Oh great swami

by | Jan 3, 2007 | Ten Gallon Liberal

"Oh great swami," many people say to me, "what will happen in 2007?" And unto them I say: "I know not much. But I can guess a few things and see what sticks."Chief among those things is this: now that Democrats have managed to take both...

The boy can write, too!

by | Jan 3, 2007 | Ten Gallon Liberal

Dubya wrote an opinion column. Well, at least his name is on it. Shouldn’t they credit the starry-eyed Oral Roberts University grad or College Republican Lieutenant who no doubt saw this ghost-writing gig as his (uncredited) moment of Kool-Aid-fuelled glory?...

Gore was right

by | Jan 3, 2007 | Ten Gallon Liberal

Today’s unusual fact:The world really is falling apart. The whole dang thing. In pieces, I tell you. See?Via Fortean Times, a very fine UK publication.

Dem busts a move?

by | Jan 4, 2007 | Ten Gallon Liberal

Keith Ellison, new Minnesota congressman and Muslim, shows us how to give as good as you get from the merciless commentators of the Right. This is the guy who was told by Glenn Beck on CNN, "You are a Democrat. You are saying, ‘Let’s cut and...

Bush and the Progressive Angst Two-Step

by | Jan 4, 2007 | Ten Gallon Liberal

The frustrations of those of us who never fell for Bush’s propagandizing destructions of rhetoric and common sense have been manifold. The Bushites’ overwhelming number of manipulations of process and loopholes have been nearly impossible to track, thanks...