Author: BooMan

The Brain Plays Tricks on You

Last night, right before I was getting ready to go to bed, one of my step-sons came home from work and turned some teenage stoner movie on the television. It might have been Dazed and Confused, although I am not certain. In any...

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We Need Progressive Anti-Rebels

I am just a lowly blogger, not a master savant like David Foster Wallace (pdf). Yet, I think he identified what I don’t like about much of the liberal blogosphere. I am not saying that I am a paragon of sincerity, but I am...

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Reading George Kennan’s Diaries

Rutgers Professor David Greenberg has reviewed George Kennan’s diaries and discovered that Kennan had a lot of bigoted views, but that’s really not the most interesting aspect of the resulting article. What’s...

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They Figured It Out Before I Did

The Clinton administration figured out how the Mighty Right-Wing Wurlitzer worked at least eight years (pdf) before I did. They obviously had a greater need to know. I had no idea that bullshit that was unfit to print was first...

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Nice Manners

Nice. Topekans commemorate the 60th Anniversary of Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka by bitching about a black First Lady coming to visit their town. That’s classy.

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