{"id":3818,"date":"2005-05-03T20:13:39","date_gmt":"2005-05-04T00:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2005\/05\/03\/red-hots\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:57:45","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:57:45","slug":"red-hots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2005\/05\/03\/red-hots\/","title":{"rendered":"red hots"},"content":{"rendered":"

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     “red hots!”<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“<\/FONT>sixty floors<\/FONT><\/A>”  Simply Haiku<\/EM> (<\/FONT>Dec. 2003)<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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potluck<\/FONT><\/EM><\/STRONG><\/DIV>
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“YYS”  Yesterday, in a post positing that the Jennifer Wilbanks<\/A> situation may be less like <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the “runaway bride” and more like Sleeping With the Enemy<\/FONT><\/A><\/EM>. Conglomerate<\/EM>‘s co-editor, <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Marquette Law Prof. <\/FONT>Christine Hurt confided<\/FONT><\/A>: “I’ve come to believe that crazy women<\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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are made, not born<\/EM>.”  Similarly, in <\/FONT>When <\/FONT><\/STRONG>Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/EM><\/A>,  <\/FONT>George Carlin <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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says that “men are stupid and women are crazy, but women are crazy <\/FONT>because men are stupid.”  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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I agree with Carlin and Hurt on the general principle.  <\/FONT>However, Ms. Wilbanks almost certainly <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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proves Carlin’s corollary that nature-genes- <\/FONT>hormones can also play an important role in female <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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insanity.   Prof. Hurt concludes: <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“Maybe we <\/FONT>should create a bride protection program, similar to <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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witness protection.”   <\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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Mandatory <\/FONT>psychiatric treatment (and maybe a lie detector test) should be part of any <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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such <\/FONT>program.  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"tiny Yesterday, Hurt’s co-blawger, Wisc. Law Prof. <\/FONT>Gordon Smith<\/FONT><\/A>, <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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hosted <\/FONT>Blawg Review #4<\/FONT><\/A> at the Law & Entrepeneurship Blog<\/EM>.  As<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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grateful as I am that Gordon linked to my Not Lawyers Day<\/FONT><\/A> post, <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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I must disclose that he originally referred to Abnu <\/A>as a former <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“alte<\/EM>r boy” — a condition that may indeed relate to Abnu’s post <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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on “benefit of <\/A><\/FONT>clergy<\/A>.”<\/FONT>  (While Martin Grace was taking a break from <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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posting, your Editor served as proofreader for yet another professor.) <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“tinyredcheck”  Add my name to the list of commentators across the political spectrum– including <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Mike <\/FONT>Cernovich<\/FONT><\/A>, Prof. <\/FONT>Bainbridge<\/FONT><\/A>, Christina Hoff <\/FONT>Sommers<\/FONT><\/A> — who believe that many <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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college administrations must be getting severe hernias and slipped discs from bending <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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over backwards to appear politically correct.   Far too often , they appear to (1) have no <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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common sense; (2) have no sense of humor; and (3) have no idea how discriminatory <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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and arbitrary their positions appear out here in the real world.  The latest example is the <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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flap in R.I. at Roger Williams University over the dueling gender Monologues<\/EM>.   Are there <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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any grownups on campus these days?  (NRO, “<\/FONT>V-Day Meets P-Day on Campus<\/FONT><\/A>,” May 2, <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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2005)<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"tiny  Consumer Complaint Corner:<\/EM> <\/FONT><\/FONT>CitiBank<\/FONT><\/A> Credit recently purchased the Sears <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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credit division, and sent cardholders notices promising “More great benefits.”  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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of Terms.”  The changes include (1) an increase in the annual interest rate from 11.58% <\/EM><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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to 17.33%;  <\/EM>(2) a new late payment fee ($39 for account balances over $50 — even for <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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being one day late); and (3) higher minimum due requirements each month.  It has been <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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an eye-opener, <\/FONT>over the past few years, discovering how impossible it is<\/FONT> to get decent <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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credit <\/FONT>card terms (like I had in my pre-CFS, working days) since exiting the middle class.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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