I couldn’t resist this one.

The thread on my post about an Occupy Wall Street protester who apparently was a law school grad and who held a hand-lettered sign blaming his failure to find work, not on the fact that he was standing around in a park holding a sign, but on his law school, has uncovered some unpleasant truths, such as…

• Law schools are giving degrees to a lot of people who don’t know what to do with them
• A lot of law school grads have not acquired some of the basic skills, like unbiased analysis, that their training was supposed to convey
• A striking number of law school graduates identify with whiny unemployed 20-lear-olds holding signs
• Too many people want to be lawyers for the money, rather than to serve a higher social function
• Personal accountability is on the wane in America
• People will believe the damnedest things if it will prevent them from accepting responsibility for their own plight, and
• Confirmation bias is a frightening phenomenon.

Embodying many of these qualities was the recent post of someone with the apparently ethnic name of Iwantoremainanonymous-–Indian, perhaps?—who  had many observations typical of the thread that I unfortunately cannot permit to be posted, because he not only defied  the Ethics Alarms no anonymous comments rule, but, in his wealth of legal knowledge, disputes that I even have the right to make such rules.

Here is his jaw-dropping, incomplete Comment of the Day on “Comment of the Day on ‘Young, Gullible, Lazy, Unimaginative and Unbelievable: I Wonder Why This Lawyer Has Trouble Finding A Job?'”:

“I take issue with Jack Marshall stating that someone who comments on his website that is open to the public has to follow his rules. If he wants to require non-anonimity, then he needs to set it up that way. I never agreed to any of Jack Marshall’s Rules. Who does he think he is? If he doesn’t want anonymous replies, then that is HIS problem, not anyone else’s. Jack Marshall should set up the “Leave a Reply” box so that you have to register. See the Wall Street Journal for example. Otherwise, what gets left in the open to the Public “Leave a Reply” box is what it is. It’s not an ethical issue”

Gee, I wonder why this lawyer hasn’t found a job yet, with rapier-like reasoning like that?

I did set it up that way, genius…I don’t post comments without real names and/or real e-mail addresses. It’s my blog, and I have every right to make and enforce whatever conditions for its use that I want. You don’t understand what a contract is, much less what rights are, and your grasp of facts isn’t too swift either. How is my insistence on not permitting anonymous replies “my problem”, when the one whom it prevents from communicating your theories about why your law degree is an employment impediment is you?

Here’s a free tip: The weak logic and attitude of entitlement your comment reveals has a lot more to do with your employment problems than the fact that people “hate lawyers” as you claim.

Actually, people don’t hate lawyers.

They hate bad lawyers, and other people’s lawyers.