Unca Darrell

DECEMBER 31 / Style, Usage, Journalism

Disinterest / Uninterest

They seemed disinterested in competing, apparently ready to pack their cars and head for those offseason vacations. (Richard Justice, "Defeatism surfaces in locker room," Houston Chronicle, December 20, 2010)

DECEMBER 30 / Someone reminded me

JOYCE DORRIS, "Out in Arlam," Garrison in the News, November 11, 2010 

DECEMBER 28 / Garrison in the News

JOYCE DORRIS, "Out in Arlam," Garrison in the News, August 26, 2010 

DECEMBER 26 / I looked around at the generations

JO ANN BARTON, "Footprints: The Road back home," Garrison in the News, October 7, 2010 

DECEMBER 24 / "Thank you all for giving, going, and praying . . . ."

A REPORT from my next-door neighbor, Dearing L. Garner -- writing from Chisinau, Moldova -- about his annual relief mission for children in that faraway land:  

DECEMBER 22 / How to write the perfect letter to Santa Claus

AN ADVANCED course by the children of Garrison, Texas. 

DECEMBER 20 / Guess who gave Tom DeLay a fairer shake than . . .

. . . than the gleeful libs at the Houston Chronicle gave him?

Mr. DeLay's conduct was wrong. It was typical of his no-holds barred approach to political combat. But when Mr. DeLay, following his conviction, assailed "the criminalization of politics," he had a fair point. 

DECEMBER 16 / Really nasty things can happen

HOPE HALLMARK, "Historically Speaking: I'm from the government and I'm here to help," Garrison in the News, October 7, 2010 

DECEMBER 14 / Jurisprudential theory from Garrison

Hope Hallmark, "Historically Speaking: There ought to be a law," Garrison in the News, September 23, 2010 

DECEMBER 12 / "I never stopped to think what it must look like to the goose"

RICK ANDERSON, "God's Feet in My Sandbox: Waiting for the goose to forgive me," Garrison in the News, October 21, 2010

I reached down, grabbed the piece of bread and hurled it at ahim again. The wind blew it right back at me. I picked it up again and held it out toward the goose who was close enough now to grab it from my hand.