mounds of coal
. . . no, they’re not Santa’s gifts for naughty weblog editors. We’ve got a much better present
for you: a pair of haiku from Rebecca Lilly (use our search box to find more):
First snow
the white mounds of coal
beside the closed station
Cold autumn twilight
the garden slope’s stepping stones
edging out of line
from A New Resonance 2 (Red Moon Press, 2001)
credits: “First snow” — Brussels Sprout 9:3
“cold autumn twilight” — Modern Haiku XXXI: 2
by dagosan:
finally touching
her face - “are your fingers
always this cold?”
[Nov. 28, 2004]
Thanks to a pointer from BenefitsBlog today, I learned that
“Web logs are referred to in Chinese as bo ke, which is phonetically similar to the
word ‘blog’, but also has a literal meaning of rich or abundant traveler.”
Hmm, why didn’t they come up with terminology that sounds like barfing? Such elitists!
(Asia Times article on weblogs in China, July 22, 2004).
pro bono rules, that ”Solos can’t delegate their pro bono obligation to other lawyers, so why
should biglaw attorneys have that ability? “ As I have mentioned on other occasions to
Carolyn, she seems to leave her lawyer skills behind when advocating for solos, and instead
sounds like the mother of a juvenile delinquent or like a whiny adolescent, for whom it is always
unfair when someone else gets to do something they can’t do. Seems to me:
Being a solo is not like being born into a caste from which one can never escape. Indeed,
Carolyn’s shtick is mostly as a cheerleader pointing out the advantages of being a solo, as
compared to being in a BigLaw firm. Here in the real world even Good Things have downsides.
What would we say if BigLaw partners complained they should not have to be responsible for
monitoring the behavior of associates, because solos don’t have similar ethical obligations?
Or, they shouldn’t have to pay the bar or CLE fees for any employees, since solos don’t have to?
Do some rules here on Earth affect the poor differently than the rich, and the big differently than the small?
Of course, they do. I’d suggest using traditional equal protection analysis to see whether the differences
are malicious, undue or unfair before crying foul — and before crying wolf so often no one cares to listen.
It just came to my attention that a Google Search today for “yabut generation” yields no results.
This weblog did, however, come in at #3 and #4 for the quote-mark-less search yabut generation>.
As the home of Prof. Yabut, we are happy to use the phrase first right here — “yabut generation”.
However, there are so many generations that deserve the appellation, that it is impossible to
choose one. The But-Boomers. Brokaw’s Gratest Generation. Generations Y-But and X-But, etc.
Thus, I had to cringe today, when I saw 
You can find a selection of haiku by Kobayishi Issa featuring beggars 