Bakersfield Basketball Team Prove Thesis: Attorney Basketball Teams May Not Have Talent, But Competitive Spirit, Forethought Make For Success

OBCL Basketball Players I. St. Lawrence, Seth O'Dell, Jeremy D. Swanson, and Blogger finished the regular season at 5-0. The "All Paper-Pusher Team" is the number one team going into the end of year tournament.

The best player on the team is non-lawyer big man, Keegan. The attorneys on the team tell him what to do and chew him out when he fails to properly carry us on his back.

This plays to the strengths of attorneys: manipulating the producing members of society to provide for our well being and contentment.

Blogger Talks About The Two Basic Kinds of People In The World

With a new set of bar results coming out last night, Blogger felt that his readers should come to the realization that there are really only two basic kinds of people in the world: lawyers and non-lawyers.

This may come as a shock to some: but lawyers are different from normal people.

The saddest thing in the world is a lawyer who doesn't realize that he can never, ever really go back to be a non-lawyer. He or she will always have "lawyer" attached to their inner psyche.

Because of that, whenever they are handed a traffic ticket by an officer of the law, their first thought will not be "$189 bucks, highway robbery!" but instead "I sure hope I can get an extension on my court date so that I can demand enough discovery from this officer within the statutory length of time to make him curl up under a rock on the court date and allow me to win by default. And if, by golly, he does show up, the calibration of the radar gun, the angle that he claims he spotted me from, and the fact that there was enough traffic that he could have accidentally got a car going the opposite direction will give me a leg to stand on if I cannot find some sort of record to indicate that the proper traffic study has not been conducted on that stretch of road within the past five years (which of course, would make the currently posted speed limit unenforceable)."

Whether practicing law, a businessman, a homemaker, or cleaning up spilled fries at McDonalds, a lawyer is still a lawyer.

To a non-lawyer, a spill on the floor is a mess. To an attorney, it is a lawsuit (to defend or pursue).

Lawyers are a breed apart. They may try to fit in (and some quite successfully) but beneath the veneer of human good fellowship will always remain a lawyers thoughts.

There's no going back.

To defend and to prosecute. It's the name of the game. And the game is for life.

Rock on.

Blogger Blogs Again

After a two week absence, your Blogger returns. In the meantime, he plead out clients to an estimated 500 years of prison time, reduced bail amounts by several hundred thousand dollars, and spent at least 20 hours in the Madera County Jail talking to his freedom challenged friends.

Blogger has some simple observations for his readers:

(1) barley in the field is a beautiful thing. It's nutritious and makes for a better world.

(2) barley subsequently specially made to fit in a 12 ounce can, consumed in large liquid amounts, with the consumer then getting behind the wheel of an automobile and attempting to navigate the extremely narrow roads that police insensitively call "I-5" and "Highway 99" helps attorney employment numbers and is good for keeping police officers out of trouble - like pulling over regular drivers who are using their car for what it was intended to be - a fast as possible transportation vehicle.

I digress.

And now I must go.

Work calls.