{"id":4812,"date":"2004-05-02T21:30:21","date_gmt":"2004-05-03T01:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/05\/02\/no-ifs-or-buts-were-staying\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:49","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:49","slug":"no-ifs-or-buts-were-staying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/05\/02\/no-ifs-or-buts-were-staying\/","title":{"rendered":"no if&#8217;s or but&#8217;s, we&#8217;re staying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1426'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><DIV dir=\"ltr\"><FONT face=\"Arial\"><SPAN><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ethicalesq\/noyabuts.gif\" alt=\"no yabuts\" \/>&nbsp;<FONT face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">&nbsp; <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><SPAN>That big, ugly No Yabuts sign arrived today over our cyber transom.&nbsp; We&#8217;re stirred, but not shaken by it.<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><SPAN>It&#8217;s only been a week since we <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/04\/26#a1363\">announced <\/A>the creation of <EM><STRONG>prof. yabut&#8217;s journal<\/STRONG> <\/EM>(and the retirement of<EM> <\/EM>that <EM>ethicalEsq <\/EM>character).&nbsp; We couldn&#8217;t <EM>possibly<\/EM> have made any enemies yet; indeed, we apparently haven&#8217;t had any readers yet.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/SPAN><\/FONT><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><SPAN>In the honored tradition of the Free Press, <EM>pyj<\/EM> will not be cowed &#8212; nor branded.&nbsp;&nbsp;Being born (and born-again) contrarians, this just makes us want to <A href=\"http:\/\/www.unwords.com\/unword\/yabut.html\">yabut<\/A> ourselves silly.<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI><br \/>\n<DIV align=\"left\"><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><SPAN><EM>Yeah, but,<\/EM> we&#8217;ve nevertheless been doing some soul-searching,&nbsp;and even forced&nbsp;ourselves to read this week&#8217;s entire <EM>pyj <\/EM>output.&nbsp; To be honest, a lot of it sounds ghost-written by the Former Editor &#8212; just too heavy.&nbsp; So, the <EM>pyj<\/EM> gang promises to get serious about getting unserious (at least <EM>most<\/EM> of the time).&nbsp;&nbsp; <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/05\/01#a1414\">Law Day<\/A>&#8216;s behind us, as is <A href=\"http:\/\/www.legalunderground.com\/2004\/05\/weekly_report_x.html\">Evan&#8217;s defense<\/A> of the standard contingency fee.&nbsp; We have fully vented about the venality of <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/04\/30#a1405\">our youth<\/A>, too,&nbsp;&nbsp; It should be a lot easier to start carping and kvetching with a twinkle in our eye, rather than a lump in our throat or an ache in our belly.&nbsp; What could possibly ruin our profound new feeling of serenity and detachment? 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