by Susan E. Gallagher | Oct 28, 2010 | The Public Humanist
The other day, an eight-year-old visitor was mesmerized by a map of Greater Boston that hangs in my kitchen. The map is nothing fancy. It’s the kind that might have hung in a real estate office before the advent of GPS devices. After my visitor determined that...
by James Heflin | Oct 1, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
If I had a penny for every high school history textbook embracing Mohammed… My fellow Texans have gone loopy yet again: The Texas State Board of Education today passed a resolution warning textbook publishers to scrub their books of “gross pro-Islamic,...
by James Heflin | Oct 4, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Some conservatives enjoy branding the leftward the “blame America first” crowd. Of course, there’s kneejerk nationalism, then there’s a mature love of country that requires looking at faults and remedying them–in short, taking...
by James Heflin | Oct 6, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
In writing about local musician extraordinaire Matt Lorenz, I checked out this video of his one-man band setup. Actual throat singing! Hard to believe even when you see it:
by James Heflin | Oct 7, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
I never know quite what to make of the emails I regularly receive from FlyBy News, a Valley-based site with, let’s say, a fin de siecle aesthetic, which embraces many a conspiratorial notion. It says, “Please consider reading all on this page. Otherwise...