by James Heflin | Jun 28, 2013 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Back from vacation today and I still have sand in my shoes. Takeaway from Connecticut shoreline visit: Connecticut beachgoers love them private beaches. If they only had walk-throughs allowed, it wouldn’t be so absurd. We’re talking razorwire, machine gun...
by James Heflin | Jul 8, 2013 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Two musicians I’ve recently heard for the first time: Bambi Lee Savage and Anna Calvi. They are similar in some ways, offering moody, expansive songs with heavy guitar presence. Calvi sports about as huge a Telecaster plus Vox AC30 tone as you’re likely to...
by James Heflin | Jul 25, 2013 | Ten Gallon Liberal
The experiment begins: here’s what’s happened in Kansas with a new law allowing school staff and faculty to carry concealed weapons– The EMC Insurance Cos. insures 85 percent to 90 percent of all Kansas school districts and has refused to renew...
by James Heflin | Aug 1, 2013 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Canadian author Anakana Schofield offers a provocative and scathing takedown of the current plight of the author. She also touches on (in the bold below) the problem all writing teachers face: you simply can’t teach someone to write who hasn’t read. Even...
by James Heflin | Aug 7, 2013 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Just stumbled upon Worldometers. It induces a weird sort of urgency to see the numbers, in real time, on things like births, deaths, energy, population, media and more. Check it out, and see if your brain doesn’t go a wee bit wobbly, too.
