Is anyone else having trouble viewing "The Trouble with Ordering Triples"? I keep getting a pageload error when I click on the, for lack of a better term, story continuation link.
I think those tidbits from the book were only supposed to be temporary. I get a "this webpage cannot be found" when I try to go to it.
His last two posts have made my Christmas shopping significantly easier. (and the vodka post has made my personal shopping better)
Sorry about that. I fixed the links and all the book excerpts (from "El Scorcho" back to "3-to-1") are now back up and will open in PDF form. I guess what happened is, for a time, they remained accessible from the server on which Rudius hosted them, but over the past couple weeks, the server erased them. Anyway, apologies on the inconvenience.
I don't know... I think you could discuss a lot of the economic aspects of the health care debate, or any other political issue with economic implications, without walking afoul of the "no politics" rule. Just limit discussion to the numbers, and why something does or doesn't work. One of the biggest impediments I see to sensible policy in this country is people want to inject moral, emotional and, in many cases, quasi-religious arguments into what ought to be a debate on a simple matter of math and logic. I don't care about the moral aspects of health care. And I don't think many other people do. That's not the interesting side of the issue. I want to know why we're doing something I think is economically foolish. Conversely, I'd like to hear someone tell me why I'm wrong, and the reform bill is economically sensible. No Republican or Democrat stuff. Just a polite back and forth about policy and how and why some work and some don't. I think you could do that here. You've done stuff like it on lots of other topics before. Hell, I was involved in one about tort reform a while back and it was pretty solid. No screaming. Just a back and forth of opposing views with policy explanations behind them.
Does this story ever get old? I had the distinct pleasure this fall of getting a cold from the employment director at my "fancy" law school inquiring about clerkship opportunities at my definitely not fancy law (read, insurance defense) firm. In fact, I believe the first question I was asked when interviewed at my firm was "What the fuck are you doing here?" (It's that kind of place, what can I say.) The lady who called, when she saw my transcript in second year eight years ago said "Yes, I don't think on-campus interviewing will be your best option." Now she's asking me how I can help her place law students. I just wonder what's going to happen when the horde of newly minted JD's show up in about three to five years. I suspect that's when I start selling insurance. More on topic -- Philalawyer, the new site is great. Your post on not going to law school should be permanently linked to the front of your site.
Oh, but Obama plans to give loan forgiveness to people who've been paying grad school debts off for 20 years. It's part of his new "help the middle class" campaign. If that actually happens, which I cannot imagine, you'll see loads of new suckers buying into the current bullshit story schools are feeding the kids - "In the fallout of globalization, law's a great career. It can never be fully outsourced." We all know the comeback, of course: "True, but a glut of practitioners can brutally devalue the skill set to a point where the purchasers will have so much leverage they'll be paying domestic lawyers something akin to the cost they would if it were outsourced. Why not just advertise, 'Law School! Work for Hyderabad wages in a Boston cost-of-living market!'" But you know what? Until Americans stop believing in narratives - And yes, I mean "Americans" because we are, along with certain pockets of uber-religious people in Islamic nations, easily persuaded by 'narratives' ("The American Dream," "God's in control," "We're unique, like no other empire that fell before," etc...) - people will keep going into things like law. They'll hear all the bad about it, and all the good, and instead of weighing them against one another and carefully deciding, they'll be suckered by the romantic arguments ("I'll be important," "I'll be respected") and the fantasy of shows like "The Deep End." And they'll keep buying into a fiction. They'll read stuff like this, or hear your warnings and dismiss them, calling you a cynic. They'll hang out at legal education industry propaganda sites like <a class="postlink" href="http://www.Top-law-Schools.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.Top-law-Schools.com</a> and <a class="postlink" href="http://www.LawSchoolDiscussion.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.LawSchoolDiscussion.com</a>, absorbing rosy pictures of the profession and ignore <a class="postlink" href="http://www.Abovethelaw.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.Abovethelaw.com</a>, <a class="postlink" href="http://www.BitterLawyer.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.BitterLawyer.com</a> or my site. They'll "believe" they're special. And they'll buy deans of law schools shiny new Jaguars, year in, year out.
What was that one story where you ended it with "After that I promised myself I would never do coke again. And I didn't. For about six months" I love that one, but I can't find it.
Sorry I haven't written anything on my site, here, or anywhere else but Twitter in some time. I'm still alive... <a class="postlink" href="http://www.brobible.com/story/13160387/five-worst-profanities-slurs-and-insults" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.brobible.com/story/13160387/ ... nd-insults</a> Hope all's well.
Yea, sure your sorry. Now stop sniveling like another motherfucking cocksucking twatwhore from the fucktard factory and go sit and spin in a pile of Michael Vick's dogshit, you Philadelphia faggot! How's that? Oh, yea. Good to see you writing again.