Unca Darrell

MARCH 27 / How to write a Houston Chronicle editorial in . . .

. . . three easy steps, illustrated. 

First, select a victim group. Women are always . . . 

MARCH 25 / Pixies are real

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MARCH 15 / Kudoes to Allan Turner . . .

. . . and the Houston Chronicle for . . .

MARCH 13 / Because you can never have too much . . .

. . . Buddy Holly. 

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Mr. Holly and the original Crickets appeared on Ed Sullivan in December 1957, the breakout year for the group. The rhythm guitarist is Niki Sullivan, the bass player Joe B. Mauldin, and the guy tearing up the drum kit is Jerry Allison, who married the real Peggy Sue Gerron. Mr. Holly is not wearing his trademark hornrim glasses. He bought them in January 1958.

MARCH 12 / Where Cro-Magnon women look like . . .

. . . French fashion models . . .

. . . and Cro-Magnon men look like . . . 

MARCH 10 / What a quitter!

LEON HALE has retired from the column-writing bidness, and he's only . . .

REVISED MARCH 8 / Zero

THAT'S HOW many paragraphs the Houston Chronicle printed in Section A Thursday about Lois Lerner's refusal to testify before a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Wednesday about her possible role in directing the Internal Revenue Service's jihad against the Tea Party. Or about newly released emails that illuminate her apparent political motives. 

Zero, but with an asterisk. See below. 

The next day, however, the Chronicle had seventeen vitriolic paragraphs on . . . 

MARCH 7 / Good thing it wasn't P-O-T-A-T-O

IF IT HAD been . . .

MARCH 6 / For a minute there . . .

. . . I thought the Houston Chronicle editorial board had turned on Barack Hussein Obama. 

. . . his naked ambition, his willingness to say and do almost anything to get elected, this extreme views on a number of issues . . . on the stump . . . gifted . . . wins hearts and minds . . . 

But no, the editors were kvetching about . . .  

MARCH 5 / A nice example of why Glenn Reynolds at . . .

. . . Instapundit.com is the indispensable blogger:

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