Unca Darrell

MARCH 31 / Pension Tsunami: Texas Teacher Retirement System

FROM the Fort Worth Star-Telegram a couple of weeks back:

The Teacher Retirement Sytem of Texas has sustained investment losses that were billions of dollars more than expected . . . .

MARCH 30 / Evaluating "100 Days of Change" on the editorial page

TODAY is the 85th of 100 advertised "Days of Change" for the Hearst corporation. It's time to evaluate what this has meant for our local editorial voice.

MARCH 30 / Slowblogging the news

UNCA DARRELL (the real one) has a new and very interesting project on the workbench. Until further notice I'll cut my blogging to one item a day, at most, posted overnight or in the early daylight hours. Once you see it, you're dismissed for the day. And if you don't see it then, it ain't coming.

MARCH 28 / Help Aid Sudan

HOW ABOUT an autographed Nolan Ryan rainbow-style Astros jersey? Or an Arizona Cardinals' helmet signed by Kurt Warner? Or a game jersey with Lance Berkman's signature?

MARCH 28 / Mission trip to Africa

FRIDAY neighbor Dearing L. Garner, friends Chris Perkins (dentist) and Bob Bufkin, and three others (including two physicians) departed for a medical mission trip to orphanges and villages in Africa. We pray for safe travel as these volunteer missionaries tend to the physical and spiritual health of those they meet.

MARCH 27 / Nick Anderson still can't draw Limbaugh

AND HE still thinks "Obama critics" -- that would be you and me -- are mental defectives with big noses, insufficient hair, bad teeth, weak chins, and terrific overbites, and that we take dictation from Mr. Limabaugh.

Nice touch for a newspaper that's hemorrhaging readers in a city that -- perhaps it is no coincidence -- regards Mr. Limbaugh rather highly:

March 27 / The Federal Reserve is printing money and Congress is worried about what?

A SENATE subcommittee has its drawers in a bunch about the college football playoff system. Meanwhile the Federal Reserve prints money and the dollar tanks ("the second-worst week against the euro").

MARCH 27 / A glimmer of light in the darkness

PRESIDENT OBAMA has asked Paul Volcker to lead a review of our tax code. As reported, the mission statement is a bit of a mish-mash:

White House officials disclosed the tax initiative on Tuesday, saying they intend to explore ways to better enforce the current code [and] improve it by eliminating corporate subsidies and untangling its many complexities. . . .

MARCH 27 / Nice photography site

Here.

MARCH 26 / A birthday

DAVID Edgar Hancock was born on March 26, 1970. Here  is something I wrote about him nine years ago.