Unca Darrell

OCTOBER 31 / Hilarious headline . . .

. . . of the day:

OCTOBER 31 / Whose psychological profile?

HIS PRIMARY RULES were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.

_{Source: Walter C. Langer, Office of . . .}

OCTOBER 30 / Sad data department

"IN THE EARLY 1960s, labor-force participation among men ages 25 to 64 began a slow steady decline from 95% to about 84% today . . . ."

I blame government, culture . . . 

OCTOBER 28 / You think the Obamacare Web site is a disaster?

IT'S NOTHING compared to this:

OCTOBER 23 / Charles Murray in defense of . . .

. . . capitalism.

"Capitalism has lifted the world out of poverty because it gives people a chance to get rich by creating value and reaping the rewards," he writes in "Why Capitalism Has an Image Problem," wsj.com, July 27, 2012. And yet capitalism is in bad odor, Mr. Murray says, among other reasons because of collusive capitalism (for example, executives taking better care of themselves than of their company, employees, and shareholders) and corruption of capitalism by collusion with government.

The essay is well worth a read. It ends with this libertarian defense of capitalism:

OCTOBER 22 / The Chronicle goes wobbly on . . .

. . . the disaster that is Obamacare.

OCTOBER 22 / Two things progressives can get away with . . .

. . . that you and I can't:

OCTOBER 21 / In Unca D's world, a federal bureaucrat's refusal . . .

. . . to appear before a congressional committee would be treated as . . .

OCTOBER 20 / How Baby Boomers redistribute income . . .

. . . from their children and grandchildren to themselves.

OCTOBER 19 / Required reading for . . .

. . . all in Houston who are seduced by "smart growth."