Blame Ide for America's problems

[CountDeMoney]

But you get to meet so many interesting people.

[Capetan Mihali]

But you get to meet so many interesting people.

Indeed; the $16.50/hour is nice, but the endless jail phone calls are much nicer.

[Admiral Yi]

Capetano's a rara avis.  He had no interest in law school but had no choice but to go once Harvard accepted him.  Then he asked himself the question what the fuck am I going to do with this degree.

Unless of course this is all stuff he said in Teh Back Room, in which case I'm just guessing. 

[Ed Anger]

Somebody's been sampling the malbec again tonight.

No, just the Ren & Stimpy.

Fire Dogs was the peak of Ren& Stimpy sadly

[Capetan Mihali]

Capetano's a rara avis.  He had no interest in law school but had no choice but to go once Harvard accepted him.  Then he asked himself the question what the fuck am I going to do with this degree.

Unless of course this is all stuff he said in Teh Back Room, in which case I'm just guessing. 

That's only half-true.  I did want to be a PD from the outset; you have to line up your first summer internship at the end of your first semester of law school, and I only applied to PD offices.  Then took all the criminal law courses my 2nd year and did another PD internship.  Then did the criminal defense workshop/clinic and represented people in Roxbury my 3rd year (while spending the whole year applying unsuccessfully for PD jobs).

No interest in being a lawyer generally?  That's fair.

[Scipio]

Just ossum.

Who thinks lawyers matter? Not most lawyers.

[Ideologue]

But you get to meet so many interesting people.

Indeed; the $16.50/hour is nice, but the endless jail phone calls are much nicer.

You know what I clearly need to do?  Take and pass the bar so I can expand my earning potential.  Jesus Herbert Christ.

[jimmy olsen]

Posted mainly for the image. We're at the dangerous 'unemployed lawyer' phase

Can we have a link to the article?

[Ideologue]

I think you're being a bit disingenuous Log.  People generally don't go to law school with the aspiration of making median salary.

I think you may have, however unintentionally, made my point with greater vigor and brevity than I ever could.  USA!

[grumbler]

Posted mainly for the image. We're at the dangerous 'unemployed lawyer' phase

Can we have a link to the article?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%22Complex+human+societies%2C+including+our+own%2C+are+fragile.+They+are+held+together+by+an+invisible+web+of+mutual+trust+and+social+cooperation.+This+web+can+fray+easily%2C+resulting+in+a+wave+of+political+instability%2C+internal+conflict+and%2C+sometimes%2C+outright+social+collapse.%22

[grumbler]

I think you may have, however unintentionally, made my point with greater vigor and brevity than I ever could.  USA!

I hate to tell you this, Ide, but that's no great accomplishment for the rest of us. 

[The Brain]

Somebody's been sampling the malbec again tonight.

No, just the Ren & Stimpy.

Fire Dogs was the peak of Ren& Stimpy sadly

Me and my friends have watched Fire Dogs a lot. A lot.

[Admiral Yi]

I think you may have, however unintentionally, made my point with greater vigor and brevity than I ever could.  USA!

I don't follow.  You claimed you went to law school because you wanted to be "just middle class."  I think you went to law school with the intention of being much more than "just middle class."

[Malthus]

So, are we gonna hunt Ide down, or what? 

[Ideologue]

I think you may have, however unintentionally, made my point with greater vigor and brevity than I ever could.  USA!

I don't follow.  You claimed you went to law school because you wanted to be "just middle class."  I think you went to law school with the intention of being much more than "just middle class."

Your notion that median income means a middle class lifestyle such as enjoyed by our parents is hilariously out of date.  In SC, a household of two people making $42k a year (God forbid with kids) are not middle class.

I make well over the median wage, and I ain't middle class such as is, or was, routinely understood.  However, if you insist that things such as owning a modest home or a car less than ten years old are badges of an upper-class income, I'll concede the point as I don't wish to engage in a purely semantic argument.