{"id":4032,"date":"2005-08-23T19:00:03","date_gmt":"2005-08-23T23:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2005\/08\/23\/not-fade-away\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:57:28","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:57:28","slug":"not-fade-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2005\/08\/23\/not-fade-away\/","title":{"rendered":"not fade away"},"content":{"rendered":"

underside
\nof the red canvas awning
\nnot faded<\/p>\n

in the appliance store doorway
\ncalling a Maytag box
\nhome<\/p>\n

\n

city lights
\ntrying to make out
\nthe constellations<\/p>\n

… by Carolyn Hall<\/a> – from the haibun \u201cProtective Coloration\u201d
\nin The Loose Thread: RMA 2001<\/em>; orig., stone frog<\/em><\/p>\n

no impatiens this year \u2013\u00a0 \"napper<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
\nresenting
\nthe lazy neighbor<\/p>\n

… by dagosan<\/em> [Aug. 23, 2005]<\/p>\n

\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n
potluck<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"tiny Why does <\/span>Prof. Bainbridge<\/span><\/a> have to go and ruin a perfectly valid<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> point by needlessly slinging mud?\u00a0\u00a0 Today, in a post concerning<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> the firing of Michael Graham by ABC Radio, he <\/span>correctly explains<\/span><\/a>:<\/div>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>“The First Amendment limits only the power of government,<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> in general. The First Amendment, absent state action,<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> therefore generally does not<\/em> prohibit a private employer<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> from firing one of its employees.”<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n


\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> But, then, Steve just had<\/em> to say:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\n
“This sort of rights talk, claiming to have Constitutional <\/span>protections<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> one obviously lacks, is particularly disappointing coming from a<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> conservative. . . . <\/span>My point is only that I hate to see conservatives<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> invoking the lex-centric rights language of the left rather than<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> relying on markets and politcs for redress.”<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n


\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The mistaken invocation of the First Amendment against private action is <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>something that every American has\u00a0heard since birth.\u00a0[Try living with a<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> teenager and see how often you\u00a0face such arguments.]\u00a0 Those who<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> errone<\/span>ously believe that all Americans have the right to say whatever they<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> want <\/span>whenever they want come from all walks of life and all ideologies and<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> parties.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Indeed, most of the 1st Amendment\u00a0ignorati<\/em> wouldn’t know an<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> ideology if it bit them on their bainbridge<\/span>.\u00a0\u00a0 It is basic ignorance of the<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> meaning of the Bill of Rights [which Prof. B appears to believe was given<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> that name by a leftwing <\/span>cabal, which\u00a0hoped<\/span> to indoctrinate the populace<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> and fool a few judges] and <\/span>not<\/em> some liberal worldview that causes most<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> Americans to decry private forms of “censorship” as unAmerican.<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
\n
\"froglegs\"<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

sunlit shallows
\na frog burrows deeper
\ninto the mud<\/p>\n

…… by Carolyn Hall – Snapshots\u00a0 #10 (2004)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"tiny<\/span> I think even Steve Bainbridge<\/span><\/a> would agree that today’s <\/em>NYT<\/em> article<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> “Scientists Speak Up on Mix of God and Science” is quite evenhanded.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> (by Cornelia Dean, Aug. 23, 2005).<\/div>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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