Author: BooMan

Try to imagine being 42 years old and knowing seventy people who have been killed. Imagine being able to write down their names. Or you can just start perusing the list of homicide victims in 2011 in a place like, say, Hampton...

We continue to hear arguments from the Republican establishment that the party is too socially conservative, particularly on gay marriage and immigration reform. But the social conservatives have a pretty decent rebuttal. Take...

“Some regard unwieldy nominalizations as alarming evidence of the depraved zeitgeist” and some regard the use of “zeitgeist” as a pretentious display of intellectualized hauteur. If your first instinct is...

On April 4th, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee, most likely with the complicity of the Memphis Police Department. So, it’s nice that the city council finally got around to renaming...