Unca Darrell

JANUARY 30 / Unca D got it wrong

MY POST of January 26 erroneously accuses Lisa Gray of having keyboarded the nasty little piece of work that was last Saturday's editorial grito for a statue of Bill Hicks. She is, in fact, entirely blameless, as she kindly emailed today:

JANUARY 29 / Spring cleaning

"Following the Polls" and "Investment Matters" have been deleted from "Pages" in the right column.

JANUARY 26 / UPDATED: How three newspapers played . . .

. . . the news that President Obama violated the Constitution

The winner for best headline, best page placement, and best lede goes to . . .

JANUARY 26 / Star of Hope

A GOOD WAY to support Houston's premier local charity for the homeless, Star of Hope Mission, is to attend the charity's banquet fundraiser at 7:00 p.m., February 8, 2013, at Hilton Americas. The featured performer . . .

JANUARY 25 / When we right-wing nuts complain that . . .

. . . President Barack Hussein Obama has violated the Constitution in one way or another, we do not engage in hyperbole. We mean precisely: He. Has. Violated. The. Constitution.

As here:

JANUARY 20 / Verses for the fortieth anniversary . . .

. . . of Roe v. Wade, three days hence -- a day that lives in infamy:

FEBRUARY 15 / A complete book . . .

. . . on Texas popular music history would have a chapter on . . .

JANUARY 11 / The totalitarian temptation

Whether in the streets of major European cities, "occupied" Wall Street or al Qaeda hide-outs, the key element of the "totalitarian temptation," of which we have been warned by . . .

JANUARY 6 / Let's begin the new year with . . .

. . . these verses from Psalms 1, rendered here in the resonant language of the King James translation of 1611: