
99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
September 15th, 2010 at 10:46 am
Sounds like advocates for the rule of law arguing against the practicalities of a rule of law. What alternative form of governance and dispute resolution would they like? You can’t have rule of law without lawyers and judges, due process, and the right for each side to be heard before a disinterested tribunal. Since God in heaven is not available to resolve disputes, we use fallible humans in a system designed to first discover truth before passing judgment.
September 15th, 2010 at 10:51 am
So we don’t like lawyers, so there fore we are AGAINST THE RULE OF LAW. Nice try Mr. Debater but we don’t fall for those moves.
Simple change…. the LOSER ought to pay.
September 15th, 2010 at 10:54 am
That was great. An hour and a half in court, and the victim no-shows, even though she had a subpeona. Now we try again next week. It took two footpursuits and a vehicle pursuit to catch this guy. She should be sent a bill for several hundred man hours, and four helicopter hours. Then she should be arrested for contempt of a court order.
September 15th, 2010 at 11:02 am
I am an advocate of the rule of law. However, I abhorre corrupt legal systems, over-litigation and imprudent laws.
I believe whole-heartedly in the rule of law. I simply believe that the laws should be straight-forward enough for any educated man to understand them and that lawsuits deemed “frivolous” should be paid for by those who bring them.
September 15th, 2010 at 11:03 am
#7… Yep. But don’t hold breath. Your more likely to get in trouble for commenting about it.
September 15th, 2010 at 1:20 pm
And the feminazis wonder why cops get jaded and indifferent to domestic violence cases. Not me, of course, but a lot of other cops.