“…and what it says about our culture“.
Chronicling the high cost of our legal system
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Schools for Misrule
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I think of the guild as having an intellectual monopoly over the rules which govern all transactions in a theoretically free-society. What’s more, a person can find himself in serious peril for even attempting to participate in the society’s rituals without first being academically indoctrinated and then successfully completing their test.
Funny tidbit from the Economist article one link through, making the case that lawyers have infiltrated the Obama administration: did you know that BOTH the current attorney general AND the current solicitor general are LAWYERS?!!1!
Boy, when they find out that the Surgeon General has an MD, maybe they’ll launch an investigation into how the medical profession came to dominate politics…
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