A lot can happen in a week. Some of it good. Some of it bad. Some of it downright ugly. When faced with intriguing developments in the week’s news, we turn to a rotating panel of “non-experts” to parse The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of it all.

This week, our panel weighs in on these stories:

• Flight cancellations and long security lines at Houston airports because of the federal government shutdown
• A Texas company cloning Tom Brady's dead dog
• A lion on the loose turns out to be a dog with a weird haircut

Our panel of non-experts this week includes:

• Charles Kuffner, who writes the political blog Off the Kuff
• David Branham, professor of political science at the University of Houston-Downtown
• Mary Flood, legal consultant with Androvett Legal Media & Marketing

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