Author: BooMan

Back in 2012, when Rick Santorum was riding high and winning primaries and caucuses in his competition with Mitt Romney, Simon van Zuylen-Wood became concerned about the coverage of Santorum’s campaign. He wasn’t...

The sad thing about George Will’s latest fiasco is that he had a point, as you can learn from reading Simon Van Zuylen-Wood’s piece on sexual misconduct at Swarthmore College. There really is a conflict between...

This comes up from time to time, but Erick Erickson has some really weird religious beliefs. I guess they are kind of consistent with the cosmology and theology of Christianity, but they’re basically unreconstructed from...

The nation-state of Iraq was never a particularly good idea, but it plodded along for most of the 20th-Century with a series of kings and dictators at the helm. President George W. Bush killed that Iraq and it cannot be saved no...

When I was growing up, I worked in a grocery store, as a bus boy, bar back and waiter, and as a house painter. My parents reside in an assisted living community and our family likes to go out for ice cream on the weekends, so a...