Author: BooMan

Go Away, Already

Almost the entire world is united in thinking that Nouri al-Maliki needs to step down as the Prime Minister of Iraq, but he doesn’t care. I don’t think his resignation will create some kind of magic solution to the...

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Casual Observation

Some people really, really care what is covered in the AP History examination. I am good friends with a high school history teacher and he tells me that it’s pretty near impossible to get to the present when teaching a...

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A Wrathful God

I once asked the Lord to find my missing cat, but I was like 10 years old. He didn’t answer my prayer. I got the message. Some people never do. A Mississippi Tea Party official opened a meeting this week with a prayer...

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Goodbye, Lauren Bacall

I think my father was a little afraid of what my mother would think or say or do if he expressed the opinion that some other woman was attractive, so he basically never expressed any opinions about the attractiveness of women....

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