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By Tom Kirkendall
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The Chronicle and the NFL Draft go in opposite directions
Posted on April 27, 2010Although I continue not to understand the attraction, the National Football League?s annual draft of players over this past weekend garnered record television ratings. Meanwhile, Kevin Whited notes that the Houston Chronicle continues to bleed badly in terms of circulation...
A real bad mix
Posted on April 26, 2010Regular readers of this blog know about the human carnage that results from abuse of the government?s prosecutorial power. Also, the immense damage that overly-broad application of child predator laws is inflicting on many citizens has been a frequent topic on this blog...
How about an NFL auction?
Posted on April 23, 2010The most mind-numbing time of the year from a professional sports perspective is clearly the NFL pre-season, but a close second is the NFL Draft, even though some of the reactions that it generates are rather humorous. But as this Reed Albertotti/WSJ article points out, all this fuss is...
It wasn't Lidge's fault after all
Posted on April 22, 2010I always thought that it was Brad Lidge?s fault that Albert Pujols in Game Six of the 2005 NLCS caused Houstonians to endure memories of these sporting disasters again. But now, former Stros 3B Morgan Ensberg reveals that it was all really the fault of an optical illusion at Minute Maid...
Representing society's new lepers
Posted on April 21, 2010The increasingly draconian application of child predator and pornography laws has been a frequent topic on this blog. Norm Pattis does a good job of summarizing the ominous information that defense counsel should provide to defendants and their families face when ensnared in such a prosecution...
Houston Metro in a few years
Posted on April 20, 2010Houston?s Metropolitan Transit Authority has been on the receiving end of well-deserved criticism lately regarding its dubious finances (see here, here and here). But it?s always nice to realize that things could be worse. For example, we could be dealing with the San Francisco Bay Area?s Metropolitan Transportation Commission,...
Goldman in the crosshairs
Posted on April 19, 2010The inevitable SEC action against Goldman Sachs took the financial system by storm on Friday, so the weekend has been a feast of blogosphere analysis on the implications of the lawsuit. The best way to follow daily developments in the case is over at Clusterstock where Joe Weisenthal and...
Our troubling tax system
Posted on April 18, 2010Another first rate Cato Institute video on the horrific cost of our overly complicated taxation system....
Rickles roasts Governor Reagan
Posted on April 17, 2010When Don Rickles got on a roll, he was very, very funny....
That health care overhead
Posted on April 16, 2010Following on this post from earlier in the week on the adverse impact that the third party payer system of health care finance has had on controlling health care costs, check out this Catherine Rampell post that passes along the graph on the left and the following startling observation:...
How we pay for health care
Posted on April 14, 2010What is the most efficient way to pay for health care? Proponents of a single-payer governmental system content that patients should not have to pay the cost of their health care decisions and that the government can effectively control costs through top-down mandates...
Two best videos from The Masters
Posted on April 13, 2010It takes awhile, but Adam Scott gets an eagle: Good thing that Phil Mickelson won and didn?t have to endure losing by a stroke. He might have never recovered from this:...
The National Enquirer one ups the MSM
Posted on March 09, 2010The Washington Post?s Paul Farhi makes the interesting point in this American Journalism Review op-ed that the biggest scandal in regard to the Tiger Woods affair may be that the National Enquirer tabloid newspaper did a better job of following proper journalistic procedures in breaking the scandal than much...
Making good on Baylor Med's bad bet
Posted on March 08, 2010The Chronicle?s Todd Ackerman and Loren Steffy did a good job in this weekend article of chronicling the series of bad bets that Baylor College of Medicine?s Board of Trustee?s made in the wake of the school?s unfortunate 2004 divorce from The Methodist Hospital...
The Last Four Minutes of Air France Flight 447
Posted on March 07, 2010I?ve been meaning to pass along for awhile this superb Gearld Traufette/Spiegel Online article on the continuing investigation into last summer?s horrific crash of Air France 447 into the Atlantic Ocean (earlier post here). Although the black box still has not been recovered (and quite likely won?t be), investigators...
Colbert's interview of Shaun White at the Olympics
Posted on March 06, 2010"How much of your hair is Red Bull?" The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cShaun Whitewww.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical HumorSkate Expectations...
