Unca Darrell

FEBRUARY 28 / Galveston still needs help . . .

 

. . . and Good News Galveston is still providing it. This Christian relief project is this week's good charity. If this organization is not your cuppa, how about giving to another that is?

Then hug your kids and husband or wife and do something fun together.

FEBRUARY 28 / Made my day

CLINT EASTWOOD  gripes about political correctness.

FEBRUARY 27 / Nonreverential review of reverential bio

TRACY DAUGHERTY's Hiding Man, a "fond if somewhat defensive" biography of Houston's own Donald Barthelme, got a subdued review from Kyle Smith in the Wall Street Journal, though most of Mr. Kyle's criticism was directed at the man, not the book.

Best line:

FEBRUARY 27 / Excellent front page

TODAY'S Chronicle front page is excellent.

You 'net readers need to drive by your local street vendor, just to see what a real front page looks like. (If you're too cheap to buy, at least ask him to hold Section A up so you can see it through the windshield.)

FEBRUARY 27 / Excellent comment

MIKE SYNDER, an excellent Chronicle reporter, thinks my compliment to Caroyln Feibel, an excellent Chronicle reporter, was inappropriately qualified. 

FEBRUARY 27 / Once, a mistake; twice, a lie; three times, a Big Lie

Chronicle, Febuary 25:

We all know the numbers: 46 million American do without health care coverage . . . .

FEBRUARY 26 / Dark day for newspapers

THE SAN ANTONIO Express-News, a Hearst sister of our Houston Chronicle, today cut its work force by 15 percent, which means redundancy for 135 staffers and no new hires for 30 open positions.

FEBRUARY 26 / Exactly backwards

DOONESBURY HAS yukked it up lately with fantasies about how Duke's Washington lobbying firm is shriveling and dying in the disinfectant presence of the new administration.

The last time a liberal humorist got something so perfectly backwards was when Molly Ivins condemned the first Persian Gulf War because it was, you know, a ploy to drive up oil prices.

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 26 / Why is "Doonesbury" rerunning Rick Redfern's firing?