Author: BooMan

Hillary Clinton launched her campaign and Maureen Dowd is predictably grumpy about it. Me? I’m just bored. Mind-numbingly, crushingly bored. So, it’s telling that I don’t find much of anything in Dowd’s...

Sometimes I get in a mood and think we should pass anti-stupidity laws. One of the main intents of these laws would be to punish people not for actually being stupid but for using stupidity as a defense. So, for example, if you...

Nancy LeTourneau has a good piece up at the Washington Monthly on what extreme anti-Obama rhetoric is doing to our country, particularly when it is uttered by formerly respectable Republicans like Rudy Giuliani and Dick Cheney....

I’m trying to think about how to put this gently. You would think that after seeing John McCain’s metamorphosis from a “straight-talking” contrarian media darling into a bloodthirsty sociopath, the press...