Author: BooMan

Okay, after a long, mostly relaxing weekend heavy with travel, I am back in my command post. I have many things to read and do, so for starters let me send you into the Wayback Machine. Last night’s episode of Masters of...

We will be in Manhattan this weekend and blogging is going to be a low priority for me. So, play nice, don’t shoot anyone in the face, and please leave civil aviation alone.

In the next couple of decades, America is going to have to grapple with two major changes. The first is that there are going to be new first-world powers, like China, Brazil and India, that we will have to reckon with. The West...

It’s interesting to see how successful Israel can be in muddying the waters in the U.S. media about their culpability for blowing the shit out of a United Nations-run school in the Gaza Strip, killing 15 people and...

The people who wrote and ratified the U.S. Constitution didn’t intend by so doing to abolish slavery or abolish the death penalty or give women the right to vote or to an abortion or to legalize same-sex marriage. But they...