"Ken Fortenberry" wrote in
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...Expensive lawyering beats cheap, or free, lawyering most of
the time and while that's why good lawyers become expensive lawyers
it
is a terrible indictment against our legal system.

Expensive plumbering beats cheap, or free, plumbering most of the time
and while that's why good plumbers become expensive plumbers it is a
terrible indictment against our plumbing system. Ho hum.

As Adam Gopnik noted, being smarter than you sound is usually better
than sounding smarter than you are. He could have added that it's
also better than trying to convince yourself that you have a reason to
live by deliberately ****ing off what few friends you have left via a
haphazard jumble of trite banalities and pretending that it's the
result of a nonexistent point of view.

If you are serious about making a living by writing and, more
importantly, expect to be taken seriously, then you should understand
something. It probably doesn't make much difference what it
is......but something. Then, write about that.

Wolfgang
who, frankly, doesn't hold out much hope for someone who aspires to be
an asshole but can't manage any more than ass.