JOHN ROBERTS: THE JOKER IS WILD

THE NEW MEME ON SUPREME COURT NOMINEE JOHN ROBERTS being unsympathetic to women’s concerns is that lawyers regularly joke about lawyers and housewives are just an afterthought, like janitors, or other people making less money than um lawyers.  Maybe the problem is privileged lawyers look at everyone else as an afterthought.   I come from a family of lawyers where the non lawyers regularly think about the lawyers as being the real comedians in our bunch of bananas. 

HERE IS WHERE THE LAUGHS really start.  Stop me before I fall on the floor.  Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. is quoted from a legal brief in the WASHINGTON POST as questioning "whether encouraging homemakers to become lawyers contributes to the common good."  A COMMENTER at BODY AND SOUL says it's a joke.  Get it?   Another commenter says if Jeanne at Body and Soul doesn’t get the joke, she must have a tin ear.  That “joke” comes at the expense of lawyers who have big expense accounts.  Big laughs.

TELL ME THAT ONE again.  I didn’t get it the first time. Wow. Now I think I am going to pee in my pants.  Stop me from laughing.  A Roberts memo with a “joke” about housewives and lawyers is deprecating to the lawyers. That is the humored opinion of lawyers, a notoriously hilarious group of wits who regularly inject wisecracking asides in their briefs to impress even more comical judges, who get lost in hysterics before tittering and giggling on the way to kneeslapping  judicial decisions.  Who knew the sober world of justice had such laughs?  Can't wait to read the briefs in the next capital punishment case before the Supreme Court.  Looking forward to Lawyer Laughs at Comedy Central. Hijinks at the High Court.  Hoo ha.

"CAN'T YOU TAKE A JOKE?"  is invariably the response of the bully when the victim complains.  But then of course the bully is guilty of nothing because the world is a darwinian jungle.  Dog eat dog.  Legal bore bores legal bores

JOHN ROBERTS PROBABLY ALREADY KNOWS THIS JOKE and has told it in a self deprecating way.  Why did god invent lawyers?  Why?  Because there are some things even prostitutes won’t do for money.  Good looking crowd here tonight. . . .

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[PSEUDO-ADRIENNE] AT ALAS A BLOG:  . . . if anyone is going to speak up for the rights of women and call into question Roberts anti-women-rights past during this hearing it would be N.O.W. Since it sounds as if the Dems and everyone else will just gloss over Roberts' disturbing legal records and memos disdaining women's rights, such as reproductive rights, Title IX, and sex discrimination, like it was nothing. After all, we all did crazy things during the Reagan Administration remember, and he was young fella,  so give the guy a break, right? Well the Judiciary Committee probably will so there you go. Damn…

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[jillian]

Why do you have a portrait of Greg Kinnear? ;-)