{"id":7157,"date":"2006-09-06T23:28:53","date_gmt":"2006-09-07T03:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/09\/06\/a-near-pundit-experience\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:55","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:55","slug":"a-near-pundit-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/09\/06\/a-near-pundit-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"a near-pundit experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been over three months since f\/k\/a<\/em> started its punditry hiatus.\u00a0 Some<\/a> weblogging colleagues have speculated that we’ve actually been busy all summer working on the new shlep<\/a><\/em> website. \u00a0The reality, however, is that the f\/k\/a<\/em> Gang really needed the rest, and avoided all serious weblog activity for over ten weeks.<\/p>\n

\"sleepLogo\" Nonetheless, two recent posts by Bob Ambrogi<\/a> for LegalBlogWatch<\/a><\/em> almost got us to peek our noses out from under our downtime blankies.\u00a0 We were tempted to opine, but decided to stay the course and stay (relatively) silent and supine.<\/p>\n

Bob’s first post<\/a> explained\u00a0that “A New Zealand law firm that encourages its professionals to take naps if they are sleepy has won the country’s top work-life balance award.”\u00a0 If we were into that their kind of law, Meredith Connell sounds like our kind of firm: “offering workers flexible work hours to take account of personal commitments.”\u00a0 But, a nap can be as contagious as a yawn, and we’ve decided to continue to specialize in bedrest.<\/p>\n

The second Ambrogi post at LegalBlogWatch<\/em>, Feminism v. Blogging in Drag<\/a>, got our dander up, but our better angels have (mostly)\u00a0convinced our pudit devils to shush up.\u00a0 Bob gives an excellent summary of the brou-hah-hah started by the self-proclaimed “feminists” at the Feminist Law Professors<\/a><\/em> weblog.\u00a0 Led by Ann Bartow<\/a>, they launched an attack<\/a> on Daniel Lat for holding an ERISA (pension) lawyer “hottie contest<\/em>” at AboveTheLaw.<\/a><\/em> That complaint broadened into an attack on males who did their weblogging in drag<\/a>, by taking on female persona (as Lat had done at his first weblog, Article III Groupie<\/em>).\u00a0 As usual, Prof. Ann Althouse seems<\/a> to take a more balanced perspective.<\/p>\n

Hepburn & Tracy in Adam’s Rib<\/a> \"Adam'sRib\"<\/em><\/p>\n

We are tempted to point out, yet again, our belief, that the neo-feminist penchant for humorless, picky, puritanical censorship does far more harm to their cause than the materials and (atavistic, often purposely and obviously puerile) attitudes they are deriding.\u00a0 We’re even tempted to link once again to our favorite Callahan feminist cartoon<\/a>.\u00a0 But, the Gang has built up a considerable amount of self control around this summer, and will merely suggest a paraphrase to FemLawProf<\/em>‘s tagline<\/a>, which is “No person is your friend who demands your silence<\/em>.”\u00a0 Perhaps Bartow et al<\/em>. should at least consider that, for both genders, “No person is your equal<\/em> who demands your silence.”<\/p>\n

p.s.<\/em> Hiatus or not, we’re almost looking forward to being called a stuffy, WASPy, male Harvard-type who just doesn’t “get it.”<\/p>\n

p.p.s.<\/em> Prof Bartow says “Possibly Lat doesn\u2019t understand that being celebrated for her looks is not known for being a ticket to career success in the legal world for a female attorney.”\u00a0 This statement is contrary to my personal observation, both in government and private practice.\u00a0 At the very least, good looks does not <\/em>appear to be a negative career characteristic.<\/p>\n

\"BearyR\" <\/span>Speaking of attractive, successful lawyers, Roberta Beary<\/strong><\/a> just won 1st Place in the prestigious Harold Brady Memorial Senryu Contest<\/a> for 2006, from the Haiku Society of America, with this senryu:<\/p>\n

first date–<\/em><\/div>\n
the small pile <\/em><\/div>\n
of anchovies<\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Oh, did you come here for some haiku, too?\u00a0 Well, while our sister weblog shlep<\/em> is looking<\/a> for a librarian or two to be co-editors, we\u00a0have already found our kind of librarian here\u00a0at f\/k\/a<\/em> — it’s\u00a0Tom Clausen, of Cornell University’s Mann Library (<\/span>public\/access<\/span><\/a> services section).<\/span> Let’s let him quietly show us his stuff:<\/p>\n

\"napperF\"<\/p>\n

\n
daybreak
\nthe spider centered
\nin its web<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
\n
(Winner, The Haiku Calendar Contest 2006, Snapshot Press;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
frogpond<\/span><\/em><\/a>, XXIX:1 Winter 2006) <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n


\nlong wait alone
\nin the parking lot. . .
\na dog in the next car<\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span><\/p>\n

morning fog. . .
\na mash of wild apples
\non the road
\n<\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span><\/p>\n

turning off the music
\na few miles before
\ngetting there<\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span><\/p>\n

cabin window–
\nthe plant has gone
\neverywhere it can<\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span><\/p>\n

log bridge–
\ngoing to the end
\nthen returning<\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span><\/p>\n


\nletting her
\nwalk all over me
\nladybug<\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span><\/p>\n


\n\"HepburnAsBonner\" Katherine Hepburn as lawyer Amanda Bonner, in Adam’s Rib<\/em><\/a> (1949).<\/span><\/p>\n


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. . . by Tom Clausen<\/a><\/strong>,
\nfrom being there<\/a><\/em> (Swamp Press, 2005) <\/span><\/p>\n