Author: BooMan

I am not British and so I have no real stake in whether or not Scotland chooses to leave the United Kingdom and strike out on their own. I believe that Scottish independence will result in a more or less permanently conservative...

How is it legal for the Republican Party of New York to hire a private investigator who then places a GPS device on a Democratic assemblyman’s car in an effort to ascertain if he really lives in the district he represents?...

I’m kind of amazed that the Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir is the best paid singer in the world. Even among Deadheads, there is a kind of love/laugh at relationship with Weir. He’s always been a little ridiculous in...

Is anyone else concerned about the mood of the French electorate?

This is one way of looking at things: “A “coalition of the willing” that mainly comprises Anglo-American militaries that shatter Arab lands, along with Arab and Asian autocrats in whose jails the seeds of Al-Qaeda were...