Unca Darrell

December 31, 2009 / Something got capped, all right

BACK IN MAY, still high on President Barack Hussein Obama, mmm-mmm-mmm, the Chronicle said:

DECEMBER 23 / We're the shepherds

AND THERE were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.

DECEMBER 23 / Thank you . . .

. . . for reading "Unca Darrell." Now it's time to attend to first things . . .

DECEMBER 22 / Good thing it wasn't addiction to blogging

A CALIFORNIA man is suing the makers of World of Warcraft for $1 million, claiming his addiction to the online video game has left him . . . 

DECEMBER 21 / Garrison in the News

YOU KNOW you love it. From the issue of November 26:

DECEMBER 20 / Time thumbs nose at Third Commandment

"Roberts was finally called to meet . . .

DECEMBER 18 / Who's smarter, liberals or conservatives?

HERE'S A FAIR-MINDED article that provides fodder for both sides of the debate, but will probably make liberals happier.

DECEMBER 17 / All you need to know about Copenhagen

"THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE" for Mussolini wannabe . . .

DECEMBER 17 / Five easy pieces: Krauthammer's jobs program

From Special Report by way of the Corner:

Well, [the president's jobs summit] is obviously a PR maneuver. Unemployment is high. People showed [concern] on Election Day in November that the administration and Congress are spending all their time on health care, which is not a high priority. High priority is the economy.

DECEMBER 16 / "If I can write its textbooks"

WITH HIS FAMOUS textbook, the brilliant Paul Samuelson helped create something that did not exist before him: mass literacy in economics. But it's too bad that . . .