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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?

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