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By Tom Kirkendall
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Is this really the best that the Chronicle can do for its lead sports columnist?
Posted on April 07, 2009Remember awhile back when Chronicle lead sports columnist Richard Justice defamed Stephanie Stradley, a very good local blogger on the Texans and the NFL who now blogs at the Chronicle? Well, ol' Richard is at it again. This time...
Batter up! Stros 2009 Season Preview
Posted on April 06, 2009Today is Opening Day for the Major League Baseball season and Houston, so it's time for HCT's annual preview of the Stros' upcoming season (previous annual previews since 2004 are here). The Stros opening day roster is here over...
Observations from the SHO
Posted on April 05, 2009The following are a few observations from my annual trek to the Shell Houston Open at the Tournament Course at Redstone Golf Club: As I've noted on a number of occasions, the Tournament Course has a reasonable number of interesting...
The Tyranny of the Busybodies
Posted on April 03, 2009"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his...
The Postrel Health Care Finance Articles
Posted on April 01, 2009Clear Thinkers favorite Virginia Postrel (previous posts here) is well-known in health care finance circles for her authorship of a reasoned critique of one-payor, centralized health care plans back in the 1990's. She now writes for The Atlantic. Over...
The Wavering Rule of Law
Posted on April 01, 2009So, because of prosecutorial misconduct, the Justice Department decides to move for dismissal of the political corruption case against former Alaska senator Ted Stevens (previous posts here and here). Meanwhile, Jeff Skilling, who created billions of dollars in wealth...
Henderson on the Nature of Government
Posted on March 30, 2009David Henderson makes an insightful point about the Ryan Moats/Robert Powell run-in in Dallas last week in which Powell (the policeman) exhibited an utter lack of common sense, much less prosecutorial discretion: So what is the essence? The issue...
It's 2009 Shell Houston Open Week
Posted on March 29, 2009The Shell Houston Open has finally arrived as a big-time PGA Tour event. After an ugly divorce from The Woodlands, and a difficult transition period in which most of the best PGA Tour players avoided the event, the 2009...
Our Congress at work
Posted on March 28, 2009I swear, you can't make this stuff up. As regular readers of this blog know, I thought the federal bailout of AIG and various other Wall Street firms was a bad idea from the start because it prevented our...
Collision
Posted on March 27, 2009Here is the trailer for Collision, the new Darren Doake-directed documentary about the series of debates and conversations between Christopher Hitchens and Douglas Wilson over the existence of God. Interestingly, Hitchens and Wilson became quite good friends during their travels...
Losing the grip on AIG
Posted on March 26, 2009The business blogosphere was abuzz yesterday over publication of AIG executive Jake DeSantis' remarkable resignation letter to AIG CEO, Ed Liddy. But what was even more remarkable was the reaction of some commentators that makes abundantly clear that common...
Say what, Richard Justice?
Posted on March 25, 2009The Chronicle's primary sports page columnist, Richard Justice, is gushing over the Houston Rockets' management now that the local club has seized first place in the NBA's Southwest Division going into the last ten games of the regular season:...
Getting a grip on AIG
Posted on March 23, 2009Geez. I leave the country for ten days on a European trip and, upon my return, the entire U.S. body politic appears to be going batshit over a couple hundred million dollars of performance bonuses that the now-thoroughly Enronized...
Houston golf is a bargain
Posted on March 23, 2009As I've noted several times over the years, the value of Houston-area golf courses is often under-appreciated by golfers in other parts of the country. In this Golf.com Press Tent blog post , Gary VanSickle indirectly highlights one of...
Piazza della Repubblica on a Sunday in Spring
Posted on March 16, 2009This is the site of the original Roman forum in Florence. It is now a large plaza surrounded by chic cafes. The people watching on a beautiful March Sunday is extraordinary....
Morning in Pisa
Posted on March 13, 2009I am in Italy for a few days with my son Andy helping him get set up in his apartment while he lives in Florence. We flew into Pisa last night and slept there before driving to Florence this morning....
The real March Madness
Posted on March 12, 2009As I've noted many times, big-time college sports in the U.S. is structured in a corrupt manner, but it's an entertaining form of corruption that makes reform difficult (how would reform affect my team?). That reality rears its rather...
Trampling Stanford
Posted on March 11, 2009As most folks following the upfolding Stanford Financial Group scandal know by now, Laura Pendergest-Holt was the first Stanford executive arrested in connection with the scandal. If only a few of the allegations contained in the motion below are...
The Goldman Sachs bailout
Posted on March 10, 2009Why do most pundits continue to characterize the billions of dollars that the federal government has loaned to AIG over the past six months as "the AIG bailout?" As this WSJ weekend article and this subsequent Bloomberg article note, the...
The real reason why the Texans re-signed David Anderson
Posted on March 09, 2009I don't keep up on the market in the NFL for back-up wide receivers, but I was still surprised last week when the Texans matched Denver's $4.5 million offer (including a cool $1 million up front) to restricted free agent...
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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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