Signs of intelligence in the universe? The youth of America are wising up: Law school applications took another plunge this year. Reports the The National Law Journal:

Approximately 8,000 fewer first-year law students will show up nationwide this year compared to two years ago, when enrollment reached an all-time high, according to the American Bar Association. This year’s numbers represent a 15 percent decline since then and a 9 percent decline since last year.

The article doesn’t say why applications are down. Perhaps all the alarms that I and other bloggers have been sounding about the (expensive) folly . . .