A Good Reason To Go to Law School

We all know the main reasons, of course. You need that law degree so you can write ultra-realistic thrillers about crooked law firms and young idealistic lawyers in the South.

You need it to get on Larry King to discuss the latest true-crime drama -- assuming you're also a) hot and b) loud.

And you definitely need it to be the star of your very own courtroom TV show, though God only knows why since you get to make up your own law anyway.

But let's be realistic. There's only enough of those jobs to employ 85-90% of us. The rest of us will be forced to toil away in lawyerly obscurity at law firms and government agencies and corporations. What's the point? Why even bother?

Or at least that's what we would say, if it weren't for The Reason, really the ONLY reason, to go to law school: so you can be really annoying when you're watching TV! Hello, Law & Order, it's called the 6th Amendment! Stupid Seinfeld, that's not what "Good Samaritan" laws are all about!

I had a moment like that today in BarBri's Oil & Gas lecture. Oh, my friends, it was thrilling. I still have goosebumps. I discovered...hold on to your hats!!...there was no need for anyone on The Simpsons to shoot Burns at all! They should have just sued him! Slant well drilling is a trespass! He's liable for damages, which, due to his bad faith, consist of all of his revenues from productive wells, with no credit for costs! And he can be enjoined from further drilling!

OH MY GOD I CAN'T HANDLE A SINGLE OUNCE MORE OF OIL & GAS BLISS!!!!!