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When "General" Larry Platt, auditioned for American Idol with his self-written song "Pants on the Ground", the catchy hit became an overnight internet sensation. The lyrics were simple - "Pants on the Ground, pants on the ground, Looking' like a fool with your pants on the ground, With the gold in your mouth, Hat turned sideways Pants hit the ground, Call yourself a cool cat With your pants on the ground, Walking' downtown with your pants on the ground! Giddy-up".

Who knew that such deeply thought out lyrics could have a bearing on our legal system? That's right... the "baggy look" as it's called is not easy to miss. If you're interested in this street-influenced haute couture fashion its application is simple. OK, take a young man with a 32 inch waist (for Europeans that's about a 46) for a well fitted pair of pants. Now, if you're going for the "baggy look" you simply ask the fitter for size 40 US or about 54 European. It's that easy!

So besides looking all dapper in your latest street fashioned apparel, what can this particular style get you? Well, we thought the only real drawback was that your shoulders may become slightly fatigued due to the fact that when wearing this style of clothing the wearer regularly needs to pull the waistband area in an upward movement in order to place one foot in front of the other...in other words, to "walk". Now let's say the wearer needed to "pick up the pace" a bit. Then the same motion of pulling the waistband upward would be multiplied two-fold like this - One step, two step, pull - and then repeat.

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Time to put the Xbox down; turn off MTV and Facebook your friends. Tell them there's something important to read! Yes I know... there's no buttons and your eyes have the boring task of going back and forth over legible type but it's important! OK, remember the old quote your mom used to say - "Curiosity killed the cat." Well forget it! Truth is your mom only threw that one at you when her Birds & Bees 101 didn't match the locker room version! We know it's human nature to be curious. If it wasn't for curiosity we wouldn't have running water, the wheel or the Clap-On light. Curiosity didn't kill the cat but I'll tell you a tragic tale about how apathy killed the duck. I was heading home a few days ago. It's a small street and the speed limit is about 25 mph and it's common to see ducks crossing the road as you turn. This particular day a car in front of me was making the turn and as it happened a single duck was curious about the other side and was making his way across. Something coming to such an end is terrible to watch and I could tell after the unhappy ending of "Donald and the Dodge" that the driver felt awful but it was too late. Looking back it was clear, the driver and the duck both shared the same attitude. No...it wasn't curiosity it was apathy. The duck saw the car but was unwilling to speed up and the driver, not moving her foot to the left horizontal pedal, was unwilling to slow down. In the end, both were too apathetic to apply needed action!

Well future America, like that duck, we're seeing headlights and they're getting bigger! And what's following these lights is heavier than any single vehicle and traveling much faster! All this is happening as our country continues its economic downturn and our dollar has as much respect as cheap copy paper. So the big question is what are you going to do about it???

NO! Don't you dare flip to the top ten booty videos of 2010 and plan out your next move on HALO! This is serious...it's YOUR future! Do you know that in 2006, out of 220,600,000 only 80,588,000 voted! That's 37%! Yea 37 out of 100 chose to do something about their countries future. But a year into that presidential term I wonder how many of the 63% complained about what was happening? But the truth is you have no right to complain when you're too apathetic to acutely do something.

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That statement was said by a character in Shakespeare's Henry VI and has been a popular quote over the years. Though its mostly quoted out of frustration felt when attempting to understand our laws which drives us to the point of heavy drinking, did you know that the real meaning behind those words are quite different than what people think? What Shakespeare actually meant was that by removing those who understand law and hold social structure dear it would then make way for violent and drastic revolution. Maybe guessing a little here but I doubt that's what most people think when they hear Shakespeare's memorable words...right?

The butt of jokes and cartoons, attorneys are often portrayed by the media as soulless and self-profiteering coyotes who would do anything short of eating their young. But I ask you to stop and think for a moment-- who do you need by your side more than any other person when human error, fate, karma, aligning of the stars or whatever else you want to call it, lands you in a hospital room or ER? Yeah, I know...at first you yell out for those who bring some kind of immediate support and comfort, but what do you NEED when the emotional smoke clears??? That's right...the punch line of your jokes a few hours earlier...a lawyer!

A kiss on the forehead, a hug that seems to last for hours, or the reassuring "Don't worry it will be OK" is just that...OK. But just try planting a wet one on the physician, hospital billing department or relentless debt collector and give him a reassuring "Don't worry it will be OK" and you may find it doesn't have the same effect it had on you. I'm not saying an opening icebreaker can't be a good lawyer joke, but next time you warm up with one of those take a second and think about the people who spend years in law school and suffer as interns only to end up as your great one-liners. They are men and women that, after a win or lose, go home to their families carrying all the emotional strain of their clients while still maintaining their composure.

With that said, did you hear the one about the lawyer and a piranha?

"Powerful experience so insurance companies know who we are...private so we never forget who you are."- Brian Pearl

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