Author Archives: Michael Froomkin

Discourse.net ’15th Most Visited LawProf Blog’

Paul Caron counts blog stuff, and he says that Discourse.net is 15th in the new Law Prof Blog Rankings.

I'm continually grateful for (and bemused by) the size the of the readership.

Readers are invited to describe themselves, and of course are always welcome to comment.

Posted in Discourse.net | 1 Comment

‘The Racial Implications of a Barack Obama Presidency’

This Daily Kos diarist’s take on The Racial Implications of a Barack Obama Presidency is deeply cynical, but that doesn’t make it wrong.

Posted in Politics: US | 6 Comments

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Joe Garcia May Be Cool, But He Can Also Be Tough

If you understand Spanish, you will probably enjoy these video clips unearthed by a writer at Daily Kos in which Democratic Congressional Candidate Joe Garcia (FL-25) faces off with Frank Calzon of the Center for Free Cuba on the issue of what his Center is doing with taxpayer money. Eventually Mr. Calzon storms off the set…except he can't bear to stop shouting…

Incidentally, Congress subsequently began asking the same question about where the money went. It smells a rat.

(Politics in South Florida is heavily bilingual.)

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Makes Sense to Me

At the Watchdog Blog (asst proprietor, Dan Froomkin), Saul Friedman has a great suggestion: Assign a Police Reporter to the White House.

Posted in Politics: The Party of Sleaze | 1 Comment

TSA Follies

CBS, Fliers Complain About X-Rated Security Screenings

Horror stories, plus a statistic:

out of 2 billion passengers screened nationwide since 9-11, there have been only 110,000 abuse complaints.

Only?

Let's see. 110,000 complaints per 2bn passengers. 110 per 2m. 1.1 for every 20,000, or one per 18,181. What's that per day, per airport?

MIA runs 2.8m passengers per month. If it has average TSA staff, that would generate about five complaints of abuse every day at MIA alone. Doesn't sound like “only” to me!

Posted in Law: Right to Travel | 2 Comments