Unca Darrell

FEBRUARY 29 / Style, usage, journalism

Fact-Checking a Benighted NYT Columnist

Although it is unlikely that Thomas Jefferson ever read the writings of [Roger] Williams when he was formalizing the separation of church and state in the Constitution, he was, nonetheless, influenced by him . . . . (Joe Nocera, "A Revolutionary Idea," New York Times, February 24, 2012)

Thomas Jefferson did not write, much less . . .

FEBRUARY 25 / Common sense has visited the Chronicle

The real question: Will common sense be invited to hang around?

James A. Baker, III, recently chatted up the brass, editorial writers, and others at the Houston Chronicle, offering something exotic, even foreign, to the Clever Ones at that newspaper: common sense. And the Clever Ones, believe it or not, were enraptured.

Good for them.  

FEBRUARY 20 / "Cripplingly regressive"

THIS IS OLD NEWS, but . . .  

FEBRUARY 14 / Seven takeaways from . . .

 

 

 

. . . the Humble I.S.D. Rodeo and Livestock Show last weekend:

 

 

  

 

FEBRUARY 10 / Unintended humor from the Clever Ones

THE SAME NEWSPAPER that endorsed Barak Hussein Obama for president . . . that cheered as that selfsame president spent every dollar he could beg, borrow, or tax . . . that has acquiesced in the ruination of the generations . . . that regularly mocks American citizens who object to all this . . . . yes, that newspaper . . . (let me catch by breath here) . . . 

That newspaper cannot possibly understand what hoot, a howl, an absolute laughfest it is to encounter an editorial like this one: 

 

FEBRUARY 7 / What's wrong with this news account . . .

. . . of a trial and jury verdict?  

FEBRUARY 5 / The Bible and capitalism

MORE THAN any other nation, the United States was founded on broad themes of morality rooted in a specific religious perspective. We call this the Judeo-Christian ethos, and within it resides a ringing endorsement of capitalism as . . .

FEBRUARY 3 / "For the first time in my adult life . . .

. . . I'm really proud of my city."

Chronicle editorialists haven't gone that far yet,but they're promising to be proud sometime in the future, if we just keep . . .

FEBRUARY 2 / Yet more legal (and journalistic) malpractice . . .

. . . at the Houston firm of Sweeney, Cohen, Wilburn, Jetton, Newkirk, Langworthy, Fleck & Gray.

In today's otherwise forgettable editorial ramble through GOP presidential politics -- "arguably, Romney has seized the momentum . . . ." -- the Clever Ones at the Chronicle said: