Unca Darrell

JUNE 1 / Guest blogger

A West Coast tech expert named Alexandra guest-hosts Unca D today, thereby doubling the average IQ and halving the average age of Unca D's massive staff of bloggers. Her thumbsucker on the Zuckerberg-Chan nuptials is a good read, but misses the ball on why the wedding was scheduled the day after the Facebook IPO. The real reason . . . 

SEPTEMBER 4 / A Sunday sermon from Rev. Walter Russell Mead

MR. MEAD is a guru of international relations, no cleric. But his father was, and young Walter apparently paid attention on Sunday mornings. He sees a broken connection between religion and . . .

AUGUST 23 / Garrison in the News

THE GREATEST newspaper in Texas -- Garrison in the News -- has shut down, but I keep finding old issues that are . . .

AUGUST 19 / Walter Russell Mead on the specter of national bankruptcy

THE INVISIBLE hand has been writing on our wall of late, and the message is scaring the markets. [There] is real trouble afoot, and the world's political and economic leaders are terrifyingly . . .

 

AUGUST 16 / The greatest conservative televisions shows of all time

12. Lost (2004-2010) . . . spoke early and often about God and . . .

 

JULY 22 / A denigration of their lifestyle

DATA FROM the Census Bureau show that married couples, for the first time, now . . .

 

MARCH 28 / Assigned readings on marriage

THERE WILL be a test.

WHAT MAKES pre-adulthood something new is its radical reversal of the sexual hierarchy. Among pre-adults, women are . . . 

JANUARY 7 / The marrying judge

Trainees in George Patton's Desert Training Center in southern California wanted to get married before they were shipped out to North Africa. This created a demand for quick weddings, which was thwarted by a legal barrier -- California's three-day waiting period. Enterprising justices of the peace in Arizona saw a business opportunity.

OCTOBER 19 / What happens when you cross a one-child policy with . . .

. . . a nationwide measles vaccination campaign?

OCTOBER 6 / More on the ruination of the generations

THE GRIM employment picture [for those with high school diplomas but no college degrees] is familiar, but what's less widely known is that . . .