Author: BooMan

Republican lawmakers, thought leaders, and entertainers can be divided loosely into three groups: assholes, the crazy, and the stupid, although there can be considerable overlap. And we can also create subsets for these groups....

As George W. Bush prepares to open his 9/11-themed presidential library tomorrow, we should all pause to realize that the hell he unleashed on Iraq has not abated. BAGHDAD — In what appeared to be a new phase in an intensifying...

Pew Research conducted a poll on how people feel about the failure of the Senate to pass legislation that included background checks on gun purchases. They then broke the results down by party and by how each state’s...

The New York TImes editorial board isn’t taking Republican hypocrisy lying down. With the sequester beginning to impact air travel by causing flight delays, John Boehner and Eric Cantor took to Twitter to blame the...

I used to have a white Hawai’ian roommate back in the early 90’s when I was living in Los Angeles. His brother was a professional surfer. Somehow this fact has never before come up on this blog. In any case, pretty...