Houston’s Clear Thinkers


Wide-ranging observations on law, business, medicine, culture, sports, and other matters of general interest to members of the Houston business, professional, and academic communities.

Author: Tom Kirkendall runs a small firm in suburban Houston.

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Recent Posts from Houston’s Clear Thinkers


  • 2009 Weekly local football review

    (AP Photo/Erich Schlegel; previous weekly reviews for this season are here) Texas Longhorns 51 Kansas 20 The 3rd-ranked Longhorns (11-0/7-0) continued their seemingly unstoppable roll to the BCS Championship Game with another laugher against a…

  • Saturday Night Dinner

    My talented wife's lovely salad with a glass of Aymara Merlot Reserve 2006 (Argentina). Delightful!...

  • Gus Dies

    Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove is one of the best Texas novels of our time. The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel was later made into a wonderful television mini-series, which starred Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones as…

  • The headline says it all

    The fundamental problem with the American health care finance system is that reliance on tax-deductible, employer-based health insurance and government subsidized insurance (such as Medicaid, Medicare) created a culture since WWII in which consumers of…

  • Pranav Mistry on SixthSense Technology

    The link to the video on the TED site is here....

  • Thinking about financial regulation

    Peter Wallison and Steve Randy Waldman have each written a thought-provoking and important analysis of the effect of regulation on the recent financial crisis. First Wallison: What caused the financial crisis? The widely accepted narrative,…

  • Fertitta gets squeezed this time

    Looks as if Tilman Fertitta is about to endure a bit of his own medicine. As this post from a couple of months ago explains in detail, Landry's Restaurants, Inc. shareholders have had a wild…

  • 2009 Weekly local football review

    (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez; previous weekly reviews for this season are here) Central Florida 37 Houston Cougars 32 As I've noted many times, Houston (10-2/4-2) games over the past several seasons are just different. The game…

  • Sound of Silence

  • Homeward Bound