How can I roll when the wheels won't go?

by | May 13, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal

Here’s the entire interview with Donald Simanek from this week’s Art in Paradise story about perpetual motion machines: 1) Is it safe to assume that nature will allow a machine that runs for an unusually long time without input of energy? Are the kinds of...

Giving Muppets a bad name

by | May 14, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal

So that’s what Grover “I mean, [the estate tax on the wealthiest 2 percent] is the morality of the Holocaust” Norquist has been up to. Dude seems to get off on attempting to claim black is white. From a must-read at Think Progress: Net neutrality, a...

ABeckalypse Now

by | May 25, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal

I just rewatched Apocalypse Now for probably the fifth time, so it was with a heavy dose of Marlon Brando in my head that I listened to this passage from Glenn Beck’s radio program. It’s frightening to know there are people out there who take this...

Your tax dollars at work

by | May 27, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal

Intelligence reporter Jeff Stein delivers a collection of tidbits that makes you wonder just what’s in the water at the CIA. Exhibit 1 is a scrapped 2003 plan to make a gay sex video with a fake Saddam Hussein, for distribution in Iraq (I’m sure there...