Author: BooMan

Being Loudly Wrong to Get Attention

Last week, we were blessed with two solid examples of how the right-wing brain works. In the first, which garnered the most attention, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky spoke for thirteen hours on the Senate floor about a totally...

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Casual Observation

If he were alive today, Benjamin Franklin would slap these Republicans’ faces and call them bedwetters.

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Odds & Ends

It’s Cabin Boy the Younger’s 18th Birthday today. So, we’re celebrating. Jackie Robinson sent a telegraph to LBJ during the 1965 police brutality in Selma, Alabama. I have a lot of difficulty tolerating...

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Serious Question

I don’t watch The View. I never have, and I don’t plan to in the future. But, as I understand it, the show was set up so that Elizabeth Hasselbeck played the role of Alan Colmes, only she was outnumbered 4-1. Is this...

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Something To Look Into

If you haven’t read the Lewis Powell memo, you probably should. Or you can read the Greenpeace analysis of the memo. I think it really does represent one of the turning points in our nation’s history, and it...

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