15 May 2011 - No Admissions

When you enter a lawyer’s office, the door shows a name, a law degree, and an invisible sign PLEASE COME IN AND LET ME START BILLING HOURS. When you leave, a sign inside the door says NO ADMISSIONS. To win a fight, a lawyer has to take a short-term view and admit nothing, and you can’t get out of it.

For society as a whole, of course, we’d prefer to take a longer-term view and cut down on the fighting. Did I say “we”? Well, I’m King of the World, I can use the royal We.