{"id":4313,"date":"2006-01-09T20:50:11","date_gmt":"2006-01-10T00:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2006\/01\/09\/breathing-heavily-in-dc-the-a"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:54:16","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:54:16","slug":"breathing-heavily-in-dc-the-alito-hearings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/01\/09\/breathing-heavily-in-dc-the-alito-hearings\/","title":{"rendered":"breathing heavily in d.c. – the alito hearings"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As <\/FONT>Ann Althouse<\/FONT><\/A> and <\/FONT>we<\/FONT><\/A> reported (independently) back on Halloween, <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“alito” means “breath” or “puff” in Italian (per Ultralingua<\/A>).  Ann’s post <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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garnered Comments about halitosis and Altoids, and more. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Dagosan offers a couple of senryu:<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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alito<\/FONT><\/A>!<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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puffs from the <\/FONT>right<\/FONT><\/A><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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huffs from the <\/FONT>left<\/FONT><\/A><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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feminists<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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shiver —<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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alito<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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dagosan<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A>:<\/FONT>   [Oct. 31, 2005]<\/EM><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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After the very predictable first day of the confirmation    “alitoSA”<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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hearings <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN>on the nomination to the Supreme Court of Samuel A. Alito,<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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I predict a lot more hot air, huffing, puffing and halitosis this <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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week in Washington, D.C.<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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“snowflakeS”  <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN>I suggest we all take a deep breath, and contemplate <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/EM><\/DIV>
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a capital collection of one-breath poetry from Andrew Riutta:<\/EM><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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quiet lake—
all these years
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autumn wind—<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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a leaf and homeless man<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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cross paths<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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in her silence<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the tea kettle<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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announces winter<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"announcerSG\"<\/P>
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distant foghorn—
a perfect stone
skips forever <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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new snow: <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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even the meaning <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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of our words is muffled<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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Andrew Riutta<\/FONT><\/A><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“distant foghorn” & “new snow” – <\/FONT>Haiku Harvest<\/FONT><\/A> (Vol. 5:1, Fall\/Winter 2005)<\/FONT><\/FONT> <\/DIV>
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p.s.<\/EM><\/STRONG> If I were going to the Hearing, I’d bring my Airborne<\/A>. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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[note: I am not endorsing said product]<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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As Ann Althouse and we reported (independently) back on Halloween, “alito” means “breath” or “puff” in Italian (per Ultralingua).  Ann’s post garnered Comments about halitosis and Altoids, and more.   Dagosan offers a couple of senryu:   alito! puffs from the right huffs from the left     feminists shiver — alito   dagosan:   [Oct. 31, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4313","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-17z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313","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=4313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12837,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313\/revisions\/12837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}