by James Heflin | Dec 24, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal
How were the Aughts for you? Seems like most folks think they were pretty much crap. At least that's the conclusion of an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll. I'm personally quite glad to see them gone, for reasons political and otherwise. Some numbers: According to...
by James Heflin | Dec 28, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Christmas Eve, and the bad mojo still flies. I have blogged for three years and a couple of weeks now, and found it quite an intriguing experience, on the one hand an endless invitation to participate in a bone-stupid fracas that pretends to be debate, and on the...
by James Heflin | Dec 29, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal
How do you spell "holy shimoly"? Because this is cool on about 15 levels simultaneously: By implanting an electrode into the brain of a person with locked-in syndrome, scientists have demonstrated how to wirelessly transmit neural signals to a speech...
by James Heflin | Dec 30, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Sometimes chatting with friends at the close of a decade brings up the craziest snippets of the past. Like the fact that here I am blogging under a big hat in 2009, and somewhere in Texas–probably stuffed in a closet between an Alice Cooper Slurpee cup (not a...
by James Heflin | Jan 4, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
The current handling of the accused in the attempted airline bombing is turning out to be an interesting test case for how the Obama administration will deal with terrorist suspects, and for how the GOP will respond. The Brits are a prime example of the success of...
