Unca Darrell

DECEMBER 10 / Nice remembrance of Elmer Kelton

THE TIME IT Never Rained is called . . .

DECEMBER 3 / Thanksgiving at the Chronicle, continued

YESTERDAY I gave the Chronicle a sincere toast of approval for having run a positive editorial about Thanksgiving -- a 21st-century first, so far as I can recall.

Would it be wrong of me now to engage in light mockery?

NOVEMBER 16 / UPDATED: Texas's anti-Kelo amendment dissed by legal scholar

ILYA SOMIN, George Mason law associate professor, says Proposition 11 on the November 11 ballot -- the anti-Kelo amendment -- has a big loophole.

NOVEMBER 11 / For Houston mayor, Unca D is a one-issue voter

I WILL vote for Gene Locke. Why? Because . . .

NOVEMBER 9 / Rememberin' Miss Molly

THE CURRENT ISSUE of Texas Monthly -- the one with the Aggie bonfire on the cover -- tells the story of Molly Ivins's tenure as an intern at the Chronicle in the late 1960s.

NOVEMBER 3 / More California-bashing for the Chronicle to ignore

WHY ARE Americans fleeing California and other high-tax states for Texas and other low-tax states?

Conservative researchers' technical explanation for this phenomenon is: . . .

OCTOBER 28 / Garrison in the News

FROM MY hometown newspaper and, by proxy, yours, Garrison in the News, October 1, 2009. Today's edition features Bozy Adams's plan to walk around the world by age 86 and the famous midnight football practice of 1954.

OCTOBER 20 / Whims of the ballot box

THE CHRONICLE, which ordinarily travels to Rhode Island, Massachusetts, or thereabouts to find candidates for canonization as saints of the high church of the left, today said an ardent and reverential goodbye to homegrown liberal William Wayne Justice -- the Tyler federal judge who never met a judicial mandate he didn't like.

OCTOBER 9 / Garrison in the News

MORE from our rural hometown -- mine by birth, yours by adoption -- from Garrison in the News, September 24, 2009:

OCTOBER 5 / Unca gets quoted

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