College Football Rivalries Extend Into the Courtroom; It's As It Should Be

Anyone who loves the law is a sick pup. There is no honor among thieves.
 
Two of my favorate quotes from Clarence Darrow are “The trouble with law is lawyers.” and “The courtroom is not a place where truth and innocence inevitably triumph; it is only an arena where contending lawyers fight, not for justice, but to win.”

One of my old bosses hated that last quote but it fit him like a glove.

I find football vaguely entertaining, but to get into it as much as these “backwoods Southern lawyers” is kind of pathetic on multiple fronts. Be honest. (And hire a real attorney when the need arises – not some bammer.)

I would argue that there is much about law which is corny and unnecessary. Like everyone standing when the judge drags his / her ass into the room. And capitalizing the word “Judge”. And even putting the word “Honorable” before his or her name. I know too many judges (and not from being before them in court – so piss off) and their stupid spawn personally to be that impressed with them or think them “honorable” in any fashion. And the theatricality of court proceedings. Like talking about “approaching” (jesus christ) the f’ing bench. And having jurors. Why not have the judge decide whether a person is guilty or innocent based upon the law? He / she has studied it for years and hopefully understands it. Why have 12 f’wits off the street who probably haven’t mastered “law” or any other discipline? Better still, just enter the facts into computer programs and let them spit out the verdicts and decisions.

I think Nancy Grace, who is considered the most backwoods, obnoxious, stupid, vociferous and overbearing skank in town here is fascinated by law and has even a reverence for it.

I’m digressing, so I’ll return to the point. Filling the stadium to capacity for a spring fake football game at an intellectual backwater like the University of Alabama only further caricatures the “university”. As does canceling “classes” at the university for the Rose Bowl (for three freaking days, no less). As does this cornball crap from these attorneys. Call this “jealousy,” but it really isn’t.

She is neither “fascinated by law” and certainly does not “have a reverence for it.” I totally agree with you that she is “the most . . . obnoxious, stupid, vociferous and overbearing skank in town”; however, I have many backwoods friends who take issue with you assigning her to their lot.

Perhaps I spoke too hastily and offended you and for that I apologize as my issue is not with you. I did not mean to attack you as an individual attorney. There are Don Quixotes amongst us who seek to defend what is right. My brother is still one.

However after 30 years of trial and corporate America, I think of the lyrics of “All Along the Watchtower.”

“There must be some way out of here,” said the joker to the thief,
“There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief.
Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth,
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.”

“No reason to get excited,” the thief, he kindly spoke,
“There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.
But you and I, we’ve been through that, and this is not our fate,
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.”

So perhaps one day we can share a beer as dawg fans and talk of practicing law in the State of Georgia or other places. As always, I enjoy your blog and go dawges.