...and that's why I work in Chevy Chase.
Very rarely, I read something in my assigned law school material that makes me laugh. Even more rarely, I read something by a conservative that makes me laugh. Today we're two for two:
"Human beings are capable of drawing amazingly subtle social distinctions and then shaping their lives around them. In the Washington, D.C. area, Democratic lawyers tend to live in suburban Maryland, and Republican lawyers tend to live in suburban Virginia. If you asked a Democratic lawyer to move from her $750,000 house in Bethesda, Maryland to a $750,000 house in Great Falls, Virginia, she'd look at you as if you had just asked her to buy a pickup truck with a gun rack and to shove chewing tobacco into her kid's mouth." --David Brooks
"Human beings are capable of drawing amazingly subtle social distinctions and then shaping their lives around them. In the Washington, D.C. area, Democratic lawyers tend to live in suburban Maryland, and Republican lawyers tend to live in suburban Virginia. If you asked a Democratic lawyer to move from her $750,000 house in Bethesda, Maryland to a $750,000 house in Great Falls, Virginia, she'd look at you as if you had just asked her to buy a pickup truck with a gun rack and to shove chewing tobacco into her kid's mouth." --David Brooks