{"id":7455,"date":"2007-04-09T10:56:15","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T15:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2007\/04\/09\/blawg-review-103-swings-for-the-fe"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:50","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:50","slug":"blawg-review-103-swings-for-the-fences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2007\/04\/09\/blawg-review-103-swings-for-the-fences\/","title":{"rendered":"blawg review 103 swings for the fences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"31\" alt=\"infielderG\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/files\/2007\/01\/infielderG.jpg\" width=\"50\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0If we had known that Jonathan Friedan was constructing <em><a href=\"http:\/\/ecommercelaw.typepad.com\/ecommerce_law\/2007\/04\/blawg_review_10.html\">Blawg Review #103<\/a><\/em> around a baseball theme, we would have reminded him of <em>f\/k\/a<\/em>&#8216;s recent mixture of our beathless punditry with one-breath poems from the new, critically-acclaimed volume <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Play-Ball-Cor-Van-Heuvel\/dp\/1893959066\/sr=1-1\/qid=1168622049\/ref=sr_1_1\/104-5453721-2279151?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books\"><em>Baseball Haiku<\/em><\/a> (prior <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2007\/01\/12\/baseball-haiku-the-book-on-deck\/\">post<\/a>)\u00a0 (for example, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2007\/04\/02\/nysba-officially-endorses-76-as-retirement-age-for-judges-with-fitness-tests-for-all\/\">here<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2007\/03\/31\/npr-spotlights-baseball-haiku-book\/\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2007\/03\/26\/an-end-to-my-multiweblogtasking\/\">there<\/a>).\u00a0 We might have even noted humbly that one of the poets included in the anthology is indeed a legal <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/dagosans-archives\/\">weblogger<\/a>.\u00a0 Having missed that opportunity, your Editor doesn&#8217;t want you to miss out on <em>Blawg Review #103<\/em> at Jonathan&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/ecommercelaw.typepad.com\/ecommerce_law\/\">E-Commerce Law<\/a><\/em> weblog.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>bottom of the 8th<br \/>\neight determined drunks<br \/>\nget the wave going . . .<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. by tom clausen &#8211; <em>Baseball Haiku<\/em> (2007)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0As\u00a0<em>The <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/commonscold.typepad.com\/commonscold\/2007\/04\/the_hits_keep_c.html\"><em>Commmon Scold<\/em><\/a>\u00a0points out this morning, Jonathan has hit &#8220;a grand slam&#8221;, with a &#8220;very clever&#8221; blawg review &#8220;structured on key elements of the game.&#8221;\u00a0 Like every weekly edition of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/blawgreview.blogspot.com\/\">Blawg Review<\/a><\/em>, #103 points to some of the best recent posting at law-related weblogs, including:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.overlawyered.com\/2007\/04\/to_the_moon_alice.html\"><em>Overlawyered.com<\/em><\/a>&#8216;s description of one teen&#8217;s looney lawsuit.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ericgoldman.org\/archives\/2007\/04\/utah_bans_keywo.htm\">Eric Goldman<\/a>&#8216;s lament over Utah&#8217;s streak of bad internet legislation (keyword ads this time)<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Law students musing over SuperLawyers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelegalscoop.com\/legal-scoop-blog\/2007\/4\/1\/what-is-super-lawyers.html\">at <em>The Legal Scoop<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>crack of the bat<br \/>\nthe outfielder circles under<br \/>\nthe full moon<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; by George Swede &#8211; <em>Baseball Haiku<\/em> (2007) <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"60\" alt=\"BaseballHaikuCoverN\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/files\/2007\/01\/BaseballHaikuCoverN.jpg\" width=\"60\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tiny check\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ethicalesq\/tinycheck.gif\" \/>\u00a0Jonathan also\u00a0listed comic-lawyer Mad Kane&#8217;s seasonal poetic wail, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/04\/03\/form-1040-blues\/\">Form 1040 Blues<\/a>.\u00a0 That reminded us that we not only forgot to post Easter haiku yesterday, but we overlooked our fertile discussion a year ago of the lost Dickens manuscript of <em>An Easter Carol<\/em>, in the posting &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/04\/15\/ghosts-of-tax-days-past-scrooge-was-surely-a-tax-whiner\/\">ghosts of tax days past<\/a> (Scrooge was surely a tax-whiner)&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Easter morning\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nthe lawn strewn<br \/>\nwith pastel condoms<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>. . . . . . by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/stories\/storyReader$3712\">pamela miller ness<\/a> &#8211; <em>Bottle Rockets<\/em> #16\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>sugar crash:<br \/>\neaster joy<br \/>\nsinks with the sun<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/dagosans-archives\/\">dagosan<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Easter morning&#8230;<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the toddler stumbles upon<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 his first temptation<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Easter<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 we uproot the weeds<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0from the base of her headstone<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Easter<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0beneath a pure white bonnet<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0pure temptation<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2005\/03\/22#a3508\">ed markowski<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>easter snow<br \/>\na piece of egg shell<br \/>\nin the sandwich<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; 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