Monday, March 31, 2014

Texas Supreme Court strikes a blow for government secrecy

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As frequent contributor Lee pointed out in his comment to my posting about the court decision compelling the State of Texas to release the n...
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Friday, March 28, 2014

Update: Judge orders state to disclose supplier of death drugs

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On the same day that the State of Texas murdered yet another inmate, a state District Judge ordered the Texas Department of Criminal Justic...
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Thursday, March 27, 2014

The gospel of the corporate church

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On Tuesday the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the latest challenge to President Obama's tragically flawed Affordable Care Act . T...
Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Execution Watch: 3/27/2014

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On Thursday Texas is set to kill again... ANTHONY DOYLE.  Mr. Doyle was  convicted of beating to death a doughnut delivery woman in subur...
Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Practical realities

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Overheard in an undisclosed courthouse located somewhere on the outer edge of civilization... First attorney: Y'all know who Grover No...
Monday, March 24, 2014

Jim Crane's secrets to successfully running a baseball team (into the ground)

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Well, as we get nearer and nearer to the real  Opening Day in Cincinnati, it's probably about time we took a little time to look at the ...
Friday, March 21, 2014

Killing on the down low

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It's no secret that the available supply of drugs used to murder inmates is shrinking and that states who insist on killing their prison...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

Update: Texas kills again

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The State of Texas felt the need to exact its revenge last night by murdering Ray Jasper who had been sentenced to death for the 1999 slayi...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Let's talk

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I'm in the middle of trial right now so there's not a lot of time to put together a full post. Last night while I was driving out to...
Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Execution Watch: 3/19/2014

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On Wednesday the Texas killing machine goes back online... RAY JASPER. A rap artist born in the Netherlands, Mr. Jasper was 18 when, acco...
Monday, March 17, 2014

What's good for the goose ain't good for the gander

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Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California) was morally outraged when news broke that the CIA had been monitoring the work of Intelligence Commi...
Friday, March 14, 2014

Living on the dole

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We've all been taught to love capitalism. Such a wonderful system it is. It rewards those who work hard and take chances. Come up with a...
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Thursday, March 13, 2014

Proof that the system works? Bullshit.

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"I can't go back and do anything I should have been doing when I was 35, 38, 40 stuff like that." Glenn Ford (March 11, 2014...
Wednesday, March 12, 2014

It's hard work losing money

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In February 2013 Warren Buffett bought the struggling Heinz Company. The company was bleeding cash and Mr. Buffett swept in like a rescuing ...
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

A little cognitive dissonance on the side, please

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One thing you can't accuse the State Bar of Texas of is having a post-modern sensibility. There's little sense of self-awareness and...
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Monday, March 10, 2014

Thanks, Dan (maybe)

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My wife showed me this clip from YouTube last week and I didn't know whether to laugh or nod my head derisively as I stood there watchin...
Friday, March 7, 2014

Bending the law to satisfy the need for revenge

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I would hope that we could all agree that the brain of a 13-year-old functions differently than the brain of a 28-year-old. I would hope tha...
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Thursday, March 6, 2014

Book review - Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA

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Apparently this is the season for memoirs from former Washington insiders. We have Robert Gates' tell-all in which he trashes the Presid...
Wednesday, March 5, 2014

A change of heart

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"It's the most premeditated form of murder you can possibly imagine and it stays in your psyche for ever." -- Dr. Allen Ault,...
Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Our Independence Day adventure

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On Saturday morning we packed the kids, the picnic gear and the dog into the van and headed out to Washington-on-the-Brazos for a little Tex...
Monday, March 3, 2014

Let's play cowboys and vampires

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March is a busy time in the Houston area. First there's the Livestock Show and Rodeo that opened this past weekend with the World Champi...
Friday, February 28, 2014

Texas ban on same-sex marriage struck down

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And now Texas is the latest to fall . On Wednesday, US District Judge Orlando Garcia, issued a ruling declaring Texas' ban on gay marri...
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Thursday, February 27, 2014

Under cover of night

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In the early morning hours Wednesday, the state of Missouri strapped Michael Taylor down to a gurney, stuck a needle in his arm and killed h...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

When the truth isn't so clear cut

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The story line was that the Ukrainian government under President Viktor Yanukovych precipitated the situation in Kiev by choosing to strengt...
Tuesday, February 25, 2014

It ain't gonna fix itself

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Doesn't there come a time in nearly every project where you stop and wonder if everything is working like it should? And if somet...
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