The NBA Bubble
Posted on March 05, 2010Looking for the next bubble to burst? How about the National Basketball Association, where the local Houston Rockets play in what has been nicknamed ?The Library on LaBranch? because of the lack of fan interest at their home games. ESPN?s Bill Simmons dissects and then sums up the league?s...
An interesting health care finance contrast
Posted on March 03, 2010This Sean P. Murphy/Boston Globe article details how local government-subsidized health insulation ?insurance? plans are crippling municipal budgets throughout Massachusetts. On the other hand, this WSJ op-ed by Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels explains how the state is saving $20 million of health care expenses in 2010 through the introduction...
Jeff Skilling Day at SCOTUS
Posted on March 02, 2010Got to love the response of Sri Srinivasan ? who handled yesterday?s oral argument for Jeff Skilling in his appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court ? to the government?s contention that a five-hour voir dire of the jury was sufficient in Skilling?s trial to rebut the presumption of community...
The Code
Posted on March 01, 2010If this Larry Getlen/NY Post review of Jason Turbow and Michael Duca's new book The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America's Pastime (Pantheon March 9, 2010) doesn?t get you in the mood for Major League Spring Training and the upcoming MLB season,...
Cutting up at the Mayo Clinic
Posted on February 28, 2010I never knew that the lobby of the Mayo Clinic could be such an entertaining place....
David Agus on the state of cancer research
Posted on February 26, 2010University of Southern California University professor David Agus provides a particularly lucid 24-minute lecture for the TED conference on the state of cancer research....
The future of the death penalty
Posted on February 25, 2010University of Houston Law Professor David Dow?s book -- The Autobiography of an Execution (Twelve 2010) ? prompted Time to ask Dow several questions about the death penalty. A couple of his answers are particularly interesting: . . . I tell people that if you're going to commit murder,...
No way to fight a war
Posted on February 24, 2010Here we go again. U.S. military forces are put on the defensive because of what might be an unfortunate mistake in prosecuting the war against the Taliban. When are we going to learn that fighting wars under unrealistic rules of engagement is a waste of time and precious resources?...
Gearing up for the Skilling SCOTUS argument
Posted on February 23, 2010Oral argument on Jeff Skilling?s appeal of his criminal conviction to the United States Supreme Court is next Monday afternoon, so the Skilling legal team warmed up for the occasion by filing the brief below in response to the Department of Justice?s brief on the merits...
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Can I be held responsible for paying child support if I signed a birth certificate of a child that was not mine (am not the biological father)?
Get yourself some legal counsil straigth away. Explain you situation to him/her ...
What can I say without libeling?
You moral nazi. Are you kidding me? It is her personal choice, leave her alone. ...
Hi. If a woman is pregnant and the father requests she abort (because he doesnt want to be a father) and the woman refuses, can he still be made to pay child support if: 1. he IS the father 2. he IS the father but his na
Yes if he is teh father he can be made to pay.
It doesn't matter if h...
My father is aging. We both agree we need to secure property that has been in the family well over sixty years. The problem is my uncle name was previously on the property who is now deceased and also took out two loa
buy the house from him . that would pay the old loan and title the property to y...
How to prevent an arrest from appearing in the local newspaper?
Dont know the law in Minnesota but in most jurisdictions an arrest is a matter o...
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Can I be held responsible for paying child support if I signed a birth certificate of a child that was not mine (am not the biological father)?
Get yourself some legal counsil straigth away. Explain you situation to him/her ...
What can I say without libeling?
You moral nazi. Are you kidding me? It is her personal choice, leave her alone. ...
Hi. If a woman is pregnant and the father requests she abort (because he doesnt want to be a father) and the woman refuses, can he still be made to pay child support if: 1. he IS the father 2. he IS the father but his na
Yes if he is teh father he can be made to pay.
It doesn't matter if h...
My father is aging. We both agree we need to secure property that has been in the family well over sixty years. The problem is my uncle name was previously on the property who is now deceased and also took out two loa
buy the house from him . that would pay the old loan and title the property to y...
How to prevent an arrest from appearing in the local newspaper?
Dont know the law in Minnesota but in most jurisdictions an arrest is a matter o...
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