* ♫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]
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* 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]
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* 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]