{"id":9758,"date":"2008-08-14T14:31:26","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T19:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2008\/08\/14\/got-onesies\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:22","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:22","slug":"got-onesies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2008\/08\/14\/got-onesies\/","title":{"rendered":"got ONEsies?"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a> M<\/strong><\/em>y alter egos all agree: W<\/strong><\/em>e need to post more ONEsies<\/em> [Odds-N-Ends] here at f\/k\/a<\/em> — short, simple blurbs that succinctly point to, quote from, or opine upon stories or topics of interest. For one thing, they would cut a lot less<\/em> into our (and your) nap time than the Editor’s customary prolix punditry. Denizens of this website know we’ve tried “one-breath punditry<\/em>” before and (despite our poetic preference for tiny poems) have found it very difficult to be persistently pithy. Nonetheless, being curmudgeons<\/a>, we’re all secret-optimists at heart, so here we go again — taking a deep breath and trying to keep it short, with a lotta help from Kobayashi Issa<\/a> and his talented translator Professor David G. Lanoue<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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the plowman
\nshows me a shortcut…
\nevening<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Click to see a MySpace video of Caloon Saloon performing “Odds & Ends” by Bob Dylan with Antoine Gratton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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on my sleeve
\ncatching his breath…
\nworn-out firefly<\/p>\n

…. by Kobayashi Issa<\/a>, translated by David G. Lanoue<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/a> Speaking of Onesies<\/strong><\/em>: We’re still waiting for follow-up news on the Got Milk? vs Got Breastmilk?<\/em> controversy that burst into the news a few weeks ago. See our “got jugs?<\/a>” post from July 30th. So far, Paul Bratton, the Alaska Backwoods Lawyer<\/a><\/em> who represents the artist who made the controversial Got Breastmilk?<\/em> Onesies and t-shirts has not offered any updates. If you<\/em> have information on the latest stage of this trademark battle, please let us know.<\/p>\n

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a baby boy
\ncries for milk…
\nglorious blossoms<\/p>\n

.. by Kobayashi Issa<\/a>, translated by David G. Lanoue<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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<\/a> .. Hillary Hijacking the Convention<\/strong><\/em>: Yes, we’ve pledged<\/a> to avoid writing political commentary at this weblog and have tried hard to stifle the urge, but (thankfully) Maureen Dowd surely hasn’t. In yesterday’s NYT<\/em> column, “Yes, She Can<\/a>” (New York Times<\/em>, Aug. 13, 2008), Dowd tells how “In just a couple of weeks, Bill and Hill were able to drag No Drama Obama into a swamp of Clinton drama,” making the up-coming Democratic Presidential Convention “all about them.” I was annoyed to see that:<\/p>\n

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“Obama also allowed Hillary supporters to insert an absurd statement into the platform suggesting that media sexism spurred her loss and that ‘demeaning portrayals of women … dampen the dreams of our daughters’.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But, I’m pleased to quote Dowd’s response:<\/p>\n

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It would have been better to put this language in the platform: \u201cA woman who wildly mismanages and bankrupts a quarter-of-a-billion-dollar campaign operation, and then blames sexism in society, will dampen the dreams of our daughters.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

his detested wife’s
\nviolets…
\nall have bloomed<\/p>\n

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pretending not to see
\nhis wife’s face…
\ndefeated wrestler<\/p>\n

… by Issa and Lanoue<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

<\/a> .. Trolleys and Train Tunnels<\/strong><\/em>: On the same day that the New York Times<\/em><\/a> has a big spread about the hopeful future of streetcars in our nation’s cities, the Schenectady Daily Gazette<\/em><\/a>, its Upstate minor-league cousin, reports on the discovery — about a block from where I live — of what appears to be the first-ever railway tunnel in the nation.<\/p>\n