Author Archives: Michael Froomkin

Maximum Hit Count

Posted on January 3, 2006 by Michael Froomkin

He’s a week old, eight days if you round up, but little Max already has 26 hits on Google. OK, seven of them are from relatives, but still.

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Real-Life Happy Ending

Posted on January 3, 2006 by Michael Froomkin

Via TalkLeft (sporting a very nice new layout these days, by the way), a link to the LA Times’s account of the sort of real-life happy ending — horribly delayed, but still a happy ending — that you never believe when you see it in the movies.

In fact, if this isn’t going to be a major motion picture, or at least a made-for-TV movie soon, Hollywood deserves to be outsourced.

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Digby Does Tinfoil

Posted on January 2, 2006 by Michael Froomkin

Digby thinks that GW Bush has lost face too often.

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Calendar of US Military Dead in Iraq War

Posted on January 2, 2006 by Michael Froomkin

Calendar of 2,319 US Military Dead in Iraqi War. (Somewhat slow to load.)

Remember that this is only part of the casualties. You have to add

  • Allied military
  • Civilians
  • ‘Insurgents’ and other opposing forces
  • Domestic civil rights
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Excuses, Excuses

Posted on January 2, 2006 by Michael Froomkin

If Inside Higher Ed :: Coping With ‘Oy Vey’ Students is to be trusted as an accurate picture of what college teaching is like, our admissions office does quite a fine job of weeding out most of the really painful people.

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Alito’s Woman Problem

Posted on January 2, 2006 by Michael Froomkin

William Saletan’s Right to Wife – Why does Judge Alito treat women like girls? sets out one of what I think will be the three big narratives opponents try to hang on Judge Alito. The other two, of course, will be “he’ll say anything to get a job”, and “lifelong apologist for the Imperial Presidency“. Whether even all three together can get sufficient traction to derail the nomination is not clear to me; it seems unlikely that any can do it alone, but if all three get some traction, it may be an interesting fight.

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