Woke up today with the Monday Morning Blues

Could hardly find my Monday Morning Shoes (Mississipi John Hurt)

 Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes. 

Let's group them with the sophists and dialecticians, a group of men which can rattle on better than one of Dodona's copper pots. Any one of them could be a match for twenty picked women in garrulity, but they'd be happier if they were only talkative and not quarrelsome as well - they're so stubborn in their fights to the death about things like goat's wool, and they generally lose sight of the truth in the heat of the argument. However, their self-love keeps them happy, and three syllogisms arm them enough to go straight to battle on any su... Read more