| | The post from Lindsay Perigo can be found verbatim on several websites. Like the funny outtakes from church bulletins ("... Mr. and Mrs. Smith and their sin, Robert,...") and the supposedly true answers from school tests and essays ( "H2O is hot water, and CO2 is cold water") and more, these allegedly true courtroom stories have no attributions or authentications. Disorder in the American Court: Great Fractured Moments by Charles Sevilla (1993) is the most likely original source.
At least two serious books also have the title Disorder in the Court. Gene Edward Veith wrote: "They [the Founders -- of the American republic, not the Gamma quadrant] could never have conceived of postmodernist legal theory, which recognizes no fixed, objective meaning in the law; which believes interpretation of the law is an arbitrary construction; which believes statutes and the Constitution itself are ever-evolving, relativistic paradigms that can be used to impose the judge's personal opinion." The American Legislative Exchange Council published Disorder in the Court: a guide for state legislators (2001). ALEC is a bipartisan, Jeffersonian organization committed to the free market. (http://www.alec.org/)
As for the lawyer jokes, humor is humor and fine enough as it is, I suppose, but would you really want to live in a society without lawyers? America has so many lawyers per capita because we really are a nation based on rule of law where people have rights.
Newt Gingrich once said that he could bring America's healthcare costs down dramatically overnight. Just follow the Canadian prescription and let people die. If we just threw people in jail or shot them or basically let people act any way they choose without consequences, then lawyers would be unnecessary.
How about a philosopher joke:
Dean, to the physics department. "Why do I always have to give you guys so much money, for laboratories and expensive equipment and stuff. Why couldn't you be like the math department - all they need is money for pencils, paper and waste-paper baskets. Or even better, like the philosophy department. All they need are pencils and paper."
(http://www.workjoke.com/projoke70.htm)
Michael (inconveniently not Bruce)
Immauel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable! Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table! David Hume could outconsume...
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