Unca Darrell

FEBRUARY 28 / That was then

THE FOUNDERS, [historian Robert Caro] said, meant the Senate to be a deliberative body, one strong enough to resist a popular president when any of its members thought it their duty to do so. The Senate's constitutional role of resisting tides of popular passion could be ended if a simple majority could end debate before it had begun.

FEBRUARY 25 / Don't blame the photographers

THE QUALITY of the Chronicle's Olympics photography is stunning, but . . .

FEBRUARY 24 / So who are the bad guys in the global warming debate?

According ot the Columbia Journalism Review in a recent cover story . . .

FEBRUARY 21 / Scott Brown's election back in January . . .

. . . on a promise to serve as the 41st vote against Obamacare means . . .

FEBRUARY 18 / Where did "cap-and-tax" come from?

 

 

 

LET'S PROGRAM the Dr. Peabody's WABAC machine for minus twenty months. 

FEBRUARY 15 / Bill White "reduced unfunded employee pension liabilities"

SO SAID the Chronicle in endorsing Mr. White as the Democratic nominee for governor. Unsaid:

FEBRUARY 12 / GITN: "A wreck that Etta James and I had last Thursday"

JOYCE DORRIS, "Out in Arlam," Garrison in the News, December 17, 2009

FEBRUARY 11 / "Unselfishly, without announcement or obligation, or reservation or hypocisy"

HERE ARE our suggestions: Mend a quarrel; Seek out a forgotten friend; Dismiss suspicion; Write a long overdue love note;

CLASS DISMISSED

IT'S TIME for Unca D to shut down, and so . . .

FEBRUARY 10 / "He will be missed"

TOMMIE STANALAND, "Cedar Bluff and Mayo," Garrison in the News, December 17, 2009