Unca Darrell

AUGUST 21 / Big, hot, cheap, readable

YOU SHOULD read Erica Greider's Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right: What America Can Learn from the Strange Genius of Texas. It's a well-written, intriguing book. The author is not infected by the contempt for Texas that blinds many intellectuals and most public-affairs journalists to the virtues of our sweet state. From the introduction:

AUGUST 17 / Scripture, without comment

The heart of the wise inclines . . .

AUGUST 10 / Steyn on Major Hasan and political correctness

UNLIKE THE ZIMMERMAN trial, Major Hasan's has not excited the attention of the media. Yet it is far more symbolic of the state of America than the Trayvon Martin case, in which superannuated race hucksters attempted . . .

AUGUST 9 / Unca D has gone dormant

IT WASN'T planned. It just happened. I'll return in due course, maybe.

Meanwhile, this quickie: Never has there been a funnier lede to a Houston Chronicle editorial than . . .

AUGUST 1 / A declinist rant from Unca D

ON THE FIRST of each month, I write an investment newletter for a very small private audience. After celebrating July, an excellent month for stock-market and mutual-fund investors, I ended the most recent letter with words of caution: