As you probably noticed with the sporadic posts I’ve had a number of breakdowns of a mental nature over the past two weeks.  One of the many straws upon this poor camel’s back is the fact that KF Li is actually doing pretty well considering he hasn’t earned a single grade or repaid a single dollar of his loans and that leads to no small amount of “I told you so”s.  ANYWAY a pioneer named David Kazzie has been good enough to animate one poor sap’s journey through law school.  I have watched the first two episodes and in my humble opinion it is dead on accurate.  I am putting a link to his site in this post below and you can find the link with the others in the coming days.

http://wahoocorner.blogspot.com/

While I am on the subject, if you read KF Li’s posts you can’t help but realize that his approach to law school is the product of the fact that in-fighting aside, he really has listened to alot of what all of us on this blog have had to say.  In fact, he initially started as a sub-in for Mike Triforce because he noticed KF Li was a sponge for everything he said.  The biggest joke in “So You Want to Go to Law School” is that the protagonist is obviously not listening to anything she is being told.  It’s popularity comes not from it’s teaching utility but from it’s entertainment value in the niche audience of people who have already been duped by the system.

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Roy Jones Jr. is a 16 year-old engineering protege who decided to attend The Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, an HBCU, over ivy-league institutions and since has suffered ridicule for his courageous, brilliant and right decision. He exemplified honor, discipline and pride throughout the ordeal and has responded admirably to his critics. It is high time someone commended this young man and help him up as an example of someone who has acted with audacity, pride and power.

The implication for this blog is obvious. Mr. Jones chose the school that offered him the best scholarship, education and experience. He demonstrated wisdom beyond the grasp of 18 and 19 year-oldsters, citing the quality of his specific program and his recognition that many of the schools that accepted him are prestigious in name only. Mr. Jones is not a clown or a performer. He is not here to amuse or impress you because you don’t have a job for him. You can’t afford his services. Mr. Jones has impressed Lockeed Martin. Perhaps you’ve heard of them – they are one of the many employers unimpressed with your over-academic pedigree and has yet to respond to your unsolicited job application.

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Here at Debtor’s Prison we would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to Laurence Fishburne for his portrayal of Thurgood Marshall in Thurgood and Michelle Alexander for her scholarship in The New Jim Crow. The latter work deals with incarceration in America.

I will be the first to admit there is alot of negativity on this blog.  Being up to your eyeballs in debt and underemployed, unemployed or employed with no job security is not a state of being that leads a normal person to be cheery or upbeat.  That is why it is extra important that we take the time to acknowledge those who are making a conscious effort to improve our world and could be pursuing other things that no doubt would lead to less work and more money.

So thank you Mr. Fishburne and Dr. Alexander.  You’ve done more than you can know.

The last epiphany I had was when I decided to create this blog, and it was nothing, I mean NOTHING compared to the earth-shaking revelation I experienced in a movie theater just a few short minutes ago.  As a man of few means, I normally catch movies right at the tail end when they are about to leave the theater (when hopefully tickets are reduced) and hence I saw the movie “Kickass.” And I was blown away.

First, all I can say is thank you.  I haven’t felt like that in a movie theater since before I can remember. 

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