{"id":4021,"date":"2005-08-17T16:05:47","date_gmt":"2005-08-17T20:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2005\/08\/17\/assembly-agita\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:57:29","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:57:29","slug":"assembly-agita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2005\/08\/17\/assembly-agita\/","title":{"rendered":"“assembly agita”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Although most of our dads were quite handy around<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the house, a lot of my Italo-American male friends <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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are tool-challenged — as are my law colleagues.  So,<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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I was a little surprised that the phrase “assembly <\/EM><\/FONT>agita<\/EM><\/FONT><\/A>” <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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yielded no results in a Google search.  This post is <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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meant to cure that oversight.  [I think I’ll throw in <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“assembly angst<\/EM>,” too.]<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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The subject was on my mind, because my twin  \"computer<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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brother came home yesterday from a colonoscopy <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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(with good results, thank you) to find that the brand <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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new computer system had arrived for his at-home <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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law office.  Being a solo with no staff, setting up his <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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computer will be his sole responsibility — unless his <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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(much more handy) spouse has mercy on him.  He’s <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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also switching from <\/FONT>dial-up to DSL.   You don’t have <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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to have twinnie <\/FONT>telepathy to feel a bit of empathy for <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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his plight.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Good luck, Bro’.  I’m three hundred miles away,<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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and feel better knowing that I’d only <\/FONT>be in the way,<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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if I showed up to “help”.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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