;-)
Posted on 10/27/2005 12:40:24 AM PDT by Do not dub me shapka broham
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Slate? De overkill kill ya.
Be nice.
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"Mark Obbie was editor and publisher of Texas Lawyer newspaper when Harriet Miers led the State Bar of Texas. Obbie teaches journalism and media law at Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and is the former executive editor of The American Lawyer. "
For the people who will attack the author as not knowing what he's talking about.
Well, there is mediocrity, and then there are such things as outstanding mediocrity and mediocre mediocrity, too. Further, we ought to consider that somebody brilliant could indeed jump out of the judicial gown and desolate the whole country - one never knows what to expect of them. Thus a plodding mediocrity is a much safer choice. Besides, the very existence and presence of a mediocrity as a reference point gives a warm and pleasant feeling of superiority to all wannabe geniuses.
:P
-good times, G.J.P. (Jr.)
If Harriet Miers wasn't so selfish, she'd withdraw. She's underqualified beyond belief.
Guess who seeks election to such groups. Not the busiest, in-demand lions of the bar. Instead, it's usually the second stringers, the runners-up in the lawyer game. Real lawyers, for the most part, snicker about "bar weenies"—much as they did about the goofs in high school who ran for class president. Does David Boies spend his $800-an-hour time going to committee meetings and wrangling over the ABA's next convention schedule? Hardly. He might deign to give a speech at a bar gathering if he can fit it into his busy trial schedule. But bar weenies—their slightly kinder name is bar junkies—are the ones holding the Town Car door open for Boies when he arrives at the hotel. And when they're not doing that, they're jabbering endlessly about legal-regulatory policy questions that even most lawyers find stupefying.
http://slate.msn.com/id/2128758/
Less to do with selfish and more to do with pliable. She'll do what W tells her to do.
Well, that's you, and over here on this thread Your Favorite Idiot is about to spin off her stick again. Better come do your spinning one more time before all the plates come crashing down.
Which I predict will happen on Friday, late afternoon.
I'm a member of the California and Texas bars, and I've never wasted my time with bar associations.
Everything this guy says about them is consistent with how I feel about them.
With the exception of that Beldar guy (who runs the Beldar Blog) very few attorneys would try to pass off Miers as being a good pick for this job based on her resume.
And now that Lenard Leo has finally bailed...
:-)
Leo Leonard.
D'oh!
:0)
;-)
Actually, the theme from the movie is "Vote for Pedro"...Napoleon wasn't running for class office. So is the author comparing Harriet to Pedro?
Let's put it this way. I would not go around among straightforward conservatives or conservative religious types promoting it. One has to have a sense of humor and ability to suspend disbelief or grant a large degree of whatever the movie equivalent of poetic license is to appreciate the movie. There were times during viewing it (I waited until I could rent it) that I just sat there waiting while whatever the director was trying to do in the movie sailed right past me... and I suspect, past many others who watched it. I can imagine that many of the people who enjoyed it more were probably a lot younger on the average. Some of it is reminiscent of "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" -- more juvenile than funny (for my tastes, anyway). I'd rate it as a bit better than FTaRH, which I found rather flat.
ND does have an edge that it promotes to some degree the positive notion that believing in one's self can and often does lead to success, regardless of what others think.
Personally I thought a more entertaining movie than either ND or FTaRH was "School of Rock" with Jack Black. Apparently he did all his own playing on the '68 Gibson SG. Tasty (and a little more sparing and more deft with the juvenile humor).
(I suspect Obie included the ref. to ND because he's in academia. I suspect after kids, and maybe 20-somethings getting their first whiff of nostalgia for their own "good old days," the academics are the next largest viewers because they need to keep up with what junk movies kids watch, otherwise the kids will figure out ways to poke fun at them in classes as fuddie duddies who don't know what's *really* going on. ;-)
It's insanely funny bad. It's defies description. You really should see it.
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