{"id":5200,"date":"2004-12-17T10:51:14","date_gmt":"2004-12-17T14:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/12\/17\/cant-go-cold-turkey\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:07","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:07","slug":"cant-go-cold-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/12\/17\/cant-go-cold-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"can&#8217;t go cold turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2953'><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">. . . from Hotham&#8217;s haiku.*&nbsp; Here&#8217;s another pair from haijin Gary Hotham:<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">waiting up&#8211;<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">one hand warms <\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">the other<\/FONT><\/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><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ethicalesq\/pelicansgray.gif\" alt=\"pelicans gray\" \/><\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">their last sound<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">before we move on&#8211;<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">the geese outdistance us<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><A href=\"http:\/\/www.millikin.edu\/haiku\/writerprofiles\/GaryHotham.html\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" color=\"#ff0000\" size=\"2\"><STRONG>Gary Hotham<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">&nbsp;<FONT size=\"1\">from <\/FONT><\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1885767587\/qid=1103220434\/sr=11-1\/ref=sr_11_1\/104-1569557-1267912\"><EM><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"1\"><STRONG>breathmarks: haiku to read in the dark<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/EM><\/A><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"1\">&nbsp;<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"1\">(<\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpress.org\/pages\/literature.asp#breath\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"1\"><STRONG>Canon Press<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"1\">, 1999)<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"1\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\">* <\/FONT>Ed. Note: I sure hope my puns are not accruing a Comic Karmic Debt.<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"1\">They might just get me kicked out of the Haiku Society.<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT size=\"1\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><\/DIV><FONT size=\"2\"><FONT size=\"2\"><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" align=\"left\"><FONT size=\"1\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\"><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\">by&nbsp;<A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/stories\/storyReader$379\"><FONT color=\"#000000\"><STRONG>dagosan<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A>&nbsp;<\/FONT><\/EM><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT><FONT><SPAN><FONT><FONT face=\"Arial\"><\/DIV><\/LI><\/UL><\/DIV><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\">3&nbsp;am nature call&#8211;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\">the loud drip<\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\">of icicles<\/DIV><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;<EM><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp;<FONT size=\"1\"> <FONT><FONT>[Dec. 17, 2004]<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/EM><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P dir=\"ltr\"><\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/06\/27#a1700\"><FONT color=\"#000000\"><STRONG><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\"><EM>one-breath pundit<\/EM>&nbsp;<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\">&nbsp;<\/FONT><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\"><\/P><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\"><IMG height=\"12\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ethicalesq\/tinycheck.gif\" width=\"15\" border=\"0\"> As they have done in several other states, the FTC and the Antitrust Division of DOJ submitted a joint&nbsp;<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\">advocacy letter yesterday urging the Mass. Bar Ass&#8217;n &#8220;to narrow substantially or reject a proposal by <\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\">the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court that would unnecessarily reduce or eliminate competition <\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\">between nonlawyers and lawyers to provide many services [by broadening the definition of &#8216;the practice <\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\">of law&#8217;]. The FTC and the Department said that the proposal likely would lead to higher prices and a reduction <\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\">in competitive choices for consumers.&#8221;&nbsp; (FTC<FONT color=\"black\"> <\/FONT><\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/opa\/2004\/12\/massupl.htm\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" color=\"black\">Press Release<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" color=\"black\">) (AP\/<\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/news.bostonherald.com\/localRegional\/view.bg?articleid=59274\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" color=\"black\"><EM>Boston Herald<\/EM><\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" color=\"black\"> <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/news.bostonherald.com\/localRegional\/view.bg?articleid=59274\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" color=\"black\">article<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\"> &#8220;Justice Department <\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\">denounces effort to limit legal competition,&#8221;&nbsp;Dec. 16, 2004)&nbsp;&nbsp;<EM>ethicalEsq<\/EM>&nbsp;treated this topic often, and a summary <\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\">can be found <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/discuss\/msgReader$2951?mode=day\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" color=\"black\"><STRONG>here<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\">. <\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\"><IMG height=\"12\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ethicalesq\/tinycheck.gif\" width=\"15\" border=\"0\">&nbsp; Michael <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/federalism.typepad.com\/crime_federalism\/2004\/12\/baseball_and_st.html\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" color=\"#42aac8\"><STRONG>Cernovich at Crime &amp; Federalism<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\"> seems to be having a hormone overload, as he&nbsp;&#8216;roid&nbsp; <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ethicalesq\/atbatneg.gif\" alt=\"at bat neg\" \/><\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\">rages&nbsp;against <\/FONT><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\">the ban on anabolic androgenic steroids in baseball and elsewhere.&nbsp; Your Editor supplied <FONT color=\"black\">a <\/FONT><\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/federalism.typepad.com\/crime_federalism\/2004\/12\/baseball_and_st.html\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" color=\"black\">Comment<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\"> <\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\">to <\/FONT><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\">offer a little balance.<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\"><IMG height=\"12\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ethicalesq\/tinycheck.gif\" width=\"15\" border=\"0\">&nbsp; <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/posts\/1103244250.shtml\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" color=\"black\"><STRONG>Orin Kerr<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\"><FONT color=\"black\">,<\/FONT> over at VC, wonders whether <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/posts\/1103244250.shtml\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" color=\"#42aac8\"><STRONG>federalism and tort reform<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\"> and whether conservative tort reformers&nbsp;<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\">are being inconsistent.&nbsp; He&#8217;s enabled comments, so let Orin know.&nbsp; I continue to believe that federalism is <\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\">invoked by all sorts of folks when it suits their political needs and ignored otherwise.<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\"><IMG height=\"12\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ethicalesq\/tinycheck.gif\" width=\"15\" border=\"0\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Congratulation to my old colleague-friend <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/opa\/2004\/12\/ec.htm\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" color=\"#42aac8\"><STRONG>John H. Seesel<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\">, who was appointed to the new Federal Trade <\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\">Commission position of Energy Counsel.&nbsp; He will play a key role in reviewing and making recommendations <\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\">on the Commission&#8217;s energy-related work, including investigations and cases, legislative initiatives, advocacy <\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\">comments, and studies and reports.<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\"><IMG height=\"50\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ethicalesq\/monkeycellphonesmall.gif\" width=\"40\" border=\"0\">&nbsp; Having had homicidal (and suicidal) ideation while in bank and supermarket lines next to cellphone-yakkers,<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\">I can only empathize with the dread felt <FONT color=\"black\">by <\/FONT><\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/www.professorbainbridge.com\/2004\/12\/the_horror.html\"><STRONG><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" color=\"black\">Prof. B<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" color=\"black\">. (&#8220;the horror&#8221;) and <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/busmovie.typepad.com\/ideoblog\/2004\/12\/cellphones_on_p.html\"><STRONG><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" color=\"black\">Larry Ribstein<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\"><FONT color=\"black\"> (&#8220;let the nightmare begin&#8221;) <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\"><FONT color=\"black\">about<\/FONT> being stuck between such folks <\/FONT><\/FONT><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\">on airplanes.&nbsp; I would not want to let the marketplace work this one out &#8212;<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\">although many passengers would opt for airlines banning the use while in flight, too often, passengers do not<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\">have a choice of airlines for a particular trip.&nbsp; How about having phoning and non-phoning sections?&nbsp; Naw, ban &#8217;em!<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . from Hotham&#8217;s haiku.*&nbsp; Here&#8217;s another pair from haijin Gary Hotham: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; waiting up&#8211; one hand warms the other &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; their last sound before we move on&#8211; the geese outdistance us &nbsp; &nbsp; Gary Hotham&nbsp;from breathmarks: haiku to read in the dark&nbsp; (Canon Press, 1999) &nbsp; &nbsp; * Ed. [&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_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-5200","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-1lS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200","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=5200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13454,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200\/revisions\/13454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}