How many times have you heard politicians and pundits calling for “common-sense reforms?” How many times have you heard friends decrying the “loss of common sense,” or expressing a feeling that “no one in Washington has any common sense?”
Philip K. Howard wrote a book a while back called The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America. It’s a catchy title, intuitively accurate, and good enough to land Howard an interview on “The Daily Show.” At first blush, yeah…no, hell yeah! I mean, lawyers suck, amirite? Whaddya call 1,000 lawyers chained together at the bottom of the ocean? A good start, ho ho ho! Hey, let’s tell more jokes like that down at T.G.I. Fridays, the first round of Sesame Jack (TM) Chicken Strips is on me! Continue reading