by James Heflin | Jun 7, 2012 | Ten Gallon Liberal
So last week, I wrote about poetry. A few days later, as fortune would have it, I got some good news about my own poetry. Then I read this swelled-head antidote.
by James Heflin | Feb 13, 2013 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Should it not concern all of us, left, right and other, that our government is claiming the right to kill Americans via legal justification that defies logic? “Imminent” is a word with a fairly clear meaning: “ready to take place; especially hanging...
by James Heflin | Dec 5, 2012 | Ten Gallon Liberal
My Cyber Monday specials include this spectacularly well-written piece, which is very cool and/or uncool, o ye hipsters. And in other news: a beautiful collision of art and science has computers revealing the hidden keys to the emotion unleashed by abstract art,...
by James Heflin | Feb 15, 2013 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Australia passed gun control measures in the wake of mass shootings there. The laws appear to have been quite effective in the years since: there have been zero mass shootings, and other indicators show that gun-related violence has decreased overall. The case for a...
by James Heflin | Jun 11, 2012 | Ten Gallon Liberal
After learning a lot about the 1769 transit of Venus via Mark Anderson’s fine book The Day the World Discovered the Sun, I enjoyed immensely the sudden sky-clearing that enabled me to run into the front yard and hastily set up binoculars and a pad of paper to...
