Unca Darrell

NOVEMBER 10 / Mark Steyn on . . .

. . . civilization and its disconcertment in response to Major Hasan, jihadist.

NOVEMBER 9 / The fell wall

TODAY IS the twenthieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. To my deep regret, real life impinges on my capacity to honor it in the way it deserves. Just know this:

NOVEMBER 9 / Rememberin' Miss Molly

THE CURRENT ISSUE of Texas Monthly -- the one with the Aggie bonfire on the cover -- tells the story of Molly Ivins's tenure as an intern at the Chronicle in the late 1960s.

NOVEMBER 6 / Major Nidal Malik Hasan is . . .

. . . a barbarian. The thing he attacked is . . .

NOVEMBER 6 / Baker deconstructs the Wall

[THE FALL of the Berlin Wall] could not have happened without Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his foreign minister, Eduard Shevardnadze, who disregarded their hawkish advisers . . .

NOVEMBER 6 / Garrison in the News

MORE from my hometown and yours, if you'll let it be, week of October 15, 2009:

Terry Steed, Sports Editor, "Bulldogs lose to No. 1 State Ranked Arp," Page 1

NOVEMBER 5 / Turn down the lights, the party's . . .

. . . almost over.

The spread between President Obama's approvals and disapprovals at Real Clear Politics is now 6.8, a new low. And it's going to get worse, because . . .

NOVEMBER 5 / Unca reads CJR so you don't have to

THE SEPTEMBER/October issue of Columbia Journalism Review ("Strong Press, Strong Democracy") includes a twelve-page supplement, "How Will Comprehensive Reform Improve Health Care for Americans?"

NOVEMBER 4 / No time to flesh this out, but . . .

. . . yesterday's electoral repudiation of our president's policies -- healthcare and cap-and-tax, both financed with our kids' money -- was also a repudiation . . .

NOVEMBER 4 / Civilisation

IN "CIVILISATION," [Kenneth Clark] warned that Western culture rested on a thin crust of ice: . . .