Unca Darrell

APRIL 27 / Donald Kagan and declinism

UNIVERSITIES, [Donald Kagan] proposed, are failing students and hurting American democracy. Curricula are "individualized, unfocused and scattered." On campus, he said, "I find a kind of cultural void, an ignorance . . .

APRIL 16 / Why did the Boston bomber use pressure cookers?

HERE'S MY guess:

BUMPED / APRIL 5 / Unca D is going on sabbatical for . . .

. . . a family project. I may post occasionally over the next couple of months, but you're excused from checking back until early or mid-June. Meanwhile, a couple of parting shots:

FEBRUARY 16 / Another proof of . . .

. . . the existence of God:

JANUARY 30 / Unca D got it wrong

MY POST of January 26 erroneously accuses Lisa Gray of having keyboarded the nasty little piece of work that was last Saturday's editorial grito for a statue of Bill Hicks. She is, in fact, entirely blameless, as she kindly emailed today:

DECEMBER 15 / Unca D is down for the season . . .

. . . to celebrate the birth of Christ with family and friends.

Keep believing, keep giving, and keep . . .

DECEMBER 11 / A case study of . . .

. . . liberal bias in news reporting at Associated Press and the Houston Chronicle.

Statutory warning. This is a long essay, not for the faint of heart, about a persistent problem in journalism: the distortion of news by the liberal-progressive bias of reporters and editors. To many of you, I suspect, this is filed with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness under self-evident truths. It's useful from time to time, however, to show exactly -- sentence-by-excruciating-sentence, word-by-painful-word -- how this bias undermines modern journalism and destroys trust in reporters' and editors' allegience to truth. So, being duly warned, please proceed, if you wish, at your own risk. 

Fish don't know they're wet and reporters don't know they're liberals. You may not believe this, but it's true enough, at least about reporters.

NOVEMBER 26 / Kristol on civilization and the West

THERE ARE some facts so obvious that only a liberal would deny them. One of them is that . . .

NOVEMBER 19 / Warning about the new HoustonChronicle.com

CHRON.COM is defunct. Our local newspaper now delivers online content through HoustonChronicle.com. I signed up this morning, but already regret it. Each time I engage the site or change pages, it tries to . . . 

NOVEMBER 9 / I'm up to the . . .

. . . fourth stage of grief: depression.