by James Heflin | Aug 10, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Those townhall disrupters–just reg'lar folk, out to raise their voices? I'm sure some of them are. Many of them appear to be frightened people who are old enough to oppose government in healthcare while participating in Medicare, the government...
by James Heflin | Aug 11, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Maybe it makes them eligible to be fans of Schoenberg? That would be a worthwhile experiment.What I mean is, in St. Louis, the teabaggers contend, so-called "union thugs" assaulted a man named Kenneth Gladney who was there to protest healthcare reform. The...
by James Heflin | Aug 12, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Josh Marshall introduces the hammer to the nail: The health care debate is now being driven by a perverse nonsense feedback loop in which the Palin/Limbaugh crowd says all sorts of completely insane lies, gets a lot of… how shall we put it, impressionable people...
by James Heflin | Aug 13, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Ah, what fun. Take an afternoon off, and the comment section gains orbital velocity, takes a couple of laps around Saturn and crashes into Titan. Better that than crickets, I suppose. At the risk of igniting more, I'll say this–to me, it's a simple...
by James Heflin | Aug 14, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal
While the back, forth and further back of the healthcare situation continues to descend into something resembling an Ionesco play or a Bosch painting, the rest of the world continues to proffer interesting details. And, though I hate to abandon the amusing dynamite...