by James Heflin | Nov 25, 2008 | Ten Gallon Liberal
It can be so hard to choose between cults. So I was quite pleased to find this handy guide to dime-novel saviors. There is a bit of a theme here–mostly, to be a modern Jesus pretender, you have to combine middle age, being male, giving at least strong...
by James Heflin | Nov 26, 2008 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Ah… a little sunlight: if you've followed the deeply problematic results of touch-screen voting since 2002, you probably know that Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-Georgia) won a remarkable upset victory in 2002 over Max Cleland. Chambliss was behind in every...
by James Heflin | Dec 1, 2008 | Ten Gallon Liberal
What's there to say, really: Ann Coulter's jaw wired shut?And in other news: last night I was subjected to part of Dancing With the Stars. I can now confidently report what I'm sure many people already knew–wow, does Miley Cyrus blow. She's got...
by James Heflin | Dec 2, 2008 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Here's a stunner: turns out the "liberal" intelligentsia–i.e., everyone to the left of Dick Cheney–was right about torture all along. An interrogator in Iraq taught his team to win over insurgents instead of torturing dubious info out of...
by James Heflin | Dec 3, 2008 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Turns out something weird about yeast is also true for humans. There's quite a mechanism at work inside both of us–genes called "sirtuins" handle turning other genes off and on, so that, for instance, the heart genes in a stomach cell stay turned...
