Month: September 2014

I’m kind of amazed that the Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir is the best paid singer in the world. Even among Deadheads, there is a kind of love/laugh at relationship with Weir. He’s always been a little ridiculous in...

Booman has become a dedicated centrist. (Read his most recent Obama apologia for absolute proof of the matter: Right Back Atcha.) A rough translation and condensation of the piece? Sure. Here’s one. “Either/or, both...

Is anyone else concerned about the mood of the French electorate?

This is one way of looking at things: “A “coalition of the willing” that mainly comprises Anglo-American militaries that shatter Arab lands, along with Arab and Asian autocrats in whose jails the seeds of Al-Qaeda were...

Here are some fun facts for you. In 2012, President Obama got almost four million more votes than George W. Bush received in his successful 2004 reelection. Mitt Romney got about 800,000 fewer votes than John McCain had won four...