{"id":5071,"date":"2004-10-17T22:53:48","date_gmt":"2004-10-18T02:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/10\/17\/ads-and-gossip-and-oh-yeh-gen"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:20","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:20","slug":"ads-and-gossip-and-oh-yeh-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/10\/17\/ads-and-gossip-and-oh-yeh-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"ads and gossip and, oh yeh, genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2510'><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<DIV align=\"left\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ethicalesq\/pianokeysgray.gif\" alt=\"piano keys\" \/>&nbsp; I couldn&#8217;t wait until tomorrow to share a pair of haiku from <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/05\/17#a1494\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" color=\"#ff0000\" size=\"2\">Tom Painting<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">&#8216;s chapbook <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/bottlerockets_99\/piano.html\"><EM><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">piano practice<\/FONT><\/EM><\/A><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">.<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">autumn light<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">I lower the window<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">cover my child&#8217;s feet<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\">&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\">&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\">&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">the gossip<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">her yard fills<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">with leaves<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<DIV align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ethicalesq\/leavesflying.gif\" alt=\"leaves flying\" \/><\/DIV><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<DIV align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" align=\"left\"><SPAN><SPAN><FONT><STRONG><A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/06\/27#a1700\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" color=\"black\" size=\"2\"><EM>one-breath&nbsp;pundit<\/EM><\/FONT><\/A><EM><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/FONT><\/EM><\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" align=\"left\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT><br \/>\n<P dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" align=\"left\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\"><br \/>\n<DIV><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><SPAN><SPAN><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><SPAN><SPAN><SPAN><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">It&#8217;s rare that I <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/www.legaline.com\/2004\/10\/why-blogads-is-good-for-blawgs-and-for.html\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"2\">disagree with Bob Ambrogi<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">, but I don&#8217;t buy his notion that lawyers will not continue their weblogs without the incentive of advertising revenues.&nbsp;&nbsp; (see our earlier <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/01\/27#a621\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"2\">post<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">).&nbsp; Bob asks for comments, and <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/lexblog.com\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"2\">Kevin<\/FONT><\/A><FONT size=\"2\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\"> O&#8217;Keefe and I responded; please join us.&nbsp; <FONT color=\"red\"><EM><STRONG>Update<\/STRONG><\/EM><\/FONT> (Oct. 20, 2004):&nbsp; Bob Ambrogi has written a <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/www.legaline.com\/2004\/10\/more-on-blogads-and-blawgs.html\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" color=\"black\">follow-up<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\"> on this issue; my reply is <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/discuss\/msgReader$2531?mode=day\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\">here<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\">)<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/LI><\/UL><\/UL><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><SPAN><SPAN><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><br \/>\n<DIV align=\"left\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\">Thank you, Kofi Anan, for speaking <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/index_970600.html\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\">the truth<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\">: <EM>the Iraq War has not <\/EM><EM>made the world safer<\/EM>.&nbsp; (See <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/jurist.law.pitt.edu\/paperchase\/2004\/10\/annan-iraq-war-has-not-made-world.php\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" color=\"#000000\">Jurist Paper Chase<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\">)&nbsp; <\/FONT><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV><br \/>\n<LI><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><SPAN><SPAN><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><br \/>\n<DIV align=\"left\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\"><EM>Dear President Bush:<\/EM> Please go over your Harvard Business School notes on&nbsp;externalities and unintended consequences.&nbsp; The White House should not be a <EM>Nuance-Free Zone<\/EM>.<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV><br \/>\n<LI><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><SPAN><SPAN><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><br \/>\n<DIV align=\"left\"><A href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/10\/17\/opinion\/17dowd.html?ex=1255752000&amp;en=2a9065df1f725d3f&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" color=\"black\">Ms. Dowd<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\"> said it well today: &#8220;America is awash in selective piety, situational moralists and cherry-picking absolutists. &#8220;<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><SPAN><SPAN><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/LI><\/UL><\/UL><\/UL><\/UL><\/UL><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI><SPAN><SPAN><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\"><SPAN><SPAN><SPAN><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">Like <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jim\/2004\/10\/17#a865\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">Jim Moore<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">, the <EM><A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jim\/2004\/10\/17#a866\"><FONT color=\"#000000\">Washington Post<\/FONT><\/A><\/EM>, and <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/10\/16\/opinion\/16kristof.html?ex=1255665600&amp;en=c0b052637fafc61c&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"2\">Nicholas Kristof<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">, I wonder why the world isn&#8217;t doing a lot more to save Dafur.<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/LI><\/UL><\/UL><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\"><SPAN><SPAN><SPAN><SPAN><SPAN><EM><\/EM>&nbsp;<\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" align=\"left\"><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI><br \/>\n<DIV align=\"left\"><FONT><SPAN><FONT><EM><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\"><FONT size=\"2\">by&nbsp;<STRONG><A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/stories\/storyReader$379\"><FONT color=\"red\">dagosan<\/FONT><\/A><\/STRONG><FONT color=\"black\">:<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/EM><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT><FONT><SPAN><\/DIV><\/LI><\/UL><\/DIV><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\"><FONT size=\"2\"><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\">their children<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\">never cry<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\">never stop crying<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\"><EM>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/EM><FONT size=\"1\"><EM>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/EM><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\"><EM>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/EM><FONT><FONT><EM>[reprise, Aug. 25, 2004,<\/EM> for Dafur<EM>]<\/EM><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I couldn&#8217;t wait until tomorrow to share a pair of haiku from Tom Painting&#8216;s chapbook piano practice. &nbsp; autumn light I lower the window cover my child&#8217;s feet &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; the gossip her yard fills with leaves &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; one-breath&nbsp;pundit&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#8217;s rare that I disagree with Bob Ambrogi, but I don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/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-5071","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-1jN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5071","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=5071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13577,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5071\/revisions\/13577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}