Month: January 2019

I have been blogging since the fall of 2004 to express my views in favor of John Kerry and as much against the tyranny of George Bush and his Republican henchmen. @BooMan I considered myself an independent researcher and analyst...

Welcome back, music lovers. It’s been a week, to say the least. I seem to be in a very retrospective mood. Is what it is.   Of the guitarists I’ve been exposed to over the years, Adrian Belew would easily top my...

There is a scene in the iconic 1999 movie Office Space where the protagonist, Peter, is unburdening himself in a group therapy session. He says that he’s realized that ever since he started working in a cubicle, every day...

I don’t know if you’ve been following the trial of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán in New York, but there has been plenty of interesting testimony, especially about how one of the world’s biggest drug cartels goes...

You may remember a piece I wrote in the June/July/August issue of the Washington Monthly called How to Win Rural Voters Without Losing Liberal Values. It’s a need that hasn’t gone away, and we explore it in...