Unca Darrell

DECEMBER 15 / Robert Samuelson: No more Mr. Nice Guy

ROBERT SAMUELSON is typically soft-spoken and evenhanded, not by nature a polemicist. One could imagine him under different circumstances supporting and patiently explaining the benefits of a sensible reform of the U.S. medical system. But he's also clearheaded, which means that he is now has no intellectually honest alternative but to take sides big-time against Obamacare. Listen to the hard rhetoric:

DECEMBER 14 / Civilization slips another notch

Here.

DECEMBER 14 / The time the mule went in the pit toilet

MORE FROM the world's greatest newspaper:

DECEMBER 11 / A new edition of Fowler's

IF YOU don't already know about . . .

DECEMBER 11 / A righteous takedown of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret

THAT'S THE REAL name of the French architect who, inspired perhaps by the example of Joseph Jughasvili, pretentiously adopted the name Le Corbusier.

DECEMBER 10 / California = France

FROM A FEBRUARY essay that holds up well:

DECEMBER 10 / Nice remembrance of Elmer Kelton

THE TIME IT Never Rained is called . . .

DECEMBER 9 / Speaking of "debt bias" . . .

. . . the Chronicle should try looking in the mirror.

DECEMBER 9 / The generational obligation

THE FETISHISATION of change is symptomatic of . . .

DECEMBER 8 / BHO approval at 48.7

AS I WRITE, that's the number at Real Clear Politics.