Author: BooMan

I guess I had an unusual childhood. I remember one time that I had a play-date at Morven, which was then the governor’s mansion in New Jersey, with one of the governor’s sons. I didn’t think there was anything...

I agree with Noz that the U.K. shouldn’t posthumously pardon Alan Turing for his homosexuality without also pardoning every other Brit who was treated as a criminal under that statute. But pardoning everyone is a better...

There needs to be a left-wing response to the growing income inequality (The Great Bifurcation, as Jon Evans puts it) or the outcome will be a right-wing response. And the right, worldwide and throughout history, only knows one...

If there were an award for writing the nastiest column of the year, I think Andrea Peyser would walk away with the 2013 version. It’s well-written, almost epic in its brutality, but one wonders what the point is. Why so...

One of my stepsons works at a pizza shop. Today he discovered that he didn’t like greeting customers with “Happy Holidays” because it feels coerced and politically correct, so he spent the last two hours of his...