{"id":3619,"date":"2004-12-01T09:45:12","date_gmt":"2004-12-01T13:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/12\/01\/tears-for-the-mendicant-profe"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:11","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:11","slug":"tears-for-the-mendicant-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/12\/01\/tears-for-the-mendicant-professor\/","title":{"rendered":"tears for the mendicant professor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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offer no comment on today’s posting by the otherwise bon vivant<\/EM> <\/FONT>Steve Bainbridge<\/FONT><\/A>: <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Pledge Break<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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The computer in my home office is dying a lingering death and I’m <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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thinking about hitting the tip jar in the left sidebar, now would be a <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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very opportune moment to do so. And I thank you.<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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programming, like they do during PBS pledge week? (2) what the heck will Steve do when <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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a good old California earthquake or forest fire strikes his home? and (3) to restore my faith in <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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macho neo-cons and libertarians, could someone please convince me that Prof. B is doing this <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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tongue-in-cheek as a caricature of the early alms-seeking denizens of weblog world?<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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begging actors–
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begging at my gate
the geese lose
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Kobayashi Issa<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A>, translated by D.G.Lanoue                                                                                                               \"ooh\"<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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p.s.<\/FONT><\/STRONG> Really<\/EM> Inadvertent or Nice Coincidence?  I just learned from my Referer List that this<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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weblog had the #2 result, out of about 5 million, for the <\/FONT>Google search<\/FONT><\/A> why do women <\/EM><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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like big ones<\/EM>>.  Our posting <\/FONT><\/FONT>do ads subtract? big ones sure do!<\/FONT><\/A> got the listing.  Click here<\/A> <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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for <\/FONT>more Inadvertent Searchee fun.<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Other than pointing to my recent post on employed weblawggers who beg, I shall offer no comment on today’s posting by the otherwise bon vivant Steve Bainbridge: Pledge Break   The computer in my home office is dying a lingering death and I’m going to have to order a replacement this week. So if you’ve been thinking about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-Wn","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619","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=3619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13486,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619\/revisions\/13486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}