http://icanhascheezburger.com/2009/11/18/funny-pictures-video-kitteh-climbs-policeman/

Doesn’t seem to bad for people like Glenn Reynolds over at Instapundit. Record number of people taking the LSATs could mean a record number of law school applicants, which is pretty good job security if you’re on the teaching end of the lawyerin’.

anonanerd | November 18th, 2009 at 2:56 pm

Regarding the headless goat sport, rambo plays it in rambo 3

Stallone plays with goats.

Uh huh.

#31–agree with everything that has been said on the male rape issue. One of our country’s most shameful failings.

I think its what others have said here. So many of the twenty somethings that graduated from college can’t find jobs in their field, or with carer potential. My friend graduated with a four year degree just to move back in with his parents and work as a bellhop at a hotel until it downsized him less than a year later. With options like that I can see why going back to school has such appeal.

And don’t get me started on the hypocrisy in this country when it comes to male rape. When you include prisons more men in this country are raped every year than women and its considered a fucking joke.

Also, one of the important cost calculations in going to law school is the lost wages while in school. If you won’t have a job then that number is zero, decreasing the total cost.

well said. I had a family member who did prison time after pleaing to trumped up charges. she never denied her guilt- it was the punishment (and possible punishment if she didn’t plea) that blew her away. she witnessed a guard raping an inmate and she started getting messed with because of this. she ended up having a ruptured aneurysm and dying. she checked into the clinic, begging for help 8 times over two weeks. they told her she was ‘dehydrated’ and treated her with 2 ibuprofens for her headaches.

I see several issues- people being over-punished by prosecutors forcing plea bargains on inept public defenders, private medical contractors being shielded by the govt for horrible medical care, non-violent offenders being incarcerated with violent offenders, victimless crimes being prosecuted, and unbelievable violence being dished out by inmates and guards. as pointed out earlier, these inmates will probably be amongst us again- what kind of skills do we want them to have?

With the prison population we have, we’ll all be touched by this. I really hope none of this douchebag’s friends or family members are violated by a rapist, but it would be kind of poetic in a really ugly way.

As a lawyer myself, I agree this is a bad trend. Part of me thinks that it would be great if more people were educated about the law, but obviously more peopel are becoming lawyers becuase there’s too many laws and they are too confusing so lawyers are needed.

But my first thought isn’t exactly wrong: We seriously need to teach kids about the Constitution and what exactly it means and doesn’t mean and what it says beyond the frickin’ preamble.

I think a lot of it depends on your jurisdiction. I’m not sure where you practice but in Maryland we’re still steadfastly holding to the old common law rules. No duty is owed to trespassers. Contributory negligence and assumption of the risk are complete defenses. We’ve never even adopted an attractive nuisance doctrine (though failure to comply with county regulations about things like fencing in swimming pools in practice ends up being almost per se negligence even if the courts won’t explicitly say so). I’ve found that holding onto those old rules is pretty good at keeping the silliest of claimants from collecting. At least in this respect the old common law is much more in line with common sense and therefore much better at reaching conclusions that are logical and understood by laymen. Granted if you’re a member of the California bar you might disagree with me. :)

I agree that in principle having private parties settle their disputes through the tort system is a good thing. The only major problem in my opinion comes when you have opponents where one side vastly outmatches the other in resources to the point that plaintiff’s lawyers won’t even take the case for a generous contingency fee.

He graduated in May, passed the bar in July, and still has yet to find ANY job in the legal field. Can’t even get a job teaching LSAT classes. One of the problems is that top law schools tailor their career services to large law firms, so when these firms cut or discontinued their summer programs, their career counselors didn’t really know what to do. Smaller firms have in-roads with the second- and third-tier schools, so many won’t even bother to look at an applicant from a top-tier school (plus they figure if they do hire somebody they’ll bolt for a large firm as soon as the economy picks up).

I wasn’t telling the story for sympathy or anything, but the reality is most of these students made the decision (as I did six years ago) that the 95%+ placement rate of a top-ten law school warranted an investment of $150-200k. If you’re a kid who worked hard, got into the school, did well, and suddenly finds himself with $200k of debt and no job, well that sucks.

#12
Scientology makes it very difficult to be religiously tolerant.

Why? If we just treated them like anybody else who did the things they did, they’d end up in prison. No discrimination required.

All we have to do is stop giving them a free pass (one that comes not from being a religion, I think, but rather from slick lawyers and deep pockets)

Kinda’ a weak anecdote.

He didn’t have a job before graduating or he was unable the get a job for a period of time after graduating? And was he unable to find a job that he wanted at a top-tier law firm paying the salary he desired with chances to hang out with the powerful people, or was he just totally unemployable? I find the unqualified statement a little hard to swallow.