Author: BooMan

I’ve mostly avoided the Snowden story since I don’t give a shit about him personally, and I don’t feel like joining his critics or his defenders, who both annoy the crap out of me. As to his revelations, I look...

The Washington Post has produced an interesting list of candidates to replace Janet Napolitano as Secretary of Homeland Security, but I can unreservedly veto both Jane Harman and Joe Lieberman. No fucking way, on either of them....

Ms. McGargle Bargle has taken enough ridicule that she has decided to explicate her prediction (with 70% confidence) that the Republicans will control the House, Senate, and White House in 2017. For starters, the White House:...

I guess this is really what it is all about. He’s dead. He shouldn’t be.

Megan McArdle tries her hand at concern-trolling: As I understand it, there is about a 0% chance that Democrats will retake the House in 2014, which means that Republicans already have quite an efficient veto over any...