[lit-ideas] Re: Which Doctor's Excuse?
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 21:30:52 -0400
>>Blaming lawyers is a red herring.
It's easy to agree with almost everything Irene wrote in her
last post except this. Blaming lawyers is not a "red
herring," i.e., a sudden diversion created by placing a
colorful plate of artfully-arranged dried and smoked herring
in front of one's interlocutor. No. Blaming lawyers is a
tried and true activity, which carries the force and majesty
of the great religions. If Gandhi had blamed lawyers more
often, he wouldn't today be considered such a schmuck by the
vast majority of womankind. Alexander the Great, now that
was a lawyer-blamer's lawyer blamer, a real mensch who knew
how to dispense with lawyers and legalism by one stroke of
his anti-Gordian sword. Gandhi was a filthy person ...
[spits] ... and I shall speak of him no more.
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