{"id":7807,"date":"2007-07-26T09:16:05","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T14:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2007\/07\/26\/o-pshaw-we-reiterate-again\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:45","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:45","slug":"o-pshaw-we-reiterate-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2007\/07\/26\/o-pshaw-we-reiterate-again\/","title":{"rendered":"o pshaw, we reiterate (again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We never need an excuse to quote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk\/Jshaw.htm\">George Bernard Shaw<\/a>, but his birthday  (b. July 26, 1856) is always a good reminder to share a few of Shaw&#8217;s gems (see, <em>e.g.<\/em>, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/07\/26\/o-politics-o-pshaw\/\">o politics, o pshaw<\/a>&#8220;; and click f<a href=\"http:\/\/www.quotationspage.com\/quotes\/George_Bernard_Shaw\/\">or many more<\/a>).\u00a0 Our favorites include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li> \u201cHe knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>  \u201cDemocracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. [<em>Candida<\/em> (1898) act 1]<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Martyrdom\u2026 is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.&#8221; [ <em>The Devil\u2019s Disciple<\/em> (1901) act 3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/files\/2007\/07\/laughman-small.gif\" \/> If you like your humor law-related, take another look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legaline.com\/lawsites.html\">Robert Ambrogi<\/a>&#8216;s article from three years ago today &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.com\/jsp\/article.jsp?id=1090180158017\">Web Watch: Laughing at Lawyers and the Law<\/a>&#8221; (<em>Law Technology News<\/em>, 07-26-2004), which we featured that day in a post &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/07\/26\/blame-bob\/\">blame bob<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I think G.B. Shaw would have been bemused by Bob&#8217;s post earlier this week at <a href=\"http:\/\/legalblogwatch.typepad.com\/legal_blog_watch\/2007\/07\/in-posts-here-a.html\"><em>LegalBlogWatch<\/em><\/a>, explaining why he is sticking to his conclusion that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.overlawyered.com\/\"><em>Overlawyered.com<\/em><\/a> was the first legal weblog.\u00a0 It seems that two veteran cyber persona,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marcusletter.com\/\"> Bruce W. Marcus<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bespacific.com\/\">Sabrina Pacifici<\/a>, want to claim the title for their own early e-newsletters, by bending the definition of weblog.\u00a0 After due consideration, Bob won&#8217;t budge.\u00a0 We concur.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Meanwhile, if you want easy access to news and developments in law and lawyering, check out the recently-unveiled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abajd.com\/\"><em>ABA Journal Law News Now<\/em><\/a> website.\u00a0  Ambrogi covers it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legaline.com\/2007\/07\/aba-journal-overhauls-its-web-site.html\">here<\/a>, as does <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.larrybodine.com\/2007\/07\/articles\/tech\/new-aba-journal-website-a-competitor-to-lawcom\/\">Larry Bodine<\/a>, who sees the site as a competitor for Law.com.\u00a0 The site is now free and fully-accessible to the public.\u00a0 Its staff cover and accumulate legal news on a broad array of topics,\u00a0 while monitoring 1000 law weblogs. You will also find several years&#8217; worth of <em>ABA Journal<\/em> articles, and you can now comment on all of them, as well as items produced for Law News Now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The <em>f\/k\/a<\/em> Gang definitely needs no excuse to feature the poetry of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/pamela-miller-ness-archive\/\">Pamela Miller Ness<\/a>.\u00a0 We <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2005\/07\/26\/slumped-on-the-veranda\/\">did so<\/a> on July 27, 2005, and present those poems again today, along with a few more summer-themed haiku that have caught our fancy over the years:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>sultry morning<br \/>\nthe child\u2019s rag doll<br \/>\nslumped on the veranda<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>the longest day<br \/>\nslowly the cat<br \/>\nlicks each paw<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>midsummer sun<br \/>\nfacing the mountain<br \/>\nI\u2019ll never climb<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/pamela-miller-ness-archive\/\">Pamela Miller Ness<\/a> from <em>The Heron\u2019s Nest <\/em><font size=\"1\"><font size=\"1\"><font size=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/files\/2007\/06\/frisbeeFlyingF.jpg\" alt=\"frisbeeFlyingF\" height=\"34\" width=\"100\" \/><\/font><\/font><\/font><br \/>\n\u201csultry morning\u201d (Sept. 2003); \u201cthe longest day\u201d (Aug. 2003)<br \/>\n\u201cmidsummer sun\u201c (Valentine\u2019s Issue, Special Mention, Feb. 2005)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>morningmoon<br \/>\nplays hide-and-seek<br \/>\nmy sleepfilled eyes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>first love<br \/>\nin the summer gazebo . . .<br \/>\nlittle brother won&#8217;t leave<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>midsummer evening<br \/>\nmother&#8217;s two-syllable whistle<br \/>\nends our play<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 August hurricane<br \/>\nour candlelit teaparty<br \/>\nfor three<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;morningmoon&#8221; &#8211; from <em>pink light, sleeping<\/em> (Small Poetry Press, 1998)<br \/>\n&#8220;first love&#8221; &amp; &#8220;midsummer evening&#8221; &amp; &#8220;August hurricane&#8221; &#8211; <em>driveway from childhood <\/em>(small poetry press, 1997)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We never need an excuse to quote George Bernard Shaw, but his birthday (b. 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