Category Archives: The Media

Another One

Posted on December 18, 2018 by Michael Froomkin

Real or The Onion?  “Blind creature that buries head in sand named after Donald Trump“

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You Guess

Posted on December 18, 2018 by Michael Froomkin

Real or The Onion?  Soldier Has Suspicion Murder Charge Due To His Admission On Live TV  You be the judge.  Answer below.


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I’m on the ‘This Week in Health Law’ Podcast

Posted on December 7, 2018 by Michael Froomkin

Nicholas Terry of Indianan University was kind enough to ask me to join him and other experts on episode 151 (!) of  his podcast, This Week in Health Law (TWIHL) which was devoted to AI and health care:


I am joined by Abbe Gluck, Professor of Law and the Faculty Director of the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School. In November 2018 her team pulled together an excellent roundtable on “The Law and Policy of AI, Robotics, and Telemedicine in Health Care.” This episode of TWIH is the first of two taking a deeper dive into just a few of the  issues that were so well presented at the roundtable. Here we were joined by Michael Froomkin, the Laurie Silvers and Mitchell Rubenstein Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Miami School of Law and by Nicholson Price, Assistant Professor of Law at The University of Michigan Law School. Topics ranged from consent in the next generation of healthcare research to data protection, and appropriate regulatory models.

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Laughter is Precious in These Times

Posted on November 28, 2018 by Michael Froomkin

Onion

I knew it wasn’t real, but I laughed anyway: Depressed Mueller Wonders What It Is About Him That Makes Everyone Lie To Him

These too:

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Mugs Fit for Kopi Luwak

Posted on October 28, 2018 by Michael Froomkin

Actual photo of Air Force $1,280 coffee cup.
(Credit: Tech. Sgt. James Hodgman, Air Force)

Move over, $10,000 toilet seat covers–you’ve got company.

An Air Force official admitted the branch’s multiple purchases of coffee cups that break easily and cost $1,280 each “is simply irresponsible,” vowing to pursue ways to fix the mugs instead of continually buying new ones.

USA Today — not The Onion.

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Really?

Posted on October 23, 2018 by Michael Froomkin

My feed had the headline “VA official proudly displays KKK Grand Wizard portrait in his D.C. office” and quoted the official as saying about the portrait that, ‘I thought it was very nice’. Uh-huh. No one is that dumb, right?

I mean, I can sort of believe that a person might not know that Nathan Bedford Forrest was the founder of the Klan until someone pointed that out, but even so, how dumb do you have to be to hang a lighted portrait of a Confederate General in your federal government office? When nine out of 14 of your senior staff are Black? And then refuse to take it down when they point out the problem? Not credible.

And am I really supposed to believe that the VA has an “Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization”? Surely that belongs in the SBA, not the VA, right?

Well, shows you what I know. The article was from Boingboing, not the Onion. The Washington Post confirms the story and adds more damning details. And the VA does have an  “Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization”.  And someone with a decent supervisory civil service (not a Trump political appointee) job is really that dumb.

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