Author Archives: Michael Froomkin

Ominous Omen?

Posted on November 2, 2005 by Michael Froomkin

At lunch today there was no fortune in my fortune cookie. Does this mean I have no future?

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Torture Corrupts

Posted on November 2, 2005 by Michael Froomkin

Today’s torture news:

United States runs a secret network of torture facilities, including some in formerly Communist countries (said on good authority to be Poland, Romania).

A a top-level al-Qaida operative escaped from a maximum-security facility in Afghanistan…and a result can’t be called to testify against the US soldiers who are accused of abusing him.

Excuse me now, I have to go teach students about the rule of law.

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Spontaneous Generation Observed in Nature (II)

Posted on November 1, 2005 by Michael Froomkin

Who would have guessed that we have an opposition party in the US? Yet, all of a sudden — now that Bush appears so very very weak — all of a sudden it appears that we do: TPMCafe || Power Shifts. And see the videos here and here.

Earlier post: Spontaneous Generation Observed in Nature (I).

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A Guest Blogger to Watch

Posted on November 1, 2005 by Michael Froomkin

In what can only be understood as a sign of their fabulous good taste, the clever folks at Prawsblog have persuaded my collegue Steve Vladeck to guest blog for them “for the next few weeks”.

See, for example, his first post for them, What if the war on terrorism never ends?.

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Wilma Aftermath: Still Waiting

Posted on November 1, 2005 by Michael Froomkin

More than three quarters of the residences in Miami-Dade county that lost power during hurricane Wilma had it restored by last night, according to FP&L.

Ours is not among them.

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The Smoking Gun in the Plame Case

Posted on November 1, 2005 by Michael Froomkin

According to ABC, the smoking gun in the Plame case has Rove’s and Libby’s fingerprints.

More reason to believe we have not heard the last from Fitzgerald…

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