WHY I'M NOT PRACTICING, PART 237 :

HE-E-E'S BACK! (Paul Greenberg, July 9, 2002, Jewish World Review)

Who says Bill Clinton isn't still making history? He's just had an article/essay/speech published in the Arkansas Law Review, the scholarly quarterly put out by the University of Arkansas' law school at Fayetteville.

In the movie "Hud," the old man, played so beautifully by Melvyn Douglas, says you can tell the way the country is going by the kind of man it produces. You can also tell the way a profession is going by the kind of man it chooses to honor. "It was just an honor and a thrill," explained Erron Smith, 24, the law review's editor-in-chief, "to have a former president of the United States write on an issue of such international importance." Bill Clinton has still got some of us snowed, and the younger, the more snowable.

Actually, a piece by Bill Clinton on the law and how to get around it might have been of considerable interest. Much like a piece by Willie Sutton in a banking journal. It would have had a True Confessions kind of appeal.

But those turning to The Talented Mr. Clinton's article hoping it would provide some insight into the mind of a serial liar and how he got away with it ("The Finer Points of Perjury and How to Barely Avoid It, Maybe") will be disappointed.

Paul Greenberg has had Mr. Clinton's numbers for more years than he probably cares to remember, so it's no surprise to see him just tatoo the former perp in chief. But what raises this column to the level of brilliance is that one dig : The Talented Mr. Clinton. Posted by Orrin Judd at July 9, 2002 9:17 PM