Author: BooMan

We just had our end of year teacher/parent conference about our son, Finn. Throughout the past two years we’ve been receiving a steady drumbeat of feedback about how smart Finn is, but today was the first day when we were...

Life intervened today. Not in any particularly bad way, mind you, just in many little ways that chewed up all my time. Most of my evening is already reserved for non-blogging activities, so I feel like this will be one of my...

I’d like to add one thing to Ed Kilgore’s takedown of Aaron Blake. Not only is it sub-mental to suggest that an opinion poll lends legitimacy to the Benghazi probe that provides the Republicans with an actual mandate...

What elections are you going to be focused on tonight, and why?

Four years is a long time and I had forgotten that pretty much everyone hated the soccer ball that was used in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. The vuvuzelas I did not forget. This time around there is reason to hope that the...