{"id":3860,"date":"2005-05-24T20:43:42","date_gmt":"2005-05-25T00:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2005\/05\/24\/unclear-option-never-mind\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:57:42","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:57:42","slug":"unclear-option-never-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2005\/05\/24\/unclear-option-never-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"unclear option? “never mind”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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No matter what the Senate <\/FONT>filibuster compromise<\/FONT><\/A> today may mean, one thing is very <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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nu-clear to me: “nuclear option<\/EM>” belongs on the <\/FONT>Banished Words List<\/FONT><\/A>.  So, join <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Ellen Goodman<\/FONT><\/A> and <\/FONT>myself<\/FONT><\/A> by nominating it for the LSSU <\/FONT>2006 List<\/FONT><\/A>.  But, please, <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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let’s not wait for January 1st.  Let’s stop using the silly phrase outside of the strategic <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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war context <\/FONT>right now (that means <\/FONT><\/FONT>you<\/FONT><\/A>, too).  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"deleteKey  Unclear option?  Unclear analogies?  As <\/FONT>Emily<\/FONT><\/A> and <\/FONT>Essie<\/FONT><\/A> Litella would <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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say, “Never mind<\/EM>.”<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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between Pompey<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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and Caesar<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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I place my bookmark<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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May morning<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the door opens<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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before I knock<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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on top of everything<\/DIV>
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                              rain<\/DIV>
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 <\/FONT>John Stevenson<\/FONT><\/A> from <\/FONT>Some of the Silence<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/EM><\/A>  <\/FONT>(Red Moon Press,1999)  \"umbrella<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No matter what the Senate filibuster compromise today may mean, one thing is very nu-clear to me: “nuclear option” belongs on the Banished Words List.  So, join Ellen Goodman and myself by nominating it for the LSSU 2006 List.  But, please, let’s not wait for January 1st.  Let’s stop using the silly phrase outside of […]<\/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-3860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-10g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860","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=3860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13204,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860\/revisions\/13204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}