by James Heflin | Feb 4, 2013 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Can’t win fairly now? Change the rules! Republicans hope to gerrymander the Electoral College to prevent Democratic presidential victories. The idea is to switch to proportional allocation of electoral votes at a state level, but only in states that tend to vote...
by James Heflin | May 31, 2012 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Was it the popcorn scoop I lost in 1999? That really was an accident. And I was only holding Brion Dulac’s cigarette for him, Mr. Pini. I don’t even smoke. You cannot do this to us, this going away. Give us your airplane-like “little theater,”...
by James Heflin | Feb 4, 2013 | Ten Gallon Liberal
The coolest thing I’ve been sent today: scientists have created a visual approximation of what it would look like to hang out in Kurt Goedel’s model of the universe, or, as Smithsonian Mag explains it, “they show what it would look like if you could...
by James Heflin | Nov 26, 2012 | Ten Gallon Liberal
So what happens now? Will Obama rip off his mask to reveal Lenin? Will we all be forced to become Muslims and get gay married? Will we give all our cash to illegal immigrants? Will we all be forced against our will to have healthcare? Or will we, at last, see Obama...
by James Heflin | Feb 5, 2013 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Recent Republican vote-gaming efforts have focused on making the Electoral College vote proportional, but only in states where it helps the Republican presidential candidate. Profoundly one-sided in their favor, of course. Now that those efforts seem to be fizzling...
