Author Archives: Michael Froomkin

Welcome ‘Hunter of Justice’

We get a lot of great visiting professors at the University of Miami law school — something about being the law school in Paradise, I guess. How well I get to know them has a lot to do with where their offices happen to be; it helps if they're on my floor, and especially if they are right next door.

When she visited here a while ago, Nan Hunter landed right next door, so I had a chance to get to know her a bit, and I can say that she's lots of fun to talk to (her partner is also delightful company).

And now Nan has a blog, so we all get to talk with her. Please welcome hunter of justice to the blogosphere. I'm sure it will be great. Here's how Nan introduced it:

So now, in the mid-summer heat when it seems sane for even mad dogs and law professors to take a turn at the blogging bat, I'm in.

Why? My goal is to provide commentary on sexuality and gender issues, mostly but not exclusively focusing on law. Since I interpret “law” broadly to include a variety of disciplinary and regulatory discourses, you can expect the contents to range pretty widely. I'm looking forward to publishing my own journal of justice seeking, flavored by humor. OK, maybe sarcasm too.

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The Question Is, How Catching Is It?

This funny Obama commercial is by MoveOn. The question is, is this thing catching, or are we immune?

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A Very Rovian Commercial

This is a very Rovian commercial:

It's Rovain quality is to attack Obama for the very characteristic that is McCain's greatest weakness.

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The Long Tail (the Other One)

Now here's an interesting heresy: Scrivener's Error says,

In every declared symmetric conflict in the gunpowder era, the side with the higher tail-to-teeth ratio has won the conflict. Not every battle; not every asymmetric or undeclared conflict, although even there it's statistically significant in favor of the big-tail forces. But every “war” has been won by the tail, not the teeth.

The short version of this is “Brave soldiers win battles; brave REMFs win wars.”

It just has to be the right sort of tail.

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FL Candidate Unveils Powerful Ad

Alan Grayson, who is running for Congress in FL-8, has unveiled a powerful TV ad. I hope we see more like this.

Update: Democratic Congressional Candidate Alan Grayson on Iraq Reckoning: “We'll Put People in Prison”.

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Randy Pausch

Randy Pausch, the author of Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams is dead of pancreatic cancer.



It is an amazing lecture, from what must have been an amazing man.

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