Unca Darrell

JUNE 23 / Whadya mean, Kemo Sabe?

THE INTERGENERATIONAL theft represented by the graph at the bottom of this (and other) posts will ruin the lives of our offspring, Unca D once wrote. 

That most of our children and grandchildren ignoratantly voted for this outcome is no comfort. They didn't know any better, and that's our fault too.

One aging reader refuses to accept a share of the blame.

JUNE 22 / Stuart Taylor, Jr., on Sotomayor on Race

BUT CONSERVATIVES and like-minded centrists can win the political debate [sparked by the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court] if they focus not on buzzwords but on in-depth, civil discourse about the very big issue on which Sotomayor and her liberal supporters are most at odds -- and the conservative justices most in tune -- with the vast majority of Americans.

JUNE 17 / More global warming skepticism

ALL CLEVER people -- including the clever people who write editorials for the Houston Chronicle -- believe these four propositions with near-biblical certainty:

(1) the world is getting warmer;

(2) it's all our fault;

(3) the only possible salvation is to give clever people our money and do whatever they say; and

(4) Propositions (1), (2), or (3) may never be debated.

Meanwhile, less clever people keep asking questions that the clever people can't, or won't, answer.

MAY 27 / Sotomayor links

UPDATE: 28 U.S. Code 453: "Oaths of Justices and Judges":

I, [Sonia Sotomayor,] do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will administer justice without regard to persons, and do equal justice to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me as [associate justice of the United States Supreme Court] under the Constitution and laws of the United States. So help me God. [Emphasis added]

MAY 25 / The Chronicle just can't do it

THE CHRONICLE tried. It really did. But our local editorial board is simply incapable of celebrating Memorial Day for what it is -- a time of remembrance, of honor and respect -- for those who died in our nation's military service. Instead . . .

MAY 18 / McWhorter on racial bias and firefighters' exams

THE REASON black people of unaffluent origin tend not to do well on standardized tests is a matter of language and how it's used -- and the issue is less about color than class, and in the global sense, about what it means to be human.

MAY 14 / Go see "Rock 'n' Roll"

TOM STOPPARD's "Rock 'n' Roll," like most Stoppard plays, is worth your time. It's running at the Alley through May 24.

FEBRUARY 28 / Made my day

CLINT EASTWOOD  gripes about political correctness.

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.

FEBRUARY 19 / Plastic dashboard Lincoln

I HAW-HAWED at the Chronicle's decision to celebrate Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday with a hymn of thanksgiving to Charles Darwin, born the same day.

Shoulda waited.