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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 9160052" data-attributes="member: 6799660">The dirty little secret of (public perception of) education is that all of these things we treat as accomplishments (degrees, entrance and allowance-to-practice exams) are in some ways more gates to pass to go on and then accomplish something*. This is why I/we don't treat having an ________ degree as making one an authority in internet arguments, and why I find it so amusing when Hollywood does something like signal that Bruce Banner is just so unbelievably smart because he has 8 Ph. D.s**. The bar exam, passed in flying colors or just scrapping by, is just a point in time in a lawyer's career amongst the other things they will do which will determine/tell us how competent they are.*this is not trying to diminish that degree or high score of which you are very proud.**but rather ought have given you the skills to craft the points/find the sources which *do support your argument.***instead of, I don't know, getting one Ph. D. and then 7 Ph. D.s worth of time accomplishing things in that field.Despite (perhaps because of ) my work* with lawyers, I don't feel qualified to say how incompetent this discovery snafu makes LaNasa's lawyer look. However, I will say that, when the lawyers I know are not skilled at a given thing, they know to say so and find someone who is. If this guy really is first and foremost a criminal defense attorney, he really should be turning this over to someone focused on this kind of civic dispute, and that's the failure of competence upon which I am judging them.*Digital Resource Governance -- what information we can share with whom.I suspect, simply from how long he wasn't telling us how sick he was, that he's probably not in good enough shape to survive a transplant procedure.We're all bracing for the inevitable (just some more immediately than others), but this does help explain his relative silence this past year. I guess it does make me more accepting that we haven't seen an about-face and fully-engaged bridge-mending tour (simply too late), but I'm still holding out hope that we hear some kind of 'this was a mistake' from him before the end (or recounted after by his wife, etc.).</blockquote>

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