Non-Sequiturs: 01.20.15

* ♫If you wannabe happy for the rest of your life...♫ be a tax lawyer. After all, they're like rock stars. [Vault] * Possibly the world's most expensive sex. It doesn't involve Ashley Dupré, but it does involve the American health care system. [Daily Telegraph] * A possible preview of Justice Alito's upcoming dissent in the marriage equality decision. [The Onion] * Maybe on the more serious side, here's Elizabeth Wydra charting the course of the Supreme Court and matrimony in anticipation of the upcoming marriage equality case. [Tampa Tribune] * Why Best Value is a better alternative to LPTA. This is not a guide for prospective law students, but it could be. [Government Executive] * A wide-ranging talk with Professor Khiara Bridges of Boston University School of Law about law, reproductive rights, and classical ballet. [Hsu Untied] * Let the breakdown continue: California's out of state bar exam pass rates. [Bar Exam Stats] * The legal fiction that are Biglaw firms. [Think Outside the Bar] * Looking for some CLE in L.A.? On Thursday, Judge Alex Kozinski and our own David Lat will be chatting about judging, clerking, ethics, and ambition. [Supreme Ambitions]