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There’s an upcoming game I will never forget
I remember my first game as a high school football player like it happened just 48 years ago.
That’s using a roundabout journalistic maneuver to tell you that I have no memory of that game because it occurred such a long, long time ago. -
Back to school, credit cards, streets, and more
Again this month I do not have a single theme, but have several short topics and updates that I believe will be of interest to you.
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‘It’s summertime, and the litigating is good’
A judge friend of mine swears that the strangest lawsuits in his court always seem to happen in the summertime. I don’t know how much empirical evidence there is to back up this theory, but it does sometime seem like an upsurge in the “legally weird” takes place during the warmer months.
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Happy ending: Kitty-Kitty finds a new home
I realized recently that the Hardins are practically petless.
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‘Nice try, but ummm ... no’
Sometimes, I get the feeling that judges are placed in the position of being like a game show host dealing with a particularly dense contestant giving an incorrect answer — “No, so sorry, but thanks for playing and we have some lovely parting gifts for you.”
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Juanita Tabor remembers the Royse City of yesteryear
“This is a picture of my grandparents, Cicero and Mary Ann Gibbs taken in 1939”, Juanita Tabor said as she gently handed me fragile pictures from her aging Bible.
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I have found my new name: ’Biggest Loser’
If I had my own television show, I could call it, “Biggest Loser.”
In this case, the name would not apply to weight lost. Instead, it would refer to stuff lost.
I am convinced that I am the champion loser of stuff. -
Scents and Sensibility: ‘When evidence doesn’t pass the smell test’ (Part IV)
“Forensic evidence is often offered in criminal prosecutions and civil litigation to support conclusions about individualization — in other words, to ‘match’ a piece of evidence to a particular person, weapon, or other source. But with the exception of nuclear DNA analysis, no forensic method has been rigorously shown able to consistently, and with a high degree of certainty, demonstrate a connection between evidence and a specific individual or source.”
— from “Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward,” February 18, 2009, a Congressionally-mandated report from the National Research Council of the National Research Academies -
Now we get to blow stuff up too!!!
Hello folks,
This one’s a bit of an update more than anything else.
You will remember that a few weeks ago I wrote to you all about the upcoming outdoor concert that was being planned by MusicFest (which I have joined, just so I’m being straightforward and all). -
A running question in my mind: ‘Do I really want to do this?’
Now that I’ve stepped up my training because of some pretty serious running goals, I’m constantly asking myself questions.
When I’m putting on my running gear about 6:30 five mornings a week, I ask myself, “Do I really want to do this?” - More Opinion Headlines
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There’s an upcoming game I will never forget
