San Diego to remove Mt. Soledad cross.

Prejudicial Effect reports that the San Diego City Council has decided that the Mt. Soledad cross, which has been in place since 1953, must be demolished. This decision comes after a 9th Circuit decision finding that a proposal to transfer the property on which the cross rests to a private entity was constitutionally. (It also comes after the defeat of a similar proposal by a referendum.)

Prejudicial Effects channels his sadness over the removal of this historic part of the San Diego skyline into some reasons for going to law school.

Excellent response; because despite what many people who go to law school think, and who thereafter spend the rest of their life hating their choice and telling their children never to become a lawyer, being a lawyer is not about the big money one can supposedly make.

It is, in truth, a vocation, like being a priest, a doctor or a teacher. (Or, for that matter, like a journalist, a dock worker, a garbage collector or whatever "calling or destiny" that a person has in this life.)