Unca Darrell

NOVEMBER 23 / Houston angle to black Columbia prof who sucker-punched a white university employee

LIONEL McINTYRE is the professor and Camille Davis is the employee. Police said Mr. McIntrye punched Ms. Davis in the face during a heated discussion of race relations, according to the New York Post. The Houston angle:

NOVEMBER 6 / Major Nidal Malik Hasan is . . .

. . . a barbarian. The thing he attacked is . . .

SEPTEMBER 15 / Houston Chronicle on Van Jones

LAST WEEK the Chronicle correctly, and unexpectedly, celebrated the defenestration of Mr. Jones. 

AUGUST 28 / Like not smoking . . .

. . . wearing a bike helmet is so for the little people.

File under . . .  

AUGUST 25 / Introducing Theodore Dalrymple

ANTHONY DALRYMPLE is the psuedoym for Anthony Daniels, a Brit essayist and -- like Charles Krauthammer -- a physician and psychiatrist. If you haven't sampled Mr. D's wisdom, and most haven't, you should.

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 . . .