Author: BooMan

Casual Observation

It makes sense now. Only old people are still watching television in real time, so all the ads are for boner pills and adult diapers and Medicare scooters. So, I guess I will either have to admit to myself that I am old, or I am...

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Wingnut Welfare Alumna at The Hill

Elise Viebeck has a contemptible bit of linkbait up at The Hill, suggesting that ObamaCare premiums are going to skyrocket next year because not enough “invincible” young people are signing up. As Ed Kilgore...

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Labor Focusing on Gubernatorial Races

I can’t say that I blame labor unions for putting more focus on gubernatorial races than senatorial ones. They don’t want the Democrats to lose their majority in the Senate, but they really don’t want to see...

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The NSA Needs Some New Rules

It’s clear by now that the NSA’s goal is to achieve total information awareness. I think that’s understandable, in a way. It’s basically their job to figure out how to eavesdrop on everything, always,...

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Bill Kristol, Thou hypocrite

If I am to grant Bill Kristol his thesis that “power, like nature, abhors a vacuum,” and that a war-weary America has opened the door for Putin to step into the breach, who then should I blame for the war-weariness...

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