[livius]

couches so that nobody would ever have to go home.

LOL! Yes, I can tell that you too have been through law firm hell. Skadden Arps was just one of the gang - I can't even think of a decent law firm.

I worked (in computers) at one where a poor associate tried to break a window on the 55th floor and throw herself out. EMS carried her out tied in a sheet from one of the overnighter beds.

I always felt that, in some ways, it was a religious problem. People were miserable, and had no ethics and no lives because their mainstay, the Catholic Church, had basically abandoned them.

Not that they were all Catholics. But Catholics don't realize that if the Church collapses, everything dependent upon it also collapses.

[a history buff]

I always felt that, in some ways, it was a religious problem. People were miserable, and had no ethics and no lives because their mainstay, the Catholic Church, had basically abandoned them.

You get it! Bravo.