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Recent Bluessky Posts- Someone needed to do this! Where is the titular leadership on this sort of thing? September 1, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Jotwell Contracts: Robert Hillman, What is in a Label? The Problem of Imitation Agreements to Arbitrate, JOTWELL (September 1, 2026) (reviewing Myriam Gilles, Arbitration in Name Only, 121 Nw. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2026), available at SSRN), contracts.jotwell.com/what-is-in-a.... September 1, 2026 Jotwell
- Please can we now get Flock and other LPR tech out of cities like Coral Gables? When the Commission first decided to buy then I made a very rare appearance in the public comment to speak against. But cops said all the other cops were doing it, so City should too. Passed without further discussion. September 1, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Old enough to remember being taught that the alphabet was a huge civilization advance over pictograms. And to have it ratified by Civ III too. September 1, 2026 Michael Froomkin
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On the first article, one might note that they’re was no clear and present danger about having knives on planes (!) Before 9/11 either. In fact, I once had a United crew laugh at me because I reported that the guy across from me was carving fruit with a knife. Clear and present dangers are almost always in hindsight. That’s what makes the phrase so insidious in it’s usage. (And do you also support Reason’s stance on no masks for children?)
Your second citation is just a one paragraph opinion made by someone who knows advisory nothing about military retrograde motions. They’re was very clearly no cogent plan, and everybody knew the Afghan government would fall. It has already been collapsing all over the rest of the country for months. It’s the Afghan way. It’s the cultural way that tribal societies work and always have in that region. To say there was a great plan, but that it could not account for that obvious contingency is to admit that there was NO plan worth having.