Eugene Volokh comes across as a little too professorly when he discusses the epithet "You're nothing but a couple of two-bit legal whores," leveled at two attorneys by California State Senator Bill Morrow as reported in the L.A. Daily Journal.


It's been my experience that when people call you a sonuvabitch, they don't really mean that you're a dog.


I won't defend the legal profession against any slur. It's part of the territory, and it isn't hard to find evidence that a lot of lawyers are greedy bottom-feeders. All in all, greediness or at least a feeling of entitlement is common to lawyers. It's like robbing banks, "That's where the money is," or they wouldn't have become lawyers. Doctors are a lot the same.


Probably all he needed to point out is the irony of a politican calling lawyers whores.