Unca Darrell

MARCH 31 / Never a kind word for the Tea Party movement . . .

. . . but a warm, sloppy embrace for . . .

MARCH 30 / Gendercide

THAT's the Economist's word for the slaughter through abortion, murder, and neglect of an estimated 100 million little girls in China, India, and elsewhere.

MARCH 29 / New feature

THE SLOW-MOVING, semi-retired, barely here version of Unca D has a new feature: "Stuff to Read," today featuring . . .

MARCH 27 / Still looking for a way to help Haitians?

CONSIDER Baptist Child and Family Services. It will help rebuild and restock unsupported Haitian orphanages, provide volunteers to help orphanage staffs, and send medical teams to care for injured and ill children. It will do these things through . . .

MARCH 24 / Updated: Wrong side of history?

THAT'S the Chronicle's triumphalist appraisal of where Republicans find themselves after first having opposed Obamacare and now . . .

MARCH 21 / GITN: "Church is not about people-pleasing"

JEAN FERRARO, "United Methodist Attoyac Charge," Garrison in the News, December 17, 2009

When we worship for the right reasons, we do receive blessings. We do receive value from the experience. But the motivation in going to church should never be "for what we get out of it." Our motivation must be "for what we can put into it!"

I'm afraid people who go to church expecting to be entertained are a bit self-centered. Church is not about people-pleasing. It's about God-pleasing.

And while I'm on my soapbox, let me just add one other comment. . . . [There] are actually some Christians who don't go to church because they don't like the preacher. Can you believe it? As if pastors were in a popularity contest for attracting people to worship! Don't even get me started.

MARCH 19 / BHO just went underwater at RCP

THURSDAY the inevitable happened: President Obama's disapproval number (47.8 percent) on the Real Clear Politics poll of the polls came in higher than his approval number (47.3 percent).

MARCH 18 / The laughingstock watch

THE CHRONICLE indulges less often than it once did in open and generalized contempt of Texas. Nick Anderson is a Pulitzer winner, however, and so . . .

MARCH 15 / Coming soon: Black Tuesday plus 365

WE'RE COMING UP on the anniversary of Black Tuesday, the day the Chronicle lightened its leaky ship by throwing a bunch of editors, reporters, photographers, and staffers overboard.

MARCH 12 / The story that dare not . . .

. . . say its headline at the Chronicle: