Author: BooMan

I Wish Vermont Every Success

In The Atlantic, Sean McElwee asks, “Can Vermont’s Single-Payer System Fix What Ails American Healthcare?” I certainly hope so, because we haven’t been doing too well. A 2012 Institute of Medicine report...

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Casual Observation

Well, this convinced me not to buy a ticket to Wolf of Wall Street. I had been considering seeing that movie, but I will now pick something else. I hear the one about ABSCAM is really good.

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Redistricting Reform Should Be Priority One

I became political aware at a young age and took a keen interest in the 1980 Republican primaries when I was only nine and ten years old. I still have cartoons I drew at the time that depicted Ronald Reagan as a warmonger intent...

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Odds & Ends

Fans of “autophysiopsychic music,” which most of us call “jazz”, are mourning the loss of Yusef Lateef. As a New York Giants fan, I agree with Antrel Rolle that “This probowl s___ is a joke.”...

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Casual Observation

Kathleen Parker actually had the following published by the Washington Post, yet, somehow, no meteorite landed on the Post’s headquarters at 15th and L streets NW. Phil Robertson — millionaire star of “Duck Dynasty” —...

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