Unca Darrell

JUNE 10 / Soundtrack for 42 years

 

A, weh, uh, weh, uh, well,

The little things you say and do

Make me want to be with you.

Rave on, it's a crazy feelin',

And I know it's got me reelin',

when you say, "I love you."

Rave on.

JUNE 10 / Forty-two years, as if yesterday

MY SWEET Diana and I have  been blessed with forty-two years of marriage. Last year's celebratory post is eternally true.

JUNE 9 / Supply and demand at work in China's marriage market

IF DEMOGRAPHY is destiny, it is the destiny of young men in China to be very, very lonely. The one-child policy plus gender-specific abortion -- a curiously neutral label for scraping little girls out of wombs -- equals China with a reported surplus of 32 million men under the age of 30. 

MARCH 26 / A birthday

DAVID Edgar Hancock was born on March 26, 1970. Here  is something I wrote about him nine years ago.

MARCH 18 / The great American social experiment

BIRTHS to unwed mothers are up to 40 percent.

What kind of society will we have a generation hence?

MARCH 2 / "Back atcha, Mr. Holder": Stuart Taylor edition

WANT TO SEE what a conversation on race really looks like? Then click through to Stuart Taylor, Jr.'s, response to AG Eric Holder's race-baiting jeremiad of early February. Samples:

FEBRUARY 26 / Back atcha, Mr. Holder

Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.

JANUARY 13 / Bella, bella . . . Bella

LAST WEEK, LADY DI and I finally saw Bella, the much-discussed 2006 Indie film about a day in the life of a pregnant waitress and the chef who befriended her. It's great. Rent it at once. It will elevate your spirit and may even ennoble your character.      

By coincidence, the same week Diana and I also saw a big-budget chick flick -- No Reservations -- with a similar setting (a restaurant kitchen) and with similar characters (chefs), plot devices (an unwanted child), and redemptive themes (loss, loneliness, family). It could not have been any more different.

DECEMBER 15 / The new majority

FOR THE FIRST time in history, unmarried people head the majority of U.S. households. . . . Countries around the world are experiencing similar trends.

DECEMBER 12 / The courts versus self-governance

. . . . Left to their own devices, most Americans can work [their differences over moral issues such as abortion and gay marriage] in politics much as they do in their everyday lives, as untidy as those solutions may be. Unfortunately, when the courts short-circuit this process, they do three things corrosive to our politics.