A St. Louis presentation coach who gets hired by lawyers ginned up some ridiculously good publicity for himself by proclaiming April 14 as National Be Kind to Lawyers Day.
Yes, announcing a Something-Something Day is the oldest trick in the book. But even nonsense has a way of being repeated until somebody takes it seriously.
Sometimes we citizens even pay for it.
Case in point: The U.S. Census Bureau made Mr. Hughes' National Be Kind to Lawyers Day the subject of its April 13 "Profile America" series, a daily 60-second radio feature that promotes "key events, observances or commemorations."
Seriously. Listen to the taxpayer-paid radio spot here.
And now that it's on the official calendar, don't be surprised to see more babble about this made-up commemoration next year.
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