{"id":5183,"date":"2004-12-10T12:06:06","date_gmt":"2004-12-10T16:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/12\/10\/having-to-guess\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:09","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:09","slug":"having-to-guess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/12\/10\/having-to-guess\/","title":{"rendered":"having to guess"},"content":{"rendered":"

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autumn clothesline<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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his and her pyjamas<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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frozen together<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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calmly talking divorce<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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underfoot the crackle<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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of fallen leaves<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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having to guess<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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from the footsteps:<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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evening fog<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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George Swede<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A> from just one<\/EM> page of<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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 <\/SPAN>Almost<\/EM> Unseen: Selected Haiku of George Swede<\/EM><\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/A> <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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by dagosan<\/FONT><\/A><\/STRONG>:<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/EM><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT>  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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eyelid lightshow —<\/DIV>
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he hits the snooze button<\/DIV>
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one more time<\/DIV>
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one-breath pundit<\/STRONG><\/EM><\/FONT><\/A> <\/FONT>
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\"\"  <\/FONT><\/SPAN> Poor Walter Olson<\/A>, people keep mistaking the Editor of Overlawyered<\/EM>.com<\/SPAN> <\/FONT>
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for a lawyer, and now <\/FONT>LegalAffairs<\/FONT><\/A> has him listed among the candidates in<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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its poll to find the <\/FONT>Top 20 Legal Thinkers<\/FONT><\/A> in America.  I’m sure Walter would<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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be the first to tell you that not being a lawyer may be one of the best ways<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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to be one of “the country’s most influential and important legal thinkers—<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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the ones whose ideas are pushing the law forward (or backward, as the case <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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may be).”  You have until March 1, 2005 to submit your six choices.<\/FONT><\/SPAN>    <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"tiny  <\/FONT>Prof. Bainbridge asked<\/FONT><\/A> on Wednesday “Has <\/FONT><\/FONT>Slate<\/FONT><\/A> ever responded <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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to – or even acknowledged – the <\/FONT>devastating criticisms<\/FONT><\/A> my friend<\/FONT> and colleague <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Eugene Volokh routinely directs at their Bushism of the Day<\/EM> column?”  We ask: <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Why should they have to?  Anyone who reads Slate<\/EM>‘s Bushism series knows <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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why they do it.  Point-by-point refutation (often overkilling the topic and audience <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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to the point of mental numbness) is not going to change even one mind.  It must <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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instead make the average reader say “I get it, I get it, I get it already, Eugene!”<\/FONT>   <\/FONT> <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"tiny Which reminds me, nobody at <\/FONT>Mirror of Justice<\/FONT><\/A> has seen fit <\/FONT>to respond to the<\/FONT>     \"dead<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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 posts here on religious law schools, such as, <\/FONT>religious law schools offer no salvation<\/FONT><\/EM><\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A>, and<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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no one has taken our faith-based law school exam<\/FONT><\/A>. <\/FONT> <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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autumn clothesline his and her pyjamas frozen together   calmly talking divorce underfoot the crackle of fallen leaves     having to guess from the footsteps: evening fog     George Swede from just one page of  Almost Unseen: Selected Haiku of George Swede    by dagosan:   eyelid lightshow — he hits the snooze button one more time […]<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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-5183","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-1lB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5183","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=5183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13468,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5183\/revisions\/13468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}