Unca Darrell

NOVEMBER 9, 2017 / The scorecard on communism: . . .

. . . 100 million dead. 

ARMED BOLSHEVIKS seized the Winter Palace in Petrograd -- now St. Petersburg -- 100 years ago this week . . . . They set in motion a chain of events that would kill millions and inflict near-fatal wounds on . . . 

NOVEMBER 8, 2017 / One year ago . . .

. . . America elected Donald John Trump as its next president. 

I DIDN'T THINK he was fit to be president of the United States. He lacked the requisite character, intelligence, knowledge, experience, and judgment.

Having said that, I voted for him. Why? Because . . . 

NOVEMBER 7, 2017 / Unca D gives up on . . .

. . . The Houston Chronicle. 

 

November 7, 2017

The Houston Chronicle
4747 Southwest Freeway
Houston, Texas 77027

Account Number: *******

To The Houston Chronicle:

Please cancel my subscription and refund the balance of my account.

As a graduate of Columbia Graduate School of Journalism (M.S. 1971, Pulitzer Fellow) and a former reporter for The Houston Post, I act with considerable sorrow. I love newspapers. Receiving each morning a plastic bag filled with news, commentary, and other useful and interesting information—well, this has always seemed important, entertaining, even right. Unfolding the newsprint. Breathing in the musty ink. Losing myself in the flow of words and ideas. These pleasurable habits have sustained me for some considerable number of decades.

I am, however, also and foremost a Christian. As such . . .