tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post4179498550459435359..comments2024-03-28T10:56:31.720-06:00Comments on Outside the Law School Scam: Opposition's Second Epistle: What Would Thomas Brennan Do? or How I Learned to Quit Worrying Because They Had It Worse in '52Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-56231472563307748822013-04-02T14:38:35.111-06:002013-04-02T14:38:35.111-06:00Now, he would never get a judgeship without paying...Now, he would never get a judgeship without paying off the right people to get on the ballot. Also, he would never have survived with five kids by hanging out a shingle. Law skool factories have ended that opportunity with the eternal glut.Adam Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12458070600725040309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-22028112710782474682013-04-02T12:49:45.697-06:002013-04-02T12:49:45.697-06:00Exactly. Unless you're loaded, if you have fi...Exactly. Unless you're loaded, if you have five kids nowadays people are all "What are you doing? That's financially irresponsible!" The handful of people I know who have five kids or more have both parents work, and they have an army of nannys to bring it all together. In the 1950s, you could "get by" on one income, becuase the wife sacrificed any aspirations she may have had, if they could be realized in the first place. Sounds really great (sarcasm).<br /><br />You would think that after Brennan's trials and trevails, he would say "wow, it's tough out there, I feel for people trying to go down this path." Nope. It's "you damn kids get off my lawn!"dupednontraditionalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04170022654810216357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-79920902543842378132013-04-02T11:12:58.458-06:002013-04-02T11:12:58.458-06:00It's even better than that. He wasn't ric...It's even better than that. He wasn't rich or from a rich background at all, but sure liked gambling with his family's well-being for his selfish ambitions.<br /><br />In 1952, he and wife sold a car and bought a house for 9800. Then (and try to hash this out):<br /><br />"the twins were born, Peggy and John were born in 1956. We were struggling. I had to give up my home, the house we bought. Polly went to work teaching. That was before the twins were born, and we rented an upper flat near Six Mile and Wyoming on Cherrylawn Street. We lived in that two bedroom upper flat when the twins were born so there we were with three children in a two bedroom upper flat. Then in 1957, I ran for Common Pleas Court Judge. Oh, I left something out. In 1954, I ran for the state legislature. In 1955, I ran for the United States Congress."<br /><br />So run for state legislature, run for Congress, get so broke trying to support your wife and 3 kids that you have to give up your house, run for judge. In 1958, he bought his mom's house for his now-four kids and - you guessed it - ran for judge again in 1959. After losing, again, "I remember waking up in the hotel room the next day and being very, very down and discouraged, being in debt and having to go back and rebuild my life and my law practice and so on."<br /><br />Yeah, law practice sucks, doesn't it?<br /><br />He was so down and depressed, he and wifey popped out baby no. 5 in 1960. And he runs for office again in 1961, finally winning.<br /><br />Can you say "financially irresponsible?" Can you say "deadbeat in 2013 reality, because there's no way he ever wins an election?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-35150853677710927992013-04-02T10:52:34.497-06:002013-04-02T10:52:34.497-06:00This appears to be the tool here:
http://www.paul...This appears to be the tool here:<br /><br />http://www.paulplevin.com/attorney_mcs.html<br /><br />Cal grad and "Mr. Sullivan served as an adjunct professor at the University of San Diego School of Law for 12 years."<br /><br />What a dick. The *students* advertised themselves as great critical thinkers? Really? Why should it even take "great critical thinking" to decipher a school's advertisements?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-37391208902023957292013-04-02T07:43:33.748-06:002013-04-02T07:43:33.748-06:00Sweet Jebus on a Cracker, why do all these "l...Sweet Jebus on a Cracker, why do all these "learned" men throw reason and experience out the window? How can they have lived for so long and yet have zero perspective on how life actually works for the majority of people? Like the world of 1952 was EXACTLY LIKE like the world of 1991 or 2013 IN EVERY ASPECT. Lol. <br /><br />Median income in 1952 - $3,900. Brennan was making median income straight out of law school, and it quickly doubled. Median income in 2009 was $50k, and today's grads would kill to make that, even they even get a job in the first place.<br /><br />http://www2.census.gov/prod2/popscan/p60-015.pdf<br /><br />http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0690.pdf<br /><br />Running for the legislature four times? Becoming a Judge? It sure helps to have friends in high places. Don't we all need a phone call from the "Bob Waldrons" of the world.<br /><br />Bitch, please.<br /><br /><br /><br />dupednontraditionalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04170022654810216357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-32940494694905395072013-04-02T06:42:11.275-06:002013-04-02T06:42:11.275-06:00Yes, we don't live in a "knowledge econom...Yes, we don't live in a "knowledge economy" we live in a menial service economy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-61695175736844498392013-04-02T06:14:52.874-06:002013-04-02T06:14:52.874-06:00Great commentary on the clueness caused by the gen...Great commentary on the clueness caused by the generation gap. Adam Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12458070600725040309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-16766132141714530972013-04-02T05:26:42.108-06:002013-04-02T05:26:42.108-06:00Um, no.Um, no.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-73007882232466967852013-04-02T01:43:14.562-06:002013-04-02T01:43:14.562-06:00I do not write many remarks, but after browsing th...I do not write many remarks, but after browsing through some of the comments <br />here "Opposition's Second Epistle: What Would Thomas Brennan Do? or How I Learned to Quit Worrying Because They Had It Worse in '52".<br />I actually do have a couple of questions for you if you do not mind.<br />Could it be simply me or do a few of these remarks look as <br />if they are coming from brain dead individuals?<br />:-P And, if you are posting on additional sites, I'd like to follow anything new you have to post. Could you make a list of the complete urls of your social pages like your Facebook page, twitter feed, or linkedin profile?<br /><br />my weblog: <a href="http://mate.idc.scu.edu.tw/user/profile.php?id=8665" rel="nofollow">book ra testen</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-46157633528391950722013-04-01T22:23:36.434-06:002013-04-01T22:23:36.434-06:00"What I find most ironic is that those indivi..."What I find most ironic is that those individuals advertised themselves to law schools as great critical thinkers," [Michael C. Sullivan, a lawyer representing the schools] said of the law-grads-turned-litigants. "Now they say they never considered the possibility that employment might include part-time jobs."<br /><br />Law school graduates aren't finding much on the employment docket, Los Angeles Times<br /><br />http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-law-grads-20130402,0,1312864.storyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660083024919144793.post-33777568175076858632013-04-01T18:04:45.574-06:002013-04-01T18:04:45.574-06:00Right. Do you have any idea what it costs to run f...Right. Do you have any idea what it costs to run for public office? It's a closed system now days unless you want to run on behalf of some third party. And I guess he really showed a lot of respect for the system in how he paid the court costs. Good find.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com