Spectral lines: Assessing the assessors

Some callings in life are emotionally satisfying, and are also inclined to win friends for their practitioneers. Others may meet the first requirement but not the second. Indeed, the latter class is guaranteed to generate a core of unhappy constituents, adversaries, or outright enemies. We place in this category the judge, the legislator, the public executive, the journalist, and, of course, the baseball umpire!