Lawyers leading Obama's technology team???

Julius Genachowski and Levin Blair may have law degrees, but I think they are not "lawyers" in the ordinary sense of the word.

I have no idea whether I agree with the appointment of this team as I don't know their skills or philosophies. However, given the mission for this team, this kind of background is reasonable. Now, if you want somebody to disagree with President-elect Obama's mission statement for STEM, I'm your man.

Having a lawyer overseeing technology is not necessarily a bad thing, despite the jokes and cliches. Some lawyers specialize in communications law. Most of their clients are radio and TV broadcasters, cable TV systems, satellite operators, businesses that use a licensed two-way radio system, etc.

Soon after I became a ham, the FCC hired a lawyer who was a ham to take charge of their enforcement efforts in the Amateur Radio Service. His name was Riley Hollingsworth. They gave him the title of Special Counsel for Amateur Radio Enforcement.

Guess you could say they put a SCARE into ham radio!