Here's 2U

by | Apr 3, 2012 | Ten Gallon Liberal

Jason Mattera, right wing “bad boy,” asks tough questions of a surprised Bono. Only, yeah–that’s not Bono. Or an Irish accent. It is, however, Pavel Sfera, whose answers are scrupulously accurate. Now I’m wondering who I actually met back...

Down the Tubes

by | Apr 18, 2012 | Ten Gallon Liberal

Back in the ’70s, my Holy Grail was no X-Wing fighter, though, like every young dude, I loved them Star Wars. The thing I wanted (and never got until 1996, incidentally) was this travesty of ’70s design and impractical technology: That would be the...

Circinate Vernation

by | Apr 16, 2012 | Talk Dirt to Me

circinate vernation An upraised is what one might call a “floating signifier.” One sentence and I’m already out as an effete northeastern liberal. If referring to semiotics makes me a liberal so be it! I know that in some contexts an upraised fist...

Faith in the seed.

by | Apr 1, 2012 | Talk Dirt to Me

I have a neighbor who enjoys gardening but has been thrown out of her house this spring by contractors intent on making my house look crappier. I often time my plantings by hers. She feels the itch about the same time I do, but tends to be of a more hopeful spirit....