Don't Even Look at It

by | Jun 16, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal

This is what happened when a private seaplane operator attempted to get permission to take a New Orleans Times-Picayune photographer over the Gulf to document oil plumes: “We were questioned extensively. Who was on the aircraft? Who did they work for?”...

A Pantheon of Particles

by | Jun 21, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal

The search for the elusive Higgs-Boson particle continues unabated, but a sidecar idea has arisen among phsyicists at the Tevatron, a lower energy U.S. particle accelerator that’s been eclipsed by the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. It’s a...

Do they know it when they see it?

by | Jun 22, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal

The tea party movement is taking it to the arts. Just got a press release about an artist who calls herself “Megrit” and has created a work dubbed “The Tea Party,” a still life of a teapot, cup and saucer and (I think) a box of sugar. It is,...

E-I-E-I-O

by | Jun 25, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal

Big bad jihadists or petting zoo fans? The Atlantic shares some surprising info about the reality of our terrorist enemies: Nowhere is the gap between sinister stereotype and ridiculous reality more apparent than in Afghanistan, where it’s fair to say that the...