bLAWging?

Finally someone emails me an engaging and revealing article from the Opinion Journal!

Lawyers and blogging go together like witches and stoning. According to a survey conducted by blogads.com, lawyers ranked fourth among both readers and posters to blogs. Many of the best- known blogs, such as instapundit.com, are run by lawyers. It's easy to understand why blogging attracts the J.D. set: Few professions combine as much creative talent with so much mind-numbing work.

Each year thousands of otherwise perfectly normal college graduates with perfectly worthless degrees in the humanities venture into law school in the hope of landing a paying job that requires no science and little math. Many have been encouraged by college counselors who have told them that law school will "keep their options open" -- code for delaying the inevitable for another three years -- and it pays better than academia.

Law schools feed this myth because they need paying customers, even as the members of their own faculty are refugees from the very firms to which they are sending their students. Upon graduation, however, many students find that the entry-level jobs they get are little more than glorified secretarial positions. Sure, they pay well, but how many paper clips can you remove from a stack of documents before you start questioning your entire existence?

The answer? Blogging, of course! This article says that lawyers use blogging as a creative outlet because they are intelligent people who have to perform mind-numbing work. It is a pretty impressive theory. I have to completely agree. I've had no problem whatsoever finding endless internet rants about the legal profession. I've said it before, there's a whole subculture out there of disgruntled lawyers, young and old.

Maybe the bLAWger revolution will smack some college co-eds into reality?