{"id":1658,"date":"2003-10-29T13:12:54","date_gmt":"2003-10-29T17:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/10\/29\/thoughts-on-a-rainy-day\/"},"modified":"2003-10-29T13:12:54","modified_gmt":"2003-10-29T17:12:54","slug":"thoughts-on-a-rainy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/10\/29\/thoughts-on-a-rainy-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on a Rainy Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lying
\n on my back <\/em>on a starry night, counting the uncountable, it seems
\n as though mankind’s noble aspiration to migrate out of the gravity well
\n is bound to succeed, allowing us to assume our rightful place among the
\n pantheon of intelligent species surely scattered throughout the galaxies.<\/p>\n

On a rainy day like today, however, the Dowbrigade feels like a member
\n of a measly malevolent species in the terminal phases of plundering
\n and
\n poisoning
\n our planet, that any really intelligent life in the universe would
\n avoid like a guest shot on Survivor: The Leper Colony.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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