by James Heflin | Oct 15, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal
It's a weird aspect of a career in arts criticism that you get, sometimes, heaps of criticism for your criticism. So one must needs acquire one of those little Goresque lockboxes. As a musician and a creative writer, I was/am used to critical reactions (both...
by James Heflin | Oct 16, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal
An observation about the new industry-funded study saying health care insurance premiums will go up if we dare pass reform: this is perhaps more properly deemed a threat than a prediction. Premiums are, after all, set, just like any other price.They aren't...
by James Heflin | Oct 19, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal
TPM reports that Harry Reid is working the public option. One possible outcome of all of this health care wrangling, provided those reports are correct, is the creation of a public option despite the infinite well of objections of just the sort that can be seen in the...
by James Heflin | Oct 20, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal
A sunken Greek city, first discovered 40 years ago, is finally being surveyed with modern technology, and it's a very likely candidate, considering when the sea overran it, for being Homer's Atlantis. How cool is that? The site covers around 30,000 square...
by James Heflin | Oct 21, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal
According to an ABC/Washington Post poll, all the teabagging didn't work. At all. From the Post: On the issue that has been perhaps the most pronounced flash point in the national debate, 57 percent of all Americans now favor a public insurance option, while 40...
