Unca Darrell

MARCH 13 / Can't we all just get along, part umpteen

THE CHRONICLE attacks the sequester standoff today with a thunderous barrage of marshmallows.

MARCH 9 / On Robert Sherrill and busybodies

FOLLOWING ITS usual Saturday pattern of honoring some obscure lefty icon or idea, the Houston Chronicle today tipped the old fedora to . . .

FEBRUARY 8 / The slush fund problem

ON THE "City & State" front, the Chronicle today headlines this banner story: "2 legislators: Audit Perry's pet funds."

Here's a better idea:

JANUARY 25 / When we right-wing nuts complain that . . .

. . . President Barack Hussein Obama has violated the Constitution in one way or another, we do not engage in hyperbole. We mean precisely: He. Has. Violated. The. Constitution.

As here:

JANUARY 20 / Verses for the fortieth anniversary . . .

. . . of Roe v. Wade, three days hence -- a day that lives in infamy:

NOVEMBER 6 / BUMPED: The judge list you should take with you into the polling booth, from . . .

. . . the incomparable . . .

OCTOBER 12 / Reasons to vote against Barack Hussein Obama

Reason No. 5:

OCTOBER 10 / The outer world largely . . .

. . . (and wisely) ignores the Houston Chronicle, leaving it to Unca Darrell to name and shame the transgressions of our local newspaper.

A front-pager earlier this week, however, caught the eye of James Taranto, author of the Wall Street Journal's indispensable Best of the Web Today -- the thinking man's Drudge Report. Here is what he had to say:

OCTOBER 3 / Did we give to charity on Saturday?

I forget.

To make sure we're covered, let's give a few bucks to . . .

OCTOBER 2 / Lisa Falkenberg, obsessed with race and white guilt and Texas-bashing, asks . . .

. . . "Is justice system in U.S. truly colorblind?" (No extra points for guessing her answer.)