Is it that the cow excrement is extra deep there, or just why is it all these slimebag law firms on my TV that are chasing class action lawsuits against everything known to man seem to have their offices there?

Houston is...big. Read David Lindsey's murder mysteries set there to get a sense of the enormity of the place, which is sort of several cities in one.

And it is humid. I've read that the British foreign office considers Houston a hardship post due to the weather and pays their consular staff there more money.

But Lindsey makes the sparkling buildings and Buffalo Bayou and the ship channel and the luxury homes near Rice University come alive. He worked Houston better in those books than Robert B. Parker did Boston.

Oh: a girl gave me a book by a Mexican-American lawyer that is a morality tale, set in Dallas. He slams Highland Park for the snobs and crooked lawyers there, too. I learned a lot about lawyers in it. It's, "The Color of Law", by Mark Gimenez, who has clearly read, "To Kill a Mockingbird." He admits that it inspired his modern day tale about a black hooker charged with murder and her finally-noble attorney. It's a better book than I expected.

Now,I'll let Houston Rick and any other Houston lawyers have a crack at this.

Heaven know there is no shortage of lawyers in Houston. And some of them have cashed in big time on the class action gravy train. I think that sort of thing should not be allowed, but the people that get a taste probably disagree.

These guys are no different than the wildcatters of the '50s and '60s: bet everything on one roll of the dice. Win big or go home. What you don't read too much about are the many class action suits that never get off the ground. I have no way of knowing, but I suspect that's most of them.

Houston does have a reputation as kind of a hard city. There are those who think that we kill and eat the wounded, but I'm pretty sure that's not so.

True fact: back about 25 years or so, there was a problem with homeless people downtown. The do gooders and the developers had done away with the flops and at the same time the state had "discharged" a lot of mentally ill people from the state hospitals to save money. They were all over the streets. Our mayor at the time hired a guy (at $40K per year), to follow homeless people around. When they set their cardboard box or garbage bag of stuff down to go buy a short dog or whatever, he would run up and take it and throw it in a dumpster. There's a city oridinance that allowed that.

The Public was pretty evenly divided: about half thought it was a clever idea and the rest thought it was a pretty sad thing to do. I thought it was sorry, but then I didn't like that mayor much anyway.

Having moved in-to and out-of the Houston area twice in my law enforcement career I have to agree with your accessment. Except for the "cow excretement" which you have confused Houston with Ft. Worth.

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