{"id":5188,"date":"2004-12-12T16:32:11","date_gmt":"2004-12-12T20:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/12\/12\/snow-down-my-neck\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:08","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:08","slug":"snow-down-my-neck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/12\/12\/snow-down-my-neck\/","title":{"rendered":"snow down my neck"},"content":{"rendered":"

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first date<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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    letting her<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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put snow down my neck<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"welch11Breast\"  <\/FONT>full size<\/FONT><\/A> photo & haiku<\/EM><\/FONT> <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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my hand curves<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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       to fit your breast …<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the windowsill, snowladen<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Michael Dylan Welch<\/FONT><\/A>, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“first date” – <\/FONT>edge of light<\/EM><\/FONT><\/A> <\/FONT>The Red Moon Anthology<\/EM> 2003<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/A> <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“my hand curves” – from <\/FONT>Open Window<\/FONT><\/A>,<\/FONT> haiku and photographs  <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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by dagosan<\/FONT><\/A><\/STRONG>:<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/EM><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT>  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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warm enough 
to linger at the river 
year-end bonus
                        <\/FONT>  [dag, Dec. 30, 2003]<\/EM><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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one-breath pundit<\/STRONG><\/EM><\/FONT><\/A> <\/FONT>
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\"tiny So, Italian judges have <\/FONT>discretion<\/FONT> to shorten statutes of limitation<\/EM> — <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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and used it on behalf of Prime Minister Berlusconi (who just happens to be <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the richest man in the country).  Thank you, dear grandparents, for taking the <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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boat to the New World. (NYT<\/EM> article,<\/FONT><\/A> “All Corruption Charges Against Berlusconi <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Are Dismissed,” Dec. 11, 2004) <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"\" The other<\/EM> <\/FONT><\/FONT>David Giacalone<\/FONT><\/A> is <\/FONT>alleged<\/FONT><\/A> to have “received a personal   <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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payment of more than $300,000–which Fininvest insists was a ‘consulting <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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fee’ but which magistrates consider a bribe” for his part in having the so-<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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called Mammi Law enacted favoring Berlusoni’s media empire. (The Nation<\/EM>,<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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 “<\/FONT>Emperor of the Air<\/FONT><\/A>,” Nov. 11, 1999) [even The Nation<\/EM> misspells our name!]<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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p.s.<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/EM> I just learned today that Giacalone’s website policamente scorretto<\/FONT><\/A><\/EM> means<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“politically incorrect” in Italian.  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"tinyOn the other hand, did you hear that 16-year-old <\/FONT>Steve Geluso<\/FONT><\/A> flunked his Language Arts class      \"fail<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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at Richland High?  Asked to “Write a three-part compare\/contrast essay that explores the similarities <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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and\/or differences between two items on any topic,” Steve choose to distinguish <\/FONT>between piracy and <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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stealing.  His teacher deemed the essay (transcribed <\/FONT><\/FONT>here<\/FONT><\/A>) to be “Really splitting hairs on reasoning why <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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it’s OK to take music if it is offered to you.” Steve’s story was picked <\/FONT>up by <\/FONT>boingboing<\/FONT><\/A>, <\/FONT>Donna Wentworth<\/FONT><\/A>, <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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and many more.  As in Election 2004, nuance is apparently a vice, not a virtue.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"pass\"<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"tinyNeed a gift idea for a particularly nervous and anxious friend?  Why not <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>Fredd<\/FONT><\/A> Culbertson’s <\/FONT>Phobic List<\/FONT><\/A><\/DIV>
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poster<\/FONT><\/A>?  The list is fun and entertaining.  For instance, here are the first handful of items under <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>Letter B<\/FONT><\/A>:<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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FEAR of:<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Bacteria<\/EM>– Bacteriophobia.
Bald people<\/EM>– Peladophobia.
Bald, becoming<\/EM>– Phalacrophobia.
Bathing<\/EM>– Ablutophobia.
Beards<\/EM>– Pogonophobia.
Beaten by a rod<\/EM> or instrument of punishment, or of being severely criticized- Rhabdophobia.
Beautiful women<\/EM>– Caligynephobia.
Beds<\/EM> or going to bed- Clinophobia.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"tiny  Evan Schaeffer<\/FONT><\/A> (and others, like the Washington Post, <\/EM>and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/FONT><\/EM><\/A>) <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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have exposed the Madison County Record<\/A><\/FONT><\/EM> newspaper to be partly owned by the tort-reformers at the <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Chamber of Commerce.  Perhaps, in addition to Evan’s call for a frontpage disclosure of the ownership, <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the rag could change its name to the Madison County Chamber Pot<\/EM>.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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wintry weather<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the meaning of “parent”<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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sinks in<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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                  <\/FONT>ISSA<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A>, translated by David G. Lanoue     <\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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\"phone   J. Craig Williams<\/FONT><\/A> at MIPTC <\/EM>has it right: the Washington State Supreme Court’s silly decision<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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criminalizing a parent’s eavesdropping<\/A> on a minor child’s telephone conversation should not<\/EM> discourage<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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other parents from listening in when the child’s welfare needs to be protected.  The ACLU’s lawyer, Douglas<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Klunder, says “I don’t think the state should be in the position of encouraging parents to act surreptitiously <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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and eavesdrop on their children.”  [That reminds me of the “children’s rights” extremists who argued a decade<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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ago that NYS lawyers appointed to represent children must solely<\/EM> advocate the position desired by any<\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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child able to “express” a position (e.g.<\/EM>, in a custody or abuse cases).]  There is a lot of room between the state<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“encouraging” more parental eavesdropping and the state declaring it a criminal invasion of privacy.<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/SPAN><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

first date     letting her put snow down my neck         full size photo & haiku      my hand curves        to fit your breast … the windowsill, snowladen       Michael Dylan Welch, “first date” – edge of light The Red Moon Anthology 2003 “my hand curves” – from Open Window, […]<\/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-5188","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-1lG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5188","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=5188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13464,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5188\/revisions\/13464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}