Dial 'O' for Outrage: The Sequel.

ReasonVol. 31 Nbr. 6, November 1999

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New Web site Overlawyered.com - Tales from an overlawyered America

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Dial 'O' for Outrage: The Sequel.

Tales from an overlawyered America

When the news came this spring that famed non-murderer O.J. Simpson had struck a deal to cut broadcast ads for a lawyers' referral service, I figured that there went my last chance to make a living as a professional satirist of our legal system. Simpson as a 1-800-number TV pitchman was a better rebuke to the state of American law than any farce or skit I could have dreamed up, and it had the extra edge of being true.

That development reinforced my resolve to stick in the future to simple chronicle. Satire, after all, achieves its ludicrous effects by wa...

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