Unca Darrell

SEPTEMBER 30 / Style, usage, journalism

Dictionary meaning / idiom

Obama enacts [read signs] patent reform (headline, Houston Chronicle (chron.com), September 17, 2011)

SEPTEMBER 29 / Texas works

Most of the rest of the country does not.

The goal of the Clever People who run our local newspaper is not, as you might think, to understand why Texas works and why most of the rest of the country does not. It is not to celebrate that Texas works and most of the rest of the country does not. No. The goal of the Clever People who run our local newspaper is . . .

September 29 / Hot photos this week are . . .

. . . from the most exciting sports event of recent memory -- "Gators vs. Ladybugs." Gators wear aqua-colored jerseys. Ladybugs are in red.

SEPTEMBER 28 / Happy days are

Garrison in the News is dead. Long live Garrison in the News. Which is to say, my congested in-box has coughed up a stray copy of the greatest newspaper in Texas, from which I will -- as always -- quote shamelessly. So for today and a few days to come, you who lack a hometown can still . . . 

SEPTEMBER 27 / Unca D's photographs . . .

. . . are now being posted on SmugMug. You can click here or on Photographs under Pages in the right column. Check'em out.  

SEPTEMBER 26 / Another important American intellectual . . .

. . . has endorsed Unca D's favorite book about Western Civilization, From Dawn to Decadence by Jacques Barzun, about which the Unc has written here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. 

What great American thinker has now jumped aboard the Barzun bandwagon? None other than . . .

SEPTEMBER 25 / Without comment, Scriptures for today

My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you, turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to . . .

SEPTEMBER 23 / More credit where . . .

THE CHRONICLE recently endorsed the pending free-trade agreements with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea and, even better . . .

SEPTEMBER 22 / A mysterious new blog . . .

. . . with excellent taste has linked to Unca D. A pat on the back goes to the first person who can unpack . . . 

SEPTEMBER 22 / Too intrusive?

THE HOUSTON Chronicle editoral board wet its collective underthings in ecstatic approval earlier this month when . . .