Month: November 2012

Republican Humor

I don’t get the Republican sense of humor. It’s not just that I am not amused by their jokes. It’s that I can’t really determine where the snark begins and the sarcasm ends. Victor Davis Hanson’s...

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How to Succeed in America

First you fail as a professional football player. That gets you enough fame to fail miserably as a Congressional representative. And that leads to this: Rep. Heath Shuler will go to work for Duke Energy, heading its federal...

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USC Report Ties Traffic Pollution to Autism Risk

. Prevalence of autism by children has been covered in diaries at BooMan before, in recent years the number of studies has increased to indicate exposure to a toxic environment may be a leading risk factor. Link here, here and...

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Wanker of the Day: Bruce Bartlett

There is something almost epically pathetic about Bruce Bartlett’s long column about how he slowly learned that the Republican Party is full of shit. It is basically an admission that he’s not very bright. How could...

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