Author: BooMan

I spent my day editing, primarily these two pieces, both of which are interesting in their own ways. I finally have my head above water and I have to head out for a meeting tonight. I apologize for the inattention. Did anything...

I don’t want to exaggerate Erick Erickson’s influence over the Republican base, but he does seem emblematic of their general view on many topics. And he’s trying to gin up a civil war within the GOP. In...

Christopher Orr, Spencer Kornhaber and Amy Sullivan are some very hard to please people. The latter two also made a very basic error. They tried to solve the case in HBO’s True Detective and then were disappointed that all...

For some reason, CPAC held no interest for me this year. I think Josh Marshall hit on the reason when he wrote that “the contemporary Conservative Movement has become less a matter of ideology than a sort of performance...

Tim Murphy has a point, but there can be no definition of lunatic that doesn’t include Donald Trump. He Alex Jonesed himself with the birth certificate talk and there is no going back.