Althouse on Judge Alito

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Yesterday there was an op ed in the NYT about Alito by Ann Althouse, a Law professor at the University of Wisconsin. Here’s the op ed.  Separated at the Bench – New York Times  She has an interesting weblog and has written a bit of commentary on misunderstandings regarding Alito rulings, for instance on the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). If you are interested and have a few minutes, she’s worth reading. Althouse  A link to her site is also listed on my "blogroll."

As a bonus, to read the reasonable and balanced editorial in yesterday’s Washington Post on the Alito nomination, go here: A New Nominee

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Short health Update

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Fresh from my triumph of figuring out how to post a picture (see the next post and note that if you hit the link that says "continue reading…" it will take you to … nothing! Don’t know how I did that.) here’s a brief discussion of current state of my body.

Thirteen days after last chemo and I feel good – except for the sinus infection. Went to see Dr. Zeitlin today (ENT specialist I’ve been consulting) and she put me on a new antibiotic – augmentin. Actually not new – I have been on it before. We’ll see if it does a better job.

The sinusitis does make you feel a bit run down. Road the bike for 24 minutes and lifted weights for the same amount of time tonight. So I don’t feel too bad.

One bad thing – in the last two days I probably ate more potato chips and chocolate then I ate in the prior two months. Not good.

On Thursday I see Dr Zelenetz (lymphoma Guru) and get ready for the new chemotherapy regimen that starts this weekend. I hope to write a longer post about the whole prior two month chemo experience on Thursday.   

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Hey! I figured out how to post a picture.

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How about that! This is my favorite picture of Brigid, Joe (to Brigid’s right), and Tim (guy with curly hair) taken in April in Jamaica. The boys had never been to Jamaica and we figured it was time to show them where we’d met and gotten married. We had not been back in 25 years! I took the picture at Dunn’s River Falls (that’s the background). It was a great trip, which took us back to the town of Mandeville, in the center of the Island, at 2,000 feet in elevation. We were both working there in the late 70’s (teaching). We met February 17, 1978, when Brigid crashed a party at my house.
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I played rugby with Patrick Fitzgerald

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UPDATE: Here’s my March 7th post, after the Libby decision Tom Faranda’s Folly: The Libby case and the prosecutor         Yup. The federal prosecutor who indicted "Scooter" Libby, and whose face was all over the newspapers and TV today, played rugby in the late 80’s with my club, OMEX. He played in the … Read more

Poor Harriet Miers, Part Deux

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On October 14th I posted "Poor Harriet Miers" – the link is here –  http://tomfaranda.typepad.com/folly/2005/10/poor_harriet_mi.html and I said "It seems a certain type of ideological conservative would rather get in a titanic political battle over ideas and agendas – even if it means losing – then simply picking up another chip on the table." And … Read more