Suburban Lawyer Rants by Jason T Olivier

  I recently posted this to an OSU blog.  Nicholls was supposed to play them this weekend, but canceled due to Hurricane Isaac and the as of yet unknown damage to the campus.  A few OSU folks were less than understanding and postulated that NSU was just in it for the guaranteed paycheck.   Here was my response:   I am not with the university but I am a Colonels supporter, former player and fan.  I too am deeply sorry about this game.  OSU was a necessary opportunity for NSU players to play against BCS-level talent.  It helps us with recruiting, gives our second and thirds opportunity to play and the money from the game funds all of our athletics.  We take these games knowing we will likely not win, but for the good of the whole athletics program.  The kids will absolutely be disappointed, particularly because we know how beautiful it is up there and the experience is once in a lifetime.    But I want to explain what the area has been through.  This hurricane began affectin

Why do you deserve to DIE?!?!  Because you don't agree with me! The government talking heads tell me my anger is not my fault.  Its because you  disagree with me and thus YOU hate ME.  My stress and emotional instability isn't my fault.  Its because evil businesses are greedy, and because the state health care already available isn't helping me!  Its not helping me because its not sufficient, and its not sufficient because you hate me, because you disagree with my view.   So you must die, for me to keep my beliefs, right?  Because you hate me, you want to take my point of view away from me. This gun I am holding to your head?  THIS is responsible for your death too, not me.  You see I bought this legally, because I have second amendment rights.  So I can use it illegally, because the talking heads in Washington tell me its the gun's fault, not mine.  I don't have to follow the laws on the books.   So its not me that's killing you.   I didn't do that

I met someone recently who told me that while in Great Britain, her husband had a heart attack.  He was sent to the emergency room of a local hospital, and she was eventually summoned.  He sat in the hall of that hospital for three days straight with only minimal assistance.  When his wife arrived, she was livid.  How was it that a man who had experienced a heart attack was still sitting in a hallway waiting for a room?  The hospital had a 72 hour waiting period for heart patients.  She said that if they MADE IT through the 72 hours, then they got a bed. Now is this real, or puffery?  In these heated political times, who can say?  But there is no doubt SOME kernel of truth in it.  And even a tiny kernel is enough for me to say that I don't want government-run health care.  In my short blah blah years on this earth, I cannot think of one thing the government ran well.  Or efficiently.  I am not willing to put my health, my heart, my children's health on the line to appease