Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:

O’Sullivan’s Law states any organization that is not expressly right wing will become left wing over time.  It’s tongue-in-cheek, but also true.  Case in point:

The Minnesota State Bar Association was started as a trade association to protect and enhance lawyers making a living.  Lawyers pay MSBA a fee to advertise themselves as “Certified Specialist” in certain areas of law.  The bar association collects so much from that program, people are asking why we’re sitting on a pile of money.  The technical answer is “when the present glut of Baby Boomer specialists retires, we’ll need the money to fund the program” but that cuts no mustard with the More Money For Poor People crowd, they always have their hands out.

So MSBA is spending the surplus on vouchers for classes – not all of them, only the classes some staffer decides are worthy.  The logic is: we overcharged you in the parent company, so we’re giving you a voucher to take select classes from our daughter company, not free but at a discount.  Isn’t that great?

The one idea that never occurs to anybody is “Give the money back.”  Or even “cut the fee going forward.”  No, they’re keeping the overbilling, maintaining the overpricing, and dribbling out coupons.  Typical Liberal thinking: all money belongs to us.  If any other corporation did it, the class action lawyers would be all over them.

And yet, they can’t figure out why half the lawyers in the state don’t belong to the Liberal Lawyer’s club.

Joe Doakes

If every person in Calcutta took on the job of writing Avery Librelle satires, we could still not keep up with all the material.