Unca Darrell

AUGUST 31 / Refreshing

THE CHRONICLE had another good foreign policy editorial today.It called for . . .

AUGUST 31 / More wisdom from Vargas Llosa

CHAVEZ'S STRATEGY relies on a network of political franchises across the region:

AUGUST 30 / Verse of the day

IS ANY ONE of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy? Let him sing songs of praise.

AUGUST 29 / Our good work this week: Sudan

THIS WEEK, let's all send a a few bucks to Aid Sudan to support the good work of my friend, Kerrie Snow, R.N. 

She is the director of health in the organization's Uganda office. (Setting up the office in Sudan would have been, well, impossible.)    

Click here to support her online, or send a check to Post Office Box 770693, Houston, Texas 77215-0693.

AUGUST 28 / Clips on the townhall meetings

THEN, TO ADD idiocy to insult, the Post sent Robin Givhan to observe the Americans who are taking exception to various expansions of government powers and prerogatives and to make fun of their clothes.

AUGUST 28 / Thoughtful editorial on Bernanke

CHRONICLE editors did an okay job today on the Bernanke reappointment. Still . . .

AUGUST 28 / Like not smoking . . .

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

File under . . .  

AUGUST 28 / Who knew?

AT ITS PEAK in the 12th century, [Cahokia, a great Native American city] along the Mississipppi River bottomland of western Illinois, a few miles east of modern-day St. Louis, was probably larger than London, and held economic, cultural and religious sway over a vast swath of the American heartland.

AUGUST 27 / Glad to know what's really important

THIS WEEK'S AWARD for the strangest lede in an opinion column goes to liberal fantasist Thomas Frank, who tells us what is more important than mere health-care policy.

AUGUST 27 / The Chronicle on Ted Kennedy

THE HOUSTON Chronicle usually pays more attention to Northeastern liberals, dead or alive, than to flesh-and-blood Texans, but today's editorial on Senator Edward Kennedy was an appropriate use of scarce newspaper time and talent.