Discussed Today… Getting more lawyers (or, any professional) into public service Recall fever The Donnas Said…“send her home on BART” Getting more lawyers Hold the jokes, I know some lawyers and they’re not (all) money-grubbing, back-stabbing bastards (yet). The ABA came out today and said that they have discovered that fewer and fewer students choosing to take careers in public service (public defense, prosecution) versus private practice. Who can blame them? With the average year’s tuition to a private university going from 7K to 25K a year (tack on an apartment, food, etc.), is it any wonder that these people find the austere yet socially rewarding charms of public work less than exciting?

Yosemite remains my personal paradise, but the impact of drought and climate change has become overwhelming — smoky air from fires, shriveled glaciers leaving creeks dry and meadows gray, no wildflowers. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/opinion/sunday/my-dark-california-dream.html

Being a stranger in a strange state of mind called California: “No, I’m from New York.” https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/no-im-from-new-york

California, the place where anything was possible, has become the place where nothing is affordable." Didion-esque