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The American grabbed his lawyer and threw him out
the window.
Humorist Mark Russell
Mark Russell’s books are great. He’s a political
humorist who lives in Washington D.C., which he says
stands for ‘Darkness and Confusion.’
He says there are more answering services, and
fewer answers in Washington than anyplace else in
the world.
In one of his books he has a chapter called,
“I Brake For Lawyers.”
Here are a few lines:
“It’s not that I don’t like lawyers, it’s just
that there are so many of them.
“We who dwell in the nation’s capital have
learned to live side-by-side with those of
the legal profession. We do so out of
necessity. For Washington without lawyers
would be like Rome without priests.
“If they removed all the lawyers from
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