Wave Maker: Sue Thy Neighbor

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Friday, May 06, 2005

Sue Thy Neighbor

Boston Globe columnist Steve Bailey highlights another of the myriad of examples why I am hesitant sometimes to identify myself as an attorney. Here's a "high-powered Harvard law professor" and two other Harvard poobahs (one of them a rabbi) who sued to prevent a childrens' art studio from opening in their Cambridge neighborhood.

"Bebchuk and his fellow whiners say they are all for an arts center -- just not in their backyard. Said Bebchuk at a hearing three years ago: 'I come to express my position with some difficulty because I do think it's a great project for Cambridge. And if it were to be on Garfield Street maybe I would be here today speaking like some of the other people who wrote letters of support.' Garfield is one street over from Bebchuk's neat gray-and-white Sacramento Street home, which Harvard was kind enough to sell him a few years back."

Some difficulty is right.

Further proof that even smart people can be perfect idiots.

Posted by: Wave Maker / 9:34 AM/ |