{"id":4437,"date":"2006-03-17T16:34:46","date_gmt":"2006-03-17T20:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2006\/03\/17\/prefer-orange-to-green\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:54:04","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:54:04","slug":"prefer-orange-to-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/03\/17\/prefer-orange-to-green\/","title":{"rendered":"prefer orange to green?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last March, we were <\/FONT>just mad about saffron<\/FONT><\/A>, and featured <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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b&w (that’s grayscale to you younguns) photos of <\/FONT>The Gates<\/FONT><\/EM><\/A>, <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the wonderful art event in NYC’s Central Park, created by <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Christo and Jeanne Claude.  Each image posted was linked to <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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a full-color photo taken by lawyer Arthur J. Giacalone, of East <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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If you’d like a glimpse of orange rather than (or in addition to) <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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green today, why not check out our tribute to The Gates<\/EM>, which <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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also includes haiku by George Swede.<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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poet, Ed Markowski<\/A>, sent an email today that says:<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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                                st. patrick’s day<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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                the spare change <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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                       st. patrick’s day<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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ed markowski<\/FONT><\/A>  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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potluck<\/STRONG><\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"tiny Estate Lawyer Joel Schoenmeyer, of the <\/FONT>Death & Taxes<\/FONT><\/EM><\/A> weblog, <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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and I have conducted <\/FONT>a debate of sorts this week on whether <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the courts should make more user-friendly information available <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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to <\/FONT>applicants in Probate Court, so that those who wish may appear <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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pro se<\/EM> (that is, without a lawyer).  See our original March 13 post,<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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probate and pro se: whose court is it?<\/EM><\/FONT><\/A>, which has several updates <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the runner’s vest<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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blends in  —<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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through The Gates of central park<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"tiny  Thoughts of St. Patrick’s Day and the color orange remind your <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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editor of his first act of “civil disobedience”, which occurred on St. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Patrick’s <\/FONT>Day in 1964, when I was a high school freshman.  My <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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home-room treacher, Mr. McCarthy, announced on March 16th <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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that anyone who wears anything orange on St. Patrick’s Day <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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would receive detention. which we called “jug” at McQuaid Jesuit <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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High School, in Rochester, New York.  That seemed awfully unfair <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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and arbitrary to my 13-<\/FONT>year-old psyche, so I wore a one-inch wide, <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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neon-orange tie on <\/FONT>March 17th, with a little fear in my heart.  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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The <\/FONT>result was, fatefully, <\/FONT>my first detention, and I had to spend some <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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I never committed any wardrobe infractions thereafter.  However, as <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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editor in chief of the school newspaper, a couple years later, I sure <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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did point out unfairness, arbitrariness, and foolishness rather frequently.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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its Readers Choice<\/FONT> poll <\/FONT>participants chose <\/FONT>the weblog AlbanyEye<\/EM><\/A> as the <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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lations.  AlbanyEye<\/EM>‘s tagline is “Casting its unflinching gaze at Capital <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Region media since 2004.”<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"tiny  I very much enjoyed a short  NPR<\/EM> segment<\/A> a few minutes ago, in<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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which David Weinberger explains why he loves you and your weblog,<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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but he can’t promise to read everything you post — and absolves you <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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from the responsibility to keep up with all he writes on his site.  Click<\/FONT><\/A> <\/FONT>to <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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listen to “Reading Blogs Is a Time-Consuming Endeavor,” March <\/FONT>17, 2006.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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