Daily Archives: May 23, 2010

Special Sunday video break: What cats have to say about “Lost”

“Lost” re-enacted by cats in one minute: There are some actual spoilery bits in there, so if you’re not prepared to watch the finale, click at your own peril.

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Weekend link dump for May 23

Still psyching myself up for the “Lost” finale tonight. Give me a minute, I’m getting all verklempt over here… You can now get married by a robot. In Japan, naturally. Is “freedom from pr0n” really a selling point? Sometimes, “polarization” … Continue reading

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More Enterprise Fund failures

There sure are a lot of them. Gov. Rick Perry’s office has rewritten three more contracts for companies that are struggling to create the promised number of jobs after getting millions of taxpayer dollars from the Texas Enterprise Fund. The … Continue reading

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(A little bit of) job growth returns to Houston

It’s a start. From small hand-lettered signs on shop windows to Fortune 500 heavyweights hosting job fairs, Houston companies are once again starting to look for workers. The influx of new jobs helped push the Houston area’s unemployment rate down … Continue reading

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Obstacles to expanded gambling

Burka lays out the reasons why expanded gambling will have a tough road ahead in the Lege next year, even as budget writers openly speculate about it, and concludes it won’t happen. I think the situation is more fluid than … Continue reading

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What will climate change legislation cost?

My friend Robert Nagle surveys the literature on climate change, specifically analyses of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACESA), also known as the Waxman-Markey bill, and finds estimates for how much it will cost the average … Continue reading

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