{"id":62103,"date":"2017-02-10T05:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62103"},"modified":"2017-02-09T21:15:35","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T03:15:35","slug":"would-you-like-to-take-another-pass-at-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62103","title":{"rendered":"Would You Like To Take Another Pass At That?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION, ANYTHING-TO-STOP-THE-BLEEDING ISSUE: <a href=\"http:\/\/taxprof.typepad.com\/taxprof_blog\/2017\/01\/californias-new-bar-exam-format-and-abas-proposed-75-bar-passage-requirement-will-adversely-impact-d.html\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>California\u2019s New Bar Exam Format And ABA\u2019s Proposed 75% Bar Passage Requirement Will Adversely Impact Diversity, Women, And Access To The Legal Profession.<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s3\"><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s3\">Implied message: women and minorities are not as smart as white men<\/span><span class=\"s4\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s4\">W<\/span><span class=\"s3\">hen your best argument against raising standards is that dumb people won\u2019t be able to become bad lawyers, you should sit down and shut up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s3\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\">I sometimes think that liberalism is a byproduct of damage to the brain&#8217;s logic center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">On the other hand, it shows some ability to think about unintended consquences, albeit they seem to turn it on and off pretty fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION, ANYTHING-TO-STOP-THE-BLEEDING ISSUE: California\u2019s New Bar Exam Format And ABA\u2019s Proposed 75% Bar Passage Requirement Will Adversely Impact Diversity, Women, And Access To The Legal Profession. \u00a0Implied message: women and minorities are not as smart as white men. \u00a0When your best argument against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,337],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","category-privilege"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62104,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62103\/revisions\/62104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}