And, a minority opinion here, I do not think college players should be paid. They get a full-ride scholarship, special academic help, great facilities (just take a gander sometime at the Jaqua Center at Oregon). They get a whole lot more than the mere academic student.

Yes, even though I love football, I am one of those who thinks too much money and resources go to football and basketball, to the detriment of the academic mission that is supposedly the main purpose of colleges and universities.

If playing college sports, especially football and basketball, is a job and athletes are to be considered employees, then let's end the whole charade of student-athletes; have the NFL and the NBA form a farm team system like MLB; and let colleges get on with the business of providing an education.

Hoping Cal can make this an interesting game to watch, at least for a good half.  But I suspect, as I said last week, that this Orégone squad of wild waterfowl won't likely be stopped by anyone until, maybe, BCS Bowl Championship time where the opponent has a few more weeks to prepare, physically, psychologically and in terms of strategery.

It's got to be the most revolutionary offense in college football since, what, the introduction of the forward pass back in the leather helmet days?

Big question: do you have his birth certificate, just in case you are asked to prove that the information on the death certificate is wrong?

It's better to make sure it's correct; I can't imagine a situation where someone would question and want you to prove his citizenship, but stranger things have happened.

In the years I have been handling estates, I've only ever had two death certificates that had to be corrected, and both were because the Social Security number was incorrect; I believe we had to provide something that showed the correct number, and attest to the whole thing, so be prepared.

It's possible it won't take as long to make the correction as it did to get the death certificates in the first place.

The other alternative is to just pretend you didn't notice and don't worry about it unless and until someone questions it; if it's something that's going to nag at you, I'd just go ahead and see what you have to do to get it fixed.  You might try seeing if the issuing agency addresses this situation on its website, too - it seems like it would be a pretty commonly-asked question.

I'm sorry that you're having to go through this on top of everything else; you know, with all the discussion about "fixing" Social Security, and about Congress trying to make sure no bank or servicer has to be accountable for the foreclosure mess or for the predatory lending that was going on, it's things like what happened to your Dad that no one wants to think about.  

My heart aches not just for the loss of your dad, but for the crushing financial pressures that no doubt made his life hell - all because he wanted to be able to take care of someone he loved.

That's just criminal, but it seems like no one who has the power to right these kinds of wrongs has any interest in doing so (although the state attorneys general may be able to do something if Congress doesn't cut their legs out from under them first).