Author: BooMan

No Bundle of Energy

How sad is this? It’s Friday night. We have a babysitter. We can do whatever we want for a few hours. And I’m so exhausted that I mainly just want to climb in bed and sleep for 20 hours. The holidays and birthday...

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Get Better, Harry Reid

Harry Reid badly injured himself. Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid was injured Thursday in an accident while exercising at his home in Henderson, Nevada. According to a statement today from the Nevada Senator’s office,...

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Some People…

If you’re too selfish or lazy to buy your wife a Christmas gift, the proper response when she complains is to apologize profusely and promise to make it up to her. You definitely don’t want to use her understandable...

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Pretending Doesn’t Make it Better

Rep. Cedric Richmond, a black Democrat who represents New Orleans in the U.S. House of Representatives, says that his Republican colleague Rep. Steve Scalise doesn’t have “a racist bone in his body,” and that...

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Happy New Year!

I spent most of the day doing editing work for the online launch of the January/February issue of the Washington Monthly. It should be ready to go by Monday morning, and you’ll love the cover story about man-eating polar...

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