by James Heflin | Oct 21, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Just as Edward Gorey isn’t what he appears to be–an Edwardian Brit–Colonel John Blashford-Snell is a man in the wrong time. In a story from the last few days, the UK’s Telegraph examines Blashford-Snell’s tale of exploration and...
by James Heflin | Oct 27, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
New Scientist elaborates on the notion of a far more complex vision of evolution. Fascinating stuff: IN 1856, geologist Charles Lyell wrote to Charles Darwin with a question about fossils. Puzzled by types of mollusc that abruptly disappeared from the British fossil...
by James Heflin | Nov 1, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
We’ve always been plagued by notions that, say, Hitler’s name somehow translates to the number of the beast. Others have “calculated” the date of the apocalypse via a combination of selective wishful thinking and baroque schemes of number to...
by James Heflin | Nov 3, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
It’s always good to see Karl Rove sweat. Well, sweat in a metaphorical way. Always happy to miss the literal sort. Which reminds me–I once again saw that now-popular mangling of said term over the weekend. I believe it was a bottle of Joe Tea, which said...
by James Heflin | Nov 4, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
I think the only truly useful long-term measure in politics is progress or regression in the fundamental principles we supposedly stand for. For me, that primarily means civil liberties, which Bush decimated and Obama has shown the merest twitch toward protecting. The...
