{"id":10458,"date":"2009-01-04T19:27:33","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T00:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/?p=10458"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:13","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:13","slug":"cardinal-sins-from-charon-and-zevon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2009\/01\/04\/cardinal-sins-from-charon-and-zevon\/","title":{"rendered":"cardinal sins from Charon and Zevon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong> <\/strong><\/em><em><strong> <\/strong><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mr-Bad-Example-Warren-Zevon\/dp\/B000002L0K\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/31WRB6AJSGL._SL500_AA240_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"69\" height=\"69\" \/><\/a><em><strong> A<\/strong><\/em>s regular readers <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2007\/08\/13\/having-no-inspiration-can-be-inspiring\/\">know<\/a>, the <em>f\/k\/a<\/em> Gang considers Thematic Excess to be among the deadliest of sins when it comes to hosting the weekly <a href=\"http:\/\/blawgreview.blogspot.com\/\"><em>Blawg Review<\/em><\/a> carnival.\u00a0 So, we were duly scandalized this evening seeing the content of <a href=\"http:\/\/charonqc.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/04\/blawg-review-193\/\">Blawg Review #193<\/a>, which appears at <a href=\"http:\/\/charonqc.wordpress.com\/about\/\">Charon QC<\/a>&#8216;s eponymous weblog.\u00a0\u00a0 The fictitious Charon teaches law in the U.K., and has decided to pen <em>Blawg Review<\/em> #193 in the guise of The Lord of Misrule (whoever that is), presenting his selection of the best recent posting from law-related weblogs in a prolix list formulated around the <a href=\"http:\/\/deadlysins.com\/sins\/index.htm\">Seven Deadly Sins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the spirit of the New Year, however, we&#8217;ve decided not to chastise Charon excessively.\u00a0 Three things helped us turn to mercy rather than mud-slinging:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Buried in the Avaritia-Greed category, we discovered this plum: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/files\/2008\/12\/wendybostonmagjpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"76\" height=\"76\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">&#8220;Perhaps this would have been better in the Lust category\u2026 but David Giacalone of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2008\/12\/30\/a-sparklingly-savage-year\/\"><em>f\/k\/a<\/em> had a sparklingly Savage year in 2008<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">. . . thanks, Charon.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Charon&#8217;s theme gives us a perfect excuse to finally present <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/iXuqidS3Yd8\">a video of Warren Zevon<\/a> performing the title song from his 1991 album &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mr-Bad-Example-Warren-Zevon\/dp\/B000002L0K\">Mr. Bad Example<\/a>&#8221; on the David Letterman Show:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;text-align: left\"><code>[kml_flashembed movie=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/iXuqidS3Yd8\" width=\"200\" height=\"165\" wmode=\"transparent\" \/]<\/code><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;text-align: left\">If you&#8217;re not familiar with the polka-beat song (which Prof. Yabut can often be heard mangling in the shower), here are a few representative stanzas:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;text-align: center\">from &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldielyrics.com\/lyrics\/warren_zevon\/mr_bad_example.html\">Mr. Bad Example<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n(Warren Zevon &amp; Jorge Calderon)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I&#8217;m very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins<br \/>\nI keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in<br \/>\nI&#8217;m proud to be a glutton, and I don&#8217;t have time for sloth<br \/>\nI&#8217;m greedy, and I&#8217;m angry, and I don&#8217;t care who I cross<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Of course I went to law school and took a law degree<br \/>\nAnd counseled all my clients to plead insanity<br \/>\nThen worked in hair replacement, swindling the bald<br \/>\nWhere very few are chosen, and fewer still are called<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I&#8217;m Mr. Bad Example, intruder in the dirt <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/files\/2007\/11\/warrenzevonsm.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nI like to have a good time, and I don&#8217;t care who gets hurt<br \/>\nI&#8217;m Mr. Bad Example, take a look at me<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll live to be a hundred and go down in infamy<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally, Charon&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/charonqc.wordpress.com\/about\/\">recital<\/a> of his own vices and peccadillos has convinced us he&#8217;s unlikely to be affected in the least by our opinion of his (confessedly award-winning) style.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">So, you&#8217;re off the hook this time, Charon.\u00a0 But, please, a little more discretion &#8212; and a lot less theme &#8212; next year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">no good deeds<br \/>\nbut also no sins&#8230;<br \/>\nwinter seclusion<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;padding-left: 30px\">caged bird&#8211;<br \/>\nwatching the butterfly<br \/>\nwith envy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">&#8230; by <a href=\"http:\/\/haikuguy.com\/issa\/\">Kobayashi Issa<\/a>, translated by David G. Lanoue<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;padding-left: 30px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/files\/2008\/11\/profile_bird-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"44\" height=\"39\" \/><em><strong> p.s.<\/strong><\/em> Speaking of Greed, Anger, Pride and other such vices, the launching of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lextweet.com\/\"><em>LexTweet<\/em><\/a> by the folks at LexBlog [see <a href=\"http:\/\/legalblogwatch.typepad.com\/legal_blog_watch\/2009\/01\/legal-tweets-find-a-place-to-perch.html\"><em>Legal Blog Watch<\/em><\/a>, Jan. 2, 2009] seems to explain why Kevin O&#8217;Keefe <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2008\/11\/15\/theyre-all-atwitter-were-not\/#comment-205964\">slammed me<\/a> so hard when <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2008\/11\/15\/theyre-all-atwitter-were-not\/\">I refused to jump<\/a> on the Twitter bandwagon, and made a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2008\/11\/15\/theyre-all-atwitter-were-not\/#comment-206629\">grudging<\/a> apoplogy that was so <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2008\/11\/15\/theyre-all-atwitter-were-not\/#comment-206641\">meaningles<\/a>s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As regular readers know, the f\/k\/a Gang considers Thematic Excess to be among the deadliest of sins when it comes to hosting the weekly Blawg Review carnival.\u00a0 So, we were duly scandalized this evening seeing the content of Blawg Review #193, which appears at Charon QC&#8216;s eponymous weblog.\u00a0\u00a0 The fictitious Charon teaches law in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3513,1414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lawyer-news-or-ethics","category-qs-quickies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-2IG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12073,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10458\/revisions\/12073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}