Article: The Misanthrope's Corner.(both liberals and conservatives have fear of law)(Brief Article)(Column)

It's been open season on The Oxford Psychiatric Dictionary since Bob Woodward invented the "Clara Bow Syndrome" to describe Monica Lewinsky, so I will now contribute my own original entry: LEXOPHOBIA, "fear of law."

Lexophobia is not merely a fear of being sued and running up Clintonian legal bills, not simply the normal revulsion brought on by the sight of a lawyer, but a burgeoning psychosis that has America in its grip. Its symptoms are three, the first being a paranoid certainty that every law is a potential dragnet.

Propose a law, any law, no matter how sensible and needed, and the air will instantly be filled with howls of despair about a "foot in ...

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