Mayo 7, 2008

"Classes My Top-Tier Law School Should Have Offered as Warnings About the Profession."

Eh. It's a McSweeney's list. Throwing Things pointed me there. I think it's whiny and dumb, but I thought you should know about it. How about a list of warnings about reading McSweeney's?

10 komento:

Tim Morris ayon kay ...

Actually, I believe law school (any tier) does, in fact, teach most of these courses. You just have to be paying attention to what your classmates are doing.

Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

Three things on my McSweeney's Warning List:

1. Typography promises more than website delivers.

2. Content boring.

3. Content dumb.

MadisonMan ayon kay ...

I don't see how that law is specific to law. You can replace Legal and Law in the list with just about anything.

Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...
Naalis ng may-ari ang komentong ito.
MadisonMan ayon kay ...

My first comment makes more sense if you replace the first law with list.

Oy.

former law student ayon kay ...

I don't know about whiny and dumb. It's airy and insubstantial, like puff pastry.

Ryan ayon kay ...

Wow, what happened? McSweeneys used to be funny.

IgnatzEsq ayon kay ...

I agree that it's light, and fun. I found it amusing, if insubstantial. The list format only allows so much expose anyway...

McSweeney's has always been more quirky than funny. And I enjoy bucking the trend of 'lists' designed to provoke argument (like putting Hitchens on a list of 100 greatest 'thinkers')

Melinda ayon kay ...

I laughed at this one:

4 A.M. Word Processing and the Law

It's how I made money through half the 1980's.

blake ayon kay ...

I still like this unused commentary for Fellowship of the Ring.

Mag-post ng isang Komento

Please use the comments forum to respond to the post. Don't fight with each other. Be substantive... or interesting... or funny. Comments should go up immediately... unless you're commenting on a post older than 2 days. Then you have to wait for us to moderate you through. It's also possible to get shunted into spam by the machine. We try to keep an eye on that and release the miscaught good stuff. We do delete some comments, but not for viewpoint... for bad faith.