by James Heflin | Jul 29, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Jay Rosen, in a disjointed bunch of notes about the Wikileaks bombshell, brings up some intriguing points. Beyond the usual questions of American politics raised by the release, Wikileaks, he argues, is something truly new: a stateless news organization. It’s a...
by James Heflin | Aug 2, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Just because it’s sunny outside doesn’t mean we can’t find a few things to darken it all up! 1) Bottom of food chain going away: Despite their tiny size, plant plankton found in the world’s oceans are crucial to much of life on Earth. They are...
by James Heflin | Aug 3, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Been a good few days of Spock fever in Northampton, courtesy of Leonard Nimoy’s show at the Michelson Galleries. So it’s just that much cooler to see science catching up to Star Trek. Yep, teleportation! Finally… Well, okay,...
by James Heflin | Aug 4, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Vladimir Nabokov is among my favorite writers. I love his complex word games, his layers wrapped in layers of self-reference, all of it delivered in gorgeous prose. He was better at writing in his second language than, I think, any of us could be at Russian. But that...
by James Heflin | Aug 5, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
I would like to join Laura Ingraham in registering a complaint against Stephen Colbert. My great-grandma was part-Cherokee, and I too cannot believe that Colbert would demean Native American culture so terribly in calling Ingraham “Ichabod Crane’s banshee...
