Arts, liberal

by | Jan 5, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal

From a 2008 New York Times Book Review piece: “I don’t review books very often,” [Richard Russo] said in an e-mail message, “which is odd because I love to talk about them. The problem is that I don’t have much interest in discussing...

Darwin's enchiladas

by | Jan 6, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal

My fellow Texans have an unusual influence on your kids' textbooks, it turns out. If Texans could do this with food, we'd really be getting somewhere–you know, force enchiladas Suizas onto the menu at fancy New York French restaurants just to curl the...

The Lost Alpaca civilization?

by | Jan 7, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal

Satellite technology turns up an honest-to-goodness lost civilization in the Amazon region: "This hitherto unknown people constructed earthworks of precise geometric plan connected by straight orthogonal roads. The 'geoglyph culture' stretches over a...

Draconian Troll Hammer to the rescue

by | Jan 8, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal

Around these here parts, we often have an entertaining comment section. It's got it all: pure insult, straw man arguments, ad hominem arguments, nonsense, insight, comedy, unintentional comedy, heck, even poetry sometimes. Personally, I see the whole thing as...