Unca Darrell

AUGUST 31 / Style, usage, journalism

IT'S THE END of the month again, so let's close the book on what the Chronicle and other newspapers said and look at how the newspapers said it. I was lazy about collecting errors, so we're light in August. 

AUGUST 30 / GITN

"Gresham elected Texas FFA Vice President," Garrison in the News, July 29, 2010

AUGUST 29 / Outrage No. 1

ON FRIDAY, MARK SHIELDS, liberal analyst on PBS Newshour, slandered Glenn Beck's upcoming D.C. Honor Rally with a recitation of fears straight from the left's Imaginarium of Very Horrible Things.

But I think it will be whether, in fact, there will be signs, whether there will be buttons, whether there will be the disparaging and sometimes racially charged placards that have shown up at other Tea Party events. I hope that is not the case. They are trying to prevent it. They have said there will be no guns there, which is reassuring. That's -- that -- so -- and would be in violation of Washington, D.C., gun laws anyway. . . .

Outrage No. 2:

AUGUST 29 / How Baptists see things

FROM Marv Knox, "Hot Letters & Baptists' priesthood," Baptist Standard, August 2, 2010:

AUGUST 28 / Special giving opportunities

IN MEMORY of Bill Coulter, let give a few bucks today to his "in lieu of" funeral charities -- Our Lady of Walsingham Catholic Church or . . .

AUGUST 28 / Gene Green knows how . . .

. . . to push the Chronicle's buttons. In a conference with the editorial board, the point of which was to kvetch about the administration's unannounced shallaw-water drilling ban, Rep. Green said:

AUGUST 27 / Ms. Lisa is back!

THE CHRONICLE is down on August! So we learned Wednesday in another in the series of anti-editorials that bear the fingerprints of the remarkable Ms. Lisa Gray -- she who can write so well, but has . . .  

AUGUST 27 / The last muster

FATHER, we ask your blessing on this, the last meeting of the 62nd Armored Field Artillery Battalion Association.

AUGUST 26 / What happens when . . .

. . . government starts to run out of other people's money to spend? It begins to take public money from less-favored . . .

AUGUST 26 / Unca D flashes back to basic training

BACK in the sixties, Unca D helped protect the United States of American against all enemies, foreign and domestic, to the extent possible through . . .