{"id":4277,"date":"2005-12-16T19:12:28","date_gmt":"2005-12-16T23:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2005\/12\/16\/transparently-opaque-the-winn"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:54:19","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:54:19","slug":"transparently-opaque-the-winner-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2005\/12\/16\/transparently-opaque-the-winner-is\/","title":{"rendered":"transparently opaque: the winner is. . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Ed” over at Blawg Review<\/EM><\/A> is fiercely (religiously) anonymous, but <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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I’m <\/FONT>starting to <\/FONT>think he could be a public relations consultant for the <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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G.W. Bush <\/FONT>White House.  Clearly, when informing his public, Ed <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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believes deeply in two principles that also guide the White House: <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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(1) if you <\/FONT>assert it enough, it’s true; <\/FONT>and (2) we don’t have to explain <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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a <\/FONT>thing, ’cause <\/FONT>a Higher Power is on our <\/FONT>side. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“GraphClimb”<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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If you don’t believe me, check out his post “Best Blawg and Best Law Blogs<\/A>” <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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(Dec. 11, 2005), where Ed says:<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“For most law bloggers, the real excitement will be right here for the <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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first ever Blawg Review Awards, which will be announced on December <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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26. No one knows whose blawgs are nominated, how a law blog gets <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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nominated, how the voting is tabulated, or even who gets to vote. Still, <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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this is where everyone interested in <\/FONT>the best blawgs<\/FONT><\/A> looks each week, <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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and law bloggers will be pointing their browsers back here right after <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Christmas to see who got what presents from Blawg Review this year.” <\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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So, don’t call it Boxing Day.  December 26 is gonna be Blawxing Day<\/EM> <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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at Prof. Yabut’s house.  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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wants to add that — unlike the folks at 1700 Pennsylvania <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Ave and the censors<\/A> at Blawg Republic<\/FONT><\/A><\/EM> — “Ed” doesn’t <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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hold grudges or ignore constructive criticism. (we hope)<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the procedures or results in the WizBang<\/EM> Weblog Awards<\/A>.<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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election over<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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dirty laundry<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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awaits<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“Ed” over at Blawg Review is fiercely (religiously) anonymous, but I’m starting to think he could be a public relations consultant for the G.W. Bush White House.  Clearly, when informing his public, Ed believes deeply in two principles that also guide the White House:  (1) if you assert it enough, it’s true; and (2) we don’t have to […]<\/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-4277","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-16Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277","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=4277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12866,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277\/revisions\/12866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}