Unca Darrell

FEBRUARY 28 / Style, Usage, Journalism

Civilization, End of

First the Wall Street Journal started doing sports. Now this:

[Starting] this week in The Journal, you will no longer see athletes called "Mr." or "Ms." The paper is reversing its stately, conspicuous tradition of using "honorific" [read honorific, without the scare quotation marks] titles in its sports coverage, entering a dizzy modern age of forward passes, shot clocks, Colin Cowherd sitcoms and jocks being referred to solely by their last name. 

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Not everyone will be pleased. . . . The venerable sportswriter Frank Deford went on NPR and compared us with Jane Austen. Austen! (Jason Gay, "No More Mr. (Or Ms.) Nice Guy," Wall Street Journal, February 22, 2011)

Jane Austen. That was an insult, I suppose 

Roll / Role

Using humor and going after buzz can be risky for auto advertisers because cars are big-ticket items where safety plays an important roll [read role] in the purchase, ad experts say. (Emily Steel, "At Super Bowl, Many Ads Fail to Score, Wall Street Journal, February 7, 2011) 

The Wall Street Jounral! How the mighty have fallen.

FEBRUARY 24 / Mead: Why are many American intellectuals . . .

. . . "so backward looking and reactionary?" 

FEBRUARY 22 / Where are the adults?

THE Democratic majority in the last Congress was "so busy passing guargantuan legislation to expand government's responsibilities," George F. Will wrote, "that it [lacked] enough time, energy or sense of responsibility to pass a budget."

Now the Democratic president of the United States of America has refused . . . 

FEBRUARY 16 / Why I have reading the Houston Chronicle

BECAUSE I CAN no longer stomach . . . 

FEBRUARY 12 / Living Water International

LET'S GIVE a few bucks today to . . . 

FEBRUARY 7 / Answer: Folks with extraordinarily high IQs

Question: Who reads Unca D?

Which means . . . 

FEBRUARY 6 / You may have noticed . . .

. . . that Unca D has dialed back on his blogging. For those who care, Unc's most-read posting was not about politics or journalism. It was about a movie.