Madame Butterfly Follies

Will the army of lawyers end what she started?

Big news out of Florida last week. Scientists said they plan to release killer flies that will inject eggs into the bodies of pesky fire ants, and the eggs will hatch maggots that eat the heads of the ants. No word on whether this can be used to curb the recent infestation of attorneys.

Trial lawyers marched on Florida by the hundreds in the days after the election, responding to a flurry of e-mails calling all good soldiers to the front lines. So much was at stake. The presidency. The republic. The protection the trial lawyers had paid for with huge...

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