Author: BooMan

Reality Detachment Syndrome

In one sense, a prolonged debate about an appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security and the rules of the Senate doesn’t seem very interesting. But the silver lining here is the way that it really shines a...

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Not the Way to Kill a Story

David Corn has burrowed under Bill O’Reilly’s skin like a chigger. At this point, O’Reilly is desperate to make the news coverage of his fake war zone exploits in the Falkland Islands go away. At the end of his...

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Music Thread

I’m totally wiped out. Let”s have some music. Any thing interesting going on I should know about?

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Wanker of the Day: Byron York

This is the dumbest shit ever. The idea that the President Obama is partly to blame for the confusion over his religious faith is ridiculous. While Andrew Jackson was our first Trinitarian president, and he only converted after...

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The New WaMo is Out, and I’m In It

While y’all were watching the Academy Awards, I was publishing the March/April/May issue of the Washington Monthly. It takes me the better part of a week to convert the print issue into a digital format so you freeloaders...

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