by James Heflin | Nov 26, 2007 | Ten Gallon Liberal
I have no idea what those have in common, but I’m writing about Flywheel, and those other words just showed up. Flywheel has never been my favorite place in terms of its sound or its size, but it’s certainly my favorite venue in the Valley (besides...
by James Heflin | Nov 28, 2007 | Ten Gallon Liberal
There’s a hole in the universe, and this may, apparently, prove that there is another universe. That makes me feel a whole lot better somehow. We’ve screwed things up so royally in this one that somebody or other deserves a chance to do better. I have my...
by James Heflin | Dec 7, 2007 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Imagine a future in which the government creates mobile commissions to conduct McCarthy-esque hunts for "homegrown terrorists" nationwide. Keep in mind that Freedom of Information Act requests revealed that in our own fair Valley, the American Friends...
by James Heflin | Dec 12, 2007 | Ten Gallon Liberal
As the son of a Baptist minister, I often read with dismay the incredible thoughts of some of the most far-gone among the evangelical set. The true top of the heap is probably the apocalyptic crew, the sort who try to calculate the exact date of the Rapture by turning...
by James Heflin | Dec 14, 2007 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Our dumb world gets a little brighter for me when I look out at that whole space thing. Somewhere there is a world where things work out to not be so mind-numbingly stupid as our current dead end of consumer "culture." So it was with great pleasure that I...