A few things to catch up on that happened while I was out sick, a few new things.-- First, AG Jim Hood on Friday moved to dissolve the temporary restraining order State Farm obtained against him last year that prohibits him from continuing with his criminal investigation of the insurer.Hood has been a prisoner of his office for months now, reduced to a sort of Capt. Queeg-like state, mumbling about going after makers of fake contact lenses while clacking ball bearings in his hand. But apparently he's decided on a jail break -- he's trying to bust right out of that injunction and get back to where he once belonged, when he was riding high with his confidential informant and the Rigsby sisters. A real golden oldie, straight from the Nostalgia File. I half expect to see Hood at a pre
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