by James Heflin | Jun 19, 2007 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Marilyn Manson is a tedious annoyance, but I’ve just noticed something that’s got me thinking. Is it just me, or is Marilyn here starting to resemble, in his own craggy way, late-era Liz Taylor? I’m not too sure what it might mean, except that the...
by James Heflin | Jun 25, 2007 | Ten Gallon Liberal
I say Marilyn Manson’s looking like Liz Taylor, and Hillary goes and chooses Celine Dion’s "You and I" as her campaign song. Did Barack Obama have a mole in her campaign organization? The masses who will mobilize against French Canada’s...
by James Heflin | Jun 27, 2007 | Ten Gallon Liberal
I’m the son of a Baptist (formerly Southern B.) preacher. I know a thing or three about fundamentalists, even though my family never qualified for that moniker. Now comes proof of something fundamentalists can’t fathom that seems obvious to the rest of us,...
by James Heflin | Jun 29, 2007 | Ten Gallon Liberal
A Chick tract is a small (it’ll fit in your wallet) cartoon book by Jack Chick, a Christian fundamentalist. These tracts are sold as an aide to stealth witnessing–if you’re in, say, a phone booth at the airport and a little booklet or folded-up piece...
by James Heflin | Jul 4, 2007 | Ten Gallon Liberal
As I peruse these strange Chick tracts, I realize why exactly I was, as a child, not only certain of the existence of the bogeyman, but 100 percent convinced he was outside the window slavering in preparation for slurping me up in my sleep for a ghoulish dinner....