Wednesday, July 16, 2008 | 2 a.m.
If you want to know whether lawyers are held in general disrepute, consider this tale from Tuesday: I sent out an alert to my e-mail subscribers and quoted someone as saying he wanted to “call someone a lawyer.” Once I realized the spell check gremlin had changed the word I had intended to send out, I appended a correction saying I meant “liar” and not “lawyer.” Apres that, the deluge of e-mail came in with many variations on the same joke, which basically goes like this: Liar, lawyer, what’s the difference? People were positively gleeful in their responses. It’s the same with doctor jokes, too, isn’t it, folks? But lawyers and doctors are like congressmen and Congress: Hate the institution but love the one you’re with.
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