Our Dumb Media

by | Mar 9, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal

When is it a story–it’s even the headline here–that Obama’s advisors are “set to recommend” something? If he takes this incredibly stupid bit of advice (aka political hari-kiri), I will trot out all the usual annoyance that surfaces...

Too conservative even for Texas

by | Mar 11, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal

Back in my old stomping grounds, Texans narrowly rejected Don McLeroy, the fundamentalist nut who’s threatening to turn textbooks into God first, Reagan second conservative hymnals. Well done, folks! The other guy is a moderate Republican who believes God...

Of Fantasy and Literature

by | Mar 17, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal

Robert Redick is the Valley-based writer of both an epic fantasy and works of more standard literature. I just interviewed him for a story for the next Advocate, and I’m finding his Chathrand Voyage Series an interesting mix of fantasy tropes and very nice...

(A) Green Day

by | Mar 18, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal

I’ve seen the extremes of St. Patricks’ Day: it once found me, I may or may not be proud to say, onstage at Dallas’ Tipperary Inn, throwing potatoes high in the air and catching them on a fork clenched between my teeth. I was, to be fair, the...