A reasonable health care compromise?

by | Oct 12, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal

Is it safe to trust the new compromise on the health care public option? The Democrats in Congress are so often like Lucy with the football it's hard to know. Is there a non-silver lining to what appears to be a reasonable compromise?What I'm talking about is...

ZOMG! The world is going to end (again)!

by | Oct 13, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal

Re: 2012–I plan to clear out my Y2K bunker, slather myself with ham squeezins and do a Mayan rain dance. Unless this guy is right. But what does he know?–he's only a Mayan elder:Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions...

Phsyics gone crazy

by | Oct 14, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal

Are Higgs boson particles preventing their own creation? Two scientists have proposed that the Large Hadron Collider, a giant particle accelerator designed to smash things together and create ever-more-exotic subatomic particles to study, is being sabotaged from the...

Sick of fancy sycophancy

by | Oct 15, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal

It's a weird aspect of a career in arts criticism that you get, sometimes, heaps of criticism for your criticism. So one must needs acquire one of those little Goresque lockboxes. As a musician and a creative writer, I was/am used to critical reactions (both...