by James Heflin | Jul 28, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Nicholson Baker, who will forever be canonized among my favorite writers for his short but absurdly, beautifully funny The Mezzanine, offers his thoughts on the Kindle, "an alpenhorn blast of post-Gutenbergian revalorization." This is a man who, for several...
by James Heflin | Jul 31, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Is Bill O'Reilly the dumbest person on television (stiff competition, I know)? The definitive answer here: How much cultural frisson can one human bear? That answer here, in which William Shatner performs Sarah Palin's farewell speech on Conan...
by James Heflin | Aug 3, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal
My researches upon the Intertoobz have revealed to me a new and wonderful site. I give you Emails from Crazy People, and heartily suggest that, if you are in need of some comic relief on this rainy day, you examine this exchange between a tenant and a concerned...
by James Heflin | Aug 6, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal
My favorite part of the awesome "birther" movement is its current lawyer-in-chief, Orly Taitz. Not only is her name suggestive of some sort of nebulous and non-specific foreign-ness, her accent and her look are a sort of amalgamation of the Gabor sisters and...
by James Heflin | Aug 7, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Interesting to note that the ginned-up astroturf campaign to keep our awesome for-profit healthcare system (best in the world except for 36 better ones, including leading lights like Costa Rica, Andorra and Malta, said the World Health Organization a few years ago)...
