Author: BooMan

Dr. Grist explains our problems in 36 tweets. It looks like we will not have our first female Secretary of Defense, as Michele Flournoy has taken herself out of the running for the post. The White House doesn’t seem happy...

I frequently lose patience with Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York. Perhaps his comments wouldn’t look so bad in their full context but he sounds like he values middle class voters more than the underclass and the medically...

Rodney King died too young on June 17, 2012. He was beaten nearly to death by Los Angeles police officers on March 4, 1991. He lived over 21 years after his beating. Michael Brown did not survive his encounter with Ferguson...

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Look, I am not going to pretend that this is some kind of new development, but can anyone seriously say that black people don’t have every right to be terrified of letting their kids out of their sight? When their children...