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Hitting below the Mason-Dixon line

Posted by Ron Coleman on November 27, 2007

Maybe Glenn Reynolds knows the answer to this one — isn’t Tennessee right next to Kentucky?:

What do you want from a school that claims on its website to be devoted to protecting rights through “human sacrifice”? Is human sacrifice legal in Kentucky?

Full, sad story here and here.  It’s not really so much to laugh that people will pay money for an unaccredited law degree — even people with accredited degrees from lower-ranked schools can usually look forward to a very non-legal, or very unsatisfying legal, career.  It is a crime that people’s money is being taken this way; it’s a bigger one, though, that students fork over this magnitude of money on purpose.

3 Responses to “Hitting below the Mason-Dixon line”

  1. jskirwin's avatar

    jskirwin said

    Caveat emptor.

    That’s the first Latin every prospective law student should learn.

  2. Exit Zero said

    More on Saudis in Annapolis, not shaking hands..

    From the TIME Magazine interview with Saudi Foreign minister Saud al-Faisal the questions they left out*:

    What if Ehud Olmert disguises himself as a Mexican and tries to shake…

  3. I figure most people tell themselves, “I’m going to law school! There will be pool loads of money rolling my way in no time!” Some people just don’t look into what it is they are investing their future in. A sad tale of the American dream corrupted by a lack of research.

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