{"id":5136,"date":"2004-11-20T16:08:17","date_gmt":"2004-11-20T20:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/11\/20\/eight-more-years\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:13","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:13","slug":"eight-more-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/11\/20\/eight-more-years\/","title":{"rendered":"eight more years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2745'><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">Woe is me.&nbsp; My new driver&#8217;s license arrived in the mail today, and the photo ID looks<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">even worse than it had at DMV when they took it last week.&nbsp; Despite having an aging<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">population, New York State re-licenses drivers for 8 years &#8212; they sent an application to<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">my 85-year-old Dad recently.&nbsp;&nbsp; So, I&#8217;ll be flashing this little baby when Pres. Obama is<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">finishing his first term. [No, it won&#8217;t be going on my <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/stories\/storyReader$2086\"><FONT color=\"black\">Sibs Page<\/FONT><\/A>.]<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">Demographic policy questions are not what&#8217;s on my mind.&nbsp; I&#8217;m wondering <\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">why I said &#8220;no,&#8221; when the DMV clerk asked whether I wanted to keep my <\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">current license photo.&nbsp; You know, the one where I had all my hair and no gray.<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/LI><\/UL><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">Issa was lucky back in early 19th-Century Japan &#8212; no ID photos.&nbsp; See his <A href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/gems\/ethicalesq\/IssaSelfportrait.jpg\"><FONT color=\"black\">self-portrait<\/FONT><\/A>: . . . <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ethicalesq\/issaselfportraitneg.gif\" alt=\"issa self neg\" \/><\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">vain clouds<BR>forming vain peaks<BR>in vain<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><BR><BR><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">scolding<BR>vain man&#8230;<BR>the autumn moon<\/FONT><\/DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT size=\"+0\"><A href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/issa\/searchissa.php?sorter=date&amp;s_string=vain&amp;season=&amp;s_date=\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" color=\"#ff0000\" size=\"2\">Kobayashi Issa<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">, translated by D.G.Lanoue<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/FONT><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woe is me.&nbsp; 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