This. And only this.

My social studies teacher in 8th grade throughout the year would give us a list of things and phrases by decade. Loved these assignments. Totally threw myself into them. Years later, I was working at a prep school and wanted the students to be assigned Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire as a similar assignment (competition?). Teachers thought it was stupid, that the kids wouldn't like it (um, who cares?), and that it was too hard. Teacher's responses only confirmed what I thought about the school (meh) and that it was a sad day that curiosity was a bad thing. (I was the fundraiser for the school so I didn't really interact with the kids a lot but ones I knew would have had fun with such a project).

Anyway, the Lindell lawyers must have gone to this school, or one like it. How is it ever okay to do this and think it's a good idea? And, how the heck did these people pass the Bar?

Edit: List of references in We Didn't Start the Fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_references_in_We_Didn%.... Gonna blog the references and this post on my little policy blog this week :-)